https://blogs.webmd.com/webmd-doctors/20200318/how-a-doctor-responds-to-covid-19-deniers
That response doesn't score highly for rationality. She initially comes out with "it’s critically important for us all to be on the same page". What exactly does that mean? One sentence states there is no treatment for COVID-19, but the next says how many patients are admitted to hospital for treatment for shortness of breath (a common symptom of COVID-19), so there is treatment available for the symptoms. That's not vastly different from treating influenza, especially if the patient hasn't been vaccinated. Also, it asserts the mortality for COVID-19 is high, then immediately states that it's between 1% and 3%, but how is that known? It's admitted in the following paragraph that due to shortage of testing, it isn't known how many people have been affected, so how is the mortality known? Also, the eventual health problems caused by social distancing and consequential economic problems aren't considered at all. The response acknowledges that what really seems to be protective is youth, so why close the schools that young people attend? What is known about mortality for such young people?
