Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and Dr. Drew are all infected with foot-in-mouth disease.
Apparently, just about anybody else.
Phil compared coronavirus deaths to drownings, claiming there are 360,000 deaths per year due to swimming pools.
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“But we dont shut the country down for that!”
No, we don’t, because that number isn’t remotely true.
Granted, nobody expects Dr. Fauci-level pandemic insight from Dr. Phil, whose Ph.D. is in clinical psychology.
On Tuesday, Dr. Oz was on another Fox News show,Hannity, where he suggested reopening schools.
Is a ventilator for dessert?
Still, it wasn’t a good look, andthe daytime talk show host later apologized.
That last statement would be accurate if 40,000 Americans (and counting) were killed by asteroids each year.
