Everybody believes in something, whether they know it or not. Weak minded people believe in that which most prominently manifested by symbols of authority, which right now is the dreck of wokeness. Ironically, old fashioned Constitutionalists are now the revolutionaries.
The problem with them trying to Kill god is those who work within the Fringe science fields still believe in God. Mainly because they bear witness to things they still are unable to explain.
Politically, Science TM has been co opted for the purpose of power.
Educationally, Science TM has been co opted for money. A commodity to sell to unwitting students and grant funders alike. Why else would we be funding innumerable experiments on absolutely inane topics.... "Can SOME men get pregnant?", et al.
Apparently, real science is blase, and incapable of generating things of value or profits.
um if the government wears the scientists like a skin suit (again, the imagery from this man…👌), i dont see why they would they stop paying for it. puppets are useful.
Is it the religion dujour? I thought that was atheism. Doesn’t matter really, I was just stirring the pot. I was always of the frame of mind that science was what man used to try to understand God’s creation better. Not to play or become that role.
Science is what the good people take on faith without doubt or understanding. Atheism -- militantly not believing something -- does not have that kind of action potential.
Had an appt with my doc today. He came in wearing a mask (I was offered one per protocol by the receptionist and declined with a smile). I told him, "you don't need to wear that as far as I'm concerned." (It was, btw, a cheap throwaway mask, not an N95.) We proceeded to talk about how corporations including the healthcare system that employs him are operating without regard for actual medical or scientific reasoning. In fact, we both concluded, corporations hate people. That was it. We agreed that corporations hate people. So he has to go through his day miserably masked. And if I want care from someplace in the system (he ordered an x-ray for me), I have to go miserably masked. (I again declined, btw, so I was refused the prescribed x-ray.)
My endocrinologist is still seeing me VIA IPAD when I come INTO HIS OFFICE!! Most of my recent visit was conducted via video while I was in the exam room and he was in his office down the hall. It was dehumanizing. I’m in Massachusetts....
That's really shameful behavior, and I've watched family members get sicker as doctors used telemedicine to deal with them and kept their actual sick bodies at a distance.
How many of those on television, who proclaimed that masking was absolutely essential, had beards. No mask, not even an N-100 can protect you from a lack of common sense. I'm looking at you Chuck Todd.
The USA is a corporation. Is the stock corporation a form of usury (lending money at interest), in which there is inherent evil? I think so. The stock holders demand profits. The CEOs are always incentivized to do evil to make money. The whole society is Philistine at its core. Every person is understood the be maximally exploiting every other person. That's our society. It ain't Christian.
Wow, just freaking Wow !!! This line makes my head explode. ". . .including how difficult it is for people to access care and how hard it is for doctors to learn about emerging conditions." It is only hard for the Doctors because they take the government health bureaucracy at their word. By now, I'd thought they would be questioning why the things they were told didn't turn out that way. I have lost all hope. I now KNOW how this ends . . .
Hospitals used to do that routinely. Share data and develop treatment protocols, keep records on successful treatment, etc. I don't know when that changed, but according to (I think) Scott Atlas, it was not only routinely discouraged but actively banned during Covid. It's government run amok with the active encouragement of health insurance companies.
This tends to happen when most general practitioners aren’t from the top half of their class but the lowest third. The top half get into specialties like cosmetic medicine where it’s all cash based.
its frightening. and like many others, i feel gas-lit by my peers when no one else seems to want to express any kind of outrage about it all. how did i not notice they were bot-people?
"You expect your doctor to use a lifetime of education and experience to figure out what’s wrong with you."
That's what I expected in 1991 when I got Lyme Disease. I diagnosed myself, yet it took eight years to get treatment. It's easier for doctors to laugh at you and be critical versus get out of their comfort zone, do research, and consult with each other.
i find doctors as a breed to be an uncurious lot. the ones with independent questioning minds leave conventional medicine and the insurance bases system and open up cash based practices
This is, unfortunately, where the last 2.5 years have landed us, and it’s what the ruling regime prefers: being able to dictate to doctors the acceptable “science” and to cull any dissenters from the herd with mandates or threats of license revocation, etc. My hubby and I both hold CA medical licenses, and when I saw that new legislation, I instantly thought back to my Facebook feed, wondering if they’ll send some Czar of Misinformation back through it to see that I posted Peter McCullough’s at-home protocols for Covid, or the Great Barrington Declaration, or a dozen other bits and bobs I’ve been bold enough to share (I don’t work in clinical practice anymore, so I figured I should be one of the ones brave enough to stick my head up out of the foxhole). My question, and one I hope the lawyers get ahold of, is: who assumes liability for patient injury when the state dictates what doctors can and cannot do and say? Like, can injured patients then sue the state medical board if their treatment harms them? If you take the scalpel out of the surgeon’s hand and put it in the state’s, I think this is a fair question. Let the lawsuits commence!
And pharmacies now feel that they can interpose themselves between doctors and their patients. I had heard, and decided to check for myself. So I called up a CVS pharmacy, and asked about getting a prescription for Ivermectin filled, which has many legit uses besides COVID. I was told that no, they wouldn't fill it. I asked why and was told something about lack of supply. When I asked how long before they had some on hand, it tilted her into a full blown lecture on how dangerous this is, and how they were doing their very best to help people, even ones who wanted Ivermectin. Then she asked me the name of the prescribing doctor.
Too much influence, for sure, in the way practices are run, whether by physicians themselves, hospital systems, or, increasingly, the nanny state. But I bet if the folks comprising the California Medical Board, say, could be personally sued and financially ruined for the folly of dictating medical care, they might back off this lunacy.
When something is free, we tend not to value it. If people have to allocate their own financial resources to pay for care, they are much more prudent with expenditures. When medical tests are “free,” why settle for one dish when you can have the whole buffet? This leads to over-ordering of tests that make no sense for the presenting complaint, which in turn drives the costs up higher for everyone. I quit medicine in part because I felt like all the time and effort and tremendous expense I put into training is no longer respected or valued. Why should I sacrifice my time to toil at something society has concluded has little to no worth? I don’t regret my training at all—in fact, it’s essential for my family, since more and more these days those without any fund of medical knowledge are ill-equipped to sift through debris of what used to be the best healthcare in the world, looking for nuggets of truth and competent care based on science, not ideology.
Again- 46 years as a provider of health care and I no longer trust the ones I should be able to trust to give the answers with the sound rationales to back them up. As for long COVID- there are two sets of patients: the ones who truly have it and the ones who are jumping on the bandwagon. And, you mark my words, “they” will declare long COVID a disability and give what workers we have left another reason to stay out of the workforce and get paid.
Medicine is supposed to be an “art,” practiced and individualized to each patient, requiring a thoughtful process by a thoughtful healthcare team. Apparently, the government would rather have a binder to follow - no need for a medical degree, just scroll the table of contents for the symptom and do as instructed.
I come from the world of naval aviation. I wasn’t a test pilot, but worked on the lower rungs of flight test. The navy gets way more applicants for test pilots than there are positions. They try to choose the best of the best, because they get their pick of the litter.
The job of these pilots is to get into an aircraft and find out what its limits are. It’s an uncertain, if not, dangerous profession. People line up to do it. In droves. There’s something exciting about trying to solve a problem no one has ever solved before, even if it was dangerous; especially if it was dangerous. Once upon a time, this might have even been considered a part of the American ethos.
What I’m saying is that there are two kinds of people. People who will bet their lives on their ability and people who will do whatever they can to avoid executive decisions. Keep in mind who is writing the articles. It’s not the doctors out there trying to solve a novel problem. It’s a bunch of journalists that are afraid of their own shadows.
Not surprising. Doctors are human and it has been tragically revealed that at least half of the people in our country want, need, crave, desire, yearn and require the Nanny State to take over where mommy and daddy have left off. The Marxists have quite successfully infantilized a couple of generations of people and we are now reaping what they sowed 50 years ago.
A guy trips on a dock at the river and falls in, and does not come up. People jump in and pull him out, unconscious. He eventually comes to and is transported to the hospital. He is seen in the emergency room and discharged. The next day he calls his mom and says he’s in tremendous pain and can barely move. She picks him up and takes him to the urgent care facility around the corner. There they find a collapsed lung, and multiple rib fractures. The hospital found none of this, because they didn’t bother to look.
This was actually better than my trip in an ambulance, which took me to two hospitals, where I spent all day and never saw a doctor, in much the same condition, only I had a bleeding head wound too. Do not hurt yourself, and avoid going to the doctor. We would be better off without healthcare at this point. At least you would know not to bother. Right now there is this illusion that there is a possibility of being treated, when there most often isn’t. It’s almost like they know that we know that they just spent the last two years killing people for a living.
I think it’s the kids in charge. They have no soul. They know everything, except for the things they need to know. They won’t ask people with experience, or listen to them. And that’s how they kill people. I’m not writing them all off, just speaking from my personal experience. The triage nurse was telling them she needed rooms for people in the hallway on gurneys, they weren’t listening, and the people died. In the hallway, alone. I guess it’s normal there, but I have not gotten over it. If I saw it every day, I still wouldn’t, because it was wrong.
What we need are remedial Sunday Schools. They have to understand that they will be judged and that there are always consequences in the end. They needed to pay attention to what the nurse with 30 years experience was telling them. If they thought that God was watching, they might have.
They will never get that, but ultimately they will wish they had. I do not attend church these days, and have not for years. As imperfect as they come, but I still fear God. When I think about how to fix the problems we have, and what is the thing that is missing, I keep coming back to the sense of community and the moral compass that my little church provided. Why would the left attack Christianity? Because it is good. Because people with a moral compass would reject their ideas, and people with no moral compass would not.
This reminds me of when I was covering school board meetings during the first summer of corona, and the board members kept saying, "We wish the state would give us guidance," and then the state gave mandates that made it impossible to have kids in school more than two days a week. It was surreal.
The school boards want guidance from the state so that they won’t have to make their own decisions and, most importantly, take responsibility for those decisions and any consequences. Cowards, all of them.
This is all ushering in government health care. If you want to see how that works visit your local VA hospital and ask a few patients how their day is going.
I use a VA hospital and I generally get good care. But with these new covid restrictions, it's hell!
They just implemented a policy where if you are unboosted, you have to come to every appointment 2 hours early for a covid test that takes over an hour. It's such a bummer.
You must not use one of these. Dallas VA was voted worst in US two years in a row once. People screaming for help in the halls. All the staff looked miserable. 6hrs for a routine visit.
Wonder what the real count of doctors and nurses dead from the jabs really is. Seems the ever smaller pool of doctors left will have some serious thinking to do, but their brains are NOT working so well these days!!; they are really stumped so far about all this. Prion disease inducing jabs. Dumb and dumber incarnate.
Does this shit show ride have an exit?
Science is the new religion. It will end when governments stop paying for it.
Science™ is the new religion.
Actual science is relegated to the shadows.
You cannot kill God and leave the gap unfilled forever.
Everybody believes in something, whether they know it or not. Weak minded people believe in that which most prominently manifested by symbols of authority, which right now is the dreck of wokeness. Ironically, old fashioned Constitutionalists are now the revolutionaries.
The problem with them trying to Kill god is those who work within the Fringe science fields still believe in God. Mainly because they bear witness to things they still are unable to explain.
Politically, Science TM has been co opted for the purpose of power.
Educationally, Science TM has been co opted for money. A commodity to sell to unwitting students and grant funders alike. Why else would we be funding innumerable experiments on absolutely inane topics.... "Can SOME men get pregnant?", et al.
Apparently, real science is blase, and incapable of generating things of value or profits.
um if the government wears the scientists like a skin suit (again, the imagery from this man…👌), i dont see why they would they stop paying for it. puppets are useful.
Reality is one constraint. Printing money and make believe news only go so far.
i think we will see just how far we can go before reality wakes us up…hopefully not long now…
It's like an "Edgar Suit" from Men In Black.
Is it the religion dujour? I thought that was atheism. Doesn’t matter really, I was just stirring the pot. I was always of the frame of mind that science was what man used to try to understand God’s creation better. Not to play or become that role.
Science is what the good people take on faith without doubt or understanding. Atheism -- militantly not believing something -- does not have that kind of action potential.
nevada is east, hawaii is west, mexico is south and oregon is north.
please imagine flight attendant hand signals accompanying the above sentence.
A few exits in the back, but most of those hurt. A lot.
The ones at the front of the room are at the back of this long line we're standing on.
Yeah they need to be limping away
Death.
Or Victory, IF...
Hugely interesting question, sir. It would appear it is going to take a lot to get "out" of this mess.
Right? It’s starting to feel like that scene from The Sandlot on the tilt-o-whirl ride, and we all know how well THAT ended....
Had an appt with my doc today. He came in wearing a mask (I was offered one per protocol by the receptionist and declined with a smile). I told him, "you don't need to wear that as far as I'm concerned." (It was, btw, a cheap throwaway mask, not an N95.) We proceeded to talk about how corporations including the healthcare system that employs him are operating without regard for actual medical or scientific reasoning. In fact, we both concluded, corporations hate people. That was it. We agreed that corporations hate people. So he has to go through his day miserably masked. And if I want care from someplace in the system (he ordered an x-ray for me), I have to go miserably masked. (I again declined, btw, so I was refused the prescribed x-ray.)
My endocrinologist is still seeing me VIA IPAD when I come INTO HIS OFFICE!! Most of my recent visit was conducted via video while I was in the exam room and he was in his office down the hall. It was dehumanizing. I’m in Massachusetts....
That's really shameful behavior, and I've watched family members get sicker as doctors used telemedicine to deal with them and kept their actual sick bodies at a distance.
OMG. Practicing medicine without the willingness to engage with the human body. Amazing.
That's why you go to Florida...like your neighbors have done en masse.
The academy can behold the prophet Gramschi: monetized!
As soon as my kids are done with school!! (One goes to a vocational high school, one is in a fantastic charter school.) Four years...
Next time you are offered (a euphemism) to wear a mask, be sure to tell them that you don’t want a mask from a box that says ‘not for medical use’…
How many of those on television, who proclaimed that masking was absolutely essential, had beards. No mask, not even an N-100 can protect you from a lack of common sense. I'm looking at you Chuck Todd.
The USA is a corporation. Is the stock corporation a form of usury (lending money at interest), in which there is inherent evil? I think so. The stock holders demand profits. The CEOs are always incentivized to do evil to make money. The whole society is Philistine at its core. Every person is understood the be maximally exploiting every other person. That's our society. It ain't Christian.
Wow, just freaking Wow !!! This line makes my head explode. ". . .including how difficult it is for people to access care and how hard it is for doctors to learn about emerging conditions." It is only hard for the Doctors because they take the government health bureaucracy at their word. By now, I'd thought they would be questioning why the things they were told didn't turn out that way. I have lost all hope. I now KNOW how this ends . . .
Hospitals used to do that routinely. Share data and develop treatment protocols, keep records on successful treatment, etc. I don't know when that changed, but according to (I think) Scott Atlas, it was not only routinely discouraged but actively banned during Covid. It's government run amok with the active encouragement of health insurance companies.
This tends to happen when most general practitioners aren’t from the top half of their class but the lowest third. The top half get into specialties like cosmetic medicine where it’s all cash based.
this extends into academia and research.
its frightening. and like many others, i feel gas-lit by my peers when no one else seems to want to express any kind of outrage about it all. how did i not notice they were bot-people?
"You expect your doctor to use a lifetime of education and experience to figure out what’s wrong with you."
That's what I expected in 1991 when I got Lyme Disease. I diagnosed myself, yet it took eight years to get treatment. It's easier for doctors to laugh at you and be critical versus get out of their comfort zone, do research, and consult with each other.
Right there with you on the Lyme disease. Long Covid is the new shiny thing, while chronic Lyme is still considered hypochondria.
'Did you get that question from the internet?'
'Yes. Yes I did. Mayo Clinic.'
i find doctors as a breed to be an uncurious lot. the ones with independent questioning minds leave conventional medicine and the insurance bases system and open up cash based practices
This is, unfortunately, where the last 2.5 years have landed us, and it’s what the ruling regime prefers: being able to dictate to doctors the acceptable “science” and to cull any dissenters from the herd with mandates or threats of license revocation, etc. My hubby and I both hold CA medical licenses, and when I saw that new legislation, I instantly thought back to my Facebook feed, wondering if they’ll send some Czar of Misinformation back through it to see that I posted Peter McCullough’s at-home protocols for Covid, or the Great Barrington Declaration, or a dozen other bits and bobs I’ve been bold enough to share (I don’t work in clinical practice anymore, so I figured I should be one of the ones brave enough to stick my head up out of the foxhole). My question, and one I hope the lawyers get ahold of, is: who assumes liability for patient injury when the state dictates what doctors can and cannot do and say? Like, can injured patients then sue the state medical board if their treatment harms them? If you take the scalpel out of the surgeon’s hand and put it in the state’s, I think this is a fair question. Let the lawsuits commence!
And pharmacies now feel that they can interpose themselves between doctors and their patients. I had heard, and decided to check for myself. So I called up a CVS pharmacy, and asked about getting a prescription for Ivermectin filled, which has many legit uses besides COVID. I was told that no, they wouldn't fill it. I asked why and was told something about lack of supply. When I asked how long before they had some on hand, it tilted her into a full blown lecture on how dangerous this is, and how they were doing their very best to help people, even ones who wanted Ivermectin. Then she asked me the name of the prescribing doctor.
"The prescribing physician? Yes, his name is Dr. Gofug Yousef."
I was just wondering how much malpractice insurance has to do with the proliferation of official guidelines and practices.
Too much influence, for sure, in the way practices are run, whether by physicians themselves, hospital systems, or, increasingly, the nanny state. But I bet if the folks comprising the California Medical Board, say, could be personally sued and financially ruined for the folly of dictating medical care, they might back off this lunacy.
I think it actually has more to do with the parasite class who get completely free medical.
When something is free, we tend not to value it. If people have to allocate their own financial resources to pay for care, they are much more prudent with expenditures. When medical tests are “free,” why settle for one dish when you can have the whole buffet? This leads to over-ordering of tests that make no sense for the presenting complaint, which in turn drives the costs up higher for everyone. I quit medicine in part because I felt like all the time and effort and tremendous expense I put into training is no longer respected or valued. Why should I sacrifice my time to toil at something society has concluded has little to no worth? I don’t regret my training at all—in fact, it’s essential for my family, since more and more these days those without any fund of medical knowledge are ill-equipped to sift through debris of what used to be the best healthcare in the world, looking for nuggets of truth and competent care based on science, not ideology.
But they shut the doors and wouldn't let anyone in so who could tell? Horrible things happened.
Again- 46 years as a provider of health care and I no longer trust the ones I should be able to trust to give the answers with the sound rationales to back them up. As for long COVID- there are two sets of patients: the ones who truly have it and the ones who are jumping on the bandwagon. And, you mark my words, “they” will declare long COVID a disability and give what workers we have left another reason to stay out of the workforce and get paid.
Medicine is supposed to be an “art,” practiced and individualized to each patient, requiring a thoughtful process by a thoughtful healthcare team. Apparently, the government would rather have a binder to follow - no need for a medical degree, just scroll the table of contents for the symptom and do as instructed.
UNLESS you are one of the elite...
One size fits all for thee not me.
I come from the world of naval aviation. I wasn’t a test pilot, but worked on the lower rungs of flight test. The navy gets way more applicants for test pilots than there are positions. They try to choose the best of the best, because they get their pick of the litter.
The job of these pilots is to get into an aircraft and find out what its limits are. It’s an uncertain, if not, dangerous profession. People line up to do it. In droves. There’s something exciting about trying to solve a problem no one has ever solved before, even if it was dangerous; especially if it was dangerous. Once upon a time, this might have even been considered a part of the American ethos.
What I’m saying is that there are two kinds of people. People who will bet their lives on their ability and people who will do whatever they can to avoid executive decisions. Keep in mind who is writing the articles. It’s not the doctors out there trying to solve a novel problem. It’s a bunch of journalists that are afraid of their own shadows.
Not surprising. Doctors are human and it has been tragically revealed that at least half of the people in our country want, need, crave, desire, yearn and require the Nanny State to take over where mommy and daddy have left off. The Marxists have quite successfully infantilized a couple of generations of people and we are now reaping what they sowed 50 years ago.
A guy trips on a dock at the river and falls in, and does not come up. People jump in and pull him out, unconscious. He eventually comes to and is transported to the hospital. He is seen in the emergency room and discharged. The next day he calls his mom and says he’s in tremendous pain and can barely move. She picks him up and takes him to the urgent care facility around the corner. There they find a collapsed lung, and multiple rib fractures. The hospital found none of this, because they didn’t bother to look.
This was actually better than my trip in an ambulance, which took me to two hospitals, where I spent all day and never saw a doctor, in much the same condition, only I had a bleeding head wound too. Do not hurt yourself, and avoid going to the doctor. We would be better off without healthcare at this point. At least you would know not to bother. Right now there is this illusion that there is a possibility of being treated, when there most often isn’t. It’s almost like they know that we know that they just spent the last two years killing people for a living.
“We would be better off without healthcare at this point.”
Indeed. Dismantle Healthcare.
Bring back Medicine.
I think it’s the kids in charge. They have no soul. They know everything, except for the things they need to know. They won’t ask people with experience, or listen to them. And that’s how they kill people. I’m not writing them all off, just speaking from my personal experience. The triage nurse was telling them she needed rooms for people in the hallway on gurneys, they weren’t listening, and the people died. In the hallway, alone. I guess it’s normal there, but I have not gotten over it. If I saw it every day, I still wouldn’t, because it was wrong.
What we need are remedial Sunday Schools. They have to understand that they will be judged and that there are always consequences in the end. They needed to pay attention to what the nurse with 30 years experience was telling them. If they thought that God was watching, they might have.
They need temporal judgment.
They will never get that, but ultimately they will wish they had. I do not attend church these days, and have not for years. As imperfect as they come, but I still fear God. When I think about how to fix the problems we have, and what is the thing that is missing, I keep coming back to the sense of community and the moral compass that my little church provided. Why would the left attack Christianity? Because it is good. Because people with a moral compass would reject their ideas, and people with no moral compass would not.
This is honestly the crux of it. People no longer fear God
Preach 🙌
This reminds me of when I was covering school board meetings during the first summer of corona, and the board members kept saying, "We wish the state would give us guidance," and then the state gave mandates that made it impossible to have kids in school more than two days a week. It was surreal.
The school boards want guidance from the state so that they won’t have to make their own decisions and, most importantly, take responsibility for those decisions and any consequences. Cowards, all of them.
Thanks for calling this nonsense out Chris. Your commentary is once again spot on.
This is all ushering in government health care. If you want to see how that works visit your local VA hospital and ask a few patients how their day is going.
I use a VA hospital and I generally get good care. But with these new covid restrictions, it's hell!
They just implemented a policy where if you are unboosted, you have to come to every appointment 2 hours early for a covid test that takes over an hour. It's such a bummer.
You must not use one of these. Dallas VA was voted worst in US two years in a row once. People screaming for help in the halls. All the staff looked miserable. 6hrs for a routine visit.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/12/the-vas-10-worst-hospitals/
Wonder what the real count of doctors and nurses dead from the jabs really is. Seems the ever smaller pool of doctors left will have some serious thinking to do, but their brains are NOT working so well these days!!; they are really stumped so far about all this. Prion disease inducing jabs. Dumb and dumber incarnate.
The use of the words punish or punishment is indicative of the relationship between government and governed.