‘Wear A Mask … Likely Forever’: UCSF Chair Of Medicine Fears Large Gatherings | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Hank Berrien.

    The chair of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Department of Medicine stated that in large gatherings, he plans "to wear a mask ... likely forever."

    Bob Wachter, 65, whose Twitter bio asserts, "Career: What happens when a poli sci major becomes an academic physician," and whose political predilections seem clear enough because of the leftists he retweets, issued a Twitter thread detailing why he has decided to buck the prevailing trend and take what seem like extreme measures.

    "Some folks continue asking what I'm doing viz Covid behavior," he began before stating, "In the Bay Area, I'm now OK with indoor dining & removing my mask for small group gatherings." He then acknowledged he hasn't had COVID and is "fully vaxxed & had bivalent in Sept."

    "My main fear is Long Covid, which I peg at

    5% probability per Covid case,"
he admitted, adding, "This leads me to being comfortable indoors without a mask when the effective case rate is 10/100K/d in my region. This # is based on my own risk tolerance & risk factors."

    After citing statistics regarding wastewater, COVID hospitalizations, and UCSF hospitals' asymptomatic test positivity rate, he offered his plan going forward, including eating outdoors and testing before he and his family arrived for a meal in Palm Springs with friends.

    Then he segued to "Public transit, theaters, other large gatherings," writing, "Plan to wear a mask (always a KN95; why not wear a good mask if you're going to mask?), likely forever. I'm comfortable taking it off briefly to eat on a long flight, but will try to keep it on when I can."

    Regarding playing poker with a small group, he enthused, "I'm now comfy playing with a small, vaccinated group (n=8) without testing. I'll lobby (till they throw me out) to keep the doors/windows open during the game."

    "As always, I'm not telling anybody what they SHOULD do," he wrote. "Perfectly reasonable people have looked at all of these odds (or decided not to) and chosen to live life like it's 2019. Most of them will do just fine - they'll have a higher odds of getting Covid than me, but ... few will get super sick (particularly if up to date on vax), & most won't get Long Covid (either prolonged symptoms or be victim of elevated long-term risk of stroke, MI, or cognitive decline)."

    "Just because we're all tired of this doesn't change the risks & thus doesn't change the way I think about managing them," he concluded.
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