The number of Facebook-educated doctors grows every day.

It is astonishing how much some people know about the existence of a virus declared a pandemic by the rest of the world but more correctly diagnosed by people right here in Butler County on Facebook as imaginary.

Better yet they are so well-educated, they know it really isn’t anything to worry about and because a friend of an uncle’s cousin heard from the neighbor’s dog that either the Russians are behind it or it is a money-making scheme made up by the local hospitals and health care professionals, we should stop giving it news coverage.

Wow, that was a mouthful of a sentence and bull. Those are basically the kind of nutty comments you will read attached to our stories about COVID-19.

Would someone want to tell the families of the 52 people that have died in one Beaver County nursing home that there is no virus, or at least it isn’t as bad as the flu?

The Brighton Heights nursing home is a case study in itself of what could have been rampant across the state and the world had the rest of the community followed the advice of the brilliant Facebook doctors and nurses.

As terrible as it is, it was contained to the nursing home. The heck with what the people with real medical degrees have said; these self-proclaimed intellects would argue they know better.

It is true these victims were mostly older and had some underlying health issues. But it is also true they were alive and probably would still be if someone hadn’t brought the virus into the facility and it was able to spread from one to another until most of the patients and staff were infected.

What is not true is the ridiculous claim that the numbers are skewed because the hospitals and maybe even the doctors could be getting paid by the government a bonus based on how many fatalities they have at their place or at least how many are declared positive cases.

Yes, and the moon is made of cheese and Superman can be stopped by Kryptonite. There really is no sense in trying to be logical with these internet looney tunes. No one has ever changed someone’s opinion based on Facebook arguments. They probably never will.

But at some point these same naysayers are going to come face to face with, if not COVID-19, some other illness or virus and they will need a real medical expert to save their hide. Let’s hope the intelligent one of the two doesn’t hold a grudge against the person with the Facebook Plaque on the wall.