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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon
Yeah, it's too bad. I liked his posts too. They were from someone actually in the medical field.
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Banning peeps with constructive discussion, rock on Revscene..
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I stayed quiet about half of the garbage he was posting. There are situations from time to time where a medical professional will say incorrect things and twdm did this multiple times and never once admitted he was wrong in any sort of way. A medical professional who is unable to admit being wrong is incredibly dangerous in our field. The sheer arrogance in his erroneous posts was honestly just infuriating to read many times but luckily lots of you have educated yourselves enough to see where he was wrong.
Off the top of my head (and you can go back and read his comments), he stated from the beginning that this is just another flu. He was clearly wrong and months later only offered a "that's obvious now" reply.
He brushed off the higher R0 value (how infectious this virus is) even though every single pharmacist I've talked to understands that it is exponentially higher than your regular flu.
He claimed that health care professionals are speaking from their high horse in terms of how to handle the spread because it doesn't affect our pocketbooks but as soon as it was convenient for another argument he placed himself and his parents on that exact same pedestal.
He argued that we shouldn't be spending so much money on "people who are going to die in 5 years anyways". He's talking about people who have contributed to our society and contributed tax dollars for longer than he's been alive or bare minimum, longer than he's been a healthcare worker. They have every right to be protected and we (especially as healthcare providers!) have every responsibility to do so.
He tried to argue that don't even spend this much money on cancer treatment. I can tell you first hand that this argument is bullshit. Also, if he doesn't care about people who are going to die in 5 years, why bother with cancer patients then? His logic makes no sense. There are treatments in the cancer clinic I work in that can be as expensive as $15,000-$20,000+ per treatment and that's every 2-3 weeks. Even with the "cheaper" treatments we've seen patients go through 100+ cycles (repeating every 2 weeks). Do the math, that's YEARS we've added to these patient's lives. I'm pretty damn sure they appreciate it. We've had countless families express their gratitude to our staff for any extra time we were able to give to their loved ones; even if it was only a year or less.
I'm sure there's more but I digress. His posts weren't as great as some of you seem to think. There's obviously a segment of you who like to debate the other side of things even when you know it's most likely wrong. You simply want to hear an opposing view just for the sake of argument.