When the New York Times runs a headline like this ...
... you know an amazing thing just happened.
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday evening that he had selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford physician and economist whose authorship of an anti-lockdown treatise during the coronavirus pandemic made him a central figure in a bitter public health debate, to be the director of the National Institutes of Health.
Bhattacharya is a wonderful pick to lead the NIH. His central role in pushing back against the unhinged, anti-scientific mania of the Covid era is more than enough justification.
You will likely remember the October 2020 Great Barrington Declaration, signed by Bhattacharya and several other prominent physicians, which held, correctly, that Covid lockdowns were "producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health" well out of proportion to the risks COVID posed to the general public.
In contrast to the widespread, economically devastating and unscientific lockdown policies, the declaration proposed a policy of "focused prevention," which would ...
... allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk.
It was a great idea! Alas, for their troubles, Bhattacharya and his colleagues were vilified, with prominent health and science officials claiming their commonsense proposal was a fringe idea rather than an eminently sensible, completely obvious plan.
The good doctor himself was blacklisted on Twitter, unsurprisingly; Twitter was of course one of the main censors of Covid heterodoxy, even without the pressure to censor that was coming directly from the FBI and the White House at the behest of Joe Biden's "misinformation" team.
It's doubly incredible for this man to have gone from Twitter outcast to director of one of the most powerful health institutions in the world in just a few short years.
Vengeance is rarely this sweet.
(Also, the good doctor understands trolling and memes. 👇)
P.S. Now check out our latest video 👇
