Welcome to episode.

Welcome to episode 31 of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast. Now with 100% less Luther Abel.

I am back from Italy, which was terrific. Food, the wine, the landscapes, the architecture, the weather,

all just astonishing. We started in Rome and then headed out to Tuscany via Orvieto.

In Tuscany, we saw Siena and Florence and all manner of little towns and villages in the Kianti region.

We also went wine tasting, which was as hellish as it sounds, sitting in a beautiful building, eating pecorino cheese and local sausage and trying kianti classicos and super tuscans and even

some rosé it was pure torture but look someone has to do it and i wouldn't want anyone to say

that when the moment came for volunteers, I failed to step forward.

My guess this week is Dr. J. Batacharya.

Dr. Batacharya is a professor

at Stanford University Medical School,

where he researches the health and well-being

of vulnerable populations.

He co-wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, a focused protection alternative to lockdowns.

Dr. Batacharya has published over 160 peer-reviewed papers on medicine, epidemiology, health policy and public health.

And he holds an MD and PhD in economics earned at Stanford University.

He also became something of a lightning rod in recent years as a result of many of the views he expressed during the pandemic.

And so I thought now that the pandemic is unquestionably

over, I hope so, that it would be good to look back at that time and discuss what he and we learned

and what he and we got right and got wrong. And ask what if heaven for then we got another pandemic within

our lifetimes we should do differently next time around so dr batichara welcome to the charles c w cook

podcast thank you for having me charles appreciate being. So let's start at the beginning and look at the Great Barrington Declaration, which you co-wrote.

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