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Science has been wrong before

Governor Inslee claims to follow the science, yet recently while visiting Pullman, he said that “there’s no tomorrow if people get COVID.” There is no science to support that claim. Washington state’s own website shows that the vast majority of people who test positive do not die.

In the midst of these strange times I also found Dr. Zorba Patster’s recent (Sept 2 Spokesman) article interesting. He talks about how doctors can’t get everything right on the first try and gives two examples of how the medical community (the “science”) gave certain advice for years until something proved them “wrong, wrong, wrong.”

Well, if the science has been, at times, “wrong, wrong, wrong” in the past, then it seems reasonable to assume that it might happen again. It also seems reasonable to assume that some of the “science” we are being told about COVID-19 is just “wrong, wrong, wrong”.

Rob Wright

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