Ep. 1767 Epidemiologist Favors Mostly Normal Life, So the Crazies Hate Her

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Oxford's Sunetra Gupta has been called the world's premier infectious disease epidemiologist, but that hasn't stopped people who disagree with her from all kinds of wild, unprofessional attacks on her. She believes young and healthy people should be allowed to resume their lives more or less as normal, and that any other approach is detrimental to health and is actually far less effective against the virus. I discuss what's happened to her, and her brilliant and brave response.

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show Episode 1767.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.0	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.6	The Tom Wood Show.
0:14.6	Hi everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:15.9	I got a few items I want to share with you today.
0:19.5	And the first one, I wasn't even planning on until just now.
0:24.5	I was just sitting down to record this episode
0:27.7	and I had gotten a Facebook message from an old friend from college.
0:32.2	She is a physician, a very, very accomplished one.
0:36.9	Also an academic.
0:38.6	She's somebody whose opinion I value very much
0:42.2	and who has mostly disagreed with me.
0:45.0	She thinks I make some good points,
0:46.6	but mostly disagreed with me on the issue of the virus.
0:50.5	And she wrote me a note saying that masks have been working for them.
0:55.1	And just wanted to, I think, get my thoughts.
0:58.1	So, again, I'm not going to reveal her name, obviously,
1:01.9	but I wanted to share with you what I wrote back to her.
1:05.1	Because as to say, this is a friend,
1:07.8	but there's no way I can believe this,
1:10.1	or at least extrapolate from what's going on in a health care setting
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