[cowholio4]

Not only were they completely wrong with their numbers, they even were wrong in their assessment of Fauci. They said they “are actually seeing the patients, Dr Fauci hasn’t seen a patient in 20 years.”

In 2015, Dr Fauci personally helped take care of an Ebola patient when most of the world was terrified of Ebola.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/why-nihs-anthony-fau...

[blisterpeanuts]

Suppose you're right. Does it justify censorship? Fauci can defend himself, and the docs are welcome to express their opinions. What gives Google/YouTube the justification to silence them?

[Barrin92]

>What gives Google/YouTube the justification to silence them?

The fact that it is their platform.

>Fauci can defend himself,

Fauci is a 79 year old man busy working 20 hours a day trying to stop more people from dying, he doesn't have the time to debunk garbage on the internet.

Youtube is completely within their rights to remove dangerous disinformation from their platform and I hope they take an agressive stance going forward.

[aliminator8]

YouTube has the right to censor anything it likes. It's their platform. If you don't like it, don't use YouTube.

[zouhair]

> Does it justify censorship?

Yes, they are wrong and they will cause deaths if they are allowed to peddle more unsubstantiated bullshit. This is not a philosophical debate, people are literally dying.

[r0s]

> Suppose you're right.

Easy to verify, why suppose anything?

> censorship?

On a privately owned site? Try again.

[tasuki]

I'm generally sympathetic to the doctors. I'm sure they're trying to do the best they can, going against the mainstream, potentially endangering their careers.

However, "Dr Fauci hasn’t seen a patient in 20 years" is not an opinion - it's factually wrong. When making controversial statements, one should be very careful to avoid erroneous ones alongside.

[hatsunearu]

At what point do you say shit is objectively, legitimately harmful, and has literally negative value to society and humanity? Does this deserve punishment? I'd say yes.

[threatofrain]

> The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) jointly and emphatically condemn the recent opinions released by Dr. Daniel Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi. These reckless and untested musings do not speak for medical society and are inconsistent with current science and epidemiology regarding COVID-19.

https://www.aaem.org/resources/statements/joint-endorsed/phy...

[mixmastamyk]

They gave published numbers from all over the world, though a bit behind.

Tending a few patients at once in a span of decades? Yes, "technically correct." The comment about Fauci was instigated by the reporters, and is about the least important detail from the video.

Their thesis is that big-dense-city measures aren't necessary in sparse areas. Appears to be the case so far, most of those folks don't even know a single person with it yet. It's why they are receptive to hoax posts unfortunately. It's also why some more rural states and regions are slowly opening.

[teh_infallible]

Maybe they were wrong, and maybe they weren’t. If we can’t see their video, we will never know.

[James_Henry]

You can still see their video. It's on plenty of other sites and there are copies of it on Youtube.