Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: 'Censorship killed during this pandemic'

Public health policy expert, Stanford University's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya recently told British news outlet Unherd that he believes mass censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic did much damage including costing lives.

“I do really believe that censorship kills," Bhattacharya said.

"Censorship killed during this pandemic. Policies would have been so much better," he continued.

.@DrJBhattacharya was censored by social media platforms for trying to warn about the disastrous consequences of draconian lockdown policies. Years later, it's clear he was right.

"I do really believe that censorship kills."pic.twitter.com/o6UEqYIWRv — Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) December 19, 2022

Bhattacharya explained:

"I do think that the polices that were adopted were incredibly damaging to the lives and livelihoods of so many people. 100 million people thrown into poverty worldwide. That’s the estimate from the World Bank. Just the consequences of that itself are going to have tremendous affects on the lives and livelihoods of poor people going forward.

Of course, all these children that were robbed of an education for years. These are absolutely monumental outcomes of the policies we adopted during the pandemic. Those should have been freely discussed. And I think that because, well, the way my view of the scientific evidence, it was so clear, even at the time, that we should not have been closing schools.

And if we had been allowed to have a free and fair discussion I think the schools would not have closed.

If there hadn’t been this sort of de-merit system for people who spoke out against these kinds of policies, automatically, we’re somehow lesser, we might have had more mainstream attention."