Barrington is about science, not ideology

 Vincent J. Curtis

20 Oct 20

RE: It's all about politics.  Hamilton Spectator editorial of today's date.  The paper condemns the Great Barrington Declaration as ideological hogwash.  Based upon their their expertise in basket weaving, the editors choose discredited experts over good ones because what the discredited ones propose leads to the defeat of Donald Trump.

It’s all about beating Donald Trump in November, isn’t it?  End lockdowns, the economy revives, people feel better about themselves, and Donald Trump gets re-elected.  That’s the worry.

The story “There appears to be another crisis breaking” on p. A4 exposes that there have been more additional drug overdoses in Hamilton during the pandemic than COVID-19 cases.  This problem was attributed to the pandemic, but actually it’s due to the lockdown, the political response to the pandemic.  That the consequences of the lockdown are worse than the pandemic itself is the central holding of the Barrington Declaration, which the Spectator condemns.

The Spectator admits that Barrington is signed by credentialed experts, but dismisses their opinions as “crank” with the entire motivation being ideological, an assertion of libertarianism.  Credentialed experts sacrificed their expertise for the sake of a political ideology, that ideology being of the “far-right.”  That sounds familiar.  Left-wing projection, in fact.

Having admitted that such selling out is possible, that means that credentialed members of the deep state or committed “far-left” ideologues could be selling out for the sake of politics, the defeat of Donald Trump.  The editorial says the pandemic has been poorly managed in America; well Trump relies on Democrat governors and Democrat bureaucrats to manage the pandemic in detail.  Perhaps, they’re the ones deliberately screwing up for a political goal, one the Spectator supports, the defeat of Donald Trump.

The editorial also fails to understand herd immunity, but that’s for another day.

Barrington says nothing that hasn’t been said since April.

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