Florida family physician John Thomas Littell, MD, pens Letter to the Editor of the Orlando Medical News explaining that increased COVID cases is actually good news not bad news for Floridians and Americans. https://bit.ly/30rQ1c3
CALL-OUT: “The presence of a positive lab test for COVID-19 in a person who has never been sick is actually GOOD news for that person and for the rest of us. The positive test indicates that this person has likely mounted an adequate immune response to a small dose of COVID-19 to whom he or she was exposed – naturally (hence, no need for a vaccine vs. COVID-19).
“...the increasing number of cases, and even deaths, due to COVID-19 is fraught with misinterpretation and is NOT in any way a measure of the ACTUAL morbidity and mortality FROM COVID-19.
"COVID-19 is NOT in the atmosphere around us; it resides in the respiratory tracts of infected individuals and can only be transmitted to others by sick, infected persons after prolonged contact with others.
“So you may ask – why are we continuing to report increasing numbers of cases of COVID as though it were BAD news for America?
“Fear is a powerful weapon. FDR famously broadcast to Americans in 1933 that “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself”. I would argue that we have to fear those who would have us remain fearful and servile and willing to surrender basic freedoms without justification.”
Exactly right. I’m disgusted with how media reports positives without context of symptoms. you’d think they were all dying. Three weeks ago now multi country, peer reviewed study indicated asymptomatic Covid positive person DO NOT INFECT OTHERS but very rarely. Why is Fauci ignoring this? For that matter why is media ignoring this? I live in big open state with local dem. Ayor who is pull on the dem crap on us is maddening.
One of the issues with this is immunity isnt lasting but at most a month and then it gone u can catch it again. For older people with health issues forget catching this it attacks the lungs/kidney/ and cause problems in the brain causes blood clots. Dont be so quick to except this drs advise yours or your elderly family depend on you being diligent look up and verify information
I agree you have to be diligent in looking up and verifying information on both sides of the aisle. Even what you have reported may be misinformation also. Consider the possibility that what some doctors are calling Covid isn't covid at all but an entirely different disease being lumped in with it to continue the fear mongering and keep people locked down. I think all of us need to go back to what we know or learned in basic biology class about how the body works. Our immune systems are designed to be very robust to fight off disease. We live with viruses and bacteria daily and have for millenia. Our bodies, if we allow them to be, are highly adaptable which is how humans have existed for millenia. Our immune systems improve and grow stronger when they have diseases to fight against, they are weakened otherwise. Much like our muscles. When we use them they grow stronger; lack of use leads to atrophy and weakness.
I for one prefer to spread hope about Covid not fear as it was fear of Covid that landed us in the mess in this country we now find ourselves in. It was our collective fear that allowed the government to overnight infringe upon our inalienable rights with very little push back under the guise of keeping us safe. However, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
What is the point of a long life if it's not being freely lived?