Elizabeth Rupp, spouse of Mark Rupp, MD, discussing the frustrations of misinformation during COVID-19
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Elizabeth Rupp, spouse of Mark Rupp, MD, discussing the frustrations of misinformation during COVID-19
Date
11 January 2023
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Elizabeth Rupp: [I]t's so frustrating, if people knew—he has nothing to gain by advocating vaccines or face masks or—he has no personal gain and he's so careful about reading the studies and analyzing them and determining the validity of the findings. “Yes, that's a good study and it makes sense and you can trust those findings” or “no, they didn't do things right.” He has—no horse in the race, so to speak. It's just like, he's working hard for the betterment of everybody, but yet people think he's motivated by some sinister or personal gain. I don't know what it is. It's just—it's hard to see that happening it’s really—when he just has dedicated his life to vanquishing these kinds of things and educating people about them, but it's not appreciated and he's criticized because of it and called names and threatened. That's hard to watch. If they knew him and knew what he was doing and how he goes about his life, they would feel very differently. And I think the access to social media is just a very scary thing that anybody can say anything they want to say and people will believe them. It's just very disheartening when the facts are not held as closely as the fallacies.
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