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A good friend of mine is a doctor who is angling hard against the prevailing narrative of COVID. He believes the risks are over represented and the collateral d
by jasonv 6y ago
A good friend of mine is a doctor who is angling hard against the prevailing narrative of COVID. He believes the risks are over represented and the collateral damage is under considered.
We can’t talk about pandemic responses that target those at risk because we can’t discuss the risks that certain people have.
Lockdowns aren’t really working.
Not everyone is equally at risk.
Targeting places instead of populations isn’t strong policy.
And at the current rate, we’re only heading towards mandatory vaccines, of which the risks are not yet understood, and greater social control of our bodies when, perhaps, it’s not warranted.
We can’t say “this is how we beat it” when things are at their worst. There are, in fact, massive profit machines directing our response trajectory.
Intersectionalism has been a controversial social movement, and those who used it the most as a cultural talisman are universalizing the pandemic response. Ironic, and ineffective?
- Rillen 6y agoI don't think what you are doing is good. I think its contraproductive. This narrative of 'is a doctor' doesn't make that person an expert. In a global pandemic like this, i think, you need an expert group of people with a min and max size. Those people need to be in the right position to have access the most amount of data and they need to make suggestions and predictions as accurate as possible. This then needs to be taken by the current government to decide what to do. Your type of 'doctors' shouldn't comment on it like they are experts; They should start doing research with proper tools and statistics to support the expert group at the top. It is easy to say something doesn't work after a few days or weeks. Its just not helping. If experts are trying this, the chance, that your opinion was a fluke and now matches your expected outcome, doesn't make you an expert. All those shitty people thinking wearing a mask is a absolut no go and strips them of their rights are a real problem. In germany on the 'querdenker' people brought up and compared themselfs with anne frank and sophie scholl because of this. She was 22 when she was killed by the nazis through a guillotine in munich as a student because of distributing anti-war flyers. Seeing this is one of my most frustrating experiences with our society so far. While there are a lot of people following those simple requests, its astounding how irrational people are in the usa.
- EliRivers 6y agoOh, doctors. They think they're experts in everything remotely related to medicine, public health, pharmacology, and often a lot more besides. Just being a doctor is in no way a qualification to speak sensibly about pandemics, economics, or anything else outside their particular narrow field of training and experience. Using motor oil on a daily basis doesn't qualify my car mechanic as an expert on the international oil supply chain; dealing with individual sick people doesn't qualify a doctor as an epidemiologist or economist. Maybe in this particular case your doctor friend IS an actual epidemiologist or economist, but I suspect that's not that case.
- suifbwish 6y agoAs if being a doctor prequalifies him for anything but commenting on the state of affairs in this hospital or office he happens to work in. I went to school with mostly medical students and was not at all impressed with the types of people that gravitate toward that field. They often cut corners, are very uninterested in what they study and I am not at all surprised with the numbers of malpractice cases and misdiagnosis afoot in the medical industry.