Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, aka “Dr. Oz” is/was a cardiovascular surgeon and, reportedly, a very good one. Society has a tendency to associate such skills with brilliance. “It’s not brain surgery.”

And, while it does take a certain type of genius to do these particular procedures, the ability to patiently stand over an operating table for five hours and delicately repair tiny vascular issues doesn’t necessarily translate to a genius ability to communicate, nor reach people politically. Think Ben Carson, whom I would trust to operate on my child’s brain for 12 hours, but not watch her for an hour while I take some woman to dinner.

Actually, I would trust my daughter to watch herself (at fourteen) more than Ben Carson.

So, let’s be careful about assuming Oz is a genius, just a crazed MAGA genius. In fact, if you read his quote below, he sounds like your typical fcking MAGA idiot:

“Issues like closing schools, which was not following the science, in my opinion, and I always said that on this program two years ago, is because causing other [indecipherable] published today an article from Brown showing that kids born during the pandemic are developmentally delayed,” political dilettante (and STILL not a legit Pennsylvania resident) Mehmet Oz states. “Think about that. We’re hurting our children with some of these policies. Kids who can’t see the mouths of their teachers move don’t learn to speak. Five percent of kids wear glasses. They fog up. They can’t read.

Yeah, but they’re alive. More importantly, so are grandma and grandpa (hopefully) and when one is dealing with an unknown virus, one misses on the side of safety, especially with children. Come to think of it, there must be a lot of surgeons that can’t see a damned thing since we’ve seen a lot of lots of pictures of surgeons wearing glasses while operating.

Plus, nothing you said above is grammatically correct, and so who needs lessons on reading and speaking?

These are the penalties we pay and we weren’t any safer because of these destructive, authoritarian restrictions. I believe we should empower the people of Pennsylvania. That’s what I [indecipherable] my whole career. I know what works. People are smart. They know what to do. What they want medicine is transparency and they want to make sure they know who their doctor is. We’re not doing either for them.”

WTF? First of all, science man, how the hell do you know that we’re not any safer because of it? How do you know that the death toll of 840K wouldn’t be 2.4 million had we not put in some precautions? You don’t.

Second of all, people are not smart. I’m as dumb as a penguin who wishes he could walk further south for the winter. But I do listen to smart people. The average UPS driver may be a very smart man or woman, but not have any idea what to do in the face of a new virus and thus he or she listens to scientists, who wouldn’t be able to drive a brown van all over town better than a NASCAR driver.

Additionally, your sentences make no sense, like you’re managing your own medications, the good ones, and not doing it really well.

We are not the least bit surprised that Oz turned out to be a brilliant cardiovascular surgeon. We are, however, shocked that he was ever accepted into medical school in the first place. Guys like him are just wired differently. It works in one context, alone (which is when you want to deal with them) and no other.

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