Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a Stanford professor that had somewhat of a controversial approach to the Covid 19 pandemic and to the ways used to stop the virus from spreading. Now, he met with Elon Musk to talk about what caused his ban and which of his statements is the one that essentially led Twitter to ban him.
To clear this out, we are speaking about a Stanford professor that has been studying epidemiology throughout his whole life. When knowing the profile of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, there is no doubt that you’d take what he says for granted. After all, viruses and pandemics are in his field of study.
Dr Jay Bhattacharya Met With Elon Musk To Discover Why Twitter Banned His Account During Covid Pandemic
However, someone at Twitter thought that muting him would be the right thing to do. In times when the world didn’t know how to cope with the situation, in times when every professional opinion should have been valued, someone decided to suppress Dr. Jay.
Twitter banned Dr. Jay because he claimed that Covid lockdowns have a negative effect on society. He claimed that for the most, lockdowns have a very harmful and negative effect on children.
11th of December, Elon Musk invited Dr. Jay to Twitter headquarters to discuss the reason behind his banning. After all, Elon Musk advertised that he wants to establish a new ‘version’ of Twitter that will be more open to the people, and more transparent in regard to the decisions that the company makes. He called this Twitter 2.0.
“Twitter 1.0 placed me on the blacklist on the first day I joined in August 2021.” – professor Jay Bhattacharya tweeted. “I think it was my pinned tweet linking to the Great Barrington Declaration that triggered the blacklist based on unspecified complaints Twitter received.”
The professor is a strong opposer to the way the Covid 19 pandemic was administered by governments all over the world. As such, he took part as a co-author to a letter he sent to the Great Barrington Declaration, stating that the lockdowns are damaging to the public, especially to the children.
This stance was backed up by two other professors, co-authoring the letter. The Infectious disease epidemiologist Sunetra Gupta and professor of medicine at Harvard, Martin Kulldorff.
The trio gave deep thought to the situation and to the psychological burden it forces upon people. They unanimously decided that the measures taken by governments – lockdowns, quarantines, and police hours, are damaging. Furthermore, they claimed that this puts an additional burden on the working class people, as they figuratively need to carry the heaviest load.
At the time of his first banning by Twitter, Dr. Jay, and Dr. Martin Kulldorff decided to seek an explanation from Twitter. However, the social media platform did not reach them with answers.
“Twitter 1.0 rejected requests for verification by me and Martin Kulldorff. Each time the reasoning (never conveyed to us) was that we were not notable enough. They should have asked Francis Collins. He would have vouched for our standing as ‘fringe epidemiologists.” – the doctor continued his Tweeting rant. “It will take some time to find out more about what led Twitter 1.0 to act so imperiously, but I am grateful to Elon Musk, who has promised access to help find out. I will report the results on Twitter 2.0, where transparency and free speech rule.”
“Thank you for your rigorous adherence to science.” – Elon Musk took notice of the doctor’s tweets and replied.
Another controversial claim by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is that people should get ‘collective immunity in order to pass the pandemic. In the letter to the Great Barrington Declaration, he, and his co-authors double down on this thesis. They claim that the virus would immediately stop spreading if everyone contracts it at one point.
Unlike Twitter, the US government supported the paper. In fact, it was used in numerous countries all over the world. Governments used it as an approval for opening of public schools and businesses. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s letter is to be given merit about the opening of schools and bringing businesses back to function as usual.
However, at the same time as people embraced the idea explained in Dr. Bhattacharya’s letter, there were people that opposed the idea. One of them was Dr. Fauci.
He strongly opposed Dr. Bhattacharya’s way of thinking, branding the ‘collective immunity’ idea as a ‘total nonsense’. He told that he sees this as a ‘ridiculous’ and dangerous attempt for solving the situation. Fauci thinks that this method will without a doubt end up with many ‘hospitalizations and deaths’.
However, lately Dr Fauci seems to change his mind recently. While speaking to ABC News in November, he told – “We should realize, and have realized, that there will be deleterious collateral consequences when you do something like that. That’s the reason why I continually would say on any media appearances I’ve had. ‘We’ve got to do everything we can to keep the schools open’. The most important thing is to protect the children.”
In addition, he doubled down on his claims that the coronavirus did not emerge from a lab in China.
Elon Musk pledged to give the world a platform where people would be free to express themselves. He promised a platform where there will be no shadow-banning and suppression of certain topics and opinions.
Recently he leaked company emails revealing the truth behind the suppression of the Hunter Biden story. Next is the suppression of experts’ opinions on the past Covid 19 pandemic.
Let’s see whether Musk will deliver again and put light on everyone that wronged the world in recent past.
