Heh. Thalidomide. P.J. O’Rourke and his Porsche review. "Back seats big enough for Thalidomide babies”. How tasteless, but how PJ.
-D > On Jul 15, 2020, at 3:58 PM, Clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > My doc is honest. He willingly admits when he gets duped by the mainstream > medical hoopla over medication and other claims that turn out to be > overstated or outright false. We both remember Thalidomide and how easily > pat answers and early prognostication ends up junk. The medicine as profit > center model is not popular in his practice. > > > clay > > I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. > > > >> On Jul 15, 2020, at 5:43 AM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Not to beat a dead horse, but this is why testing and tracing is so >> important. If you don't know which citizens are "guilty", and who they have >> been associating with, it is hard to protect the "innocent" (uninfected) >> from disruptive containment policies. The only sensible path forward is a >> containment strategy focused on hard quantitative testing goals (e.g. >> increase testing until achieving below 5% positive results), sensible >> measures like masking (Clay's doc is probably wrong about them not working), >> and tracing as many contacts as possible and isolating them for two weeks >> (over 15 minutes at close range continuous without masking). Then everybody >> else can go about their business. Otherwise, expect more chaos. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
