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(JUMP TO TIME 10:33 TO GET TO THE POINT.)
Dr. Deborah Birx has explained one of the reasons we have to be careful in public with this highly contagious disease is that a large number of Americans, even younger people, have multiple comorbidities (hypertension, obesity, diabetes, etc ). For them the course of the disease will be worse than for others. (And this indeed is the very reason I post Covid-19 issues on Project Waistline.)
However, Dr. Michael Levitt suggests that instead of lockdown we should promote:
- FACE MASKS
- HAND SANITIZERS
- TOUCHLESS MONETARY TRANSACTIONS
Around time 21:43 he dives into Neil Ferguson’s paper (the publication that drove the strict lockdown approach). He believes less restrictive Sweden-type lockdowns would OVER TIME result in similar Corona mortalities.
He cites Socrates: Use your common sense instead of the rhetoric of leaders.
