The controversial Flavia Groșan, the doctor who claims to have discovered an extremely effective anti-Covid treatment scheme, has stated that the measures taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19 are ineffective and also cited an alleged British example of herd immunity. The statements have been widely taken over and underlined by publications that are skeptical about the vaccine.
NEWS: “Flavia Groşan says that staying at home, isolation, lockdown and protective masks do nothing but weaken our immune system, which is very important during this period.
"I say the lockdown is not good, I say the mask is not good. I would have gone for the English version of herd immunity. We would have got rid of it… I was also talking to the patients, God left these holes, why block them? I keep asking… they ‘ve lowered our immunity terribly,’ that's why we don't know any more if it’s the flu, if it’s a cold, or Covid-19. We know nothing anymore. Our immune system is crashing. Staying at home, wearing masks, and this is where we are now” Dr. Flavia Groşan said on Luis Lazarus-Zeus TV, quoted by Antena3.ro., businessmagazin.ro reads.
NARRATIVES: 1. Measures such as lockdown and wearing masks are not effective in combating Covid-19. 2. Great Britain opted for herd immunity and has successfully overcome the pandemic.
LOCAL CONTEXT / ETHOS: Flavia Groșan is the new star / cause of those who are skeptical about the official narratives related to the Covid-19 pandemic and are inclined to believe that it’s actually some sort of conspiracy (of the pharmaceutical industry, of a cabal that wants to annul the fundamental freedoms by imposing the surgical mask, of those who want to impose vaccination for evil purposes, of course, etc.). The doctor from Oradea has stated that she cured thousands of Covid-19 patients using her own treatment scheme, which is not only effective, but also extremely cheap and that the treatment schemes approved by the Ministry of Health would lead to the death of the patients; these statements have been criticized by both the College of Physicians and the Romanian Society of Pneumology.
It should be noted that miracle treatments are not new in the current coronavirus pandemic, starting with some ridiculous ones (the vodka suggested by the authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, holy water, the herbs of the Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov) and ending with all sorts of solutions proposed by doctors, but rejected by the health authorities (see the case of ivermectin or the older one of hydroxychloroquine, promoted by the French doctor Didier Raoult).
PURPOSE: To eliminate Covid-19 related restrictions, to promote conspiracy theories, to discredit the authorities
WHY THE NARRATIVES ARE FALSE: Lockdown and social distancing measures have proven effective in the current pandemic (the countries that imposed them the fastest, without waiting for an explosion of cases, such as New Zealand and Australia, also had the lowest infection rates) but also in many past pandemics and epidemics in which the disease was transmitted through direct contact between people.
Surgical masks ensure a degree of protection, even if it is not total; they are more effective when worn by the patient (saliva-carrying particles that they eliminate when speaking are stopped by the mask). The British government initially opted for the "herd immunity" solution and a relaxed, unrestricted approach, but the decision proved disastrous: Britain is the European country with the highest number of deaths caused by Covid-19 and the third highest number of infections, after the Russian Federation and France (over 126,000 and 4.3 million, respectively, according to March 23 data from Johns Hopkins University).
In reality, the facts contradict the theory of herd immunity in the case of Covid-19, as shown by a Lancet study on the Brazilian city of Manaus where, due to the massive number of infections in the first wave, herd immunity should have been achieved, but which was faced with a second wave of extremely virulent Covid-19. On the other hand, the World Health Organization also rejects the idea of achieving herd immunity through contamination, as unethical and insufficiently supported by scientific data.
As for the restrictions imposed by the British government after dropping the herd immunity plan, they were among the most severe and longest in Europe.
