hello from rhode island where i live is where play in the safe during the pandemic and why is the corona virus outbreak more severe in the usa then in other developed countries one big reason is fake news it's everywhere controversial sinclair broadcast group notorious for dictating conservative content to some $200.00 t.v. stations has published an online interview with a conspiracy theorist to claim that dr fox he created the corona virus using monkey cells fox news follows the meandering trump narrative religiously and the new york

times reports that fringe breitbart news racked up a reported 14000000 views in 6 hours of a video featuring doctors telling us masks are unnecessary and hydroxy chloroquine is the cure social media full of experts who seem to have gotten their m.d.'s a trump university whom to believe dr tanya dempsey is the founder of the am center for personalized medicine dr welcome. thank you thanks for having me. what is the number one myth or misconception about this novel coronavirus. well that it is just like the flu it's not just like that it's it's highly contagious more contagious than some other viruses that we've seen and it's clearly deadly and it is being asked by many asymptomatic

patients without symptoms. and you do need to wear it no question about it. to protect yourself and to promote others more importantly. yeah we keep hearing it's to protect others but i do feel safer with myself much of the noise in the news lately is about vaccine encouraging as these reports are it's not soon that we're going to be lining up for shots at c.v.s. is a no listen we're we're probably a minimum of 6 months away probably longer they have to test safety they have to test lots of people we need to make sure they work you know they or they are gearing to approve of that scene that's going to be only 50 percent potentially affect at right so we're not talking about vaccines that are going to protect 90 percent we're talking about vaccines that at best will protect 50 at

a 50 percent level so we're going to wait for that it's going to be a while and you know i have concerns about whether the specs will work how many doses are we're going to need how often are we going to need it we probably will need it multiple times a we'll probably will need to early after that maybe maybe more often than not so there's just so much uncertainty so many companies racing to to the end here but i don't see it happening anytime soon and i'm not i'm not even convinced that that a vaccine is going to work yeah best case suppose we get a vaccine tomorrow we keep hearing that this corona virus can mutate as does the flu is it possible that when we do get a vaccine it's going to be good for a year and then there's going to have to be another vaccine developed for next year and like the flu vaccine there is a bit of educated guess work each year correct. correct and i think you're right i

think it could potentially be the same here. and with the you know the flu vaccine you have this near where we're looking at we're in the northern hemisphere right we're looking at the southern hemisphere we're looking at what viruses are they are the season ahead of us and then we're preparing based on that and sometimes work right by a few strains and sometimes you're wrong we don't you know about the seasonality of this coronaviruses novel kovac right 19 so the problem is we don't know if it's going to be a year that we're looking out for mutations we don't know if it's going to be less that here or more right so the flu we have a lot of experience with we know we can predict it a little bit better we don't know this is completely in fires for us. i've heard conflicting opinions about getting the flu shot every year some say get it right away as soon as you can in the fall and i've heard others say think about february in the heart of the flu season what do you recommend. well

it's a good question i think it's patient based very often i mean my whole focus of asian care is personalized medicine so you know it really depends on the patients patients who get it too early are going to be at higher risk months later because the the the effect of the flu vaccine will bear off the antibodies at the other parts of the museum that have to build up may not be as strong so if you get it in october and we have a spike in april gets close in abilities that from that flu shot may not last and so they may be more vulnerable than on the other hand we don't always we can't always predict when the strike is going to happen but the flu shot so i like to say somewhere in the fall is probably a good time to get prepared and but to keep in mind that if we have a later spike that the increase in vulnerability goes 'd up. we're speaking with the doctor time you dempsey we are seeing parts oh. the country notably the south

and the southwest light up when they show us those outbreak maps because they jumped the gun on the reopening this is not a 2nd wave this is the 1st wave on the he did are we expecting a 2nd wave in the fall and being flu season is that just going to be the perfect storm. yeah it's really sounds like a nightmare to be honest with you the symptoms are so similar we're going to be having to test a lot of people i don't know if we have the testing capability for coated completely we have the testing capabilities for the flu but again it's going to be it's going to be tricky i don't i don't know better 2nd grade so i'm going to be i'm going to be honest i do agree with you that i think we're seeing a 1st wave in a lot of states maybe in places like i'm in new york we saw a big wave in march april. we're going to start to see a resurgence were already starting to hear of cases coming out maybe that's going to be our 2nd phrase but again i don't i'm not convinced of the seasonality of this virus we know the flu seasonal you know coded was was rampant in the in the spring

that's one usual for for a for flu right so it's it's hard to say whether the 2nd wave is going to come because of the fall or whether the 2nd rate is going to come because we're all opening up again and we're going to be more vulnerable. to have you got to be horrified by this news footage we see of the pool parties in the ozarks there was just a big outdoor event on long island and these are lighting up hot spots all there of them those flagrant abuses. what are some of the every day risks that we want to be careful of. yeah that's a really great question and it's something that you know people who are really concerned about their health and their family's health thinking about you know listen the chances of picking this up at a trash will visit to the grocery store where you had your mask on your future hand

sanitizer you wash your hands it's probably very low ok because people are scared to go to stores but crowding in stores where there are a lot of people is not good but if you're going to a store that's controlling traffic and you're watching yourself lower risk trick risk big crowds even with masks but better if you're not if you're in a mask then without one now i worry about people who are really lowering their their their guard and are getting together with friends who they think are being safe as they're being a state is them they think you know they go to their house they wear the mask so initially that they all get comfortable they take the mask so often now they are there all comfortable in the house and feeling like you know they're not they're not going to be affected by this it's not going to happen to them and then there they are without the now ask and 2 weeks later 5 days later sick. ya governor here just lowered the bar we were allowed to have gatherings of $25.00 people and now

it's down to 15 because when they get an outbreak and they do the con tech trace and you've got one person at the barbecue who's infecting 7 alders or so just by being there and i got to think that claustrophobia has something to do with that because we've been cooped up so much but i think now's the time to be vigilant other things we can do getting a good night's sleep cutting back on the cocktails to bolster our immune system do vitamins help. you out look you know i'm a believer that's my background practicing personalized medicine taking care of conflicts chronic disease patients whose immune system. or compromised so you know how do we how do we boost the immune system none none of the things that i'm talking about none of these things or or 100 percent preventative or 100 percent effective however they can help right so you mentioned sleep i love that that idea

decreasing alcohol intake decreasing carbohydrates and eating good protein and fat and the rich in your body voiding sugars like number one and therefore as vitamins you know things i think about the 5 big ones that are there are the ones that i recommend to all my patients as a base as a baseline vitamin d. vitamin c zinc kaluta thio and this little cysteine i think you have your sort of bases covered you're protecting your respiratory tract or protect you get new system again i'm never going to say it's 100 percent but you know our food supply is not what it used to be we don't get in the vitamins nutrients that we should be lots of people are eating from their cabinets instead of the fresh produce and the meats and so they're not getting the nutrients so let's give it back take it prevent you know see if you can can protect yourself your family best you can doctor time you're going to see i know how busy you are so i appreciate your time a lot thank you for being with us and come again will you. i well thank you for having me. you bet recently we reported with some curiosity while one

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a brick by brick google is that they could have plenty of that in the store but i found the network that question. 2 months ago the pandemic seemed like a regional problem somewhere else too many folks in places where the outbreak had not yet surged at that time we spoke with conservative texas radio and t.v. pundit paul guys are. your words paul the new york based media for a hyperventilated coverage of a problem that was uniquely acute to a small part of the country projecting a situation indios sing craddick to new york across an entire continent and onto

every city county village and berg in america there in texas did this seem like a regional plague elsewhere and did the precautions you saw governor cuomo in new york and others in this part of the country seem overdone there is no way to walk out park avenue or 5th or any of the avenues physically come in contact with people at all this man's mass transit that the left has been wanting to shove the tire country obs turned out to be a really petri dish for disease so we did not have the same level of 'd level of spread we did it was not as tense here is it was. north east it's the northeast it's new york it's the center of the media the story got told from a new york centric perspective and it sounded as if all of those of us suffered what new york was over it which didn't of course turned out to be. yet 2 months ago

he spoke of the pandemic in the past tense texas has suffered 4000 covert related deaths this month yet many of their claim to the kind of social media fake news we were discussing with dr dempsey joining us at the intersection of both of these important stories is kristen ruby president of the new york based ruby media group chris when the c.e.o.'s of apple and amazon and facebook and google's parent company alphabet appeared before a house judiciary subcommittee weigh in anti trust issues they got an earful from both sides of the aisle here is chairman david cicilline a democrat from here in rhode island. it's gatekeepers of the digital economy these platforms enjoy the power to pick winners and losers shake down small businesses

and rich themselves while choking off competitors their ability to dictate terms call the shots up entire sectors and inspire fear represent the powers of a private government our founders would not go for king nor should we go for the emperor is the economy. the president and many conservative politicians and gross that social media skews left kristen fair charge or bum rap. so i think that is a fair charge and we've seen that numerous times under its shadow danny or people on the right. or unfairly target from their platform. i don't think it's really i don't think the question of the big picture here is are they censoring the right versus the left i think the larger question is are the century free speech in general and we're seeing that with doctors being temporarily removed from there are far more specifically on twitter or facebook and issues around political

advertising. and their issues as well and if you review the google all the greater guidelines which is 160 page document that google publicly puts out which basically tells their quality raters this is the criteria you should look out for what is essentially something that should be deemed as not true and what is real news and problem is that anyone who controls the algorithm is going to have a certain level of internal bias whether they realize it or not most people have that subconsciously and so whoever controls the algorithm controls the news and controls speech that's really the challenge that we're faced with today. yeah they hang it on the algorithm but you speak volumes when you talk about controlling the algorithm and we hear this most in terms of politics much of my work in talk radio has been political arm wrestling and anger that seems recreational much of the work

your firm does is in the health care industry are doctors sensitive and suffering the same kind of to use the term censorship that the politicians are complaining about. doctors are absolutely under attack right now they are being watched in a much more stringent way than ever before they are specifically the algorithms are specifically looking out for doctors who are tweeting about or posting on social media about supplement news about any 1st even diagnosis or treatment plan or code that 19 if you are treating if you're tweeting about any drugs we've seen doctors on twitter this meat get you know. temporarily banned full or posting about this drug usage so that it's very important for doctors to be specifically very careful about what they are posting and to understand that they are more likely to have their social media temporarily banned if they cross the line and again mine is the

line that continues to move it's a moving target. you know i get the impression that one of the ways docs crossed that line is by recommending hydroxy chloroquine is that true. it is absolutely correct and so right now and you doctors that are posting about hydroxy clerkin if you have a large following on twitter or facebook those posts are actually going to be flagged by their attackers as saying that this is most likely not valid and they will they will mark you say this is not a trusted source so i think doctors need to understand that these forms are very concerned right now there is a lot of pressure on there and that they are they talk in general is receiving. government as we have seen in the antitrust year and to be more on top what is being put out regarding coke at 19 and on the one hand i'd like to say that they are concerned about being sued if someone takes my proxy for granted and they for

example die as a result of that i would love to say that they're worried about being sued however they still can't be sued for that because section 230 of the community kitchens decency act and the legal liability protection that is a ported. so the big question and in my mind a 1000000 dollar question a still i'm waiting to see have been the antitrust here and the role of big tech in censorship in social media platforms will little section 2 30 pm and did and if so will social media platforms for more or. no longer have that protection that's one supported. yeah razor's edge between publisher and platform i got to think that all of this on leveling of the playing field is what's driving adoption of the new platform parlor and i am not there i believe you are and what's the deal anything goes there there is 0 censorship. yeah i haven't seen anything

censor and i know there's another conservative social media platform that i just john wayne called as well so what's interesting to me is that these new social media platforms on the right continue to keep popping up and basically what they feel like is you know a dinner party that you're invited people that share your belief system where you're not being censored as not and i think that is the appeal and the drudge of people meeting some of these other forums and what's fascinating to me is you have people that said i would never be twitter 2 my base this year and now they actually are because they are saying that censorship is out of control on twitter and these other forms and. we are speaking with the christian ruby of ruby media group from new york and during our conversation chris we have your website address showing on the screen from time to time and if messaging is your work you should visit and read the blog ruby media group dot com chris has posted the video of an hour long

webinars that she did on what's being called brand activism change wave triggered by the a george floyd killing after resisting for years the washington football team will now play a season named the washington football team until they can settle on a nickname less 0 fence of them the redskins and chris i spotted your recent tweet that made this wave of package changing seem superficial you tweeted the brand the exact. care more about brand activism then they do about diabetes. what does that tell you about their priorities what do you think leads to more deaths in this country and your mama logo or the ingredients on high sugar content in their product so that we don't lapse into lingo give our viewers a definition of brand activism and the cancel culture of the path wrought.

is this just a politically correct fad or have standards changed. sistan doing stuff and we have changed and we're seeing that consumers are voting with their dollars now for brands that really are taking a stand one way or the other brands are remaining neutral i seem to be losing in this i don't cancel culture and everything else but so that the definition of cancel culture is the canceling out a brand product or a public figure that you just agree with because the whole believes or social justice stance and brand activists and is the act of you know using social justice as a as a brand on social media marketing platforms in advertising and for your public relations and marketing campaigns to use your voice for what is perceived as the greater good now how do you really determine where to find what the greater good is

everyone's got a different definition of that but what i think is most interesting here when we look at the end jim i'm an example they came under fire or of their name and i suppose they're changing their name and possibly. what my point was here is that a product reformulation is true brand is not just changing your name and i think is one of the one of the areas where people are just missing across the board is that if you truly care about your customers if you care about their health if you care about the diabetes epidemic in this country if you look at 98 and the health care disparities that have been reported health care treatment and the number of certain populations or i don't. had gone on or been diagnosed with 19 and astronomical rates and what that means is not just changing your liver but changing the sugar content that leads to issues like diabetes also the specific group of people getting sick and high returns you should care about that that is true

branding in my opinion through agreement is actually caring about the people you serve and not just pretending to care with a new look and my opinion. from the counsel of a p.r. firm rather than actually someone understanding their customer is and creating a real change and that is called is hash tag activism or slacktivism which is not really activism it's social media activism that ultimately leads not the up. window dressing very thoughtful take christian ruby ruby media group new york thanks as always for your time i appreciate it. they have been a birthday uncle sam was a month ago and the 4th of july was a very muted celebration and a lot of places there was no big parade in many cases the city or town council the fireworks display although there were and there still are plenty of fireworks

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