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Sigh. I googled Feigl-Ding and I learned he is not a source to be trusted. I'm not going to share any more tweets by him. I had no idea how questionable he is...
Feigl-Ding has disclosed he is not sub-specialized in infectious diseases and claims to have never misrepresented himself as an infectious disease epidemiologist. [...] His tweets during the [covid] pandemic have also at times been criticized by other scientists as alarmist, misleading, or inaccurate.
Also - for what it's worth - he's a democratic politician. I wonder if his tweets are designed more for his "brand" than anything else.
I'm looking forward to :frothingfash: going blind and getting pustules and horrific scars all over their bodies to own the libs
Should we start a contest to see who comes the closest to guessing whatever batshit miracle cure they come up with this time?
What's the stupidest thing that has some medieval historical basis? I'm guessing some combination of bloodletting, cow shit, and... Concentrated piss.
I would love to see a pool of some sort we can place bets on.
piss some already did for covid. people were trusting random dudes in lab coats to give them mystery injections at qanon festivals so i don't think anything is off the table lol
https://www.them.us/story/spironolactone-covid-19-hrt-fox-news :dean-malice:
Wasn’t there a certain country that basically forced the US to take it seriously :ussr-cry:
from /r/medicine from actual doctor
Remain calm. This is a study of virus detection in air and is NOT a transmission study. There is a big difference. Just because a viable virus is detectable it does not mean that it will cause human disease.
The R0 for Monkey pox is about 1. So yes, transmission can be sustained. However there have been dozens of outbreaks studied since the 80s and there have not been large scale transmission events. Household transmission rate studies show variable results but the pooled estimate for unvaccinated household contacts is in the order of 8%. In addition, this virus is a DNA virus and mutations into a pandemic spreading strain are unlikely. This is a great reference for a summary of the epi of the monkeypox virus.
link https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/utz52q/there_is_a_high_chance_that_monkeypox_can_spread/
Sigh. I googled Feigl-Ding and I learned he is not a source to be trusted. I'm not going to share any more tweets by him. I had no idea how questionable he is...
Feigl-Ding has disclosed he is not sub-specialized in infectious diseases and claims to have never misrepresented himself as an infectious disease epidemiologist. [...] His tweets during the [covid] pandemic have also at times been criticized by other scientists as alarmist, misleading, or inaccurate.
Also - for what it's worth - he's a democratic politician.
I'm going to edit the self text too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/utz52q/there_is_a_high_chance_that_monkeypox_can_spread/
Remember when the CDC said Covid wasn't airborne and we shouldn't go out and get masks? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
The thing is that they knew but they lied to everyone because the US has dogshit infrastructure so medical professionals didn’t have the proper PPE. And even when they admitted it and reversed their decision healthcare workers were still under equipped so basically they lied for no reason
Yup, and so tbh if this does turn out to be pandemic 2.0 then I honestly feel this is gonna collapse a lot of hospital systems beyond repair.
Where I live, the liberal-led government started saying that masks don't do anything once they got rid of the mandate (although, of course, they said you are free to keep wearing them, which obviously almost no one now does :sadness: ). It felt so disorienting for that to go from a fringe rightwing conspiracy position to the government's position without the least acknowledgement. Just overnight, welcome to the new 'truth'
Legit feels like doublespeak more often than not with the only desire is for individuals to maintain cohesion to the party-line or ideology outside of any connection to reality.
