Slimebeast said:
Okay, point taken. In regards to corona virus, my point was that being critical towards lockdown strategies shouldn't be seen as controversial. In particular looking at it as a Swede, since Sweden chose a very mild lockdown strategy and as a doctor since I have some insight. I'm not claiming your average M.D is an expert of the corona virus, but through my job I get an angle on the pandemic that perhaps many ordinary citizens don't. I get a sense of how dangerous it is, a sense of risk. I work with risk assessment every day. If you get a lump on your stomach and you present it to me, it's my job to evaluate the risk and decide how likely it is dangerous or not and weather there is reason to go forward with further examination and if it's worth it. I try to decide how much risk is acceptable, both to me and to the patient. From my perspective, corona virus is not that much more deadly than the seasonal flu. It just happens to affect so many people at the same time instead of being spread over several seasons. This will make it look more dangerous than it is. There are also direct negative health effects from the covid hysteria. I see how people hesitate to seek healthcare for other serious diseases in fear of contracting covid, or in fear of burdening a strained health care system during a pandemic, which results in increased suffering and even death. I'm amazed at how extreme the measures against covid have been all over the world with economical costs that are horrendously disproportionate to the lives saved. In the economics of health care, every saved human life has a measured cost/expense. And with covid, we have accepted costs that are perhaps up to ten times higher for each saved life than what is usual practice in health care. |
And you say you're a practicing medical doctor? Do your patients know you view them this way?
