I have very little time to truly create a fully diary but hopefully some of our medical experts can begin the process of publicly vetting this ridiculous attempt to inject disinformation into the pandemic news cycle. I actually heard about it from my friends in the UK and they were enthusiastic about the “facts” presented in this interview with two “current ER doctors with vast experience in epidemiology and virology” that essentially painted the COVID-19 virus as extremely similar in death rates to seasonal flu numbers and that most that have died would have died anyway from flu or other causes.
I don’t want to put a link to the video on here because it would help it spread but you can find it easily on Youtube with a search for “Dr. Erickson Covid”. When they told me about it immediately red flags went up because, as an American, I fully expect a massive disinformation push by the other side and went to Google and found the video was playing on all the notorious right wing sites. My UK friends found it compelling because of the claims and numbers these two guys were putting up and the wishful thinking it created. They also had their doubts but they don’t quite get how warped our nation is in science denial and the ability of the right to spread ridiculous professional looking bullshit out in a short period of time. They are learning quickly.
My research quickly found that these two doctors were in fact former ER doctors and now are owners of an urgent care facility which gives extreme motive to them to bring back the patients they’ve lost to the lock downs and people putting off normal care. They also basically lied about their “facts”. I would imagine that the fat cats behind our GOP are probably rewarding their misinformation as well.
I shared my findings with my friends in the UK and sent them this video as a counter to that crap.
If you see that Dr. Erickson interview spread on social media, immediately spotlight it as the same thing as the couple of “scientists” that got injected into the climate change debate despite an overwhelming majority of actual climate scientists sounding the alarms.