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OK, let's take a few:
"The idea of social distancing isn't even an established health care concept. It was based on a theoretical model explored by a high school student in a science fair some years ago looking at how an infectious disease MIGHT hypothetically be spread as the result of potential exposures among kids at school. IOW, it was never scientifically based as a method of responding to a pandemic."
That's a form of ad hominem attack. Even if she's correct, how the concept originated isn't evidence social distancing doesn't work. The evidence shows it does work. We see it in the reduction in cases when things are shut down, and then the resurgence when social distancing ends. We see it in large outbreaks at family gatherings, on boats, at funerals.
"Keeping healthy people isolated from one another simply isn't necessary. Masks are intended for the ILL when they will be potentially in contact with others. The WHO and the CDC and the New England Journal of Medicine have now all acknowledged that there is no scientific justification for normal healthy people to be wearing masks"
This is more idiocy. The reason we're advised to wear masks is about half of those infected are contagious but never show any symptoms, so we can be infected and spread it to others without knowing we are sick. That's rare in illnesses. So masks are to compensate for that unique aspect of COVID. If this doctor doesn't recognize this, then she's spreading disinformation, and no better as a source than some ignorant drunk at the end of your local bar.
"Habitual wearing decreases the bodies natural response because we are supposed to come into contact regularly with foreign agents like bacteria and viruses which is what helps keep our immune systems on alert and working at full capacity. Your immune system then goes into vacation mode and won't be there when you need it."
It appears what she's advising AGAINST is hand washing and using hand sanitizer. I'll bet you a nickel she washes her hands dozens or hundreds of times a day. Why? Shouldn't she just let virus and bacteria spread from patient to patient? If she treats a sick patient and goes to lunch, the recommendation is to NOT wash her own hands so she can develop immunity to things like Hep C or whatever?
That's proven nonsense. Look at the outbreaks on cruise ships, family gatherings. What's going on right now proves she's an idiot on this claim.
Then she makes claims about vaccines, but she doesn't know if we can or will develop one, and she's an ignoramus on the issue, so why listen to this idiot?
When the entire medical community believes something contrary to a single ER doc, maybe it's her who doesn't know what she doesn't know and ought to stay in her own lane - treating patients that come into the ER. She's not an epidemiologist, so maybe trust them on epidemiology, and this person on how to stabilize a gun shot or stabbing or heart problem or stroke?
