Dr. Mikhail Varshavski (Doctor Mike)

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I have been following this person you YouTube for a certain amount of time, mostly for amusement.  He does funny videos about medical memes and also watches certain medical series to show how howlingly wrong (or sometimes accurate) they can be.  But he also makes serious videos about various subjects, and naturally Covid-19 is one of them.  If I have one complaint about him is that he is too nice -- he never directly attacks the various jerks who are fucking things up.  It is always carefully phrased to offend no one (or as little as possible) and no names are ever named, even when we know about whom he is talking.  Maybe it's because he is a Russian immigrant and has it in his DNA to be careful when he talks.

He apparently is also a personality on American television, but I have never seen him since I do not have access to most American television.  But knowing American television (and not just American television of course), I imagine that when he is invited to a show, he only gets about 3 minutes to say something.

Anyway, I thought that this recent video is more important than most (also considerably longer).  The horrible witch who is the object of a lot of the video is terrifying.  I even get shivers looking at her eyeglasses.



Here is another video that won't make anybody's blood boil, hopefully.

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He sure doesn't scare the horses, unlike the harridan and the orange turd. At some point, ancestors must have lived in Poland, as Varshavski means Warsavian.

Handsome young doctor was really sweating heavily. Good thing he switched to a black t-shirt.

Here the great majority of serious cases and deaths were in care homes, housing very elderly people with prior health conditions.

I think doctor Mike was a bit too polite about Trump's anti-Asian racism. Also, he knows that a great many people, including his healthcare colleagues, can't simply "stay home".

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That's the thing that bothers me the most -- the fact that he is so incredibly polite regarding terrible people and never attacks anyone directly. But obviously public figures often have reasons for that, and also it might just be his personality.

And yes, he knows that he is a heavy sweater and has mentioned the problem in some of his videos.  And when he doesn't, there are at least 100 comments about it in the remarks.

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This thread is my only exposure to Dr. Mike, whom I just looked up on wikipedia to see how he became a media personality.
I went to youtube to watch the fact-checking Trump video because I wanted to see if the comments below the video showed whether he's preaching to the choir or really reaching people who need to be reached. That was inconclusive, but I think he's probably so polite because he is hoping to get through to people who believe Trumpian twists on the truth.

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Like Bixa, this thread is my first exposure to Dr. Mike. Why have you posted this trivial thread? I don't understand the point. This is the first time that I have ever heard of

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Thank you for your remarks. The whole point of bringing up Doctor Mike is because most people have never heard of him unless they watch things like the Today show or stuff like that.

I wouldn't want anybody to think that this thread is in competition with the covid thread. Most of his videos have nothing to do with covid. Also, I absolutely love trivial subjects. Otherwise, I would be tempted to delete about 90% of the threads on Anyport.

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Triviality and humor are the leavening in the dense dough of our existence.

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Senator Schumer gets his flu shot, a Fox Neww interview and more...

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Here is one of his most pertinent and balanced videos.

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Doctor Mike sucks and is totally different person then the person he protrays on youtube. He talks about covid,but goes to party in Miami with IG Clout models. As for Betsy Alvarez well she used him for fame, followers, and to get modeling contract. Betsy, even rude to his friends and fans.

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I have not heard or seen many of them but am a fan of House and used to be an avid watcher of ER.

[Lifepatner]

betsy alveraz is such a liar who used mikes contract to try fake a relationship with him when he was & still is with his long time fiancée even though betsy tried to split them up but failed as cant destroy truelove betsy you can't destroy their love for each other 😂😂😂

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Even though some of this was trivial, I thought it also contained quite a bit of interesting information.

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Interesting fake news!

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