Dr. Lisa Iannattone@lisa_iannattone
Jan 13, 2023
4 tweets
The way I see it, if somehow all the data on the cumulative risk of death, hosp, disability, heart attacks, strokes, etc with repeat covid infections turns out to be wrong, I will have worn a mask for longer than I needed to and missed a few social events. I’m ok with that. 1/3
Whereas if I decided to follow the crowd instead of the available science, and the available data turns out to be right about the risks of cumulative covid infections, then I’d be facing high odds of poor health, disability and premature death. Those are very high stakes. 2/3
When the stakes are high, you can’t afford to be wrong. So seeing ‘experts’ wave around the absence of certainty as their justification for choosing the high stakes position, when the high stakes position is the one that requires the most certainty… it’s just so absurd. 3/3
On the other hand, I can pull up multiple scientific studies on how covid itself and the loss of primary/secondary caregivers harms children. And nothing in this conversation explains the opposition to *adults* masking around other adults.
Dr. Lisa Iannattone
@lisa_iannattone
Assistant Professor of Dermatology @McGillMed. MD/residency @med_umontreal. Fellowship @HarvardDerm. Focus: complex medical dermatology and medical education.
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