I appreciate that Jay does not try to push fringe fears about the vaccines, and the GB Declaration is not on the whole unreasonable TODAY, but it was released **Oct 2020**, before any vaccines were available and while death rates were quite high.<br><br>In 2020 it was completely reasonable for public health officials to evaluate and reject the GBD as too risky. Having good arguments for it doesn't mean there weren't good arguments against it in 2020 and 2021. The mitigations we say today that should've been done (like isolate and give every senior home delivery of meals) were simply not as easy as they're made to sound.<br><br>And while public health officials definitely misled about natural immunity and other topics, that doesn't automatically make the GBD correct nor does it make their fiercest opponents right. It's foolish to put trust in claims based on how calm they're delivered or because The Other Side has lied.