Covid-19 and the madness of crowds

I invite folks to research Joseph Mercola. It certainly raised a lot red flags in my head.

As for checkered, if you get caught stealing company property, manipulating data, have to retract your article because no one else could replicate your results, and then start passing off conspiracy theories so you can sell a book... then hey, I guess that's OK these days. I don't think Jesus is in the same league as Judy.

Yes, you're right. You do have the right to listen, read, and question. I don't believe anyone was questioning that. But were you expecting us to just believe everything you post? 

And YouTube can do whatever it wants with its platform. They own it and if they think removing health misinformation during a health crisis is a benefit for the public, that's their choice. If this were North Korea, you wouldn't have internet access.

No, she is a fountain of self-serving information.  She peddles her doctorate and supports unproven and dangerous medical theories. 

Our Chicago Tribune did an expose on her years ago, see if this opens for you:

I have seen and heard some strange things during this period, but that one just about beats them all.

Stories in the paper today indicate that UK statistician boffins are going to state that the prevalence of the infection in our country at this moment in time is between 0.2 and 0.6% of the population, so some 400,000 with the lurg. Quite how they will arrive at this is anybody’s guess, but the figure will probably be too high for Boris to consider any meaningful easing of our ongoing lockdown.

It used to be that cockroaches scurried into dark corners when you turned on the light. But now we have YouTube.

With all the US states opening up, it's amazing how they must all be aware that they're being set up to take the fall when (not if) this goes pear-shaped, and not howling in protest.

Covid cases will start to rise dramatically, and Trump, who is urging the states to open up, will be able to claim that this wouldn't have happened if they'd have stuck to his official guidelines before opening.

This is going to be quite the show. Shame about all the corpses though.

Possible explanation that the 60% that stayed home may have already had it, but didn't show symptoms yet.  New Yorkers were pretty adherent to shelter in place, the vast majority of businesses shut down, so there weren't very many people going to work at all, and those who would have been (should have, anyway) should have stayed home if they were already sick, so less chances to continue spreading it amongst the workers.  Most workplaces started early in the game in NY, with trying to comply with social distancing and other safeguarding measures at work as well.  Also thinking that the very first people to shelter in place may also just have been those most potentially vulnerable to the disease.  Remember the idea was to try to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by the worst cases, knowing that there would be little to do to keep people from contracting the virus.  And I could be completely wrong. All I know is that here in Oregon we also were instructed to shelter in place early and there are few cases here compared to next door Washington, even in our more populous towns.