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Oregon Trail parody. (The Donald Win\/Reddit)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Knut Wittkowski is a double doctorate degree holder. One of his specialties involves complex diseases. During an interview on how to deal with the coronavirus, he argued that the lockdowns were not the correct approach. His suggestion?<\/p>\n

That we should separate the elderly, and let the rest of us build “herd immunity”. We continue doing what we did before the lockdown and simply infect each other as nature intended. The pandemic would take its course and would actually be gone in a matter of weeks. Not months.<\/p>\n

From The Golden Hammer:<\/span><\/p>\n

[00:36.03] JOHN:<\/strong> You gave recommendations for how best to deal with COVID-19. Could you just describe what you wrote?<\/p>\n

[00:44.20] WITTKOWSKI:<\/strong> As with every respiratory disease, we should protect the elderly and fragile because when they get pneumonia, they have a high risk of dying of the pneumonia. So that is one of the key issues that we should keep in mind. On the other hand, children do very well with these diseases. They’re evolutionarily designed to be exposed to all sorts of viruses during their lifetime, and so they should keep going to school and infecting each other. Then, that contributes to herd immunity, which means after about four weeks at the most, the elderly people could start joining their family because then the virus would have been extinguished.<\/p>\n

[01:36.02] JOHN:<\/strong> You mention in the piece that in fact you think containment would prolong the duration of the virus. Can you talk about that?<\/p>\n

[01:45.00] WITTKOWSKI:<\/strong> With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated.<\/p>\n

[02:33.24] JOHN:<\/strong> And so, what do you make of the policy that was enacted in the United States and England and most places throughout the world, this policy of containment, shelter-in-place, etc.? What’s your opinion of it?<\/p>\n

[02:47.05] WITTKOWSKI:<\/strong> Well, what people are trying to do is flatten the curve. I don’t really know why. But, what happens is if you flatten the curve, you also prolong, to widen it, and it takes more time. And I don’t see a good reason for a respiratory disease to stay in the population longer than necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video of the interview:<\/span><\/p>\n