Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos: Three Doctors Weigh In

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Have you hit a wall with Covid? We have. The irrationality of the current policies and conversations surrounding Covid—guidelines that are coming from our public health authorities; rules coming from our schools and our workplaces; and information coming from our media—is making skeptics out of even the most compliant. What gives? Why do things seem so nonsensical? Who should we trust? How can we get back to normal—or at least some semblance of normal? And how can we do it responsibly and safely? To answer these questions, we brought together three doctors who have been islands of sanity in a sea of misinformation and confusion. Dr. Vinay Prasad is an associate professor of epidemiology at UCSF. Dr. Stefan Baral is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. And Dr. Lucy McBride is a practicing internist in Washington D.C., and author of a popular COVID-19 newsletter. This was a live subscriber-only Zoom event, and the thousands of listeners who tuned in had the chance to ask the panelists their most pressing and burning COVID questions. If you want to be able to participate in events like this one in the future, head over to bariweiss.substack.com and hit subscribe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly and on today's episode we're going to play for you a roundtable event I hosted on Zoom earlier this week to discuss Omicron because it seems like information about COVID is changing minute by minute these days and a lot of us at this
0:15.5	point don't know what or who to believe.
0:18.5	So I decided to invite three doctors, Dr. Vanai Prasad, Dr. Stephen Burral, and Dr. Lucy McBride, whose public
0:26.6	perspectives throughout the pandemic have been, for me and I think for many of us,
0:31.3	Voices of Sanity, moderation, and reason amongst chaos, irrationality, and fear.
0:39.0	We kicked off the discussion by talking about why people have hit a breaking point with the pandemic.
0:44.7	We talk about the issue of school closures, kids, masks, boosters, when you can hang out with
0:50.4	friends who test positive for COVID, and then we opened up the conversation
0:54.2	to listeners. They chimed in with their questions about everything from myocarditis to mandates
1:00.8	to Ivermectin. This discussion was open to subscribers only so if you like what you hear
1:08.0	and are jealous that you didn't get to ask your own questions and want to participate in the future
1:12.4	please go to my substack,
1:14.8	Barry Weiss.substack.com to subscribe.
1:19.7	Okay, really short break and then we'll get right into it. I hope you enjoy it. Common Sense community, thank you so much for being here. I know that I am really eager to have this conversation because I feel like there's so many questions that I'm confused about or policies I'm frustrated about and I really can't think of any three people better situated to answer my questions and yours than the three doctors on the screen right now.
2:03.0	Dr. Vanai Prasad is an associate professor of epidemiology at UCSF.
2:08.0	Dr. Stephan Burral is a
2:15.0	practicing
2:20.0	practicing internist in Washington,
2:21.0	a mental health advocate and the author of a popular COVID-19 newsletter. The reason that I
2:26.7	invited the three of them here is each of them has stood out to me in their writings,
2:31.8	in their speaking, even on insane platforms like Twitter, for bringing sanity and sobriety to our increasingly hysterical age, and I'm so excited to talk to them.
2:42.0	Okay, so let me set the stage here.
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