Prof Sunetra Gupta: Harms of lockdown remain very palpable

Freedom Research: Sunetra Gupta, Oxford epidemiologist who co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration in Covid years to advise focused protection instead of blanket interventions in the society, sits down with us to look back at the experience of Covid years and to draw some conclusions at where we are now. “Harms of lockdown remain very palpable,” she argues, pointing specifically to the all-time low of mental health amongst youth and children. Measures like lockdown should never have been attempted, she says, on the basis of a mere notion that ‘maybe’ they would help, while ignoring certain and enormous concurrent damage. Much of the Covid approach was simplistic, like presuming that that locking down part of the population will achieve an equal stop to the spread of the virus, which was a hope that was never realistic or true…