Will masks and lockdowns return？
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Andrew Wojtowicz, a pediatric infectious disease physician, epidemiologist, and epidemiologist to talk about the current outbreak of the SARS virus, and what we should do about it.
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do you do you think that uh do you envision um at some point some of these measures coming back
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um maybe sometime in the fall do you think that's going to happen or we are or do you think that
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we're basically done with lockdowns and mandates i don't i don't know i mean covid is you know it's
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not a nice virus it can be quite um devastating for people and it's we're getting it we're going
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to be getting it you know going forward into the future and so i am i i'm not an expert in the long
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covid literature i'm i mean i am concerned about it um um and it's yeah it's going to be a difficult
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balance um of what we do going forward and i don't have any yeah i haven't spent uh the time to sort
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of put my head together and really think about what policies should be going we should implement
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going forward but it does seem like most um school districts are um you know they're advocating
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against mass mandates against closures even in massachusetts recently which was you know had very
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um maximalist approaches for a while the cdc's new guidelines are certainly um a step in the
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right direction um but then we're going to face a situation where if we just have nothing we have no
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control right then we need to sort of flip the narrative and say okay how can we support reductions
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of covid mortality and morbidity yeah right we don't want to just allow people to sort of suffer
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and and die from from a virus if we can prevent it um so i think we're going to have to have a rethink
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and obviously ventilation plays a good role there um okay paid sick leave a great idea um early
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treatment with you know anti-inflammatories etc um and and hope right that's one of the most
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reflexing things about this whole pandemic is we were told shut yourself in your house um don't go
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and gather with people and if you get sick stay home don't do anything until you can't breathe and
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then go to the emergency room i mean what kind of health policy is that i mean even so i i say i say
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that sometimes i think like with the whole ivermectin debate even if ivermectin is completely not
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effective there's still a placebo effect involved and right of doctors saying no we've got something