Please leave the sex advice for Dr. Ruth

Dear Editor:

Re: “COVID conspiracy theorists picket media outlets” (Herald, Aug. 6) stated: “Interior Health continues to encourage people to seek science- and evidence-based information from trusted sources, including the BC Centre for Disease Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, and the World Health Organization.”

Hmm, what do these three trusted science and evidence-based sources say?

The BC Centre for Disease Control has made B.C. a worldwide laughingstock with its recommendation that people use “glory holes” when they have sex:

Canada’s Public Health Agency confirms in writing that no virus has yet been isolated.

Isolating the virus is critical to satisfy Koch’s postulates. Koch’s postulates are the science world’s required evidence for establishing a causative relationship between a microbe and a disease and makes clear that the microorganism/virus must be isolated from a diseased organism and grown in pure culture.

To be clear, if the virus can’t be an isolated virus, a causal relationship cannot be established.

The World Health Organization stated in a June 5 bulletin: “At present, there is no direct evidence (from studies on COVID-19 and in healthy people in the community) on the effectiveness of universal masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.”

So, these trusted, science-based sources are telling us we should have sex via a hole in the wall, but not wear a mask for a virus they can’t even isolate.

Hmm, I might doubt these so called “trusted” sources too.

Marcie Crozier

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