We will probably hit 250,000 dead, many preventable, in the last eight months. And yet we have nearly half the country insisting that it either is a hoax or is something that happens every year. And why do they think this? Because of lunatic social media bullshit and people like this spewing bullshit on Fox News:
DR. RAMIN OSKOUI (GUEST): Well, you know, the whole idea of lockdowns obviously was to suppress viral spread, but it’s come at a huge social and economic cost, and what we have to understand from that Icon School of Medicine study that you showed, beautifully done, and with very thorough testing is that social distancing doesn’t work, quarantining doesn’t work, masks don’t work.
This is really settled science, and those in the media, and those in the public, who want to cling to those illusions, they’re fooling themselves. And they’re hurting society.
That is not what the study said. Here’s the CNN report on the study:
One study — by researchers at the Naval Medical Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and other institutions — included data on 1,848 recruits who were tested for Covid-19 after completing a two-week quarantine at home and then throughout a supervised quarantine on a college campus.While on campus, recruits wore masks and practiced social distancing.
US Defense Department at war with Covid-19 10:16At the end of that second quarantine, all recruits were required to have a negative Covid-19 test before heading to Parris Island in South Carolina for training. The recruits, who were predominantly male, enrolled in the study from May 12 to July 15.close dialog
The study found that at the time of enrollment, following the recruits’ at-home quarantine, 16 of them — or about 1% — tested positive for coronavirus. Then during the two-week supervised quarantine period, the researchers found that an additional 35 recruits — or about 2% — tested positive. Clusters of outbreaks were identified and “shared rooms and shared platoon membership were risk factors for transmission,” the researchers wrote.Only five of the 51 infected recruits — 10% of them — reported having symptoms in the week before testing positive or on the day testing occurred. All cases were detected through scheduled testing and none were through daily symptom monitoring.
If you think they were wearing masks in their own rooms, you are crazy.
The thrust of the study was that you cannot depend on waiting for symptoms and that testing regularly was the key. They did not conclude that masks, social distancing and quarantining doesn’t work. 1% of these recruits came into quarantine and ended up spreading it to others who were in the quarantine with them. Duh.
But these right wingers are simply intent upon killing people, even their own loved ones and even themselves. I can’t get over it.