Letter to the editor: Leaders kept Americans living in fear

The Great Barrington Declaration was written in October 2020 by three doctors concerned about lockdowns hurting children, workers and the poor. Eventually, 50,000 doctors, scientists and medical researchers signed on.

The doctors are Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician, professor at Stanford University Medical School, epidemiologist, health economist and public health policy expert; Dr. Sunetra Gupta, an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor at the University of Oxford who worked on various infectious diseases including malaria, influenza and covid-19; and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious diseases. None received any funding from pharmaceutical companies or large corporations.

The document was intended to reveal the research showing that shutting down the economy and denying children in-person schooling had immeasurable destruction — unemployment, bankruptcy, depression, suicide and other serious health problems.

In spite of this research, former White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and head of the CDC Dr. Robert Redfield, in my opinion, did everything in their power to undermine the Trump administration. Of course, it took the liberal media to willingly go along and facilitate this, thus keeping the American people in constant fear.

Ed Liberatore

Turtle Creek