Instead, the search engine highlights the bogus names that a few people have used to sign the petition and the counter-petition that argues against the proposal, claiming it is dangerous.
The Great Barrington Declaration – named after the small town in Massachusetts where one of the originators lives – advocates herd immunity and allowing the virus to spread among the healthy and young, while protecting the elderly and sick, who are at greater risk.
It has been translated into more than 20 languages.
It was created by Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard University, Sunetra Gupta, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, and Jay Bhattacharya, a public health expert at Stanford University.
They argue that lockdowns are worse than the virus and cause more health problems, especially as patients with chronic health problems, such as cancer and heart disease, can’t get essential hospital care.
Despite the eminence of the trio who created the declaration, it has been given short shrift by Google and by the world’s mainstream media. Instead, Google has focused on the petition’s detractors, and broadcasters have been forbidden from talking about it at all.
A counter-petition, the John Snow Memorandum, has grabbed the attention. Created by 80 researchers, it argues that herd immunity is “a dangerous fallacy” that puts at risk the lives of healthcare workers.
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