New White House Pandemic Adviser Pushes Contoversial Response, Herd Immunity? Dr. Scott Atlas

[appalachiablue]

Sept. 1, 2020. Dr. Sanjay Gupta. New White House adviser, Dr. Scott W. Atlas pushes controversial pandemic response.

'New Coronavirus Adviser Roils White House With Unorthodox Ideas,' 'Misguided, Dangerous': NYT, Sept. 2, 2020.
https://democraticunderground.com/1016267904

Dr. Scott W. Atlas has argued that the science of mask wearing is uncertain, that children cannot pass on the coronavirus & that the role of the government is not to stamp out the virus but to protect its most vulnerable citizens as Covid-19 takes its course. Ideas like these, both ideologically freighted & scientifically disputed, have propelled the radiologist & senior fellow at Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution into President Trump’s White House, where he is pushing to reshape the administration’s response to the pandemic.

Mr. Trump has embraced Dr. Atlas, as has Mark Meadows, WH chief of staff, even as he upsets the balance of power within the WH coronavirus task force with ideas that top government doctors & scientists like Anthony S. Fauci, Deborah L. Birx & Jerome Adams, the surgeon general, find misguided- even dangerous- according to people familiar with the task force’s deliberations...

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. With herd immunity

Being touted millions may die.

But the biggest thing about that approach is trump does not have to do anything to stop the virus.

Trump sitting on his ass not taking responsibility for covid is why he lets such an incompetant asshole lackey lead the CDC.

[appalachiablue]

2. It's becoming more dangerous & desperate,

Libertarian style Fox News doctors advocating 'let it run its course' herd immunity, so little has to be done as you say. Millions more will die as a result. What exactly do we have in charge of a pandemic that's the worst in 100 years; even Birx and Fauci are opposed.

[magicguido]

3. Atlas is a Dangerous Quack straight from fox. trump is willing to allow MASS DEATH

[appalachiablue]

6. Hard to fathom, but 'it is what it is.' lol

[NewJeffCT]

4. Dr. Scott Atlas is a RADIOLOGIST

he's great if your issue is cancer. He should not be given a platform to speak about viruses

[appalachiablue]

5. But Rand Paul, Rush and others think he's terrific, lol.

This is a very unwise and dangerous move, but what do we expect from a Fox TV doctor and admin.

[dalton99a]

7. +1. You don't go see a radiologist for treatment

Their job is to read MRIs and X-rays for other doctors

This Atlas guy is a typical RW asshole who happens to have an MD degree.

[Fritz Walter]

8. OK, Dr. atlASS: you go first!

Voluntarily expose yourself to the virus. Labor Day Weekend should offer lots of opportunities to visit superspreader events, but let's leave nothing to chance. Go to a hospital that is treating active COVID-19 patients and gather up all the contaminated items: swabs, sponges/compresses, blood and -- especially -- sputum samples. Or better still, to avoid compounding the health care staff's already overwhelming workload, go visit a morgue, and climb onto a slab with a cadaver. Then take whatever steps are necessary to infect yourself. Then, in 6-8 weeks, report back to us on how the "herd immunity" is working for you.
Without our having to join a seance.

This is way beyond quackery. He needs to lose his license to practice medicine.