MORE THAN 500 DOCTORS TELL TRUMP TO END LOCK DOWN https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8342497/More-500-doctors-sign-letter-Trump-pushing-end-shutdown.html
More than 500 Trump-backing doctors sign letter asking him to end shutdown, claiming it is a 'mass casualty incident' amid 'soaring' rates of alcoholism, drug abuse and suicide - Dr Simone Gold, an emergency medicine specialist in Los Angeles, was the lead signature on the letter - from the One Doctor A Day collective - The letter states that calls to the suicide hotline have increased 600 per cent, liquor sales have increased 300 to 600 per cent and cigarette sales have raised - 'The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide....' the letter states - Republican political operatives are recruiting 'pro-Trump' doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible - They are being asked to support not waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed by the CDC to slow the spread of coronavirus - The plan was discussed in a May 11 conference call with Mercedes Schlapp, a Trump reelection campaign staffer, and leaked to The Associated Press - Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19 By MATTHEW WRIGHT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS More than 500 doctors signed a letter to President Trump calling the state coronavirus lockdowns a 'mass casualty event' causing 'millions of casualties' from alcoholism, homelessness, suicide and other causes. Dr Simone Gold, an emergency medicine specialist in Los Angeles, was the lead signature on the letter - from the One Doctor A Day group - which sought to 'express alarm over the exponentially growing negative health consequences of the national shutdown.' The group appears to have been set up with the assistance of a Republican public relations firm in Washington D.C. which distributed the ltter. Gold is a member of the 'Save Our Country' coalition which is led by another Trump ally, Art Laffer, the conservative economist who has also spoken out against lockdown. One Doctor A Day's talking points echo almost precisely those advanced by the White House at a cabinet meeting earlier this week, that people will die because of lockdown. In the letter, the doctors explain that during a mass casualty incident, 'victims are immediately triaged to black, red, yellow, or green.' 'Millions of Americans are already at triage level red,' the doctor state in the letter. 'These include 150,000 Americans per month who would have had a new cancer detected through routine screening that hasn't happened, millions who have missed routine dental care to fix problems strongly linked to heart disease/death, and preventable cases of stroke, heart attack, and child abuse.' 'We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients,' the doctors add. 'The downstream health effects ... are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error.' The letter states that calls to the suicide hotline have increased 600 per cent, liquor sales have increased 300 to 600 per cent and cigarette sales have also increased. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/05/21/03/28644166-8342497-image-a-17_1590027558969.jpg The letter states that calls to the suicide hotline have increased 600 per cent, liquor sales have increased 300 to 600 per cent and cigarette sales have also increased The letter continues: 'The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure. In youths it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and abuse. 'Because the harm is diffuse, there are those who hold that it does not exist. We, the undersigned, know otherwise.' The letter was published by Fox News and shared online. Gold teamed up with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons - a conservative group - to obtain the signatures. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/05/21/03/28644164-8342497-image-a-18_1590027566318.jpg 'It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and long-term harm to people´s health with a continued shutdown,' the letter states. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8342497/More-500-doctors-sign-letter-Trump-pushing-end-shutdown.html
