Science Based Satire: My 2026 Interview with Jay Bhattacharya. It’s Still Lockdowns All the Way Down.
"The worst thing about lockdowns is that they are over, and everyone else moved on long ago."
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Question: Why is the USA leaving the World Health Organization?
Answer: The WHO issues a warning to countries to keep lockdowns in place until the epidemic is “under control”. Under this faulty guidance, the world should probably still be in lockdown.
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Question: How does leaving the WHO make the USA safer?
Answer: The WHO recommends a set of stringent preconditions for lifting lockdown.
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Question: I’m confused. In September 2021, you said “We should be treating COVID as one of 200 diseases that affect people.” So why are you still relitigating COVID debates from spring 2020?
Answer: According to the WHO, lockdowns are not decisions made by governments, but something that happens to people unless they obey.
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Question: Well, if you want to talk about COVID errors, in April 2021 you said vaccinated people have “zero” risk of transmitting COVID. Later, you said this was a “lie”. Can you explain?
Answer: Lockdowns cause a form of psychological terror that guarantee they could never last just two weeks.
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Question: The Great Barrington Declaration claimed the mass infection of unvaccinated people would lead to herd immunity in 3-6 months. Do we have herd immunity to COVID today?
Answer: What is not understandable is the utter confidence that the WHO and public health leaders expressed in these ideas and lockdown policies to the public as the only way to protect the population, going so far as to call for censorship of contrary voices on social media and elsewhere.
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Question: In May 2021 you said that we “kind of” already had herd immunity to COVID and that it was seasonal. They Delta variant arrived immediately after that. Were you right?
Answer: The stockpiled countermeasures developed under the old pandemic playbook offer a false sense of security and empower those who would impose lockdowns, mandates, and other such strategies.
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Question: Moving on to more current issues, in 2026 children are missing school not because of lockdowns, but because measles is spreading widely. What is your plan to get things under control?
Answer: Is it just me, or are all the WHO high officials and scientists who pushed the world into lockdown in 2020 now swearing up and down that they never recommended lockdown? I, for one, have no confidence that they would not recommend the world lock down again, given the chance.
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Question: Again, back to 2026, whooping cough is also spreading due to low vaccine rates. What is your plan to control this?
Answer: Lockdownscannot suppress COVID spread or protect the vulnerable for long,
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Question: Let’s talk about recent decisions you’ve made at the NIH. Why did you sign the memorandum, CDC Acts on Presidential Memorandum to Update Childhood Immunization Schedule, which decimated the vaccine schedule?
Answer: I think ultimately lockdowns ended up killing more people than would’ve been killed had those lockdowns not happened.
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Question: I am unclear why should unvaccinated children contract multiple diseases when safe and effective vaccines exist?
Answer: The WHO mission to China in 2020 lauded the Chinese lockdown as a success, in effect endorsing the model for the rest of the world.
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Question: Many states, medical organizations, and individual doctors are completely ignoring your new vaccine guidance. Why did you lose trust and what is your plan to restore it?
Answer: Lockdowns crush the lives and well-being of children, the poor, and the working class, and almost everyone other than the laptop class.
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Question: Why did you end research into mRNA vaccines?
Answer: The economic dislocations caused by the lockdowns certainly killed vast numbers of people.
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Question: How have you made Americans healthy again? Give me concrete examples.
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