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The poster explicitly calls out Facebook and the risk of getting pulled into a life-ruining web of conspiracy theorists as a reason for not pressing charges: >

The poster explicitly calls out Facebook and the risk of getting pulled into a life-ruining web of conspiracy theorists as a reason for not pressing charges: > A recognition that doing so would be putting a target on me, my family, my colleagues and my hospital for all of the violent Q-Anon people. The arrest would be local and possibly national news. It would subject these children to deep pain. Worse, though, it would hit Facebook, and within no time, my name, my kids' names, and my wife's name would be all over their sites. All of us would be threatened. These people are unpredictable, but seem to crave violence. I don't want to be responsible for one of my colleagues being shot in the parking lot because I became a national symbol of Q-Anon hospital violence.

Consultant32452 5y ago
I smell a hoax. Looking at the poster's history there are a bunch of posts that are practically copy pastes of each other. He makes a couple of blatantly dubious medical claims. For example he claims that Ivermectin doesn't work (probably true) with a followup claim that it does work but you have to give so much you'd OD from it. In other posts he claims "every ICU patient is covid" which is a repeated hoax we've seen. At the very least it doesn't differentiate people in ICU who have covid vs people in ICU because of covid, and how many of the people caught their covid while in the hospital/ICU, etc. ICUs aren't full. If this is actually a doctor and they are actually in an ICU that's temporarily full, it definitely is not always full. Statistically ICU beds in hospitals are at pre-pandemic vacancy levels. Lastly, and this isn't really fact based, but it's too "on the nose". The whole narrative they've created is like it was written by a third rate script writer to sell the narrative. It's "too perfect" for his side. The truth is bad enough, people really are dying and suffering. There really are a lot of conspiracy people. But it's just to clean for his side.
- TigeriusKirk 5y ago
  It sets off every alarm bell I have and it's being spread far and wide by people who consider themselves too savvy to fall for something as obviously fake as QAnon. The irony is thick sometimes.
- mraudiobook_com 5y ago
- mariuolo 5y ago
  > For example he claims that Ivermectin doesn't work (probably true) with a followup claim that it does work but you have to give so much you'd OD from it. Ivermectin does work in vitro, but the equivalent effective dosage would kill a person.
  - sireat 5y ago
    Basically the gun: https://xkcd.com/1217/ https://xkcd.com/1217/

Consultant32452 5y ago

I smell a hoax. Looking at the poster's history there are a bunch of posts that are practically copy pastes of each other. He makes a couple of blatantly dubious medical claims. For example he claims that Ivermectin doesn't work (probably true) with a followup claim that it does work but you have to give so much you'd OD from it. In other posts he claims "every ICU patient is covid" which is a repeated hoax we've seen. At the very least it doesn't differentiate people in ICU who have covid vs people in ICU because of covid, and how many of the people caught their covid while in the hospital/ICU, etc. ICUs aren't full. If this is actually a doctor and they are actually in an ICU that's temporarily full, it definitely is not always full. Statistically ICU beds in hospitals are at pre-pandemic vacancy levels. Lastly, and this isn't really fact based, but it's too "on the nose". The whole narrative they've created is like it was written by a third rate script writer to sell the narrative. It's "too perfect" for his side. The truth is bad enough, people really are dying and suffering. There really are a lot of conspiracy people. But it's just to clean for his side.

TigeriusKirk 5y ago
It sets off every alarm bell I have and it's being spread far and wide by people who consider themselves too savvy to fall for something as obviously fake as QAnon. The irony is thick sometimes.
mraudiobook_com 5y ago
mariuolo 5y ago
> For example he claims that Ivermectin doesn't work (probably true) with a followup claim that it does work but you have to give so much you'd OD from it. Ivermectin does work in vitro, but the equivalent effective dosage would kill a person.
- sireat 5y ago
  Basically the gun: https://xkcd.com/1217/ https://xkcd.com/1217/