Lockdowns furthered the rather backwards notion that our health is improved if we’re separated from one another. ![]() It’s not just that lockdowns and other forced isolation destroyed so many jobs, so many businesses, and that they drove all sorts of other human tragedies of the alcohol, drug, and suicidal variety as discussed in my new book releasing today, When Politicians Panicked. Historians will marvel at their foolishness. That they are calls loudly for the very human interaction that politicians and experts have tried to outlaw over the past year. ![]() That they must kill outsiders who approach them is a reminder that viruses don’t go to sleep, get bored, or run away rather they’re a forever concept. Wholly isolated, the island’s inhabitants have long been separated from the crucial human interaction that fosters immunity. The North Sentinelese haven’t been so lucky. Immunity is most notably achieved naturally, and it’s achieved much more quickly when people are constantly interacting with other people. The spreading hasn’t weakened the global population, rather it’s strengthened it. With more and more of the world’s inhabitants moving around the globe, so have viruses. In a health sense, they’ve spread viruses around the world. It’s not just that the division of labor has enabled relentless specialization among the world’s workers, it’s not just that people “bumping into each other” have spread ideas and processes that have driven even greater economic advancement that has easily been the greatest foe of disease and death, globalization has also fostered a great deal of physical, in-person interaction among productive, specialized people increasingly possessing the means to see the globe.Īs a consequence they haven’t just seen the world. Oxford professor Sunetra Gupta, one of the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration, has long argued that globalization’s genius has been understated. As the North Sentinelese remind us, isolation weakens the human body precisely because it limits the exposure to the myriad human-spread viruses that paradoxically strengthen the immune system. Hide from a virus? To do so would be for cities, states and countries to set themselves up for something much worse down the line. Though missionaries like Chau came to them in peace, it was as though he arrived with an AK-47.Ĭhau’s murder is yet another gentle reminder of how backwards the lockdowns were. Precisely because the North Sentinelese have been so isolated for so long from the outside world, their immunity is nil. Not only did Chau break Indian law, in making his way to North Sentinel his very existence threatened the lives of something on the order of one hundred people. Think flu, measles, chickenpox.”Īiming to maintain the existence of their most primitive society, the Sentinelese had no choice but to kill a certain giver of virus and disease who naively thought he was source of good. As Varadarajan put it, “Contact with the outside world – with men like Chau – would likely kill off the Sentinelese. Their isolation has done the North Sentinelese no favors in a health sense. About the murder, it’s crucial to understand the why behind it. As for an outside understanding of its language, forget about it.Ĭhau was seemingly the latest to try and get to know the Sentinelese, to bring religion, but as he approached with an eye on converting them to Christianity, the arrows flew and his life ended. ![]() ![]() How could they not be? So isolated are they that no one even knows the island’s actual population. To some of the fanatics who so naively bought the run-and-hide from the coronavirus concept in total, the Sentinelese are likely very healthy people. Per the very excellent Tunku Varadarajan in a Wall Street Journal account from 2018, “the Sentinelese are the world’s most isolated and inaccessible people.” The North Sentinelese descend from African migrants who settled on the island 50,000 years ago.Ĭhau’s body was apparently “riddled” by arrows launched from yes, bows. North Sentinel Island’s civilization is of the Stone Age kind. North Sentinel is 500 miles east of India, and it’s speculated that somewhere in the range of 100 to 150 people live there. Memories of what happened then will hopefully further wake people up to the abject stupidity of lockdown as the path to enhanced health.īack then John Allen Chau, a Christian missionary from the United States, made his way to North Sentinel Island. But so that we don’t, let’s please travel back in time to November of 2018.
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