Your regular reminder that "Focused Protection" from the Great Barrington Declaration is, and always was, absolute nonsensehttps://twitter.com/NDLoubere/status/1426672027239337989 …
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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Health Nerd Retweeted Nicholas Loubere
Your regular reminder that "Focused Protection" from the Great Barrington Declaration is, and always was, absolute nonsensehttps://twitter.com/NDLoubere/status/1426672027239337989 …
Health Nerd added,
This is Mitt Romney telling indebted college kids to borrow money from their parents levels of elite delusion. pic.twitter.com/TwEiQu3xsSOne of the things that always annoyed me about the GBD was how intellectually dishonest the whole thing is/was. None of the "focused protection" measures were ever realistic for a long-term endemic disease
So it was essentially a given that any place pursuing the GBD's primary focus of having no restrictions on anything would eventually expose all citizens to COVID-19
But the language was always this vague "protect the elderly" nonsense while the actual measures advocated for would by definition cause the elderly to be infected 
"The elderly can all get their own hotel rooms while the pandemic sweeps through" makes sense if you're talking about a 2-week peak of infections, perhaps, but not when we're 18 months in and some places are on to their 3rd, 4th, and 5th waves
Also, a fascinating fact is that most advanced economies DID protect their elderly population to an enormous extent, at least post April-2020. In most richer locations with serological data, people over-70 have MUCH lower infection rates than under-70
In Switzerland the incidence in 60-80 and 80+ was always the highest. The serologic results may be misleading as many die? And maybe fading antibodies?
The incidence based on PCR tests, which mostly target symptomatic people, may have been higher, but antibody studies show that in Switzerland elderly people had lower rates of infection i.e.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31304-0/fulltext#seccestitle10 …
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