I have read the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098 As far as I can see, it is concerned only with anti-vaccine activity by doctors, and not with any other aspect of fighting the pandemic such as lockdowns, so I find Dr. Bhattacharya's concerns somewhat overblown, despite his excel…
I have read the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098 As far as I can see, it is concerned only with anti-vaccine activity by doctors, and not with any other aspect of fighting the pandemic such as lockdowns, so I find Dr. Bhattacharya's concerns somewhat overblown, despite his excellent warnings regarding Lysenko-like misdirection of science.
Had vaccination and N95 mask-wearing in enclosed public spaces been made compulsory for all in Q.2 of 2021 and since, together with massive assistance to poor countries, this pandemic would have been effectively squelched many months ago. Lockdowns only make sense when many people are unvaccinated, or poorly vaccinated as in China.
The lessons of the Spanish Flu of a century ago have been well studied and published, but still leaders have not applied them in their exhortations and decrees, with premature loosening of certain restrictions leading to new waves, new strains of the virus and further waves, just as in the 1918-20 period, though mutation into less deadly forms is also the likely result.
I have read the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098 As far as I can see, it is concerned only with anti-vaccine activity by doctors, and not with any other aspect of fighting the pandemic such as lockdowns, so I find Dr. Bhattacharya's concerns somewhat overblown, despite his excellent warnings regarding Lysenko-like misdirection of science.
Had vaccination and N95 mask-wearing in enclosed public spaces been made compulsory for all in Q.2 of 2021 and since, together with massive assistance to poor countries, this pandemic would have been effectively squelched many months ago. Lockdowns only make sense when many people are unvaccinated, or poorly vaccinated as in China.
The lessons of the Spanish Flu of a century ago have been well studied and published, but still leaders have not applied them in their exhortations and decrees, with premature loosening of certain restrictions leading to new waves, new strains of the virus and further waves, just as in the 1918-20 period, though mutation into less deadly forms is also the likely result.