U.S. 'Anti-Science' Movement Sacrificed 'Tens Of Thousands' Of Lives To COVID: Medical Expert

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An “unprecedented politicization” of science in America over the last five years has resulted in “tens of thousands” of needless deaths in the nation, an infectious disease specialist has warned.

Dangerous attacks on the health measures of masks and social distancing as an affront to “freedom” and suspicions about vaccinations has been fueled by “an active and unabashed anti-science disinformation initiative by the White House,” and “the president himself,” wrote Dr. Peter Hotez in in the journal PLO Biology in an essay Thursday. That disinformation included “dismissing the severity of the virus and hyping treatments beyond their effectiveness,” noted Hotez.

An “anti-science disinformation campaign” has also been peddled by Russia, as well as by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in a “medical populism,” wrote Hotez.

The attacks on science are making the COVID-19 pandemic worse than it would otherwise be, noted Hotez, who is the dean for the National School for Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/peter-hotez-anti-science-movement-killing-hundreds-of-thousands-044144902.html

[Karadeniz]

1. I'd love for several statisticians and epidemiologists to get together to tell us about how many

Deaths/cases could have been avoided if we'd followed sound medical guidelines.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. this just completely boggles my mind...we are being dragged backwards.

[Disaffected]

3. Someone should write a book and call it,

The New Troglodytes.

[SheltieLover]

4. K&R!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. See, e.g., New Zealand, South Korea, Australia.

[Hortensis]

6. Plus half a million. Medical populism is absolutely a huge national security problem.

It's not impossible that if Russia nuked one of our cities, its victim-participants would believe Democrats did it.