re: Dr. Catherine O'Neal :"If you don't choose the vaccine, you're choosing death"

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At a minimum, she’s more qualified than anyone else on the OT to lecture you on this topic

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The only thing she’s more qualified for is to have a pulpit to spread lies from.

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At a minimum, she’s more qualified than anyone else on the OT to lecture you on this topic

Umm, not really.

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Put your credentials up against hers. We’ll wait.

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Put your credentials up against hers. We’ll wait.

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She ain't gonna frick you.

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Can you possibly be this dumb?


Typical zoomer shite.

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Since you know her so well tell her not to straight up lie multiple times to the populace to bring data to back her statements

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No. I’m just amazed at the outlandish comments people are making about Dr. O’Neal with zero evidence or corroborating facts.

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Like I said, she’s a brilliant physician.


But she isn’t taking about patient care. She’s up there using emotional arguments in the name of medicine to get people to do something. I find that disgusting.


And I feel like I should clarify that I agree with her that most adults should get vaccinated. But this is little more than a propaganda technique employed to convince people to do so by using emotions over facts, and it makes me sad to see someone I used to hold in high regard stoop to that level.

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Vilifying this woman for the Advocate’s clickbait headline and poor analogy when it’s clear to anyone that can read that she didn’t mean that anyone unvaccinated will die; is absurd.

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Here are some of her quotes taken from the article
If you can’t see she was completely unprofessional & let her emotions cloud her statements you just don’t want to see it .

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A Baton Rouge infectious disease specialist gave a stark account Friday of the dangers of the coronavirus delta variant circulating through Louisiana, saying that it's causing children to lose their parents, pregnant women to lose their babies and that choosing vaccination is the only option to avoid more deaths.

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How many women have had miscarriages due to Covid?

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"I want to be clear after seeing what I've seen the past two weeks," O'Neal said. "We only have two choices: we are either going to get vaccinated and end the pandemic. Or we are going to accept death. A lot of it, this surge, and another surge, and possibly another variant."

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Another variant is a good thing I thought? Doesn’t each variant get weaker?

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She said that Our Lady of the Lake is being quickly overwhelmed by the latest surge of patients

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Absolutely a lie, there are 563 people hospitalized state wide

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"Delta variant is coming for our children," O'Neal said.

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There are 9 deaths in the state from people under the age of 18
Total cases for ages under 18 is 12,525

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O'Neal put it plainly: "if you don't choose the vaccine, you're choosing death."

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So the Advocate got the headline just as she said it

See, at least this is a reasonable discussion of salient points. Let’s walk through it.

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How many women have had miscarriages due to Covid?

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I’m no doctor and not privy to this statistic. I would think that added stress on a pregnant mother from Covid could cause miscarriages so it’s probably not zero. I too would like to know the answer to that question. Perhaps this would have been a great followup question for the “journalists” covering the story.

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Another variant is a good thing I thought? Doesn’t each variant get weaker?

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Again, I’m no doctor. I’ve repeatedly said to find me a more qualified doctor with an alternative viewpoint and I’d happily listen. As to the variants, I was under the impression that each variant had different characteristics which can make it better or worse for some groups. Again, not a doctor. I’ll leave that up to a virologist or infections disease physician to explain.

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Absolutely a lie, there are 563 people hospitalized state wide

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So you think that the doctor who as Chief Medical Officer (presumably) oversees OLOL is just up there making shite up. There’s no denying there’s been something fricked about the numbers since day 1, but you’re saying she’s lying when she says that the recent uptick in cases has stressed the infrastructure of OLOL. I doubt it but we can agree to disagree on that.

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There are 9 deaths in the state from people under the age of 18
Total cases for ages under 18 is 12,525

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I took from her comments that the delta variant seems to have a higher chance of infecting children than previous variants. Again, not a doctor but it’s not outside the realm of possibility. We don’t have the recent data to analyze this for ourselves (at least I don’t).

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So the Advocate got the headline just as she said it

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Taking into consideration everything she said prior throughout the article, my take away was that she’s saying vaccinations keep people from getting harshest symptoms and without vaccinations we can’t get to herd immunity and therefore more people will die from the virus. Coupled with the poor burglar analogy, I admit it’s a bit over the top but not worth this much vitriol. But once again, find me a qualified physician who specializes in this shite who believes differently that Dr. O’Neal and I’m all ears. Trouble is, all I can find are Facebook only doctors who spout conspiracy theories and snip-its of data or partial quotes. If I’m picking a horse to back, I’m picking the credentialed, specialized physician over some random anesthesiologist or some baseball mom from LP who knows a nurse who is dating a guy who sells medical equipment to a surgeon on the North Shore.

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See, at least this is a reasonable discussion of salient points. Let’s walk through it.

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You say this.

Then you proceed with nothing but more ‘yea but what I think she meant’ bullshite and white knighting for this moronic, hyperbolic woman you’ve never met. As the old saying goes, she’s not gonna frick you bro.