 Welcome to the Knuckleheads of Liberty. So yet another email request, I guess, that had been illuminated some of the dark handlings of this stuff behind the scenes by our trusted scientific government officials here. One of the things that we saw with, as Leon said, certain preeminent scientists had stood up at some point and said, hey, look, you know, this may not be the best way to handle this, you know, the whole lockdown approach that you guys are doing. And so essentially there was this thing called the Great Barrington Declaration that came out and it was, I think it was around October of 2020, where you had several preeminent scientists, and I'll name them for you real quick here. Apparently there was Harvard's Martin Koldoff, Oxford's Sunetra Gupta, and Stanford's Jay Bottacheria. And they were the authors, the main authors of this Great Barrington Declaration that they put out, where essentially what they were questioning was the method. It wasn't that they were saying, hey, is this COVID fake or anything else like that. What they were saying is, hey, look, there's a better way to deal with this than lockdowns. And that's causing a lot of harms in a lot of places. And quite frankly, when this first started, we at this show, we're talking about, look, the best way is very similar to what they're talking about in the Great Barrington Declaration. Let's, you know, if we're going to put any funding into anything, let's do it into protecting the people who are at highest risk and let everybody else go about their business. If there's very little risk to them about COVID, that will build up some immunity within the population. Because, you know, as people who don't have much risk to it get it, then they essentially build up some immunity and it's not going to pass as easily through them. And it'll give some relief to the people who are at the most risk, you know, with that older age spectrum of the population. And, you know, so that there were some scientists coming out saying this. And so what happened after this Great Barrington Declaration came out? So Francis Collins and Tony Fauci, Tony Science, as he likes to refer to himself, I guess. Collins sent an email to Fauci saying, this proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists, okay. That's the, you know, I just read you their credentials. I mean, these people are stellar in their field, okay. He says, this proposal from these three fringe epidemiologists seems to be getting a lot of attention. And even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford, there needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises. Is it underway? He asked. So, I mean, you know, these guys are acting like some kind of mob bosses or something. We're going to put a hit on these other scientists who are doing exactly what scientists are supposed to do, which is questioning dogma, which is questioning the science. Yeah. Exactly. And Tom Woods. So, go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah. These guys weren't slackers on the fringe and at least Jay Botticharia, which is how it's pronounced, was interviewed numerous or more than once, I think with Tom Woods. And yeah, he's been following this since the beginning. And any of us can sign on to it, but it has. The Great Barrington Declaration has been signed by numerous scientists all over the world that agree that, yeah, you do need to have a focused response to this pandemic. Of course, now it's all changing. But back then, I mean, that's all they said. They weren't anti-vaccine. They're pro-vaccine, these guys that are these three scientists. They weren't saying that this thing doesn't exist and none of that stuff. Just take ivermectin. They were saying that. They were just saying, let's focus on the people at risk and don't shut down the economy and cause the $80 billion loss to the GDP. That was subsequently $880 billion were thrown at it by the government with brand new money again. So you had an $80 billion cut and about an 8.8 times response from the government with debt. That was a response. And so the Great Barrington Declaration was simply saying, let's focus on the people at risk. That's it, nothing more. But no, the government doesn't want to have any of that. Are you kidding? No, they have to have the heavy hand. Let's get everybody. We're going to get everybody here. We're going to just crush everybody's freedom because that's what we do. We crush freedom around here and the crushing is going to continue until everybody's morale goes up. Okay? And I'm Tony Science Fauci and that's the end of that. Right, Leon? Yeah. Just before we came on the news, just before we came on to the show, the CDC had just put out that natural immunity is working better against the Delta variant than it was the M, than the M, than the vaccines. But what has happened here, look how long it took to do this. I wish I wish it would work against my darn cough because I still have. Look at what has happened here. Look how long the CDC have resisted recognizing that natural immunity has some part of limited the spread and the effect and the impact of this virus. So within the government, the CDC, the FDA and the administration, there's this narrative that everybody's trying to support. Everybody wants the vaccine and nothing more. So when these people in the Barrington Declaration say, okay, let's protect, let's protect the high-risk groups, but let everybody else go on with their lives, that is the conclusion I think we are now coming to. But the government had different things in mind. We're going to lock down the economy. Everybody going to lock down. Okay? We're going to close the schools. Look at what happened to our children as a result, they closed the schools. They're still trying to close the schools. Look at what's going on in Chicago. They have their narratives in place and they don't care what we think about it. And we are the taxpayers. We are the people who are funding these people. And there is no accountability to the disasters that these people have caused in their lives and the misery they have brought to American citizens. And we can do something about this, otherwise we have no rights and liberties left. Yeah, not to mention the latest mask mandate or the mask mandates that's been going on. Plus now, oh, we get more free stuff. Now we're getting N95 masks from Biden himself. I mean, like he just conjures them up out of thin air. Yeah, four variants too late. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly when Omicron will blow those stupid masks out of the water, number one. Number two, it won't matter because it's now been, now they're finally recognizing all over. The obvious elephant in the room and that is that Omicron is not a big, huge deal anymore. It's very much like cold symptoms and flu symptoms. That's it. Okay. Even in us old people. So, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Thank you for listening to the Knuckleheads of Liberty podcast.