CORONAVIRUS 'What are we doing this for?': Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs

[thackney]

'What are we doing this for?': Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/what-are-we-doing-doctors-are-fed-conspiracies-ravaging-ers-n1201446
May 6, 2020

...Halazun, like many other health care professionals, is dealing with a bombardment of misinformation and harassment from conspiracy theorists, some of whom have moved beyond posting online to pressing doctors for proof of the severity of the pandemic.

And it's taking a toll. Halazun said dealing with conspiracy theorists is the "second most painful thing I've had to deal with, other than separation of families from their loved one."

Several other doctors shared similar experiences, saying that they regularly had to treat patients who had sought care too late because of conspiracy theories spread on social media and that social media companies have to do more to counteract the forces that spread lies for profit....

[roamer_1]

because of conspiracy theories spread on social media and that social media companies have to do more to counteract the forces that spread lies for profit....

Total bullcrap - And a structural justification toward state and media propaganda being justified, and any dissenting view being censored.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This whole episode is the seed to engage global climate change in the same manner.  The alarmists have been trying for decades and they now know how to implement.

@thackney - welcome back from wherever you have been, and trust you have been ok