Just in case you missed it, one of the authors let this dude know that he was misrepresenting their study and he explained to her why she was wrong about her own study.
“This study says you can spread the virus for 1-2 days before you start feeling sick, so the solution to stopping the spread of the virus is clearly just to stay home once you start feeling sick. Swish!”
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Having now seen some of the Covid conspiracy horseshit circulating on Facebook, I just don’t know what to say. Truly don’t know what to say.
We would not have jeopardized the survival of our practice if it were not necessary. I just... can’t.
I have cried hot tears at the thought that the practice I love and am so proud of, that means so much to me, might close because we did the right thing and told people to stay home insofar as they could, to NOT come in.
Why would I participate in a conspiracy that demands that?
I have no love for our current “system,” but given that I must function within it, what kind of buffoon would say “lol revenue what even is that” and play along with a plot that harms them? For what? For why?
Seeing that the woman whose child was ripped from her in this account is from Honduras has particular resonance for me. The month I graduated from medical school I spent two weeks on a medical mission to Tegucigalpa.
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I do not look back on that mission with pride, as I discovered to my dismay when the work began that the organizers were more fixated on making people sit through a sermon than getting medical care to them.
That being said, the desperate poverty of the people in the village we first visited was astounding. Their lack of access to any meaningful medical care was abject, and their needs were plainly going unmet in pretty much every way.
I, too, yearn for the days where a person could die a few days after sustaining a minor cut in the skin
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The galling thing is that Oz 100% knows better than this horseshit. Because his Daytime Brand is vastly more lucrative than his tattered academic career, he's willing to say stuff he knows bears absolutely no medical historical scrutiny.
But sure, Mehmet. Donate your celebrity to a man who has repeatedly asserted a link between vaccines and autism, and who suborned a member of our profession to commit fraud. Strong work, you're a credit to Hippocrates.