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Lost in the Sauce: Feb. 16 - 22

Welcome to Lost in the Sauce, keeping you caught up on political and legal news that often gets buried in distractions and theater. (the previous edition can be found here if you are super behind).
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Trump’s war on the intelligence community: 10 days under an authoritarian administration

I wrote a stand-alone piece covering the biggest news from last week: Over the past 10 days, we've seen Trump fully indulge his authoritarian impulses in an attempt to stamp out any inkling of facts that he dislikes - whether that be for personal, egocentric reasons or to shore up political strength. This began with a briefing given to the House Intelligence Committee that Russia is seeking to re-elect Trump. In response, Trump purged the Office of the Director of National Intelligence of officials he perceived to be disloyal, installing loyalists in their place.
Also covered: how Trump gets away with a cabinet full of acting officials, Richard Grenell’s numerous dis-qualifications, a pardon offered to Julian Assange, and the hunt for “Never Trumpers” in the administration.

Sunday night update

On Sunday, Trump made a veiled threat toward House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff while claiming without evidence that the Democrat had leaked information from the Russia briefing on Feb. 13: “Somebody please tell incompetent (thanks for my high poll numbers) & corrupt politician Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff to stop leaking Classified information or, even worse, made up information, to the Fake News Media. Someday he will be caught, & that will be a very unpleasant experience!” tweet
Later, while speaking to reporters, Trump called for an investigation into the leak - more concerned about the public learning of the briefing than he is about Russia’s repeated interference in U.S. elections. “They leaked it, Adam Schiff and his group. They leaked it to the papers and - as usual - they ought to investigate Adam Schiff for leaking that information,” Trump said.
Schiff responded: “Nice deflection, Mr. President. But your false claims fool no one. You welcomed Russian help in 2016, tried to coerce Ukraine’s help in 2019, and won’t protect our elections in 2020.”

Pardon-palooza

Authoritarians also dispense largesse, but they do it by their own whims, rather than pursuant to any system or legal rule. The point of authoritarianism is to concentrate power in the ruler, so the world knows that all actions, good and bad, harsh and generous, come from a single source. (The New Yorker)
Last week, Trump granted pardons and commutations to 11 people with one thing in common: connections. Trump bypassed the process of formal procedures typically used to determine who is given a pardon, instead relying on connections to his wealthy friends and political allies.

Roger Stone going to prison

Perhaps not coincidentally, Trump’s pardoning of corrupt public officials like Blagojevich occurred just two days before Roger Stone’s sentencing for lying to investigators, obstructing a congressional investigation, and witness tampering. Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Stone to 40 months - or 3.3 years - in prison, much lighter than the original 7-9 year sentencing recommendation made by career prosecutors who withdrew from the case in protest of AG Barr’s intervention.
Lawfare has a great line-by-line breakdown of the sentencing hearing, if you’d like the nitty-gritty details. But if you only have time to read one excerpt from the hearing, I suggest the following:
Judge Jackson: “The truth still exists. The truth still matters. Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy...The dismay and the disgust at the attempts by others to defend his actions as just business as usual in our polarized climate should transcend party. The dismay and the disgust with any attempts to interfere with the efforts of prosecutors and members of the judiciary to fulfill their duty should transcend party.
"Sure, the defense is free to say: So what? Who cares? But, I'll say this: Congress cared. The United States Department of Justice and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia that prosecuted the case and is still prosecuting the case cared. The jurors who served with integrity under difficult circumstances cared. The American people cared. And I care."
Judge Jackson pushes back
During the hearing, Judge Jackson said that the jurors in the case "served with integrity." Stone’s lawyers took this statement and moved to disqualify the judge from the case, claiming that her remarks “rendered her unable to fairly rule on his bid for a new trial.”
"Stone’s Motion for New Trial is directly related to the integrity of a juror. It is alleged that a juror misled the Court regarding her ability to be unbiased and fair and the juror attempted to cover up evidence that would directly contradict her false claims of impartiality," his lawyers argued.
"The premature statement blessing the “integrity of the jury” undermines the appearance of impartiality and presents a strong bias for recusal," they added.
As expected, Jackson denied the motion to have her disqualified...
A pardon for Stone?
But the goal may be to reach the ears of the president instead. According to Politico, a former senior administration official who remains in contact with Trump and his senior advisers says about a pardon for Roger Stone: “It’s not a question of if; it’s when.” Following the sentencing, Trump argued that Stone’s jury was “tainted” and said that “Roger has a very good chance of exoneration.”
On Sunday, Trump was asked about the possibility of a pardon for Stone and instead took the opportunity to attack the jury forewoman, again:
"That juror is so biased and so tainted, that shouldn't happen in our criminal justice system… You have a juror that is obviously tainted. She was an activist against Trump. She said bad things about Trump and bad things about Stone," the President claimed without evidence. "She somehow weaseled her way onto the jury and if that's not a tainted jury then there is no such thing as a tainted jury."

More info on Stone’s lenient sentence

In the week since four prosecutors withdrew from Stone’s case in protest of AG Barr’s interference, we have gotten a slow drip-drip of new information. A piece by The New York Times Sunday summed it up nicely: Timothy Shea, appointed to replace Jessie Liu as head D.C. attorney, was sent to the office specifically to steer cases to the president’s benefit after previous efforts failed.
A new boss, Timothy Shea, had just arrived and had told them on his first day that he wanted a more lenient recommendation for Mr. Stone, and he pushed back hard when they objected, according to two people briefed on the dispute. They grew suspicious that Mr. Shea was helping his longtime friend and boss, Attorney General William P. Barr, soften the sentencing request to please the president.
...The tensions between the office, the Justice Department and the White House date back further than the tumult in the Stone case. They have been simmering since at least last summer, when the office’s investigation of Andrew G. McCabe, a former top F.B.I. official whom the president had long targeted, began to fall apart.
Mr. Shea’s predecessor, Jessie K. Liu, a lawyer whom Mr. Trump had appointed to lead the office in 2017, pressed the McCabe case even after one team of prosecutors concluded that they could not win a conviction. After a second team was brought in and also failed to deliver a grand jury indictment, Ms. Liu’s relationship with Mr. Barr grew strained, people close to them said. She left the position this year, though she and Mr. Barr have both stressed to associates that her departure was amicable.

Undoing Mueller’s work

Trump’s efforts to derail the sentencing of Stone can be seen as part of a larger campaign to rewrite history, and specifically, erase the findings of the Mueller investigation. Roger Stone’s indictment shows that Stone was acting on Trump's personal order to find Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails stolen by Russia. In order to cover-up his role in the Russia-Wikileaks-Trump network, Stone lied to investigators and threatened a witness. By claiming that Stone did not commit a crime, Trump is attempting to reverse the findings of the Mueller report and make himself the victim.
Last week, Trump embarked on a rambling Twitter thread calling for all cases stemming from Mueller’s probe to be “thrown out.” He continued, saying: “If I wasn’t President, I’d be suing everyone all over the place.......BUT MAYBE I STILL WILL. WITCH HUNT!”
Hours later, while discussing the spate of pardons he had issued that day, Trump made the astounding assertion that he is “the chief law enforcement officer of the country” and thus has the “legal right” to interfere in criminal cases. “I’m allowed to be totally involved,” the president added. While technically he is incorrect - the Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer - in practice Trump has been proven right. A lawless chief executive is in fact in charge of enforcing the law when the Attorney General acts as his personal fixer.
This is in the style of autocrats across the globe, who weaponize the law to help themselves and their friends and hurt their enemies. The nation’s legal system is now run by a man who has spent his life mocking it. (NYT Editorial Board)
Meanwhile, the president’s allies have reportedly been urging him to fire anyone who was involved in Mueller’s investigation:
The MAGA punditry’s outsized influence over the president means their campaign against the so-called Mueller “holdovers” is likely not falling on deaf ears, especially given Trump’s fixation with what his defenders and detractors are saying about his administration in their frequent appearances on his favorite TV programs.
“It's totally unclear to me why any members of the Mueller team need to remain in the Trump DOJ,” the pro-Trump conservative blogger Will Chamberlain wrote after news broke of the Stone sentencing recommendation.
...GOP operative Arthur Schwartz, a close friend of Donald Trump Jr. who has been described as the eldest son’s “fixer,” said of the career officials in question: “I think they should all be investigated.”
...John Dowd, a former Trump lawyer who remains in touch with the White House, characterized the line attorneys in the Stone case as “insubordinate,” and “the same crowd of prosecutors wedded to the Mueller agenda” who need to be “cleaned out” from DOJ. “And Bill Barr is doing that,” Dowd said.
What can be done about the politicization of the DOJ? In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School suggests that “Congress should transform the Justice Department into an independent agency, legally immunized from the president’s day-to-day control.”

Public charge rule takes effect

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow the government to implement new “wealth test” rules making it easier to deny immigrants residency or admission to the United States if they might depend on public-assistance programs. Legal challenges will continue in lower courts in the meantime. Doug Rand, co-founder of Boundless Immigration who formerly worked on immigration policy in the Obama White House, estimates that as many as 400,000 people every year could be denied green cards or visas because of the new rules.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a written dissent that was sharply critical of both the federal government and her conservative colleagues, warning that they are “putting a thumb on the scale in favor of” the Trump administration. Read her full seven-page dissent here.
The justice wrote that granting emergency applications often upends "the normal appellate process" while "putting a thumb on the scale in favor of the party that won." Targeting her conservative colleagues, she said "most troublingly, the Court's recent behavior" has benefited "one litigant over all others."
"Claiming one emergency after another, the Government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases," Sotomayor said. "It is hard to say what is more troubling," she said, pointing to the case at hand, "that the Government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it." CNN

THE SIDES

Justice Department’s new rules benefit Giuliani

In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, the DOJ indicated that the agency has implemented another layer of approval that would make it difficult for prosecutors to widen their probe into Rudy Giuliani:
The Justice Department revealed Tuesday that law enforcement officials running Ukraine-related investigations must seek approval before expanding their inquiries — a move that could have implications for Rudolph W. Giuliani, as President Trump’s personal attorney pushes for scrutiny of the president’s political foes while facing a federal probe into his own conduct.
Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd wrote to Nadler that the department had tapped two U.S. attorneys to assist in the process — Scott Brady in Pittsburgh to receive and assess new information, and Richard Donoghue in Brooklyn to help coordinate personnel throughout the Justice Department involved in Giuliani’s case and others with a focus on Ukraine. An accompanying internal memo, circulated by Rosen in January, says that he and Donoghue must approve expansions of any inquiries.

Related: The Hill admits John Solomon’s columns were misleading

The Hill’s review of Solomon’s work can be found here. I have found the review itself to be overly generous to the publication (no surprise), so I will quote from a WaPo summary of the review:
In effect, the Hill said Solomon amplified an inaccurate and one-sided narrative about the Bidens and Ukraine that was fed to him by Giuliani, “facilitated” by businessman Lev Parnas, who was working with Giuliani at the time, and reinforced by Solomon’s own attorneys, who also represented clients embroiled in U.S.-Ukraine politics.
But the Hill stopped short of retracting or apologizing for Solomon’s articles, nor did it say it shouldn’t have published them. It also didn’t characterize Solomon’s motives in presenting what appears to be a largely debunked conspiracy theory about Ukraine.
“In certain columns, Solomon failed to identify important details about key Ukrainian sources, including the fact that they had been indicted or were under investigation,” said the internal investigation, which was overseen by the newspaper’s editor, Bob Cusack. “In other cases, the sources were [Solomon’s] own attorneys” — Victoria Toensing and Joseph DiGenova, who have also represented President Trump and Giuliani, who was also a key source for Solomon’s columns.
Solomon didn’t disclose this connection in his columns nor did he disclose to his editors that he shared drafts of his stories with Toensing, DiGenova and Parnas, the review noted.

Trump tries to block Bolton book

The Washington Post reports that Trump is attempting to block the release of former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s book, instructing aides that it should not be released until after the November election.
Trump has told his lawyers that Bolton should not be allowed to publish any of his interactions with him about national security because they are privileged and classified, these people said. He has also repeatedly brought up the book with his team, asking whether Bolton is going to be able to publish it, they said.
Trump told national television anchors on Feb. 4 during an off-the-record lunch that material in the book was “highly classified,” according to notes from one participant in the luncheon. He then called him a “traitor.”
“We’re going to try and block the publication of the book,” Trump said, according to the notes. “After I leave office, he can do this. But not in the White House...I give the guy a break. I give him a job. And then he turns on me,” Trump added during the West Wing lunch. “He’s just making things up.”

Susan Rice tells Bolton the truth

During a panel discussion at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, Bolton shared the stage with Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice. Bolton made excuses for his failure to testify in Trump’s impeachment trial, blaming the House for committing “impeachment malpractice.” Rice challenged Bolton repeatedly, denigrating his decision to promote his book instead of testify:
"I thought a lot about if I had been in that position how would I have approached it, and I'll be honest: It's inconceivable to me that if I had firsthand knowledge of gross abuse of presidential power that I would withhold my testimony from a constitutional accountability process.”
"I can't imagine withholding my testimony, with or without a subpoena," Rice said. "I also can't imagine, frankly, in the absence of being able to provide the information directly to Congress, not having exercised my First Amendment right to speak publicly at a time when my testimony or my experience would be relevant. And, frankly, when my subordinates ... were doing their duty and responding in a fashion consistent with their legal obligations to provide information."
"I would feel like I was shamefully violating the oath that I took to support and defend the Constitution."

Trump corruption update

President Donald Trump’s choice to stay at his own Las Vegas hotel each night during the western states swing that wraps up Friday likely cost taxpayers a million extra dollars as well as diverted thousands of them into his own cash registers.
Breaking with precedent, Trump flew back to Vegas to stay every night at his Trump International Hotel, despite his day activities taking place in California, Arizona, and Colorado.
Had Trump held the same events but done so in a geographically logical order ― starting in Beverly Hills and finishing in Colorado Springs, but overnighting each day in the city where he would begin the following morning ― Trump would have spent four fewer hours aboard Air Force One, thereby saving taxpayers about $1.1 million.
...Indeed, the repeated overnight trips to Las Vegas may have forced the Secret Service and other support personnel to keep a motorcade there for a full four days, rather than move it to the site of an upcoming presidential trip
This week, Trump has a whole new country to focus on: India, home to the largest portfolio of Trump real estate projects outside North America, according to the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. According to The Washington Post, since the elder Trump’s last trip to India in 2014, two of his business partners have encountered massive legal and financial trouble.
During Trump’s time as president, the Trump Organization has vigorously promoted their properties in India, earning millions of dollars in royalties:
In 2018, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr. — who runs the Trump Organization with his brother, Eric Trump — spent several days in India promoting the family’s developments, attending a champagne dinner with condo buyers who plunked down $39,000 deposits and bringing in millions of dollars in new sales. While there, he also met with Modi behind closed doors. The next year, Trump’s Indian business partners flew 100 early buyers of his luxury condos near Delhi to visit Trump Tower and Trump Ferry Point golf course in New York City as a way to generate interest in the properties in India. One attendee gushed afterward about meeting the son of a U.S. president on the trip.

Trump 2020: Cambridge Analytica and Facebook

President Donald Trump’s campaign is bringing on an alum of the controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica...Matt Oczkowski, who served as head of product at Cambridge before it went bankrupt and shut down in 2018, is helping oversee the Trump campaign’s data program...Oczkowski, who also worked on Trump’s 2016 effort, joined the reelection campaign in January, and payments to his company, HuMn Behavior, are expected to show up on Trump’s next campaign finance disclosure later this month. (Politico)
An Axios report revealed where most of Trump’s re-election campaign is spending its advertising budget: on Facebook ads. “Last fall, the campaign urged Facebook to keep the same tools for political advertisers that they make available to companies...Facebook ultimately decided not to change its policies around microtargeting.” However, unlike in 2016, the campaign is also diversifying, “testing new strategies on several dozen platforms, including YouTube, Google, ad exchanges, publisher networks and conservative podcasts.”
  • Side note: The IRS is suing Facebook for $9 million in back taxes, alleging the social media company undervalued intellectual properties when selling them to an Irish subsidiary in 2010. Ireland has lower corporate tax rates than the United States, so the move reduced the company’s tax bill.

Erik Prince investigations

There is apparently another investigation into Blackwater Founder - and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - Erik Prince. The FBI is reportedly investigating Prince “for his 2015 attempt to modify two American-made crop-dusting planes into attack aircraft — a violation of arms trafficking regulations...The planes became part of private military services Prince proposed to sell or use in mercenary operations in Africa and Azerbaijan.”
This new investigation adds to Prince’s legal problems, though he insists that he is untouchable “under this guy,” referring to Trump. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department is “in the late stages of deciding whether to charge” Prince for allegedly lying to Congress in its Russia probe and violating U.S. export laws in his business dealings overseas.

Trump blocking prominent climate change warning

The United States is against mentioning climate change in the communique of the world’s financial leaders, G20 diplomats said, after a new draft of the joint statement showed the G20 are considering including it as a risk factor to growth...G20 sources said the United States was reluctant to accept language on climate change as a risk to the economy. Reuters
On Sunday, it was announced that the U.S. ultimately agreed to a less-prominent placement for the risks of climate change. It will now appear in language referencing the Financial Stability Board’s work examining the implications of climate change for financial stability.
One of the G20 sources said it was the first time a reference to climate change had been included in a G20 finance communique during Trump’s presidency, even though it was removed from the top of the joint statement. U.S. officials have resisted naming climate change as an economic risk since Trump took office in 2017. One of his first acts as president was to announce Washington’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.

Rightwing threats

Last week, two men were arrested in separate incidents involving threats to President Trump’s perceived opponents.
A Michigan man, Brittan J. Atkinson, was arrested on Thursday for sending death threats to Mark Zaid, an attorney for the Ukraine whistleblower. Atkinson sent the threats in November, on the day that Trump held up a photo of Zaid and read some of his tweets at a rally in Louisiana.
"All traitors must die miserable deaths," Atkinson's email read in part, the indictment says. "Those that represent traitors shall meet the same fate[.] We will hunt you down and bleed you out like the pigs you are. We have nothing but time, and you are running out of it, Keep looking over your shoulder[.] We know who you are, where you live, and who you associate with[.] We are all strangers in a crowd to you[.]"
On Wednesday, Salvatore Lippa of New York was arrested for threatening to assault and murder Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Chuck Schumer in voicemails last month.
Lippa started the threatening message by calling the congressman "Schiff, Shifty Schiff," invoking the nickname used by President Donald Trump for Schiff, the lead House manager during Trump's impeachment trial.
...When questioned by U.S Capitol Police, Lippa admitted to making the threatening calls to Schiff and Schumer because he said he was upset about the impeachment proceedings, prosecutors said.

State news

  • Washington Post: A second court has temporarily blocked North Carolina’s new voter identification law on the argument that it discriminates against African Americans. The ruling reduces the likelihood that the rule will be in effect in a key swing state during November’s elections. A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that intent to discriminate was a “primary motivating factor” behind the voter ID law, which passed the Republican legislature in late 2018.
  • CBS News: Florida cannot bar felons who served their time from registering to vote simply because they have failed to pay all fines and fees stemming from their cases, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
  • CNN: Mississippi's law banning abortions at the detection of a fetal heartbeat -- as early as six weeks into pregnancy -- will remain blocked, a panel of circuit judges ruled on Thursday...The three-judge panel on the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's ruling that the Mississippi law unconstitutionally prohibited pre-viability abortions.
  • Tampa Bay Times: A curious request arrived in the inboxes of Florida tax collectors last week from an employee of the Republican National Committee. He asked for “all email addresses that have been collected and are in the possession of the Tax Collector’s Office.” He also wanted any names, property addresses and phone numbers connected to those emails in their records. If the tax collectors had complied, the Republican Party would soon have a valuable trove of personal information for millions of Floridians as it gears up for the 2020 election: A detailed database of many taxpayers’ emails plus the name, address and phone number tied to that email.
  • Associated Press: Most Republican lawmakers refused to attend a Tuesday night session of the Oregon House of Representatives amid a slowdown over anger at a sweeping bill on climate change. Earlier, Republican lawmakers, who are a minority in the House, insisted that bills coming to the floor be read in their entirety instead of being summarized, which slowed things down substantially. The 2020 session of the Legislature lasts only 35 days, being an even-year short session.
  • Q13 Fox News: Efforts to expel a controversial state representative from the Washington Legislature are likely over after no Republicans would sign a letter calling for state Rep. Matt Shea’s expulsion. The Spokesman-Review reports that all 98 members of the state House of Representatives were asked Thursday to sign a letter calling for the expulsion of Spokane Valley Republican. All 56 Democrats signed the letter, but no Republicans did.
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Commentary on Zubin Damania's (ZDoggMD) critique of an expose video by Nurse Erin Olszewski

Evaluating Doctor Z's "Critical Thinking Toolkit" - (as in "condition critical" relative to his grasp of matters medical and reality-logically in general:
This being commentary on Zubin Damania's (ZDogg) critique of an expose video by Nurse Erin Olszewski.
Numbers heading paragraphs represent time into Zubin's video under which this commentary is posted.
1:37 ZDogg labels Nurse Olszewski as "insane". This is the first hint that Zdogg is the spawn of at least one member of the psychiatric establishment. In this case, DrZ's mother is a psychiatrist, who (I have to assume, since DrZ moved to the US from Iran when he was eight year old) received her degree in psychiatry either under the Shah of Iran or one of the successor "Revolutionary Guard" Islamic regimes, all of which used psychiatry as a tool of repression and torture. Currently an Iranian born woman, married to a British citizen, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliff, after being arrested for "spying" has been moved from prison to a mental ward of a hospital controlled by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The move is probably not a step up for her situation. From my observations ZDogg has not fallen far from the family tree with regards to abusing psychiatric labeling.
1:30 "Doctor Z" offers to save the potential viewer of Nurse Olszewski's video time by offering a version of her talk excreted through his own philosophical unique filter. He is sure to mention that Nurse Olszewski is "traveling", thus demoting her to the ranks of those who either can not afford rent in today's market, of match some kind of psychiatric label I'm sure he has reserved for such persons.
2:10 "DrZ" accuses Nurse Olszewski of video recording medical charts (on computer screen) "with minimal redaction". In fact all names are blurred and unreadable in her video. Only anonymous data necessary to support the claims of the video are visible on the video. He also accuses her of audio recording co-workers "without their consent". Whether "Doctor Z" knows it or not, the reader should know (since DrZ does not make this clear), audio recording another person without their consent or knowledge is completely legal in the state of New York, where the video was recorded.
3:05 Drz says Nurse Olszewski claimed that hydroxychloroquine had not been allowed as a treatment "because of Cuomo". In fact, it is correct that New York governor Cuomo had singled out hydroxychloroquine as the one off-label drug that can not be used as treatment of covid, except as part of approved studies. The restriction was later removed. The Lancet paper initially claiming hydroxychloroquine is dangerous, has been retracted. The initial article claiming hydroxychloroquine is dangerous was retracted May 22, 2020.
3:22 DrZ then reads of his "conspiracy checklist" to be applied to Nurse Olszewski's video. He sites the nurse's claims that covid positive and negative patients are placed together "because" the hospital gets paid $29,000 per patient. I did not hear Nurse Olszewski say that. She did point out that the negative and positive patients were placed together - an atrocious practice, and that there was a $29,000 payment to the hospital for deaths from among those subjected to this treatment who became new covid positive patients. It was other individuals in the conversation that linked the motive and monetary reward factors. DrZ calls it a "red flag" that this moral hazard of dangling a substantial cash reward to a hospital for allowing conditions that could result in additional covid positive diagnosis. DrZ criticizes Nurse Olszewski for not including counter claims in her video. Most likely, those "potentially" benefiting these conditions are not going to be willing to comment other than a message of warning from the hospital's legal counsel. DrZ claims "a ton of staff would revolt" were the conditions Nurse Olszewski claims were in fact real. DrZ pulls the race card out of his sleeve when it is pointed out that a very large percentage of the nursing staff are immigrants with questionable educational backgrounds and mastery of the English language, who are probably barely making ends meet (maybe they should become traveling nurses) and are desperate not to lose their job and the means to meet the month's rent. The audio recordings provide examples of nurses who are concerned about the conditions at the "covid epicenter" hospital.
4:30 Nurse Olszewski is an antivaxer, which DrZ claims "ought to disqualify her from being a nurse". He claims her Tweet posts denied pandemic existed without providing any examples or links supporting this claim. In fact, Nurse Olszewski said her reason for traveling to work at the New York hospital was that the number of patients in the Florida hospital she was working in was dwindling, reducing the need for staff numbers.
DrZ says Nurse Olszewski is "the queen of the antivaxers". While she is opposed to mandatory vaccination, she seems minimally involved in the "antivaxing" movement on a political level. One extremist antivax group published an article, titled Highly Organized Controlled Opposition in Florida Deceives and Betrays Anti-Vax Advocacy Groups (https://nationandstate.com/2019/09/27/highly-organized-controlled-opposition-in-florida-deceives-and-betrays-anti-vax-advocacy-groups/) tries to make the case that Erin is a mole for the government (deep state no doubt) who has infiltrated the true antivaxxing movement. They point out that Erin's presence on Twitter and her web page is very light, supporting their claim. Maybe it's because Erin is too busy doing her job as a dedicated nurse to spend all day Tweeting and passing on unsubstantiated data to be the internet success story DrD seems to be.
5:20 While in Florida, she spent time at the beach during the pandemic and that the vitamin D and fresh sea air supported her immune system. DrZ says this makes her a conspiratorial supporter of the "Plandemic" movement because the woman who put that movie out said that too. Erin points out that hospitals were not flooded with covid cases following the mass gathering of people on Florida beaches that made international news.
1:01:20 In Erin's interview video, she agrees that the covid-19 pandemic is real. at 1:03:05 Erin asserts that the reason for New York hospitals' having such a high number of covid patients is that they were "admitting everyone" as "possible covid when maybe, they just had a little congestion."
5:40 DrZ says of Erin's decision to travel from Florida to New York to work "however she structured it". Erin "structured" this decision quite clearly that there was less work for her in Florida and more in New York. What evil motivations must be harbored within that clearly malevolent statement?
5:55 DrZ's second conspiracy check features DrZ's definition of a "fake expert". Namely that they can be contrast with the "real experts". Unless DrZ is prepared to submit a thesis on the meaning of the word "expert" with regards to the medical field, his use of such a subjective determination renders his opinion on the subject moot. DrZ compares the urgent care doctor Erin discusses hydroxychloroquine/Zinc with to two doctors who's since mostly discredited theoretical covid treatment with no knowledge of the doctor Erin talked to other than to declare him "not an expert". at 46:55 in Erin's video, the interviewer says they called the hospital Erin worked at in Florida and were told by them that hospital had used hydroxychloroquine and zinc "to great effect."
6:50 DrZ accuses Erin of "cherry picking data". Data is a very small part of the interview of Erin. She mentions a few insufficiently tested treatments to a staff doctor and gets the response of immediate dismissal, probably just to prove their closed-mindedness. But the video is primarily to show the conditions on the floor of the facility, which it does do.
7:15 DrZ says Erin proposed to try hydroxychloroquine/zinc "because they're going to die anyway." This was after the doctor she is talking to says "I don't expect any of them to live - 90% will not survive." So literally, in the doctor's own words, there would be nothing to lose by trying Hydro/Zinc. Where is Dr. House when we need him?
7:30 DrZ makes the claim that Erin does not know what she is talking about because "she herself is a fake expert" because "she doesn't have the expertise to talk about these trials." Here DrZ is making the logical error of begging the question. I thought logic might have been included in med curriculums.
8:15 DrZ mentions that the doctor Efin questions and records is a CCU, which is a Cardiac (heart) Critical Care Fellow. A heart doctor i charge of a respiratory care ward with numerous fatalities from respiratory ailments seems almost as bad as putting a dentist in charge. At least the dentist treats patients down their throats and not by cutting through their ribs. DrZ mentions once again that Erin is an "antivaxer". Let's not forget that because it is the basis of his attack upon Erin's professionalism - because he has nothing else and that is a knee-jerk dog whistle to the left.
9:00 DrZ brings up another of his Erin's "huge logical fallacies" when she says "they're enterbating patients when you know when you enterbate patients, they die". This is exactly what the doctor Erin recorded said - that he didn't expect any of them (patients enterbated) to live.
9:15 DrZ brings up Scott Weingard, an expert in critical care, who, DrZ says disagrees with Erin's views. Interestingly, Scott has written extensively about the use of ventilators (https://emcrit.org/emcrit/vent-part-1/). In Scott's article he says "right now, the actual knowledge in most of EMs on vents is dismal [PMIDs: 27330658 and 25497896]." Scott is saying that there is widespread misuse of ventilators in treating patients. This is what Erin has observed and documented. Too bad Scott's wisdom on ventilator usage has not been integrated into the training the staff at Elmhurst that Erin observed making the very errors in usage that Scott had warned against.
9:45 DrZ claims Erin said "the primary diagnosis for many of these patients is anxiety". And that anxiety can lower blood levels enough to cause physicians to put a breathing tube in you. In face, Erin makes no such claim. She sites ONE case in which a patient presents with negative test results and no covid associated symptoms but becomes anxious after awaking from sedation in bed restraints. Erin goes on to say that other nurses threatened this patient with forcefully inserting a breathing tube. Erin criticizes the hospital for using the less expensive covid test that takes five days for results instead of the quick test which costs more but reduces the necessity of keeping patients in hospital (where they have increased chance of infection) waiting for test results. That patient ended up pulling his own breathing tube out. He was one of the very few to survive being ventilated.
10:35 DrZ says that if a patient "acts like" they have covid, that's a presumptive positive. Ignoring many respiratory and "flu-like" symptoms that are indicative of diagnoses other than covid-19. This, DrZ says is more proof that Erin "doesn't have the logic" to understand medicine. DrZ then launches into a general critique of conspiracists and how they "move the goal posts" without relating it to Erin's presentation. DrZ describes Erin's politics as "covid denial" which, besides that not being a "political" feature, is not true of Erin. She was asked point blank by her interviewer if she believed in the existence of a pandemic of covie-19 and sayd that, yes, she does. That's what she has specifically been treating. She just happens to disagree with many of the protocols practiced at Elmherst hospital.
10:45 DrZ says that Erin "doesn't have the logic" to understand
11:50 DrZ accuses Erin of making "slanderous claims" against Elmherst hospital's treatment of covid patients. If anyone is guilty of slander, it is DrZ, who repeatedly accuses Erin of being unreliable and having some kind of conspiratorial agenda. DrZ goes on to claim that "Elmherst deserves these payments" (of $29,000 for each person entering the ward is covid positive (regardless of test results), perhaps regardless of test results. DrZ defends Elmherst's receiving this bounty on the basis that they are a not "one of these big hospitals that makes billions of dollars in revenue". Redistribution of medical revenue one dead patient at a time.
12:25 DrZ says "there's a process" for nurses to call out errors in the hospital. Recall that DrZ has called for the permanent revocation of nurses licenses from openly opinionated nurses like Erin. This would likely be the result if Erin were to try and use the hospital's own error reporting system.
13:05 DrZ characterizes Erin of "badmouthing a teaching hospital ... they will make mistakes". MISTAKE ! Your mother dying a torturous, unnecessary death may be some half-schooled nurse's "MISTAKE" and it's all in a day's work at Elmhurst.
13:15 DrZ says that many of the "learning" nurses learning on covid patients are "immigrants" and foreign medical graduates then posits that Erin's criticism of their performance is "racism". He extends this labeling by pointing out that those she questioned and recorded on the floor "has a thick accent and she's calling them incompetent". The obvious alternative to DrZ's observation is that anyone who is an immigrants" and foreign medical graduate or has a thick accent needs to be immune from criticism of the body count amassed by their ill-education or erroneous practices treating patients.
14:00 DrZ says "This woman should be punished - she should lose any professional license she has anywhere in the United States". He goes on to say that "we should have a national licensure instead of the state license." This, he says, to keep nurses like Erin from "just going to another state and get another nursing license."
According to the doctor's Linkdin, the only in-hospital duty he has served has been as a Hospitalist (1).
The last three years, DrZ has been "Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at UNLV School of Medicine" - whatever that is. Since Wikipedia lists his address in Clovis California, I wonder if this is some kind of "virtual" consultant status where he just hangs his shackle on a web site and occasionally puts out a podcast or does one of his medical comedian stant-up routines. I guess Las Vegas might be a good venue for that. Stinking drunk casino guests are all as likely to laugh at his lame humor as inebrieted medical students.
Overlapping that stint, the last ten years he has operated ZDoggMD Industries (his web site and yutube channel).
He has also spent the last 3 years as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine UNLV School of Medicine.
From 2012 – 2017 he was Founder and CEO, Turntable Health Turntable Health which seems to have been something of a virtual social media medical project that didn't stand the test of time.
From 2013 – 2015 he partnered with online shoe seller Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh "to revitalize and reinvent the community of Downtown Las Vegas." Damania was on the board of directors of Iora Health from 2013 - 1015. Iora was a partner in the creation of Turntable Health.
2003 – 2015 Damania was Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center.
From 2003 – 2012 Damania was Physician (Hospitalist) at Palo Alto Medical Foundation. "Full time inpatient-only hospitalist position" according to linkedin dot com. So for nine years we have indication that Damania did in fact work in a hospital treating patients. This stopped in 2012 after the CEO of online shoe seller Zappos discovered Damania in San Francisco and recruited him in his plan to "revitalize and reinvent the community of Downtown Las Vegas". Damania's in-hospital, patient contact experience is, according to Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zdoggmd) nine years stale. He dropped out of medicine in real terms long before the current pandemic.
2002 – 2003: Content Manager Medsn, an HCP membership network and a medical e-learning startup. He participated in preparation of remote, medical educational products.
1995 – 1998: Instructor and Educational Materials Developer at The Berkeley Review.
1994 – 1995: University of California, Berkeley, Research Associate
1999 - 2002: Damania interned at Stanford University Internal Residency.
(1) A hospitalist is a doctor who is limited to practicing only on hospital in-patients while they are hospitalized (only). An article at the web site the-hospitalist dot org (https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/123072/what-hospitalist) says that "... some hospitalists were primarily engaged in research or leadership positions and did not provide a great deal of direct patient care, yet clearly defined themselves as hospitalists." One has to wonder if DrZ is one of these since he does not seem to refer to any of his own experience treating patients.
As for myself. I am neither anti nor pro vax. I had the full gauntlet of vaccinations when in elementary school during the 60's, as did all of my classmates. No adverse affects were claimed by any parents to my knowledge. I have had no vaccinations since adulthood. I have contracted no viral infections the last 20 years - with a possible exception of a couple of common colds. I have studied nutrition and health since high school and take supplements including vitamin C, D and calcium/magnesium/zinc. I try to avoid polluted environments and stressful situations. If I had kids I would probably study the vax/no-vax options and perhaps selectively vaccinate them to the most threatening viruses. If private vaccination options offered a less threatening type of vaccination, I would try and utilize that. I am not in any way involved in the medical industry. I am a college graduate with a broad general education that included basic and several special biological subjects. I am skeptical of the medical establishment. I am glad there are medical professionals like Erin who question the authority which could end her career if she were to sufficiently rile them.
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Evaluating Doctor Z's "Critical Thinking Toolkit". Being a commentary on Zubin Damania's (ZDoggMD) critique of an expose video by Nurse Erin Olszewski of bad procedural pracdtices at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens NYC

Evaluating Doctor Z's "Critical Thinking Toolkit"
This being commentary on Zubin Damania's (ZDogg) critique of an expose video by Nurse Erin Olszewski.
Numbers heading paragraphs represent time into Zubin's video under which this commentary is posted.
1:37 ZDogg labels Nurse Olszewski as "insane". This is the first hint that Zdogg is the spawn of at least one member of the psychiatric establishment. In this case, DrZ's mother is a psychiatrist, who (I have to assume, since DrZ moved to the US from Iran when he was eight year old) received her degree in psychiatry either under the Shah of Iran or one of the successor "Revolutionary Guard" Islamic regimes, all of which used psychiatry as a tool of repression and torture. Currently an Iranian born woman, married to a British citizen, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliff, after being arrested for "spying" has been moved from prison to a mental ward of a hospital controlled by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The move is probably not a step up for her situation. From my observations ZDogg has not fallen far from the family tree with regards to abusing psychiatric labeling.
1:30 "Doctor Z" offers to save the potential viewer of Nurse Olszewski's video time by offering a version of her talk excreted through his own philosophical unique filter. He is sure to mention that Nurse Olszewski is "traveling", thus demoting her to the ranks of those who either can not afford rent in today's market, of match some kind of psychiatric label I'm sure he has reserved for such persons.
2:10 "DrZ" accuses Nurse Olszewski of video recording medical charts (on computer screen) "with minimal redaction". In fact all names are blurred and unreadable in her video. Only anonymous data necessary to support the claims of the video are visible on the video. He also accuses her of audio recording co-workers "without their consent". Whether "Doctor Z" knows it or not, the reader should know (since DrZ does not make this clear), audio recording another person without their consent or knowledge is completely legal in the state of New York, where the video was recorded.
3:05 Drz says Nurse Olszewski claimed that hydroxychloroquine had not been allowed as a treatment "because of Cuomo". In fact, it is correct that New York governor Cuomo had singled out hydroxychloroquine as the one off-label drug that can not be used as treatment of covid, except as part of approved studies. The restriction was later removed. The Lancet paper initially claiming hydroxychloroquine is dangerous, has been retracted. The initial article claiming hydroxychloroquine is dangerous was retracted May 22, 2020.
3:22 DrZ then reads of his "conspiracy checklist" to be applied to Nurse Olszewski's video. He sites the nurse's claims that covid positive and negative patients are placed together "because" the hospital gets paid $29,000 per patient. I did not hear Nurse Olszewski say that. She did point out that the negative and positive patients were placed together - an atrocious practice, and that there was a $29,000 payment to the hospital for deaths from among those subjected to this treatment who became new covid positive patients. It was other individuals in the conversation that linked the motive and monetary reward factors. DrZ calls it a "red flag" that this moral hazard of dangling a substantial cash reward to a hospital for allowing conditions that could result in additional covid positive diagnosis. DrZ criticizes Nurse Olszewski for not including counter claims in her video. Most likely, those "potentially" benefiting these conditions are not going to be willing to comment other than a message of warning from the hospital's legal counsel. DrZ claims "a ton of staff would revolt" were the conditions Nurse Olszewski claims were in fact real. DrZ pulls the race card out of his sleeve when it is pointed out that a very large percentage of the nursing staff are immigrants with questionable educational backgrounds and mastery of the English language, who are probably barely making ends meet (maybe they should become traveling nurses) and are desperate not to lose their job and the means to meet the month's rent. The audio recordings provide examples of nurses who are concerned about the conditions at the "covid epicenter" hospital.
4:30 Nurse Olszewski is an antivaxer, which DrZ claims "ought to disqualify her from being a nurse". He claims her Tweet posts denied pandemic existed without providing any examples or links supporting this claim. In fact, Nurse Olszewski said her reason for traveling to work at the New York hospital was that the number of patients in the Florida hospital she was working in was dwindling, reducing the need for staff numbers.
DrZ says Nurse Olszewski is "the queen of the antivaxers". While she is opposed to mandatory vaccination, she seems minimally involved in the "antivaxing" movement on a political level. One extremist antivax group published an article, titled Highly Organized Controlled Opposition in Florida Deceives and Betrays Anti-Vax Advocacy Groups (https://nationandstate.com/2019/09/27/highly-organized-controlled-opposition-in-florida-deceives-and-betrays-anti-vax-advocacy-groups/) tries to make the case that Erin is a mole for the government (deep state no doubt) who has infiltrated the true antivaxxing movement. They point out that Erin's presence on Twitter and her web page is very light, supporting their claim. Maybe it's because Erin is too busy doing her job as a dedicated nurse to spend all day Tweeting and passing on unsubstantiated data to be the internet success story DrD seems to be.
5:20 While in Florida, she spent time at the beach during the pandemic and that the vitamin D and fresh sea air supported her immune system. DrZ says this makes her a conspiratorial supporter of the "Plandemic" movement because the woman who put that movie out said that too. Erin points out that hospitals were not flooded with covid cases following the mass gathering of people on Florida beaches that made international news.
1:01:20 In Erin's interview video, she agrees that the covid-19 pandemic is real. at 1:03:05 Erin asserts that the reason for New York hospitals' having such a high number of covid patients is that they were "admitting everyone" as "possible covid when maybe, they just had a little congestion."
5:40 DrZ says of Erin's decision to travel from Florida to New York to work "however she structured it". Erin "structured" this decision quite clearly that there was less work for her in Florida and more in New York. What evil motivations must be harbored within that clearly malevolent statement?
5:55 DrZ's second conspiracy check features DrZ's definition of a "fake expert". Namely that they can be contrast with the "real experts". Unless DrZ is prepared to submit a thesis on the meaning of the word "expert" with regards to the medical field, his use of such a subjective determination renders his opinion on the subject moot. DrZ compares the urgent care doctor Erin discusses hydroxychloroquine/Zinc with to two doctors who's since mostly discredited theoretical covid treatment with no knowledge of the doctor Erin talked to other than to declare him "not an expert". at 46:55 in Erin's video, the interviewer says they called the hospital Erin worked at in Florida and were told by them that hospital had used hydroxychloroquine and zinc "to great effect."
6:50 DrZ accuses Erin of "cherry picking data". Data is a very small part of the interview of Erin. She mentions a few insufficiently tested treatments to a staff doctor and gets the response of immediate dismissal, probably just to prove their closed-mindedness. But the video is primarily to show the conditions on the floor of the facility, which it does do.
7:15 DrZ says Erin proposed to try hydroxychloroquine/zinc "because they're going to die anyway." This was after the doctor she is talking to says "I don't expect any of them to live - 90% will not survive." So literally, in the doctor's own words, there would be nothing to lose by trying Hydro/Zinc. Where is Dr. House when we need him?
7:30 DrZ makes the claim that Erin does not know what she is talking about because "she herself is a fake expert" because "she doesn't have the expertise to talk about these trials." Here DrZ is making the logical error of begging the question. I thought logic might have been included in med curriculums.
8:15 DrZ mentions that the doctor Efin questions and records is a CCU, which is a Cardiac (heart) Critical Care Fellow. A heart doctor i charge of a respiratory care ward with numerous fatalities from respiratory ailments seems almost as bad as putting a dentist in charge. At least the dentist treats patients down their throats and not by cutting through their ribs. DrZ mentions once again that Erin is an "antivaxer". Let's not forget that because it is the basis of his attack upon Erin's professionalism - because he has nothing else and that is a knee-jerk dog whistle to the left.
9:00 DrZ brings up another of his Erin's "huge logical fallacies" when she says "they're enterbating patients when you know when you enterbate patients, they die". This is exactly what the doctor Erin recorded said - that he didn't expect any of them (patients enterbated) to live.
9:15 DrZ brings up Scott Weingard, an expert in critical care, who, DrZ says disagrees with Erin's views. Interestingly, Scott has written extensively about the use of ventilators (https://emcrit.org/emcrit/vent-part-1/). In Scott's article he says "right now, the actual knowledge in most of EMs on vents is dismal [PMIDs: 27330658 and 25497896]." Scott is saying that there is widespread misuse of ventilators in treating patients. This is what Erin has observed and documented. Too bad Scott's wisdom on ventilator usage has not been integrated into the training the staff at Elmhurst that Erin observed making the very errors in usage that Scott had warned against.
9:45 DrZ claims Erin said "the primary diagnosis for many of these patients is anxiety". And that anxiety can lower blood levels enough to cause physicians to put a breathing tube in you. In face, Erin makes no such claim. She sites ONE case in which a patient presents with negative test results and no covid associated symptoms but becomes anxious after awaking from sedation in bed restraints. Erin goes on to say that other nurses threatened this patient with forcefully inserting a breathing tube. Erin criticizes the hospital for using the less expensive covid test that takes five days for results instead of the quick test which costs more but reduces the necessity of keeping patients in hospital (where they have increased chance of infection) waiting for test results. That patient ended up pulling his own breathing tube out. He was one of the very few to survive being ventilated.
10:35 DrZ says that if a patient "acts like" they have covid, that's a presumptive positive. Ignoring many respiratory and "flu-like" symptoms that are indicative of diagnoses other than covid-19. This, DrZ says is more proof that Erin "doesn't have the logic" to understand medicine. DrZ then launches into a general critique of conspiracists and how they "move the goal posts" without relating it to Erin's presentation. DrZ describes Erin's politics as "covid denial" which, besides that not being a "political" feature, is not true of Erin. She was asked point blank by her interviewer if she believed in the existence of a pandemic of covie-19 and sayd that, yes, she does. That's what she has specifically been treating. She just happens to disagree with many of the protocols practiced at Elmherst hospital.
10:45 DrZ says that Erin "doesn't have the logic" to understand
11:50 DrZ accuses Erin of making "slanderous claims" against Elmherst hospital's treatment of covid patients. If anyone is guilty of slander, it is DrZ, who repeatedly accuses Erin of being unreliable and having some kind of conspiratorial agenda. DrZ goes on to claim that "Elmherst deserves these payments" (of $29,000 for each person entering the ward is covid positive (regardless of test results), perhaps regardless of test results. DrZ defends Elmherst's receiving this bounty on the basis that they are a not "one of these big hospitals that makes billions of dollars in revenue". Redistribution of medical revenue one dead patient at a time.
12:25 DrZ says "there's a process" for nurses to call out errors in the hospital. Recall that DrZ has called for the permanent revocation of nurses licenses from openly opinionated nurses like Erin. This would likely be the result if Erin were to try and use the hospital's own error reporting system.
13:05 DrZ characterizes Erin of "badmouthing a teaching hospital ... they will make mistakes". MISTAKE ! Your mother dying a torturous, unnecessary death may be some half-schooled nurse's "MISTAKE" and it's all in a day's work at Elmhurst.
13:15 DrZ says that many of the "learning" nurses learning on covid patients are "immigrants" and foreign medical graduates then posits that Erin's criticism of their performance is "racism". He extends this labeling by pointing out that those she questioned and recorded on the floor "has a thick accent and she's calling them incompetent". The obvious alternative to DrZ's observation is that anyone who is an immigrants" and foreign medical graduate or has a thick accent needs to be immune from criticism of the body count amassed by their ill-education or erroneous practices treating patients.
14:00 DrZ says "This woman should be punished - she should lose any professional license she has anywhere in the United States". He goes on to say that "we should have a national licensure instead of the state license." This, he says, to keep nurses like Erin from "just going to another state and get another nursing license."
According to the doctor's Linkdin, the only in-hospital duty he has served has been as a Hospitalist (1).
The last three years, DrZ has been "Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at UNLV School of Medicine" - whatever that is. Since Wikipedia lists his address in Clovis California, I wonder if this is some kind of "virtual" consultant status where he just hangs his shackle on a web site and occasionally puts out a podcast or does one of his medical comedian stant-up routines. I guess Las Vegas might be a good venue for that. Stinking drunk casino guests are all as likely to laugh at his lame humor as inebrieted medical students.
Overlapping that stint, the last ten years he has operated ZDoggMD Industries (his web site and yutube channel).
He has also spent the last 3 years as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine UNLV School of Medicine.
From 2012 – 2017 he was Founder and CEO, Turntable Health Turntable Health which seems to have been something of a virtual social media medical project that didn't stand the test of time.
From 2013 – 2015 he partnered with online shoe seller Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh "to revitalize and reinvent the community of Downtown Las Vegas." Damania was on the board of directors of Iora Health from 2013 - 1015. Iora was a partner in the creation of Turntable Health.
2003 – 2015 Damania was Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center.
From 2003 – 2012 Damania was Physician (Hospitalist) at Palo Alto Medical Foundation. "Full time inpatient-only hospitalist position" according to linkedin dot com. So for nine years we have indication that Damania did in fact work in a hospital treating patients. This stopped in 2012 after the CEO of online shoe seller Zappos discovered Damania in San Francisco and recruited him in his plan to "revitalize and reinvent the community of Downtown Las Vegas". Damania's in-hospital, patient contact experience is, according to Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zdoggmd) nine years stale. He dropped out of medicine in real terms long before the current pandemic.
2002 – 2003: Content Manager Medsn, an HCP membership network and a medical e-learning startup. He participated in preparation of remote, medical educational products.
1995 – 1998: Instructor and Educational Materials Developer at The Berkeley Review.
1994 – 1995: University of California, Berkeley, Research Associate
1999 - 2002: Damania interned at Stanford University Internal Residency.
(1) A hospitalist is a doctor who is limited to practicing only on hospital in-patients while they are hospitalized (only). An article at the web site the-hospitalist dot org (https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/123072/what-hospitalist) says that "... some hospitalists were primarily engaged in research or leadership positions and did not provide a great deal of direct patient care, yet clearly defined themselves as hospitalists." One has to wonder if DrZ is one of these since he does not seem to refer to any of his own experience treating patients.
As for myself. I am neither anti nor pro vax. I had the full gauntlet of vaccinations when in elementary school during the 60's, as did all of my classmates. No adverse affects were claimed by any parents to my knowledge. I have had no vaccinations since adulthood. I have contracted no viral infections the last 20 years - with a possible exception of a couple of common colds. I have studied nutrition and health since high school and take supplements including vitamin C, D and calcium/magnesium/zinc. I try to avoid polluted environments and stressful situations. If I had kids I would probably study the vax/no-vax options and perhaps selectively vaccinate them to the most threatening viruses. If private vaccination options offered a less threatening type of vaccination, I would try and utilize that. I am not in any way involved in the medical industry. I am a college graduate with a broad general education that included basic and several special biological subjects. I am skeptical of the medical establishment. I am glad there are medical professionals like Erin who question the authority which could end her career if she were to sufficiently rile them.
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Critic's Criticisms Part II: Canto Bight

This is the continuation of my series highlighting specific critic's criticisms of TLJ. Part I on Humor is here, which also details my reasoning for this mining operation. Here we are covering Canto Bight, and we have everything from run of the mill iodized stuff to hail-sized rock salt on display, so adjust your goggles accordingly.
Johnson overplays his hand occasionally — most notably an unnecessary sequence at the casino city of Canto Bight that goes straight from a political sermon into a plot hole
Ethan Sacks, New York Daily News - Fresh
The bad news is, this involves an unnecessary trip to a kind of casino planet that doesn’t really advance the story.
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic - Fresh
A scene in an opulent casino is easily the most painful yet in this new generation of Star Wars flicks, eliciting images of the green screen busy set pieces of the early-2000 franchise additions, enticing to the youngest members of the audience who need their stories overly padded with shiny spectacle.
Matt Oakes, Silver Screen Riot - Fresh
Boyega is a loveable hero, and his new compadre Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) is a nice addition. However, as much as it isn’t overbearing, their entire sub-plot is when the adventure loses steam. This moves the film away from where all the interest is – Luke. At this point, it becomes a little disjointed and unnecessary, never reaching a point of excitement required for a chunk of plot of this degree.
Cameron Frew, FrewFilm - Fresh
an extended digression with Finn and Rose that doesn’t end up counting for much plotwise
Bob Chipman, Moviebob Central - Fresh
Sadly, Boyega's Finn -- still an appealing character -- is saddled with a go-nowhere plot-line that has him and Resistance mechanic Rose show up at a space casino and cross paths with a rogue with a heart of a gold (or maybe just rogue?) played by Benicio Del Toro. There's the kernel of interesting idea there as we glimpse the socioeconomic underpinnings of this galaxy far, far away in a way we've never seen before, but it's a digression whose payoff doesn't warrant the build-up. And when you're already the longest Star Wars ever made (two and a half hours!), some snipping here and there might not have been a bad idea.
Zaki Hasan, Zaki's Corner - Fresh
I’m not a big fan of Finn and Rose’s side adventure, which has the air of a spinoff story being tacked onto the main narrative (probably to give Finn a purpose, since Rey is doing her own thing with Luke). Apart from showcasing the power of hope on a younger generation, it’s not as well integrated into the seams of the larger story as it could’ve been.
Tomas Trussow, The Lonely Film Critic - Fresh
It’s Finn’s mission which takes the film off on a diversion where it didn’t really need to go. There’s a lot of comedic hijinks involved in all of this which George Lucas would have excised from the first draft of anything he ever wrote.
Niall Browne, Movies in Focus - Fresh
Much of the Canto Bight sequence feels unnecessary
Molly Templeton, Eugene Weekly - Fresh
First, both prominent new characters Rose and DJ seemed shoe-horned in, and Rose especially doesn't seem to have a real place in this film nor does she add anything to be hopeful about in the future. And while both Rey and Poe fans will probably be pleased with where their characters go, Finn sort of takes a step back, as he is sent off on a side adventure that seems like second-tier Star Wars. It's a diversion that takes up a good portion of the film and really serves no purpose to the overall story...worse yet, it seems to contain some heavy-handed political messages not commonly found, at least not this blatantly, in the Star Wars universe. These are more than just quibbles too: Most fans will not be used to the slow, lumbering pace or the general unevenness of this film...especially coming on the heels of the action-packed pacing that JJ Abrams brought in Episode VII.
Tom Santilli, AXS.com - Fresh
There’s some stuff that feels extraneous (the whole Canto Bight sequence, which seems to exist to set up a new Lando-like character played by Benicio del Toro), and the cycle of attack and retreat — mostly retreat — gets a bit monotonous.
Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com - Fresh
Muchas de las situaciones se sienten forzadas e innecesarias (por ejemplo, la aventura de Finn y Rose, me parece innecesaria).
Ruben Peralta Rigaud, Cocalecas - Fresh
Their jaunt to the casino planet of Canto Bight serves little purpose besides introducing Del Toro, updating the cantina scene, and offering up a tired CGI chase scene that wouldn’t have looked out of place in Attack of the Clones. Kudos (maybe) to Johnson for introducing income inequality to the Star Wars universe, but the entire sequence feels rushed and shoehorned into an already long movie.
Pete Vonder Haar Houston Press - Fresh
The weakest of these is Finn's. It's briskly paced and full of action yes, but let's just say a casino is no cantina... Worse, it also sees him interacting with Prequel Trilogy levels of CGI critters.
Karl Puschmann, New Zealand Herald - Fresh
But the worst distraction “The Last Jedi” has to offer involves erstwhile Stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega) and a Resistance maintenance worker named Rose (Kelly Marie Tran), a subplot every bit as visually and narratively inept as Lucas’ prequels were taken as.
J. Olson, Cinemixtape - Rotten
Finn’s entire storyline could be cut and the film would be better off. As Finn was one of the driving-force leads of The Force Awakens and also a charming character, this is a disappointing development. His adventure is such a low point that it would not seem out of place in one of George Lucas’ efforts from between 1999 and 2005, and it serves little purpose to the film’s overall plot.
Alex Doenau, Trespass - Fresh
there’s too much going on in The Last Jedi, and a lot of it feels like filler. Besides the aforementioned, stalled-out space battle, there’s a clunky sequence in a casino that goes on far too long, a lot of distracting cameos, and new characters inhabited by Laura Dern and Benicio del Toro, who bring close to nothing to the proceedings.
Bob Grimm, Reno News and Review - Fresh
Finn and Rose (a new addition to the principal cast) distract the audience with an overlong and ultimately unnecessary side plot.
Richard Dove, International Business Times - Rotten
And this plotline feeds right into the absolutely unforgivably terrible subplot, which is the adventures of Finn (John Boyega) the cowardly ex-storm trooper, and Rose (Kelly Marie Tran), the class-conscious engineer, who go on a fetch quest that is every bit as pointless as the whole matter of the military nonsense, only even worse, because it hinges on terrible comedy, bad CGI, and a spectacularly horrible moment when Johnson stops the film in its tracks to provide a ruthlessly on-the-nose lesson about economic inequality and the military-industrial complex.
Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending - Rotten
Some of what happens on the casino planet — called Canto Bight, and sure to figure in the next film — is goofy on a level as cringe-inducing as things we saw in the prequel trilogy; like, Jar-Jar Binks–awful.
MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher - Fresh
Johnson does his best to hustle from one location to the next, but the narrative has a tendency from time to time to drag. The biggest example of this are the scenes on Canto Bight. Which is a shame, because a huge chunk of the film’s message is established on these scenes. But the very nature of the story, with its many moving parts, inadvertently makes this section of the film feel like a diversion.
Chris Evangelista, Slashfilm - Fresh
The humour is kind of sour in other places, too, such as the silly neo-cantina scene as Finn and Rose track the whereabouts of a mysterious encrypter, who might be the rebellion’s last hope, into a sort of galactic Monte Carlo. The abundance of slapstick there and in other parts of the film doesn’t click and feels forced.
Diva Velez, TheDivaReview.com - Fresh
In an unnecessary and quite frankly preposterous third subplot, Finn (John Boyega) and a new character, Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), race against the clock to locate an underworld figure who can help them neutralise the First Order’s tracking device, thus allowing the diminished rebel fleet to escape.
Vicky Roach, Daily Telegraph (Australia) - Rotten
Weak points come with awkward humour that lacks comedic rhythm and an unnecessary casino escapade, where a disposable underworld character DJ (Benicio del Toro) is introduced, that subsequently soft lens into what is essentially a children's adventure tale about animals
Craig Takeuchi, Georgia Straight - Fresh
Unfortunately, we keep getting dragged away from the only emotionally resonant portion of the film to watch Finn and Rose engage in sub-prequel hijinks on the casino planet. Everything here is forced and awful, visually uninteresting and often dark to the point of unwatchability, lousy with mawkish little kids making bug eyes at the camera as we marvel at the horror of economic inequality, and drowned in an atrocious patina of truly terrible CGI. It calls to mind the droid factory in Attack of the Clones and the pre-podrace sequence in The Phantom Menace. Most offensively, the whole Finn/Rose diversion has absolutely no importance to the forward momentum of the plot—it's utterly irrelevant, even nonsensical.
Sonny Bunch, Washington Free Beacon - Rotten
Not everything in the film works: a few of the goofier comic moments fail to land and true to the legacy of Lucas there’s a fair amount of eye-wincing dialogue. More importantly, the second act bows under the weight of too many narrative strands; Finn’s away mission comes off as a bit superfluous, as does Laura Dern’s Vice Admiral Holdo, and both Rose and the beloved Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) are sadly underwritten. In a trade-off that brings scope and complexity, Johnson has sacrificed narrative efficiency.
Christopher Machell, CineVue - Fresh
I didn't like the sequence in a casino--a callback to the Star Wars Cantina, of course, but also a chance to discuss the evils of war profiteers and the 1%. There are creatures there, there's slapstick, there's a heist of sorts, and it all harks back to my favourite of Johnson's films, The Brothers Bloom, in the interplay between the characters, in the lightness and clarity of the scheme. But it's tonally disruptive, and it introduces a trio of children who seem like part of a different film.
Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central - Fresh
Finn and Rose’s trip to a gambling planet – basically a space Monaco – flits between light fun and on-the-nose political narrative.
Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle - Fresh
It also begs the question why the space casino sequence, arguably the least relevant to the core story, wasn’t dramatically trimmed back. Aside from a throwaway final shot, this section of the film is the weakest – designed to depict profiteering space-capitalism run rampant (ironically, also depicting a stable of space-horses also running rampant).
Patrick Kolan, Shotgun Cinema - Fresh
But as ingenious as this setup may be, it also gives rise to the film's most pointless subplot. After waking from his coma, Finn (John Boyega) contrives a means by which he can disable the New Order's tracking device, albeit one that requires him to sneak off the fleeing vessel, travel to a Monaco-styled casino planet, track down a master codebreaker and infiltrate the enemy's warship undetected. This enormous MacGuffin sees Boyega partnered with the charming Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, a Resistance engineer low in status but high in pluck. The problem is that their side adventure does absolutely nothing to advance the actual story.
Tom Glasson, Concrete Playground - Fresh
Unfortunately, John Boyega’s Finn, Oscar Isaac’s Poe and Kelly Marie Tran—as Finn’s new partner-in-rebellion Rose—are given the equivalent of busywork while the rest of the cast moves the plot along.
Simon Miraudo, Student Edge - Fresh
A detour to a casino planet where Finn and a resistance mechanic named Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) search for a codebreaker to help them disrupt the First Order's tracking of the retreating resistance ships feels like a trip into another movie. The stakes here seem far lower than the live-or-die scenario facing Poe, General Leia Organa (the late Carrie Fisher) and the others trying to make their getaway.
Greg Maki Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) Fresh
The only characters not doing a huge amount of growing are Finn (John Boyega) and mechanic Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), and not for nothing, their subplot opens up a momentum drain that is the only weakness in The Last Jedi. Boyega and Tran are perfectly enjoyable, and their subplot isn’t a complete waste of time, but you start to feel the length of The Last Jedi when it veers off with them, and Finn’s arc is a pale echo of Poe’s so it’s not like much is being accomplished.
Sarah Marrs Lainey Gossip Fresh
Rey’s journey toward learning the ways of the Jedi is far more entertaining than Finn’s convoluted (and ultimately pointless) storyline
Josh Bell Las Vegas Weekly Fresh
Rose’s character is front and center in the film’s weakest sequences. We’re diverted to a city where the worst of the worst frolic. No, not the usual hives of scum and villainy. It’s a casino where the very, very rich cavort. The evil One Percenters! If you’re not immediately yanked out of the story here you deserve a prize. The accompanying dialogue is equally clunky, as is the reason all these vapid souls gained their fortunes.
Christian Toto, HollywoodInToto.com - Rotten
Far less successful is the time spent with the rebels on the run from Hux and the First Order. Not only is it centered on the slowest space chase in sci-fi history, but subplots featuring Poe, Finn (John Boyega), and Rose (newcomer Kelly Marie Tran) go absolutely nowhere. Sure we get introduced to DJ (Benicio Del Toro) and Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern), but it’s with actions that fail to connect either through sheer stupidity or the simple truth that their absence wouldn’t change the story in the slightest. They’re obvious filler, and as is the Disney way (witness their Marvel films) the studio’s never met a character that couldn’t be jammed into a movie for no reason other than the misguided belief that more is better. Finn and Rose’s adventure in particular offers some additional action beats and a visit to a casino — think the Mos Eisley Cantina scene from Star Wars, but for the 1% — but it is meaningless noise.
Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects - Fresh
Meanwhile, what feels too much like the “B plot” side adventure has Finn and Rose on a mission that takes them into another film entirely, a sort of intergalactic James Bond-meets-Free Willy. It’s hard not to feel that their entire subplot could be axed in order to make The Last Jedi stronger and tighter, which is unfortunate.
Kaila Hale-Stern, The Mary Sue - Fresh
There is a whole section that feels out of kilter and harks back to the CGI naffness of the prequels — and is also virtually pointless to the plot.
Jamie East, The Sun (UK) - Fresh
The film’s epic 150-minute runtime allows plenty of room for Johnson’s inventiveness, but there’s also a tiny bit of fat in the middle of the movie, specifically in the Canto Bight scenes with Finn and Rose. The casino city itself is gorgeous and has some crazy-cool characters, plus Finn and Rose’s presence there shines a light on some new, worthwhile themes for the Star Wars franchise. However, in terms of the overall story, the whole escapade feels a little pointless and small. It doesn’t help that Benicio del Toro’s new character, DJ, who is part of the same storyline, is largely insignificant.
Germain Lussier, io9.com - Fresh
Star Wars: The Last Jedi does have a clear weak spot -- specifically the side plot that develops between Finn (John Boyega) and newly-introduced Resistance member Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran). Following a genuinely funny meet-up between the two characters, they are given their own special mission searching for a codebreaker who can assist in the battle against the First Order. But this storyline never feels particularly inspired or impactful as everything else going down in the movie. While it is constructed to fit with the larger themes of the film, features its own interesting expectation-flipping turns, and does eventually have a key impact on the macro scale, it's also the only part of the feature that ever feels expendable, and not helping anything is that it features the weakest visual effects of the blockbuster (especially during a second-act chase sequence).
Eric Eisenberg, CinemaBlend - Fresh
Finn and Rose’s mission takes them to Canto Bight, a kind of Monte Carlo peopled by extras from Babylon 5, and feels like it is just ticking the Weird Alien Bar box started by the Cantina. A ride on space horses also feels like a needless diversion, as does Benicio Del Toro’s space rogue, whose strange, laconic presence never really makes its mark.
Ian Freer, Empire Magazine - Fresh
It’s a shame, then, that the righteousness of Finn and Rose’s place in the film is undermined slightly by the limpness of their mission. Perhaps feeling there had to be some kind of Mos Eisley–esque sequence in the film, Johnson sends the pair to a casino city full of all kinds of creatures. It’s fun, sure, but the whole operation ultimately turns out to be a red herring. At least there’s some nice musing on liberation during this stretch, reminding us of the real stakes of this long story—freedom is, after all, what the Empire denies and the Rebel Alliance promises. And in a gorgeous third-act sequence—which includes the film’s true Empire Strikes Back homage—Finn and Rose finally get the emboldened moments they deserve. I just wish they fit more integrally into the central thesis of the film, that they were just as special, in their way, as Rey is, glinting with messianic power as she ascends.
Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair - Fresh
Of the three simultaneous plots, it’s Finn’s that sometimes drags down the energy, particularly with an introduction of a shady thief played by Benicio del Toro, the only new addition to the cast that doesn’t quite work; he seems to be acting in his own private movie, and it’s not as good as this one.
Will Leitch Paste Magazine - Fresh
Where the film struggles the most is on Canto Bight. Taken on her own, Rose isn’t a bad addition to the Star Wars mythos, and the movie definitely needs someone to play against Finn. Unfortunately, they lack the electric chemistry we saw between Finn and Rey in The Force Awakens, and their secret mission in a casino feels like it should be far more entertaining than it actually is.
Matt Goldberg, Collider - Fresh
Some action sequences are superfluous and unengaging. Benicio del Toro all but cameos as a sort of hobo hustler, while John Boyega’s Finn is sidelined, relegated to relatively inconsequential hi-jinx.
Alex Godfrey, GQ Magazine [UK] - Fresh
Finn (John Boyega) and newcomer Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) attempt an espionage mission that takes them to what is the Star Wars equivalent of the French Riviera. It’s a casino city named Canto Bight, and their adventures here push the Rick’s Café sensibilities from the original Star Wars’ cantina sequence to their limit. Nevertheless, this entire subplot amounts to a whole lot of padding while the real tough and revelatory decisions are made on Ahch-To.
David Crow, Den of Geek - Fresh
Plot-wise, I felt the entire side story at the casino world of Canto Bight was unnecessary. If you cut the entire sequence out of the film, it would have little impact on the core narrative.
Scott Chitwood ComingSoon.net - Fresh
Finn (John Boyega) wakes up, meets a admiring fan down in maintenance named Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran) and they head off on their own adventure, a detour that somehow combines the louche slickness of Cloud City and moralizing at its most Disney.
Joe Gross, Austin American-Statesman - Fresh
But The Last Jedi’s two-and-half-hour sprawl still includes an awful lot of clunky, derivative, and largely unnecessary incidents to wade through in order to get to its maverick last act. This is especially true when it comes to the plausibility-straining mission of stormtrooper turned Rebel Alliance fighter Finn (John Boyega) and puckish series newcomer Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran).
Sam C. Mac, Slant Magazine - Rotten
There are a couple of big names that fail to deliver much aside from, perhaps, realizing their childhood dreams of being in a “Star Wars” movie. A trip to a city that might as well be called Space Macau also fails to pay many dividends.
Christopher Lawrence, Las Vegas Review-Journal - Fresh
Case in point is the plot involving Finn (John Boyega) and new hero Rose's (Kelly Marie Tran) McGuffinesque mission to Canto Bight, which is of the ashtray-on-a-speederbike variety, and takes away from the tension cranked up elsewhere.
Harry Guerin, RTÉ (Ireland) - Fresh
The remaining 20% is made up of two different locales, one of which is entirely superfluous to the story. Essentially, there is a subplot that introduces Benicio del Toro’s mysterious work of eccentricity, except it doesn’t really do much of interest with him. Admittedly, it feels as if the character could be destined for bigger things in the final chapter, but I can only go off of what I watched, and well, the middle portion of The Last Jedi is stuck in the furthest setting from lightspeed. The journey expands to a space-Vegas full of various alien life forms and inhabitants, but it’s not as visually striking as previously explored planets. Additionally, by design, there seems to be filler injected simply because the other characters need things to do while Rey accomplishes what she needs to with Luke.
Robert Kojder, Flickering Myth - Fresh
The scenes on Canto Bight seemed like an unnecessary divert for Rose (a new character I actually really like) and Finn. This “casino planet” was like a scene right out of a low-budget Sy-Fy channel movie shot in Vancouver. It felt too familiar and earthbound to be a scene in an other-worldly scene in a Star Wars movie. The Rose/Finn alien horse race through the casino that ruined the galactic one-percenters good time and did some property damage was just ridiculous and should have been cut. Rose and Finn flopping around on the alien horse just looked like a bad theme park ride.
Chris Gore, Film Threat - Fresh
There’s a lengthy diversion to the casino planet of Canto Bight that feels pointless and tacked on just for the sake of giving us a cool new corner of the galaxy to feast our eyes on.
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly - Fresh
And that's it for Part II. Happy Holidays to all my fellow fans and miners! Next week I will conclude with Part III, which will cover- well, let's just say it's the longest of this series by far. Heh.
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