Doctors from around the country give their Second Opinion on the dangers and unintended consequences of the Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions that are being implemented by governors and local leaders across America. Hear the tragic stories from these medical experts on the front lines about the dangers of letting the Covid-19 coronavirus paralyze us with fear and the medical consequences that are being overlooked by focusing solely on the coronavirus. It is time for our country to end the restrictions and the lockdowns. Clearly the lockdowns are contributing to civil unrest and people need to get back to normal, get back to work, so that they have productive objectives to accomplish. Please visit our website at www.secondopinionproject.com for more. And if you don’t believe these doctors, we encourage you to ask your own doctors for a second opinion on the consequences of the continued lockdown restrictions.
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31 years old, healthy, every reason to think she would have lived a full life, that she continued to be under the care of me, her therapist, her support in the community, all of it was withdrawn and she lost her life. And I blame this specifically, not to the Coronavirus, but to the government response.
My name is Dr. Mark McDonald. I am a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. I run a private practice here in Los Angeles, in West LA. I work primarily with young people. Young people tend to be healthy. They don't tend to die. I lost my first patient. I have a 31-year-old woman who I've been seeing for a few years for depression. She had a remote history of opiate abuse, which was handled. She was abstinent, she was in 12-step programs, doing really well, had a sponsor. She was also seeing an outside therapist twice a week. I had no reason to think that she was unstable or emotionally unwell in any way. She had been managed quite well with medications and therapy and outside support for a number of years.
Her stepmother called me about two weeks ago. She said that she died. I asked her, "What had happened?" And she said, "Well, she was going to school at Antioch College here in Los Angeles to get her master's degree in counseling, and Antioch College, as all other universities and K-12 education, it was closed." She was shut down. So, she had to go home and sit in her apartment, isolated under house arrest. Her parents lived in Northern California, her therapist couldn't see her anymore, at least not face-to-face. All of her 12-step programs shut down. She became depressed again, and she relapsed. She began using opiates. She didn't tell anyone. And unfortunately, rather than using the typical Oxycontin/Oxycodone pills that are dangerous but tend not to be life-threatening, she used Fentanyl. Fentanyl is hundreds of times more potent than morphine. And she suffered a respiratory collapse, she stopped breathing, and she was unresponsive. She was pronounced dead.
31 years old, healthy, every reason to think she would have lived a full life, that she continued to be under the care of me, her therapist, her support in the community, all of it was withdrawn and she lost her life. And I blame this specifically, not to the Coronavirus, but to the government response.
