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Eric Wilson's avatar

Only time I ever wore a mask was on a plane when forced. I knew they did nothing. I'm in medicine as are all of my family. I refused to go along with the political theatre of masking. Fauci was more than an imbecile. His refusal to acknowledge early stage interventions like antibiotics, HCQ, and IV treatments, etc. cost thousands of lives. My father in-law is a nursing home directors and lost very few patients during the height of the most threatening outbreak early on while others died in droves. The difference was early intervention. No other disease state on this planet calls for people to do nothing until they are so sick they need to be hospitalized. Our public health apparatus completely failed our citizens and the worst part is they fail to acknowledge it even now. It is your responsibility to do you homework because those who are supposed to save you will not. There is no courage among most of the medical establishment or our political leaders. You are on your own to make sure you have a physician with courage that does his/her own research and doesn't bow to the NIH and CDC.

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

He was craven. In his first public appearance he said what he really believed - that masks wouldn't protect anybody, that they were "theater". His exact word. I still remember it. Then he flipped soon afterward. I never believed another thing he said after that.

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Richard Jaffee's avatar

What was the early intervention that the nursing home did to protect its residents?

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Just Stop Digging's avatar

"No other disease state on this planet calls for people to do nothing until they are so sick they need to be hospitalized." This has always been one of the most remarkable failures of the US response. I’ve never been able to understand it. WSJ had an article a while back about how doctors in places like India were responding to Covid, throwing everything they could think of at it and seeing what combinations of treatments had an effect. Here it’s like the whole public health system thought if we try to treat this, it helps Trump cause Trump says try this or try that. So they just put their heads in the sand and watched people die instead. And they expect trust and respect now? Sorry no.

For fun go to Our World in Data, pull up the data explorer for Covid death rates, and compare US to India.

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RSgva's avatar

This was not a happenstance or an accident. The big Pharma message, “wait for the vaccine” was delayed and less effective in places like India or those that didn’t speak English as much, e.g. Japan, South America. In many of those places early intervention made all the difference.

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Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

You also have to realize that any death was treated as Covid. Hospitals would test, if the dead person was positive for Covid it was registered as Covid even if they died in a motorcycle accident. Why? Money. Always follow the money.

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

The Govt provided a powerful incentive to hospitals to misdiagnose cause of death - they gave them money for covid deaths.

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