1/ Yesterday was demoralizing.
Some of the best years of my life (2004-2013) were med school, internal medicine residency and ICU fellowship at Western. I still bleed purple.
This mandate will hurt people and threatens to ruin a very special place.
news.westernu.ca/2022/08/wester…
Some of the best years of my life (2004-2013) were med school, internal medicine residency and ICU fellowship at Western. I still bleed purple.
This mandate will hurt people and threatens to ruin a very special place.
news.westernu.ca/2022/08/wester…
2/ Western claims to be enacting their three dose mandate after consultation with their experts.
Which "experts" are these who do not seem to know that third dose effectiveness is roughly zero (0.6-6.5%) at 4 months?
nature.com/articles/s4146…
Which "experts" are these who do not seem to know that third dose effectiveness is roughly zero (0.6-6.5%) at 4 months?
nature.com/articles/s4146…
3/ Why would you kick someone out of school because they didn't take a booster 8 months ago that is currently providing ~0% protection against transmission?
Pretension? Malice? Callus disregard for people who think differently than you? I'm struggling to understand.
Pretension? Malice? Callus disregard for people who think differently than you? I'm struggling to understand.
4/ What sort of "expert" doubles down on the failed measures that spectacularly failed to contain Omicron just last Fall?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
"Cornell’s experience shows that traditional public health interventions were not a match for Omicron."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
"Cornell’s experience shows that traditional public health interventions were not a match for Omicron."
5/ It seems to me that a clique of preening zealots who understand very little about the whole of human health have taken over my alma mater.
They congratulate each other in an echo chamber and distribute dubious credentials in a daisy chain of obeisance
They congratulate each other in an echo chamber and distribute dubious credentials in a daisy chain of obeisance
6/ Unencumbered by actual clinical experience, regard for the scientific evidence, or fealty to our standard ethics, they claim a mantle of unearned "expertise."
7/ If you have never had to tell someone "sorry the hospital didn't let you visit your husband for the last ten days because you traveled out of country. . he has died," you are not an expert in the harms of these policies.
8/ If you have never intubated someone who got Covid from their vaccinated and masked caregiver who "did everything right," you are not an expert in the the failures of these policies.
9/ I spoke to the actual medical experts at Western today, my friends and former colleagues. They were, oddly, not consulted about this policy.
10/ These kids about to start first year, whose futures you would casually foreclose upon (with two weeks notice!), were 15 when this madness started.
11/ They didn't have dances. They didn't have sports. They didn't have theatre.
They deserve to have college. With smiles. Next week. #EnoughIsEnough
They deserve to have college. With smiles. Next week. #EnoughIsEnough
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