US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a leading Covid lockdown sceptic Jay Bhattacharya to be the next director of a key US public health agency.
Trump said he had selected the Stanford University-trained physician and economist to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s biggest government-funded biomedical research entity.
Bhattacharya became the face during the pandemic of a fiercely disputed open letter – known as the Great Barrington Declaration – that opposed widespread lockdowns.
Greenwald: Stanford’s @DrJBhattacharya was one of the most highly credentialed experts to contest COVID orthodoxies: including the harms of lockdowns, mask efficacy, and dangers to young people. For it, he was censored by Big Tech and widely maligned. Now, he’s running Fauci’s NIH

This is absolutely superb news! Now watch as the Deep State Senators get their marching orders from Big Pharma to destroy him!!!
Why would “Big Pharma” want to destroy someone who was skeptical of lock-down policies?
Probably because lock downs actually caused increases in infection.
You could argue it both ways, and it would be impossible to be sure as we can’t replay history. I doubt Big Pharma gave a hoot about lockdown policies.
Stay in your hole. The paranoids like you are no longer in control.
DanBC:
Robert’s the one being paranoid. Do pay attention.
And if you’re wondering, Bhattacharya is not skeptical of the COVID vaccines, although he thinks we should have focused primarily on the highly vulnerable rather than insisting the young take it. This is not some great victory for anti-COVID-vaxxers.
Probably because lockdowns destroyed the lives of public schoolchildren who lost two years of their education (such as it is) … Gavin Newsom’s children continued their private school education unabated. Why? Because private school kids weren’t declared “unclean”
Fauci sought to destroy the Great Barrington Declaration and the people behind it precisely because it threatened the propaganda-fest required to make available the emergency use authorization of the mRNA platform. Dr. Bhattacharya has been a vocal proponent and litigant against the U.S. government’s censorship, notably censorship of the inefficacy and the extraordinary risks of the mRNA technology using toxic spike protein as the principal vector.
BTW, VAERS data indicates that the mRNA stimulation of IgG4 kicks in much more strongly at the fourth injection. Utter disaster.
BTW2: A recent study on excess mortality in European nations 2020-2023 had Sweden as the lowest. Strong evidence that the Great Barrington Declaration was and remains empirically sound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Opposite
It worked fantastically for George Costanza, who did the exact opposite of conventional habit. It totally transformed his life and got him a desirable job with the Yankees. It’s long past time we should start doing EVERYTHING the opposite way of the Deep State. So we Yankees can get a better country
L – The meme of the good doctor, one you can trust with your life and that of your family;
will begin to replace the Pandemic meme of a masked, fauxi doctor. One robotically taking
orders from a Bond villain intent on ruling a world with fewer people.
Don’t hold your breath on anything positive happening in canada.
“physician AND economist”
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This is the most important aspect of this pick, IMO. Someone who understands that there are repercussions (some worse than the original threat) when acting in absolutes.
But we’ll all perish without a lying hack deep-stater in charge of dispersing 10s of billions of US taxes to Chinese bio-weapons labs!!
Bring back Fauci, now!
Susan Collins, save the health of Americans, and the world! We’ll all die if an honest man directs NIH! The Trump appointees must not pass!
Great news!!
And if you read Dr Robert Malone’s Substack (Who is Robert Malone) he analysis the HHS choices that we are not happy about and suggests ‘there is a plan’.
He also mentioned that he has been requested to submit his CV….so possibly being considered for a position with RFK jr.
My Love Letter to Robert W Malone
https://tinyurl.com/yr633rps
Great Barrington Declaration …
https://gbdeclaration.org
and…
“It is not a virtue to exaggerate an infection disease threat at the start of a pandemic to panic the population into compliance.”
“It’s not a vice ask for data to understand the true risk”
“A noble lie is a lie”
Anthony Fauci & Francis Collins conspired and colluded with the media to trash the reputations of these scientists simply for asking for logical and scientific discourse:
https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/23/at-a-time-when-the-u-s-needed-covid-19-dialogue-between-scientists-francis-collins-moved-to-shut-it-down/
Fauci & Collins are criminals. Untold thousands of people died needlessly because of their stupidity and arrogance. They need to be convicted and imprisoned. And the fact that these self appointed, pissant dictators will burn in hell forever still isn’t punishment enough for what they’ve done.
We need to see real time punishment for their evil deeds.
It just keeps getting better and better, and he’s still two months from taking office. I’m anticipating great things from the next administration.
An excellent choice. A very thoughtful and cerebral man, Dr Jay is a perfect choice and a just reward for his brave stance during the Covidiot years.
Excellent news. I’m proud to have signed the declaration at the start of the pandemic myself. It made perfect sense at the time, and the soundness of it has been subsequently borne out.
Director of heath, last name is kinda like bacteria?
I will believe change is happening, when Dr Fauci and his comrades stand in front of their firing squad.
Although I do lean toward “Death by multiple jabs” of the “Vaccine” they pushed.
Half a million reasons why Jay Bhattacharya is not (currently) qualified to be NIH director to Trump
https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2312801013