This interview with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, originally aired on EpochTV in April 2022, delves into the unintended consequences of lockdown policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“They worked to create an illusion of consensus that didn’t exist … by collaborating with the press and big tech to silence the voices of dissenting scientists,” Dr. Bhattacharya explains.

In this episode, we hear from Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor of medicine, physician, epidemiologist, and public health policy expert. He is one of the three co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for focused protection of the most vulnerable populations rather than sweeping nationwide lockdowns.

Dr. Bhattacharya argues that instead of prioritizing the elderly and immunocompromised—those most at risk of dying from COVID-19—lockdown policies disproportionately shielded the "laptop class," the economically advantaged. Meanwhile, these measures devastated poorer populations both in the United States and globally.

According to a U.N. report, in South Asia alone, lockdowns caused the deaths of an estimated 228,000 young children during the first wave of the pandemic.

“This is the single biggest driver of inequality … in my lifetime,” Dr. Bhattacharya states.