"Doctor" Phil actually no longer has a medical license, yet appears on TV pretending to dish out sound advice on fixing your totally screwed up life. Word from behind the scenes of his show is he manipulates vulnerable people like struggling alcoholics by providing drinks before they appear, and other nasty gimmicks to draw ratings. I will admit I have seen snippets of his shows, but only when unavoidable such as in in a real doctor's waiting room, or switching between channels for those few seconds it takes me to find something I will actually watch. I don't have to watch him. Video and Twitter capture his actions and what he says. It's out there for anybody.
Ditto with "Doctor" Oz, except with much less of my exposure to him. His reputation is of hawking all sorts of unproven remedies for everything and without care for their true impacts. I'd call him a snake oil salesman, but I have an actual fondness for the critters. Presumably substantial amounts of money are exchanged, both for the hawking supposed cures and intelligence. I found no reference to the possibility of him not still having his medical license, and since the info was so readily available for Phil, I will presume Oz does still have his.
Both are just a little more notorious and reprehensible recently. Both have been on television pushing the reopening of business-as-usual despite not having the virus testing in place to support such a move as being safe. Neither seems to care. $$$$$$$
"Doctor" Oz was on Hannity (no, I've never watched) pushing sending kids back to school. Now. Not next year. Now. He admitted that likely would increase Covid 19 deaths by 2 - 3%, but brushed it off. "Any, you know, any life is a life lost, but … that might be a tradeoff some folks would consider,” is how he dismissed the impact.
Consider that we have about 56,600,000 children in schools right now - OK, staying home from their schools right now. Somewhere around 113 to 169 thousand deaths are OK with anybody? These will not just be children, but teachers, aids, officials, janitors, cafeteria staff, security guards, bus drivers. Mostly, the covid cases will be children though. And filter through all their families as well.
Who? Really, who would even consider that as worth... what? Propping up the stock market so the 1% have less competition for their 99% of the profits? Keeping Trump's base happier, banking on their stupidity while arranging all those funerals in their communities? I can't fathom it.
"Dr." Phil had a different take on opening up the economy again. Talking with Laura Ingraham, he delved deep, deep, back beyond any possible interference by logic circuits in his brain, to come up with what he though would be an analogy. "We don't shut down the country for car accidents and swimming pool deaths." He conveniently forgot - or doesn't even comprehend - that neither of those things are even remotely contagious, not to mention how super-contagious Covid 19 is.
If they were, one car accident would spread to several others, each spreading to others, etc. Imagine "giving" a car accident, or a drowning, or whatever, to others pandemic style.
These two are not the only examples of the "whole lotta stupid" out there working their own selfish ideas about opening up the economy yesterday. And Trump (you didn't think I'd neglect him here, did you?) is busy egging them on. Possibly the only thing he's busy doing in regards to the virus. We are now getting demonstrations with the goal of persuading various governors to open up their states.
Yep, you guessed it, they are in large groups. Few to no face masks. (Perhaps their pure hearts render them immune?) No social distancing - well, except for those in cars gathering to block nonexistent traffic to make their point. Apparently they think they're invincible. Or if they get it it'll only be "like a cold." And once they get it, they won't spread it, 'cuz, you know, they just won't. And once they spread it, that person (not people) won't get all that sick anyway. And if that person dies, oh well, no issue, it'll be someone way off in the not-my-circle crowd. Nobody important. Probably sick anyway. Less of a drain on the system. Save my taxes, more income, food, resources, whatever I want to claim as mine soon as they are gone.
Oh yes, and nobody can tell them what to do, where to go, to stay home, not party, not whatever else they want. Any attempt to do so (because the virus isn't real?) is a violation of their rights (to kill people) so they bring their guns with them. Lots of them. Do you suppose they believe their bullets can shoot the virus that doesn't exist, won't hurt anybody, and they don't care about anyway?
Yep, you guessed it, they are in large groups. Few to no face masks. (Perhaps their pure hearts render them immune?) No social distancing - well, except for those in cars gathering to block nonexistent traffic to make their point. Apparently they think they're invincible. Or if they get it it'll only be "like a cold." And once they get it, they won't spread it, 'cuz, you know, they just won't. And once they spread it, that person (not people) won't get all that sick anyway. And if that person dies, oh well, no issue, it'll be someone way off in the not-my-circle crowd. Nobody important. Probably sick anyway. Less of a drain on the system. Save my taxes, more income, food, resources, whatever I want to claim as mine soon as they are gone.
Oh yes, and nobody can tell them what to do, where to go, to stay home, not party, not whatever else they want. Any attempt to do so (because the virus isn't real?) is a violation of their rights (to kill people) so they bring their guns with them. Lots of them. Do you suppose they believe their bullets can shoot the virus that doesn't exist, won't hurt anybody, and they don't care about anyway?
Karma is an overused word. It's tempting to overuse it some more, imagining that all these demonstrators, in ignoring all the ways to avoid getting and spreading the virus, actually do get it, and spread it within their little groups and their own families. The point - the satisfaction in such imagining - would be that they finally do get the point along with the virus. To some extent that will likely happen. But it won't stop with them. This virus doesn't work that way, and enough of them will be contagious while they're still running around that there will be new clusters of hot spots. Those hot spots will delay safety for the rest of us who are just as frustrated in wanting to get back to normal, to get out shopping, go to work, attend events, meet with friends and family, travel.
So until all of you get your acts together, YOU are violating OUR civil rights!
Get over yourselves.
Go home.
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