That's nothing. The collective nightmare of enforced masking in public? Nothing either. What will really traumatize and shape the psyche this generation is surviving the coming massive wave of self-inflicted stroke, heart attack, etc. A lot of people are going to die, and it's no longer just about Grandma. These obsequiously deluded parents and their children are no exception.
I was sitting at a stop sign the other day and an elementary school bus passed me filled with masked children blankly staring out the window and I felt such sorrow as I thought they will consider masking the same as putting on shoes, or a hat or coat in the winter if they continue this longer . It reminds me of the movie “the giver”
If I were as demented as these leftist scumbags I would say that anyone who suffers an adverse issue from the vax should not receive medical treatment. But I am not a leftist scumbag.
we can't stoop to their level. I much as I cant stand the leftist fanatics, and even tho I am short of patience and don't suffer fools and am not PC and curse them, I would never bar them from health care.
I am on a nextdoor app and neighbors who are drinking the koolaid are actually posting that the unjabbed need to die, not get any medical if they get sick and that we are the problem. nice neighbors huh!
This is like the lead up to the massacres in Rwanda. Media built up the level of hate, until people just hit a boiling point and went at it. They don't need to brainwash us all, just enough of us. They'll gladly kill the other half.
I saw Silkwood as a child. It's nuclear spectre has shaped my fears and fascination with all things nuclear ever since. Great film! (She was just trying to do her small part in making bomb cores...)
I was just thinking about this. Every conservative I know is extremely compassionate and philanthropic. Every liberal I know lives their financial life like a conservative.
We might be too nice, actually. I'm not saying anyone should become a hater or anything like that, but we have to stop putting up with things that happen and be very loud about injustice, not ignoring one single speck of evil or bad things.
Went grocery shopping today. Two stops: Whole Foods and Giant. 85% of customers in Whole Foods were masked. 85% of customers in Giant weren't. One need not be a learned sociologist to see that "COVID" is no longer a medical problem; it's cultural. This effect will be enduring and lead to social problems out of all proportion to health risks. Will in remain mildly annoying, or will it metastasize into something more malignant? Ireland's Troubles, Rwanda's Hutu-Tutsi conflict and Syria's Suni-Shia divide all come to mind.
Well said. And incredibly sad. I keep saying to myself and others, "I hope that the dozens and dozens of incredibly talented Doctors, Immunologists, etc that I've listened to over the last 18 months are wrong..."
I shudder at the thought. And as I've said recently: I'm glad my life is almost at it's apex. The world being created is much more scary than any virus, war or anything else I can think of. This cowardly "datadrivenmd" is probably one of those who advocates holding people down against their will and "just shooting that GMO right into their body" (I believe Doctor ;) Bill Gates said that and apologies if the quote isn't exact, but it's close).
I’d love to see that monster receive 12 boosters of Pfizer’s poison.
My mom, who has a biblical view, has wondered aloud if he’s the antichrist but then argues back with herself that the antichrist is supposed to be charismatic so it can’t be gates.
Not to mention the deterioration (as a result of cancelled classes and lack of socialization) in children that had autism spectrum disorders to begin with. Heart breaking. As a society we used to care about such things, back in the Great Before.
But isn't this about "being in this together" and "getting vaccinated to protect others"??? Yes, my career of 41 years included many children on the spectrum. I can't imagine how much further behind they are because they are not getting the face to face unmasked services they need. SO unnecessary- yet many parents muzzle their young kids and keep the isolated from peers.
His handle - @datadrivenmd what data is he analyzing, Joy Reid data? One day he'll have to explain to his daughter why daddy lacked the courage to be a good dad
It's really weird. He co-founded a health tech company called Amino that would mine US health claims data to provide a search engine for doctors. It was actually pretty cool. You could search for specialty but also for procedure. It would try to rank doctors based on experience/volume. At some point it had the slickest website, but i think it never really took off. Probably hard to monetize.
He's also Stanford. Yeah, idk, it's weird.. He's also SJW so there's that.
My query is this: what kind of MD is he that he’s obviously done, in 20 months, absolutely no research on Covid 19. Rather gotten all his information from big media. Would you trust this a*#hole with your health?
The first doctor that recommends I get the shot will become my former doctor, as soon as reasonably possible. My favorite doctor (in terms of tact) has inquired a few times if I'd gotten the vaxx. Neither advised pro or con, but merely collecting data. I haven't quizzed him, but I suspect he is one that informed himself on some of the sordid history of the vaxx.
School in general and medical school involves a lot of memorization of what the authority tells you is the truth. Households are ran the same as well where the kids need to obey the authority. Religion is the same where the Church is right and there is no need to question.
Our society is based on obeying authority right down to Doctors and professionals. Being a doctor is less about being able to use logic and critical thinking and more about memorizing what those in authority tell you to. It's not really a surprise that someone whose status depends on obedience to authority obeys that authority.
Simple. Medical schools are businesses. Once you’re in, they ensure you stay. I work in medicine and higher Ed. I know clinical instructors who were fired because they refused to give a passing grade to someone who did not deserve it. This is the state of medicine now.
That was my first thought. This hoax would all be over if the cowardly doctors who are wearing masks would have just said no. I assume to receive that md after your name you at least took the microbiology 101 class I took 45 years ago for a GE credit. Which explained how small virus are and how they are defeated by good hygiene and healthy lifestyle. I almost go mad watching all the masks at every doctors office, and requiring them for everyone. What a joke. But then the very educated adult children in my own family are masking their 4 boys ages 3-11. Because their petrified of “long covid” which is debunked.
Not all physicians follow the current narrative, but it does take courage to act and think outside the box. I certainly don’t claim to be particularly courageous, but one must have thick skin. A comment to me in late January: “How come you’re the only physician I know who doesn’t believe masks work?” From my sister in law….
Agreed. Most MDs are generalists: they must know a little about a lot of things. Many of us here, in contrast, probably have read and researched much about the pandemic in depth. Speaking for myself, it's been an avocation since almost the beginning. Or consider the case of a person who read one or two reasonably reputable texts on epidemiology. These would almost surely FAR better informed than any randomly chosen MD. For all but the most complex, arcane topics, an intelligent layman, especially one with a broad education, could (say) spend a hundred hours studying, reading, learning about a narrow field, and he'd be more knowledgeable than virtually all others in the world, save for those few who were true specialists or full time workers in that field.
Been there. Done that. Got the keychain. But it’s useless. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
It would take so much time to actually sit down and have them read the stuff the compromised media isn’t publishing that the time factor in itself is an obstacle to getting too far into the conversation. What I did was get his email and periodically send him stuff that I hope he’ll take a look at when he has the time. So that he’ll be better informed for our next debate.
I'm sure my PCP doesn't read anything I send as it never gets past the flunkies who manage her email. She doesn't call patients either. If I knew of a decent functional medicine doctor, I'd be gone in a heartbeat.
I just finished H.G. Wells story "The Kingdom of the Blind." There are, perhaps, a moral or two in the story relative to our current topics. Mountaineer falls (apparently) to his death. Unknown to his companions, he survives, eventually to find himself in a cut-off culture that is all blind people. Over many generations, they've become perfectly adapted to their little world. At first he thinks he'll become their king, as the old saying about the one-eyed man (although he has both of his still). Soon his plans of dominance are proven ineffective; his blind hosts overpower him. They think he's nuts, talking about sight, and the outside world. He falls in love with a woman thought unattractive because she has vestigial eyes. To be fully accepted by the group, he agrees to have his eyes removed. At the last minute, he has a change of heart and begins to climb out of the valley. Wells's story ends there. However, a radio theater adaptation of (I'm sure) the same story has the explorer escaping, finally reaching civilization and confessing that all he can see is the face of the woman he left behind; the glare of the snow has blinded him.
That sounds awesome. Even knowing the outcome it sounds worth my time (as a sci-fi fan, I wish I had time to read everything in the genre!). It reminded me (a little) of Los Pasos Perdidos by alejo carpentier. At least in terms of the potential love story.
God, it was a lifetime ago that I read it but, basically, this guy who searches for indigenous musical instruments (or just an expert on musical instruments and he would write about them) enters the Amazon to find some well-hidden tribe. They’re found. Yay!
He integrates into their culture but his need to write is consuming him, as there is barely any paper there. His need to satiate his artistic side, this, drives him away, back into civilization to get paper and come back. He leaves behind a tribeswoman but promises to come back.
When he tries to get back, it has rained so much that the rivers are at a different level and the signs to find the tribe have become hidden. He has lost his way and lost his love and can never find his way back to her. Damn the need to create art!
Yeah, not much to do with the HG Wells tale except that sad bit point at the end of leaving true love behind.
And I'm sorry to go off topic, but in a way it's sorta on topic in the big scheme of things, I noticed on my grocery cart the other day that there are instructions on there that say something like, "To keep groceries from falling out of the holes in the cart, keep this flap up." I knew right then that we are done as a society. lol
My favorite is the little sticker that comes on a plastic storage box that has a picture of a kid in the box with a line through it. Maybe that’s for coyotes. I also like the “don’t stick the hot curling iron in your eye sticker,” too. Although, there are probably numerous TikTok videos of people burning their eyes trying to curl their eyelashes with a curling iron. So yeah, people are dumb.
Oh man! Sorry to comment again, but I just thought of something! If he is "Data Driven" wouldn't he know that the chances of a healthy THREE YEAR OLD even feeling the effects of so-called "covid" are so incredibly low that they don't even really register? I will never get over this portion of my life. (Rolls eyes)
And one of my own favorite quotations (variously attributed to different people) is: "In the absence of courage, all the other virtues are accidental."
I’m personally so so so tired and feel such disappointed at my people in the isla del terror. Here in PR there’s only one way and the wrong way and only two kinds of people: the ones who think there’s two kinds of people and the rest.
I was perusing scented candles in Walgreens about a week ago and, of course, pulled the stupid useless mask down to my chin (mind you, it’s midnight and barely anyone’s around) so I could spend some time pretending I am the pumpkinghead movie character or a Sanrio eraserhead (you know, the erasers you wanted to eat). Not five minutes have passed when the 18 year old guard from the entrance walks by and I swear I could hear the anti lock brake system engage when he saw me. Not a minute later after we start arguing comes another well-meaning idiot claiming she is a nurse and that masks do this and protect from that (my argument with the guard had to do with the misleading advert they play in Walgreens every five minutes, that seems to say it’s okay to go maskless if you’re fully vaccinated -which I am, I had all my childhood vaccines- and nothing to do with what she was bringing up).
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of this fucking charade. There’s no point in trying to explain anything to anyone here.
I think here in PR we are lost. I wish I could be more optimistic, but if anything, the brainwashing is getting worse. I see people from other places commenting that fewer and fewer people are wearing masks. Here, however, more and more are masking up outside even though the mandates say they don't have to.
When people start behaving in ways that are against all basic common sense, following a lead forevermore without ever stopping to question, you know you’ve got bigger problems than just the mask.
It makes me recall how, for the longest time, we barely saw any other footwear aside from crocs.
Or the time when they started placing a little mickey mouse ornament at the tip of the car antenna (I think it had to do with a fast-food promo), all at once ALL car antennas had the damned thing.
I could give a dozen examples without straining my memory. The car is widely used to make a statement here. It’s usually “I’ve got more money than you” but in plenty of cases it’s about “I’m not original, can’t think for myself and would rather do what everyone else is doing rather than find my own way”.
The fact that these people have children gives me nightmares every night - not hyperbole. I must say that, as a physician, in the past two years, my eyes have been even more opened. If you could see the things I see online from our "trusted" physicians...
As a surgeon I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s amazing how little critical thinking is occurring….they just unquestioningly follow orders or accept whatever they are told. 60-70% of primary care practices are owned by hospitals. It’s a symptom of a deeper problem with the profession
I'm confused by the question. Since the three year old has no risk relating to "the virus", is he concerned that the other shoppers are going to hurt the unvaxxed child in a demonic fit of fear?
Never mind: the car ride to and from the store, which is a lot more likely to kill either father and/or daughter; the walk through the parking lot both ways. Can't count on all my fingers and toes the number of times I was almost hit by distracted drivers or drivers rising to get a parking spot; most of the actual food in the store that they'll load the cart with. But yeah, unmasked, unvaxxed folk are definitely the real danger.
Yes, it is too much to ask! You must keep her all by herself in a padded room for the rest of her pathetic, miserable life because she faces many risks in the big, scary world, most of them much, much worse for her than the bogey-virus. There’s the RSV that she’s now at greater risk of because you kept her locked up at home for more than half her life.
And of course she could fall victim to suicide from depression and loneliness brought on by the psychological damage you’ve done to her by teaching her that other humans are walking, talking bags of disease whose presence must be feared, or by isolating her from a key component of human interaction via the pure insanity of “masks”.
Nope, far too risky. Never let her out of the house again.
It is probably much lower. John Hopkins puts my mortality rate from rona at 0.6 in 10,000,000 and im in my thirties 😆. Wonder if they’re gonna take this down as people might realize their risk is not scary high….
Well Data Driven Jorge here's some data for ya: 2600 fetal deaths reported on VAERS so far. If you got pregnant during vax time you will have two shots and a booster. Oh the gauntlet you have your fetus run. Better hope all that poison stayed in the muscle. The one bright spot Data Driven Jorge is that if you are one of the parents who lost their child to the shots you won't have to buy a booster seat.
The state of medicine in America is an abomination.
Dr. Caballero should probably get his degree retracted, or take a few more CME classes in infectious diseases. It’s probably more likely a flying monkey will swoop down in Trader Joe’s and take you away then for your child to get severe covid.
My daddy is 98. He lives in an independent living community full of people with a lot of money, here in Northern Virginia, Ashby Ponds. It is super expensive, and nope, no subsidies even though there are a few ignorant lefties that think they need some poor people to live there.... okay back on point. Very few people have had covid, and very very few (maybe 16 out of 2000 people) have officially died of covid, but they were all in the fancy "assisted living facility" in the community for the people with dementia, the super decrepit, etc.
So, these people were given their own choices. same with the vaxxes. Some have taken the vaxx, many have not. Same with the employees.
My daddy and I are not very careful. He is always using his cloth handkerchief, and wiping his nose. He even drools (just wait until you are 98, swallowing is just another thing to remember to do!) This man survived being a POW in WW2, traveled the entire world with us and my mom. He rarely gets sick.
His bio says datadrivenMD, LOL. I wouldn't want this credentialed but stupid human being treating my hangnail little less anything else. 3 year old's are at zero risk from the china virus you dimwit.
Well, there are dumb people in almost every profession, but what I find disturbing is that a doctor could be this ill-informed. He seems not to have kept up with his own profession.
Hip hip Jorge apparently is a doctor. Perhaps he should do some of his own thinking and not just devour the tripe coming out of the CDC and realize that his 3yr old has a roughly 1/100s of 1% chance of dying from the ‘vid. I wonder if he drives 40mph on the highway 😎
Gotta be a fake account. BUT here at our pool today, saw a woman walk through the gym to our pool with a mask, walk into the pool and float around, with a mask, and then got in the jacuzzi with four other people, with her mask still intact! Mad skillz! (And mad as a hatter- also she could've lost about 60 lbs. but hey, she's "safe" from the virus, right!?)
Wonder where he received his MD from....good grief....perhaps he should go into the field of dramatic arts and drop the MD. Really makes you wonder who they are allowing into med school and what they are teaching them...OH, perhaps CRT has replaced Immunology and Epidemiology classes. This guy certainly possesses no critical thinking skills whatsoever..
Thanks for the WOO clip; one of the best films ever ever to Infinity!
His twitter handle says it all, "data driven MD". I guess the data he is looking at is his bank account numbers.
Why do I think these jackals who want to vaxx your kids, despite covid not being a risk to children, will try to be the first in line to get liability claims from the pharma companies, claiming the data lied. Even though he should be able to see the lies, if he really was "data driven".
Is the "DataDriven" in his screen name meant to be ironic? How many times has he put his kid in a car without considering that is statistically the most likely cause of injury and death in that age group? Or that influenza and RSV have always been a greater risk to 3-year-olds?
flying monkeys ARE SCARY! And dr jorge needs to wake up to the real danger to his little princess, which is really propaganda. Going into ANY store, grocery or other wise is NOT a risk to the LIFE of his little PRINCESS. Just FYI to dr jorge.
Wtf hahaha not sure if I should laugh or cry. Either he’s such a dumbass that he can’t read statistics - cause then he’d know his three year old is at no risk from Covid, or this guy is a pathological liar trying to stir some fear porn for social credit by spreading rona fear… what a tool.
The world will never be free if fools continue to beg their governments to save them. Now this fool is begging for his 3 year old to get jabbed. And he's a doctor. SMH.
I agree with calling him Mr rather than Dr, because he certainly didn't stay awake in medical school, certainly not in immunology, microbiology or virology courses.
And this idiot is a doctor? An assurance that I've been doing the right thing to avoid them all these years, and a reminder to keep even farther away from the profession than ever now.
I too would like to believe that there are not so many organic moral idiots as there appear to be. Unfortunately I've administered too many Turing tests for that.
I vaguely recall the Turing Test (BS CompSci from long ago.) What's more relevant to history, and, so far as I know, was never taught in school, was what the British government did to Dr. Turing AFTER he'd been so helpful to them during WW II. Optimists might like to think that our "democratic" governments have mellowed in 80 years, but their current handling of the pandemic would seem to argue against such a position.
Can you imagine what kind of complexes the poor children of these cowardly not-lions are going to grow up with?
That's nothing. The collective nightmare of enforced masking in public? Nothing either. What will really traumatize and shape the psyche this generation is surviving the coming massive wave of self-inflicted stroke, heart attack, etc. A lot of people are going to die, and it's no longer just about Grandma. These obsequiously deluded parents and their children are no exception.
I was sitting at a stop sign the other day and an elementary school bus passed me filled with masked children blankly staring out the window and I felt such sorrow as I thought they will consider masking the same as putting on shoes, or a hat or coat in the winter if they continue this longer . It reminds me of the movie “the giver”
The book was bad enough. Please tell me it’s not a movie!
If I were as demented as these leftist scumbags I would say that anyone who suffers an adverse issue from the vax should not receive medical treatment. But I am not a leftist scumbag.
we can't stoop to their level. I much as I cant stand the leftist fanatics, and even tho I am short of patience and don't suffer fools and am not PC and curse them, I would never bar them from health care.
I would never. Even just imagining what they would do in the reverse situation made me feel disgusting. Going to take a Silkwood shower now.
I am on a nextdoor app and neighbors who are drinking the koolaid are actually posting that the unjabbed need to die, not get any medical if they get sick and that we are the problem. nice neighbors huh!
I had to leave that app, it is full of horribly miserable people. I would rather live in ignorant bliss pretending such things did not exist
This is like the lead up to the massacres in Rwanda. Media built up the level of hate, until people just hit a boiling point and went at it. They don't need to brainwash us all, just enough of us. They'll gladly kill the other half.
I saw Silkwood as a child. It's nuclear spectre has shaped my fears and fascination with all things nuclear ever since. Great film! (She was just trying to do her small part in making bomb cores...)
Maybe, if you want to defeat medical totalitarianism don't tribal it into "left" vrs "right."
"My body, my choice" is a new slogan on the market that anyone can adopt as their own as its former users drowned it in the trash.
Yup, the whole left, right thing is wrong. It is "collectivists" vts "individualists".
Yes, it's just a coincidence that the most locked down states and cities are run by Democrats.
I was just thinking about this. Every conservative I know is extremely compassionate and philanthropic. Every liberal I know lives their financial life like a conservative.
We might be too nice, actually. I'm not saying anyone should become a hater or anything like that, but we have to stop putting up with things that happen and be very loud about injustice, not ignoring one single speck of evil or bad things.
100% agree
Went grocery shopping today. Two stops: Whole Foods and Giant. 85% of customers in Whole Foods were masked. 85% of customers in Giant weren't. One need not be a learned sociologist to see that "COVID" is no longer a medical problem; it's cultural. This effect will be enduring and lead to social problems out of all proportion to health risks. Will in remain mildly annoying, or will it metastasize into something more malignant? Ireland's Troubles, Rwanda's Hutu-Tutsi conflict and Syria's Suni-Shia divide all come to mind.
The zoom class vs the broom class
Ohhh that's a good one
Great observation. So many of our issues are cultural.
Emphasis on CULT-ural.
Well said. And incredibly sad. I keep saying to myself and others, "I hope that the dozens and dozens of incredibly talented Doctors, Immunologists, etc that I've listened to over the last 18 months are wrong..."
Unfortunately their predictions seem to match what is happening
but grandmas/grandpas are important too.
trust the science!
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-science-grannies-good.html
They needed a study for this! LMAO!
Yes they are, thanks for the article. Grandparents and Great grandparents rock!
Yes, and we've got the chairs to prove it!
LOL. that was too cute!
"Obsequiously deluded" -- perfect
I shudder at the thought. And as I've said recently: I'm glad my life is almost at it's apex. The world being created is much more scary than any virus, war or anything else I can think of. This cowardly "datadrivenmd" is probably one of those who advocates holding people down against their will and "just shooting that GMO right into their body" (I believe Doctor ;) Bill Gates said that and apologies if the quote isn't exact, but it's close).
I’d love to see that monster receive 12 boosters of Pfizer’s poison.
My mom, who has a biblical view, has wondered aloud if he’s the antichrist but then argues back with herself that the antichrist is supposed to be charismatic so it can’t be gates.
his child will be on xanax by the time he/she hits 7th grade, egads!
They’re going to be socially clueless, for one.
Huge increase in autism spectrum disorders....that really aren't.
Not to mention the deterioration (as a result of cancelled classes and lack of socialization) in children that had autism spectrum disorders to begin with. Heart breaking. As a society we used to care about such things, back in the Great Before.
But isn't this about "being in this together" and "getting vaccinated to protect others"??? Yes, my career of 41 years included many children on the spectrum. I can't imagine how much further behind they are because they are not getting the face to face unmasked services they need. SO unnecessary- yet many parents muzzle their young kids and keep the isolated from peers.
The ones that survive the sacrificing, you mean...
I had the same thought 😢
I agree! I feel bad for these kids! Guys like this are a lost cause!
His handle - @datadrivenmd what data is he analyzing, Joy Reid data? One day he'll have to explain to his daughter why daddy lacked the courage to be a good dad
It's really weird. He co-founded a health tech company called Amino that would mine US health claims data to provide a search engine for doctors. It was actually pretty cool. You could search for specialty but also for procedure. It would try to rank doctors based on experience/volume. At some point it had the slickest website, but i think it never really took off. Probably hard to monetize.
He's also Stanford. Yeah, idk, it's weird.. He's also SJW so there's that.
"but i think it never really took off. Probably hard to monetize."
His credentials in mining health data come to mind as a potential issue for his mining health data website.
"DataDrivenMD"
Press X to doubt.
I'm pressing X so hard it's like I'm on a final boss fight.
That means it's working. ;)
My query is this: what kind of MD is he that he’s obviously done, in 20 months, absolutely no research on Covid 19. Rather gotten all his information from big media. Would you trust this a*#hole with your health?
The first doctor that recommends I get the shot will become my former doctor, as soon as reasonably possible. My favorite doctor (in terms of tact) has inquired a few times if I'd gotten the vaxx. Neither advised pro or con, but merely collecting data. I haven't quizzed him, but I suspect he is one that informed himself on some of the sordid history of the vaxx.
No way!
“If I only had a brain”
Best comment!
easy; stop being a chickenshit coward hiding behind children
What is the most frightening to me is that this fool has a MD behind his name
School in general and medical school involves a lot of memorization of what the authority tells you is the truth. Households are ran the same as well where the kids need to obey the authority. Religion is the same where the Church is right and there is no need to question.
Our society is based on obeying authority right down to Doctors and professionals. Being a doctor is less about being able to use logic and critical thinking and more about memorizing what those in authority tell you to. It's not really a surprise that someone whose status depends on obedience to authority obeys that authority.
Simple. Medical schools are businesses. Once you’re in, they ensure you stay. I work in medicine and higher Ed. I know clinical instructors who were fired because they refused to give a passing grade to someone who did not deserve it. This is the state of medicine now.
That was my first thought. This hoax would all be over if the cowardly doctors who are wearing masks would have just said no. I assume to receive that md after your name you at least took the microbiology 101 class I took 45 years ago for a GE credit. Which explained how small virus are and how they are defeated by good hygiene and healthy lifestyle. I almost go mad watching all the masks at every doctors office, and requiring them for everyone. What a joke. But then the very educated adult children in my own family are masking their 4 boys ages 3-11. Because their petrified of “long covid” which is debunked.
Not all physicians follow the current narrative, but it does take courage to act and think outside the box. I certainly don’t claim to be particularly courageous, but one must have thick skin. A comment to me in late January: “How come you’re the only physician I know who doesn’t believe masks work?” From my sister in law….
Until 20 months ago no doctors believed masks were magic. Good for you not buckling to the woketopians. You don’t practice in East Tennessee do you?
It stands for Medical Doctor.
Is it just me, or do any of you feel like you could debate your doctor on anything COVID and win?
Agreed. Most MDs are generalists: they must know a little about a lot of things. Many of us here, in contrast, probably have read and researched much about the pandemic in depth. Speaking for myself, it's been an avocation since almost the beginning. Or consider the case of a person who read one or two reasonably reputable texts on epidemiology. These would almost surely FAR better informed than any randomly chosen MD. For all but the most complex, arcane topics, an intelligent layman, especially one with a broad education, could (say) spend a hundred hours studying, reading, learning about a narrow field, and he'd be more knowledgeable than virtually all others in the world, save for those few who were true specialists or full time workers in that field.
Been there. Done that. Got the keychain. But it’s useless. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
It would take so much time to actually sit down and have them read the stuff the compromised media isn’t publishing that the time factor in itself is an obstacle to getting too far into the conversation. What I did was get his email and periodically send him stuff that I hope he’ll take a look at when he has the time. So that he’ll be better informed for our next debate.
I'm sure my PCP doesn't read anything I send as it never gets past the flunkies who manage her email. She doesn't call patients either. If I knew of a decent functional medicine doctor, I'd be gone in a heartbeat.
I just finished H.G. Wells story "The Kingdom of the Blind." There are, perhaps, a moral or two in the story relative to our current topics. Mountaineer falls (apparently) to his death. Unknown to his companions, he survives, eventually to find himself in a cut-off culture that is all blind people. Over many generations, they've become perfectly adapted to their little world. At first he thinks he'll become their king, as the old saying about the one-eyed man (although he has both of his still). Soon his plans of dominance are proven ineffective; his blind hosts overpower him. They think he's nuts, talking about sight, and the outside world. He falls in love with a woman thought unattractive because she has vestigial eyes. To be fully accepted by the group, he agrees to have his eyes removed. At the last minute, he has a change of heart and begins to climb out of the valley. Wells's story ends there. However, a radio theater adaptation of (I'm sure) the same story has the explorer escaping, finally reaching civilization and confessing that all he can see is the face of the woman he left behind; the glare of the snow has blinded him.
How could these authors have been so prescient and the garbage authors we have now are so regressive. Amazing.
That sounds awesome. Even knowing the outcome it sounds worth my time (as a sci-fi fan, I wish I had time to read everything in the genre!). It reminded me (a little) of Los Pasos Perdidos by alejo carpentier. At least in terms of the potential love story.
God, it was a lifetime ago that I read it but, basically, this guy who searches for indigenous musical instruments (or just an expert on musical instruments and he would write about them) enters the Amazon to find some well-hidden tribe. They’re found. Yay!
He integrates into their culture but his need to write is consuming him, as there is barely any paper there. His need to satiate his artistic side, this, drives him away, back into civilization to get paper and come back. He leaves behind a tribeswoman but promises to come back.
When he tries to get back, it has rained so much that the rivers are at a different level and the signs to find the tribe have become hidden. He has lost his way and lost his love and can never find his way back to her. Damn the need to create art!
Yeah, not much to do with the HG Wells tale except that sad bit point at the end of leaving true love behind.
On LOTS of things re: health. I could run rings around most of them on nutrition, diet and exercise.
This is what mental illness looks like.
Or you know, maliciousness of a willing participant in genocide.
Some things Jorge "Data Driven" Caballero's daughter is more likely to die of than COVID:
1) auto accident
2) drowning
3) the flu
4) the COVID vaccine
Yours are completely accurate, but would it be wrong or insensitive to Papa's anxiety to add (since this is a grocery store theme):
5) salmonella
6) listeria
7) the cart crashing into a massive and ultimately head-crushing stack of soup cans
8) a nasty injury involving the conveyor belt and lack of supervision
9) slipping on a wet floor that didn't have a "Caution: Wet Floor" sign next to it
10) armed robbers
...so many useful idiot doctors...
I would just like take my kids to a doctor and be comfortable that I am not dealing with an idiotic, non-data driven quack. Is that too much to ask?
Try looking into America’s Frontline Doctors as a resource...
...so sad, to need two doctors: one who takes your govt-mandated insurance ...
AND second one who you can trust when you’re really sick...
No... need to find one that is independent, not employee prioritizing their paycheck over your precious child...
She’ll be fine as long as she remains seated in the cart. 🙄
Bwahahaha. lol
And I'm sorry to go off topic, but in a way it's sorta on topic in the big scheme of things, I noticed on my grocery cart the other day that there are instructions on there that say something like, "To keep groceries from falling out of the holes in the cart, keep this flap up." I knew right then that we are done as a society. lol
My favorite is the little sticker that comes on a plastic storage box that has a picture of a kid in the box with a line through it. Maybe that’s for coyotes. I also like the “don’t stick the hot curling iron in your eye sticker,” too. Although, there are probably numerous TikTok videos of people burning their eyes trying to curl their eyelashes with a curling iron. So yeah, people are dumb.
I find it funny that peanut butter jars say at the end of the ingredient list: "Contains peanuts."
https://pics.me.me/im-not-saying-that-we-should-kill-stupid-people-but-50223392.png
Oh man! Sorry to comment again, but I just thought of something! If he is "Data Driven" wouldn't he know that the chances of a healthy THREE YEAR OLD even feeling the effects of so-called "covid" are so incredibly low that they don't even really register? I will never get over this portion of my life. (Rolls eyes)
I heard someone say something amazing the other day that I had never given much thought to: "Courage is a choice."
And one of my own favorite quotations (variously attributed to different people) is: "In the absence of courage, all the other virtues are accidental."
I like the way CS Lewis puts it. Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
I’m personally so so so tired and feel such disappointed at my people in the isla del terror. Here in PR there’s only one way and the wrong way and only two kinds of people: the ones who think there’s two kinds of people and the rest.
I was perusing scented candles in Walgreens about a week ago and, of course, pulled the stupid useless mask down to my chin (mind you, it’s midnight and barely anyone’s around) so I could spend some time pretending I am the pumpkinghead movie character or a Sanrio eraserhead (you know, the erasers you wanted to eat). Not five minutes have passed when the 18 year old guard from the entrance walks by and I swear I could hear the anti lock brake system engage when he saw me. Not a minute later after we start arguing comes another well-meaning idiot claiming she is a nurse and that masks do this and protect from that (my argument with the guard had to do with the misleading advert they play in Walgreens every five minutes, that seems to say it’s okay to go maskless if you’re fully vaccinated -which I am, I had all my childhood vaccines- and nothing to do with what she was bringing up).
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of this fucking charade. There’s no point in trying to explain anything to anyone here.
I think here in PR we are lost. I wish I could be more optimistic, but if anything, the brainwashing is getting worse. I see people from other places commenting that fewer and fewer people are wearing masks. Here, however, more and more are masking up outside even though the mandates say they don't have to.
When people start behaving in ways that are against all basic common sense, following a lead forevermore without ever stopping to question, you know you’ve got bigger problems than just the mask.
It makes me recall how, for the longest time, we barely saw any other footwear aside from crocs.
Or the time when they started placing a little mickey mouse ornament at the tip of the car antenna (I think it had to do with a fast-food promo), all at once ALL car antennas had the damned thing.
I could give a dozen examples without straining my memory. The car is widely used to make a statement here. It’s usually “I’ve got more money than you” but in plenty of cases it’s about “I’m not original, can’t think for myself and would rather do what everyone else is doing rather than find my own way”.
Soon enough we’ll see bumper stickers that state “my kid has more boosters than yours”
Horrifying thought, but you might very well be right.
Exactly that.
"...flying monkeys are SCARY! (those aren’t real, right?)"
If the F.B.I. has a spirit animal, I'm pretty sure it's a flying monkey.
I would guess a flying jackass. I was going to say a Tasmanian devil, but I think that would be the spirit animal of the CIA.
The fact that these people have children gives me nightmares every night - not hyperbole. I must say that, as a physician, in the past two years, my eyes have been even more opened. If you could see the things I see online from our "trusted" physicians...
As a surgeon I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s amazing how little critical thinking is occurring….they just unquestioningly follow orders or accept whatever they are told. 60-70% of primary care practices are owned by hospitals. It’s a symptom of a deeper problem with the profession
Yes, I agree.
I hope I never need medical care from this bozo.
I'm confused by the question. Since the three year old has no risk relating to "the virus", is he concerned that the other shoppers are going to hurt the unvaxxed child in a demonic fit of fear?
Oi, Caballero, tienes que cultivar un par. Un par de que? Cojones, o en tu casito, cojonitos, amiguito.
I needed a laugh. Thank you for providing one.
I tried using translate on this and now I’m even more confused that I was when it was in Spanish.
Is it Spanish or Portuguese?
It's espaknowel - here's what I got: "you have to grow a pair. A couple of what? Cojones, or in your little house, little cojonitos, little friend."
Terrifying to think this guy is actually in charge of someone’s health care…
And he calls himself doctor. That's one of the reasons physicians don't get any respect anymore. Thjey all think like Fraudci
Never mind: the car ride to and from the store, which is a lot more likely to kill either father and/or daughter; the walk through the parking lot both ways. Can't count on all my fingers and toes the number of times I was almost hit by distracted drivers or drivers rising to get a parking spot; most of the actual food in the store that they'll load the cart with. But yeah, unmasked, unvaxxed folk are definitely the real danger.
Yes, it is too much to ask! You must keep her all by herself in a padded room for the rest of her pathetic, miserable life because she faces many risks in the big, scary world, most of them much, much worse for her than the bogey-virus. There’s the RSV that she’s now at greater risk of because you kept her locked up at home for more than half her life.
And of course she could fall victim to suicide from depression and loneliness brought on by the psychological damage you’ve done to her by teaching her that other humans are walking, talking bags of disease whose presence must be feared, or by isolating her from a key component of human interaction via the pure insanity of “masks”.
Nope, far too risky. Never let her out of the house again.
You selfish, sick, bastard.
He should be concerned. There's a lot of crap in the cereal isle.
If you really want to save your daughter's life, put her up for adoption.
Does the MD stand for “mentally deficient? We’re not talking about aerosolized Ebola here; does he know that?
Yes, one-in-a-million is pretty darn scary data. Be extra careful DRIVING to the grocery store.
It is probably much lower. John Hopkins puts my mortality rate from rona at 0.6 in 10,000,000 and im in my thirties 😆. Wonder if they’re gonna take this down as people might realize their risk is not scary high….
That data has been around for quite some time now, and it hasn't had any affect on the fear-driven. Alas.
How can someone become a doctor of medicine and be such a moron at the same time?
Well Data Driven Jorge here's some data for ya: 2600 fetal deaths reported on VAERS so far. If you got pregnant during vax time you will have two shots and a booster. Oh the gauntlet you have your fetus run. Better hope all that poison stayed in the muscle. The one bright spot Data Driven Jorge is that if you are one of the parents who lost their child to the shots you won't have to buy a booster seat.
The state of medicine in America is an abomination.
Dr. Caballero should probably get his degree retracted, or take a few more CME classes in infectious diseases. It’s probably more likely a flying monkey will swoop down in Trader Joe’s and take you away then for your child to get severe covid.
...hehehe... when i was little kid I had nightmares about flying monkeys...
My daddy is 98. He lives in an independent living community full of people with a lot of money, here in Northern Virginia, Ashby Ponds. It is super expensive, and nope, no subsidies even though there are a few ignorant lefties that think they need some poor people to live there.... okay back on point. Very few people have had covid, and very very few (maybe 16 out of 2000 people) have officially died of covid, but they were all in the fancy "assisted living facility" in the community for the people with dementia, the super decrepit, etc.
So, these people were given their own choices. same with the vaxxes. Some have taken the vaxx, many have not. Same with the employees.
My daddy and I are not very careful. He is always using his cloth handkerchief, and wiping his nose. He even drools (just wait until you are 98, swallowing is just another thing to remember to do!) This man survived being a POW in WW2, traveled the entire world with us and my mom. He rarely gets sick.
Covid is a joke.
His bio says datadrivenMD, LOL. I wouldn't want this credentialed but stupid human being treating my hangnail little less anything else. 3 year old's are at zero risk from the china virus you dimwit.
Crazy to me that a doctor could be this dumb
Well, there are dumb people in almost every profession, but what I find disturbing is that a doctor could be this ill-informed. He seems not to have kept up with his own profession.
Agreed
Hip hip Jorge apparently is a doctor. Perhaps he should do some of his own thinking and not just devour the tripe coming out of the CDC and realize that his 3yr old has a roughly 1/100s of 1% chance of dying from the ‘vid. I wonder if he drives 40mph on the highway 😎
Gotta be a fake account. BUT here at our pool today, saw a woman walk through the gym to our pool with a mask, walk into the pool and float around, with a mask, and then got in the jacuzzi with four other people, with her mask still intact! Mad skillz! (And mad as a hatter- also she could've lost about 60 lbs. but hey, she's "safe" from the virus, right!?)
Wonder where he received his MD from....good grief....perhaps he should go into the field of dramatic arts and drop the MD. Really makes you wonder who they are allowing into med school and what they are teaching them...OH, perhaps CRT has replaced Immunology and Epidemiology classes. This guy certainly possesses no critical thinking skills whatsoever..
Thanks for the WOO clip; one of the best films ever ever to Infinity!
Data driven? What a clown.
Dude is a simp.
His twitter handle says it all, "data driven MD". I guess the data he is looking at is his bank account numbers.
Why do I think these jackals who want to vaxx your kids, despite covid not being a risk to children, will try to be the first in line to get liability claims from the pharma companies, claiming the data lied. Even though he should be able to see the lies, if he really was "data driven".
Is the "DataDriven" in his screen name meant to be ironic? How many times has he put his kid in a car without considering that is statistically the most likely cause of injury and death in that age group? Or that influenza and RSV have always been a greater risk to 3-year-olds?
this is so sad.
The beginning of the end was when GPs turned into internists and everything got high-tech. Death of cumulative wisdom and all that.
flying monkeys ARE SCARY! And dr jorge needs to wake up to the real danger to his little princess, which is really propaganda. Going into ANY store, grocery or other wise is NOT a risk to the LIFE of his little PRINCESS. Just FYI to dr jorge.
Wtf hahaha not sure if I should laugh or cry. Either he’s such a dumbass that he can’t read statistics - cause then he’d know his three year old is at no risk from Covid, or this guy is a pathological liar trying to stir some fear porn for social credit by spreading rona fear… what a tool.
The world will never be free if fools continue to beg their governments to save them. Now this fool is begging for his 3 year old to get jabbed. And he's a doctor. SMH.
I agree with calling him Mr rather than Dr, because he certainly didn't stay awake in medical school, certainly not in immunology, microbiology or virology courses.
And this idiot is a doctor? An assurance that I've been doing the right thing to avoid them all these years, and a reminder to keep even farther away from the profession than ever now.
Is he this terrified when he DRIVES her to and from that store?
Oh, man, guys like this make me LOVE my husband.
Most of these twitter profiles are bots of the Cass Sunstain nudge operation.
I too would like to believe that there are not so many organic moral idiots as there appear to be. Unfortunately I've administered too many Turing tests for that.
I vaguely recall the Turing Test (BS CompSci from long ago.) What's more relevant to history, and, so far as I know, was never taught in school, was what the British government did to Dr. Turing AFTER he'd been so helpful to them during WW II. Optimists might like to think that our "democratic" governments have mellowed in 80 years, but their current handling of the pandemic would seem to argue against such a position.
Mr. Jorge is a real person...
https://profiles.stanford.edu/jorgecaballero