Sanity enters the Covid discussion

Finally, some legitimate experts (with apologies to America’s Frontline Doctors) have come out and flatly stated that there is another way, a better way, to confront this pandemic that will mitigate the acknowledged catastrophic fallout of our present approach of slow opening of businesses, insanely complicated measures to open schools, and intense hand-wringing as we slowly return to normal life while waiting for the shoe to drop, i.e. cases to spike. https://unherd.com/2020/10/covid-experts-there-is-another-way/

I have read prior articles by Dr.s Sunetra Gupta, Jay Bhattacharya, and Martin Kulldorff. They have been consistent voices of reason and science almost since the pandemic began. It is a breath of fresh air to see them come together to present a non-political, reasoned, scientific approach to dealing with this pandemic that protects those most vulnerable while allowing the rest of us (I include myself in the low risk group despite my age because I am normal weight for my height, physically active and more fit than most of my peers, and have no medical issues known to predispose to complications of Covid) to get back to work, school, and, in general, life as we knew it before the government response turned our country on its head.

Ironically, this approach is exactly that proposed by Dr. Scott Atlas, the president’s new advisor on Covid-19, for which he has been vilified by the mainstream media and progressive left. Atlas has advocated for an age directed approach to Covid that protects the most vulnerable while allowing those at low risk to return to their pre-Covid lives.

It is about time………………..

Richard T. Bosshardt, MD, FACS

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Meet Dr. Rick Bosshardt

Dr. Bosshardt attended the Leonard Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami, graduating in 1978. He completed a general surgery residency at the United States Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. His residency term was interrupted from 1979-80 when he served as medical officer aboard the USS Wabash and was deployed to the Western Pacific with an aircraft carrier task force. During that year, the Wabash was involved in the rescue of Vietnamese boat people and was part of operations to end the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980. The USS Wabash crew received several decorations for this deployment, including the Meritorious Unit Commendation. Upon completion of his training, Dr. Bosshardt served as a general surgeon at the United States Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Japan from 1984-87. During this time, he obtained his board certification from the American Board of Surgery. While in Okinawa, Dr. Bosshardt applied, and was accepted, for residency training in plastic surgery under world-renowned plastic surgeon, D. Ralph Millard, Jr., M.D., at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami, Florida. He was honorably discharged from the Navy with the rank of Commander in 1987 and completed his plastic surgery training in Miami from 1987-89. Dr. Bosshardt arrived in Lake County in July of 1989 as the first plastic surgeon in the county. He obtained lifetime certification by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in 1991. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Since starting in private practice, Dr. Bosshardt has participated regularly in overseas medical missions to provide reconstructive surgery to children with cleft lip, cleft palate. and other problems. His travels have taken him to the Philippines, Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, the West Bank, and Mexico. Dr. Bosshardt performs both cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery in his practice, which has grown to two surgeons working out of a modern facility that houses the only state licensed private surgical suite in Central Florida dedicated exclusively to plastic surgery. He has privileges at Advent Health Waterman and University of Florida Leesburg Hospital.

Sanity enters the Covid discussion

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