Ernie Poortinga

Practitioner of evidence based medicine. Love the Gulf of Mexico. He/Him/His pronouns

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@Gausmus47 Well, I can see that we’re really not getting anywhere on this topic. Let me know when you’d like to discuss NCAA hockey . A topic we both love and you know far more than I.!

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@acnewsitics Not to get all sensitive or anything, but Ilsa’s wife is also a medical doctor specializing in psych psychiatry

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Donald Trump posted a graphic targeting Abdul El-Sayed and his wife, comparing them to him and Melania with the caption “Two Very Different America’s.” Here’s how El-Sayed flipped it right back on him live on CNN:

El-Sayed: Yeah, he's right. One in which your overlords are two people who don't like each other, but joined in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you.

Or two people who genuinely love each other, enjoyed some pancakes together, want to come together to build the kind of America where they can raise a family and know that that family is going to have the good things.

So, yes, you got two different visions of America. Donald Trump's vision is the one you're living in right now. Can you afford your gas? Can you afford your groceries? Do you believe, when you look your kids in the eye, that they're going to have a better future than you did?

And Sarah and I are running because when we look our daughters in the eye, Emmalee and Shireen, we want them to believe that they're every bit as able to have a better future than the one that they could have had under the Trump administration. That they can live together with their sisters and their brothers in America in a way where they lock arms to build the good things that they deserve together.

Where they know they'll have the healthcare that they need and good jobs, and that they don't have to go 15 minutes and know that there are kids who live 15 minutes away whose lives are very, very different than theirs because we've been, for far too long, okay with a level of inequality in this country.

I want them to live in an America where they can breathe clean air and drink clean water.

And actually, Sarah and I like each other. I don't know about the First Lady and the President, but from what I've heard, it's a bit of a rocky road.

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@Gausmus47 Just wondering, which physicians don’t have a good understanding of infectious disease? strong emphasis during med school and residencies. So about seven years worth of training. Not sure how that compares to the number of years Evander.Kane has been watching YouTube videos.

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@Gausmus47 Not asking for a medal . Lol! Just asking you to acknowledge that perhaps physicians, such as myself had a better understanding of infectious disease than you or a evander cane

[jamie @gnuman1979]

Not the same.

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@Gausmus47 Thanks for proving my point. Does the fact that I am a medical doctor and I still feel the pandemic was handled as well as it could be Carrie any weight with you?

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@Gausmus47 So how would you handle the next pandemic involving a novel, potentially fatal respiratory virus?

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@Gausmus47 Well, you seem to indicate that you would have handled the pandemic better. Sorry if I misread your defense of Evander

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@MikeRogersForMI Do u spend any time in Michigan?

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@JohnJamesMI Resorting to name-calling implies that you have no freaking clue about any policies that you are advocating. You are going to lose election in a landslide.

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@Gausmus47 You didn’t answer my question about the Covid vaccine being a major heart of how the pandemic was handled. But that’s OK. You have your mind made up. And you’re smarter than all of us doctors

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@catso_grande @AzPetrich Oh no? You mean he had an every man for himself attitude? No concern for the poor? You must have a different Bible than I’ve read.

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@billcanadaone @AzPetrich You read my mind

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@AzPetrich Do you mean concern for the poor, disenfranchised? How about making fun of childless women with cats? Isn’t that what Jesus would do?

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@Gausmus47 Wasn’t vaccination a major part of handling Covid? Additionally, while schools were closed for far too long, the decisions were made with limited information. Hindsight is 2020.

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@TheMicahCarta @SportsnetSpec Ok. 99 % of us

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@OilersJack So we shouldn’t call out idiotic statements?

[Ernie Poortinga @illini_leaf]

@ProfessorLGRW @Buccigross @SportsnetSpec Thank you from a real MD