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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

“Doctor” sounds like a bit of a stretch

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Not everyone who goes to medical school is a rational (or sane) person. And some of them do succumb to the grifter lifestyle because it's easy money.

She's still a total idiot though. You don't just get to decide "I'm not paying taxes this year". Who does she think she is, Wesley Snipes?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Also, as the old saying goes, do you know what they call the person who comes last in medical school? Doctor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I’m a medical student, and I’ve had a cardiologist tell me that COVID is just like flu and masking is useless

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

To clarify, I don’t agree lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

wtf? Wouldn’t masking also be beneficial to mitigate flu transmission as well?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

~~There are varying levels of truth to that. How sincere were they?~~

Edit: See subsequent comment for clarity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There aren’t any levels of truth to that? The only similarity is that both of them are viruses that can cause respiratory symptoms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Okay, my original comment clearly came across as a weasel for COVID denial so sorry for that. Fuck denialism.

What I meant was that - like flu - it is an endemic respiratory virus which will be nasty but not fatal to most people. In certain contexts masks are less useful (not useless I suppose), and this is particularly in areas where mask use is minimal and strict (e.g. under the nose or constantly being touched without proper hand hygiene).

So what your cardiologist said could have been a realistic assessment of the current state of COVID, or denialism in which case they're a dick.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

You need to be much richer than her to not to pay taxes in the US.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You never know what kind of doctor she is. Maybe she is a doctor of Aura Reading or Astrology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As someone with a doctorate in Metaphysics from the Universal Life Church, I concur.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hey, I've been a minister for the ULC for like 15 years lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's very charitable of you to take time out of your busy astral projections to channel your professional opinion through the ether, doctor!