Opinion: The vacuous din of the viciously ignorant
“I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy,” says one critical-care physician. Kenneth Remy, a professor at Wash U. School of Medicine, told Vox his patients say “that it feels like a band across their chest or that their lungs are on fire. Or like a thousand bees stinging them inside their chest. Others might have thick secretions in their lungs that make it feel like they are trying to breathe through muck. Many people say it feels like they’re being smothered.
So, when this disease snuck up on the world, some politicians freaked out. Understandably. They asked the docs: “What should we do?” Docs said: “Stop people from transmitting it to other people.” Did every method of doing that always work? They did not. Can you imagine how many tens of millions more people would have died if we had done nothing? If you are truthful rather than stuck in the mud, you can.