“I’m just amazed at how supposedly busy docs, working with so many Covid pts, have so much time to post on an internet forum....day after day (even when working long shifts)....”
I wondered about that as well. Maybe they will explain.
No doubt Pharma also maintains a few fake social media accts to help promote their products. And various govt agencies and private foundations, as well.
You are so right. And extremely well-funded marketing and advertising departments; yet another reason our meds costs have spiked so dramatically after the gubmit started allowing prescription medicine ads on television. It used to go on behind the scenes, with "drug reps" visiting the doctor's office to leave off not just brochures about a drug and untracked samples of several drugs, such as antidepressants or stimulants that the doctor could use on himself if he wished, but also lavish holiday gifts or passes to "medical seminars" in Hawaii or Las Vegas, doctors only (no spouses).
After centuries of "ethical" medicine having avoided advertising, now BigPharm can also go right to the gullible tv-watching sheep with high-production videos of winsome interracial couples running through hazy fields of flowers, jumping in slo-mo with their dog and frisbee and scrunchy grins, having their best life in a McMansion in spite of that pesky old cancer, etc. It's even more sickening than the legally obligatory litany of side effects rapidly recited.