Meet Barbara Ferrer, The Social Justice Warrior With No Medical Background Leading LA's COVID Response
Zero Hedge
May 16, 2020

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At this point, most market participants outside California know LA County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer as the public servant whose "miscommunication" Tuesday afternoon about a three-month extension to her county's stay at home order was blamed for reviving anxieties about the economic reopening in the US that helped hammer stocks lower last week. The good doctor - who, as it so happens, isn't a medical doctor, but the owner of a Ph.D in "Social Welfare" (whatever the f**k that means) - would like you to know she is truly sorry for the error, and the ensuing public furor she accidentally unleashed.

As we have been saying since the beginning of this outbreak, many of the public servants revered as virtually infallible by the "stay home, save lives" crowd (overly Democratic in political orientation) actually have few real qualifications. Dr. Ferrer isn't a scientist, or a medical doctor, and people who argue that we should simply stay inside forever because science often have little, or no, understanding of the current state of research concerning the virus. Because if they did, they would understand that not even the scientists have a great grasp of how to handle this. Given the far-reaching ramifications for society, it shouldn't be an extreme opinion to suggest that tackling this requires a multidisciplinary approach, because small oversights can have major consequences.