YouTube removed a viral video of doctors criticizing mandatory stay-at-home orders in California during the coronavirus pandemic.
The video had over five million views when it was censored.
Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi, co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, California, had published the video discussing the fatality rate of the virus and whether or not such extreme measures are warranted.
During the discussion, Dr. Erickson asserts that there is only a “0.03 chance of dying from COVID in the state of California,” and asks “does that necessitate sheltering in place? Does that necessitate shutting down medical systems? Does that necessitate people being out of work?”
The doctor also questioned whether or not the number of deaths were being inflated in cases of comorbidities.
“When someone dies in this country right now, they’re not talking about the high blood pressure, the diabetes, the stroke. They’re saying ‘Did they die from COVID?’” Erickson said. “We’ve been to hundreds of autopsies. You don’t talk about one thing, you talk about comorbidities. ER doctors now [say] ‘It’s interesting when I’m writing about my death report, I’m being pressured to add COVID. Why is that?”
While some may argue that even if someone did die from having a preexisting condition, but would not have died if they had not contracted the virus, the virus is still to blame — discussion of opinions on the matter being censored is more than a bit Orwellian.
On Monday evening, the video was removed for “violating the platform’s terms of service.” The platform has said that they will be removing all content that contradicts the World Health Organization recommendations.
The World Health Organization has previously spread Chinese propaganda claiming that the virus could not be transmitted person-to-person in the early days of the virus and urged people to not bother wearing masks — which are now recommended. It seems the WHO does quite a lot of their own contradictions.
The censored video has been reposted by other users since being removed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaTYYk3HxOc&feature=emb_title
Summit.News points out that Dr. Erickson appeared on Fox News and noted that Sweden did not impose harsh stay-at-home orders and did not have a higher than normal death rate from the virus.
“And if you look at their numbers: 200 deaths per million compared to ours, [which is] about the same. Italy’s [is] about 400 per million and Spain is about 400 per million, so we are looking at this going, ‘OK, they took a completely different approach and their results are basically the same,’” said Erickson.
Binnie Aquilino
April 29, 2020 at 1:03 am
Just because they do not agree with it, that does not give them the right to censor it. What has happened to freedom of speech in this country?
Lori Domoracki
April 29, 2020 at 8:17 am
More truth coming out about this virus. And of course nobody wants you to know the truth so they take it down. We already know that these hospitals are being told to say that everybody is dying from this virus even though that’s not what they actually died from. Its all about the money and to have more control over what people do.