Posted on 04/05/2020 3:47:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dr. Drew Pinsky is issuing a mea culpa after continually downplaying the danger of coronavirus for months and claiming it was "press-induced panic."
He once said you're more likely to die after being "hit by an asteroid" than the highly-contagious virus. On Saturday, he drastically changed his tune.
"My early comments about equating coronavirus with influenza were wrong. They were incorrect," Dr. Drew said on Saturday, referring to his consistent comments from February and March. "I was part of a chorus that was saying that, and we were wrong. And I want to apologize for that."
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I admire people who can admit mistakes. The virus fooled almost all of us. China withheld much information.
That being said, it is not the Andromeda strain.
A model is only as good as the data you have.
Good of him to admit.
Absolutely, well said.
“He once said you’re more likely to die after being “hit by an asteroid” than the highly-contagious virus.”
That’s a whole lot of asteroids.
Dr. Oz also. Yesterday.
You still have a better chance of winning a power ball ticket though.
I always get my best medical advice from a Hollywood celebrity “addiction specialist.”
In CO it’s 0.002% of the population that have tested positive.
I’ve seen 3 really awesome meteors in the last week and we’re not having any normal meteor shower event, that I can find.
Good omens?
:)
But have Dr. Dre or Dr. Demento weighed in yet?
Hey Dr. Drew.....Fauci said not to worry about it either....and more than once.
He is not alone in the belief that this was ‘just a flu’.
Kaiser Health issued a bulletin on January 25, 2020 that this was ‘just like the flue’
Novel corona is a Black Swan event.It is characteristic of a Black Swan that everyone rationalizes how he “coulda woulda shoulda” foreseen it.
And those rationales are false because there are always people crying “Wolf!” and prospectively, it’s hard to distinguish a good call of Wolf from a phony/erroneous one.
I’m wondering if the Asian populations have some genetic immunity to it. We just haven’t seen as big an outbreak in any Asian countries as we’ve seen in Europe and the New York area. Singapore and South Korea are being praised for great contact-tracing and quarantining, yes. But are they getting some invisible help with keeping the number down by some built-in immunity because of thousands of years of being exposed to similar viruses in the region?
the Flubros are running out of allies
A chimney flue?
If we saw as big an outbreak in Asia as we saw in Italy, people might’ve anticipated the problem earlier. So was overlooking possible partial genetic immunity among Asians part of the miscalculation here?
We were all fooled and quite complacent. Who will never admit anything is our Fed-Guv that had 10 years to prepare for THIS.
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