I have a radiologist friend that has fallen for a hydroxychloroquine and some of the

[brewens]

other RW bullshit on COVID. He was posting on FB about how we used it for malaria all those years and all that. The a couple months ago posted the herd immunity by mid April story from the WSJ. Then just the other day at John Hopkins report showing a good forecast which was "just as he had hoped".

I replied to that last one saying "good news, John Hopkins seems to have been a reliable source all along." Then I posted the John Hopkins report shooting down hydroxychloroquine! LOL

What is it with these freakin' radiologists? He's no Scott Atlas, but c'mon! I saw that herd immunity by April as a last desperate hope that followers of the former guy could say they told us so, it would run it's course and be gone, and we should have never shut down. At that point, it wouldn't have appeared the vaccines wiped COVID out, not enough people were fully vaccinated.

[snowybirdie]

1. Perhaps

they are spending too much time exposed to xrays? LOL

[Wingus Dingus]

2. I've found it fascinating how Republicans in general really love the medicine/cure idea

for Covid as opposed to preventative measures and the vaccines. Vitamin D, HCQ, Ivermectin, zinc, colloidal silver, etc. It gives insight into how their minds work, that they STILL put utter faith into dodgy treatments that ultimately don't withstand studies and scrutiny, and yet are suspicious of the most obvious scientifically-approved methods of dealing with Covid. These are the people who fell for the old-timey patent medicine scams of yore.

[gratuitous]

3. There's no such thing as x-rays

And those images he reads are the product of witchcraft. Tell him you saw it on the internet, so it must be true, unless he's been co-opted by Big X-Ray.

[keithsw]

4. Because they too can be brainwashed

My wife and daughter are both Physicians and thought that was the most irresponsible thing they ever heard