Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including 'Dr Johnny Bananas'

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An open letter that made headlines calling for a herd immunity approach to Covid-19 lists a number of apparently fake names among its expert signatories, including “Dr Johnny Bananas” and “Professor Cominic Dummings”.

The Great Barrington declaration, which was said to have been signed by more than 15,000 scientists and medical practitioners around the world, was found by Sky News to contain numerous false names, as well as those of several homeopaths.

Others listed include a resident at the “university of your mum” and another supposed specialist whose name was the first verse of the Macarena.

Sky News discovered 18 self-declared homeopaths in the list of expert names and more than 100 therapists whose expertise included massage, hypnotherapy and Mongolian khoomii singing.


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That registers an inompetence level of 9.7 on the Trumpometer.
 
I think sometimes you can quite quickly assess the importance and significance of an idea by looking at the calibre of people who are supporting it.
 
I'd be more surprised if there weren't a few fake names with 15,000 signatories. Though I am curious why it is called the "herd immunity letter". My understanding of herd immunity is when enough people are immune through vaccination or such this means people who aren't vaccinated are so unlikely to get infected it's meaningless. What the letter seems to suggest from the news article I read was an easing of lockdown which would just be allowing the virus to run its course more quickly.
 
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