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So basically the health care system is collapsing and that is the final nail in said coffin. It’s over folks.

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Time to become subversive--and play word games with THEM. Start using DIE instead of DEI. We all remember that it used to be "Diversity & inclusion." Suddenly along came "equity" and they consciously re-jiggered order of the acronym to avoid being mocked.

DIE culture forever.

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My unlived experience mandates that I identify it as DIE.

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The evil things love anagrams. You know Evil is Live in reverse? It probably was meant to be die, but they thought this was too obvious, so they anagrammed it.

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I totally agree with this Lawrence. DIE is a much better acronym for this nonsence.

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Not to panic - there's a pill for that!

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But is it red?

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It's remdesivir.

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Run-death-is-near.

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It was over when big tech colluded with NIAID, NIH, CDC, and high powered politicos to gaslight, censor, smear and defame, and fire anyone who challenged the policial "right speak" on covid and other vaccines as well as the therapeutics in service of the Big Pharma message. Health care as we know it has collapsed. Individuals are on their own to seek out and obtain independent diagnosis, appropriate treatment and therapeutics. Big Pharma owns all of the aforementioned.

Inquiring minds avoid hospitals at all costs.

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Yup. However, the downside began with Rockefeller. It was a business decision. Takeover medical schools and push out homeopathic educational facilities.

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You are correct. Allopathic medicine uber alles. Homeopathic, aruvedic, naturalpathic medicine all thrown out the window; also mind body (hypnosis, neuro and biofeedback) and electrophysicological treatments smeared as not evidence based, of no scientific rigor or validity despite some being thousands of years old, others with impeccable research. Set the stage for then defining allopathic as certain well merchandised pharmaceuticals, with highly questionable reputation - significant adverse effects, known teratogens, life threatening.

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You probably know about Coley’s Toxins vs chemo. Chemo won for not the right reasons. The only saving Grace for Covid is it really opening my eyes WIDE open to all the corruption. Cancer. Statins. Vaccines. All same-same corrupt industries.

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Correct. All with carefully researched studies indicating lack of efficacy, adverse and toxic effects. But now, even the New England Journal of Medicine is suborned - in the Pfizer vaccine studies, published three separate differing data sets - one in the print version, one in the online version and yet a different one in the appendices. Also, initial Indian study indicating the furrin cleft and HIV insertions was rapidly withdrawn under pressure, as was the Johns Hopkins econometric study showing no death burden for covid. (But now significant, well established death/disability burden for vaccinated and boosted).

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You are a treasure trove!

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Began with Rockefeller (like other shifts, including attaching “fossil” to “fuel” when one has nothing to do with the other, but the implied scarcity would keep profits high), then Obama made significant contributions through ObamaCare. That piece of unread legislation destroyed small private practices and pushed everyone into huge hospital systems where patient care is not part of the business model. ObamaCare is also where we lost informed consent — the government can withhold informed consent if the “public interest” would be served (I.e., if being informed would mean no one in their right mind would comply). What we get when we allow these gargantuan bills to be voted on before any serious review can take place….

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Nancy Obama (as I recall) "But you have to vote for it to know what's in it"

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I hear you! We have similar gargantuan bills sneaking through our Brit parliament too..... in face, they are all lockstepping a weeny bit too much to be ignored.

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Yes, that serious gaslighting on vaccines had been around for decades. When no one pays attention, things do have a way of eventually leveling up and demanding it.

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The sooner the better. Then we can rebuild.

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Yup. Time for that parallel infrastructure to get put into place!

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Yes, where all the brave and wonderful doctors who have lost their licenses can start to use their knowledge and skills again - to heal us, not poison and kill us.

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Already there--but stupid me, I didn't make note of the URL.

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;>)

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A connection to medical professionals who do NOT subscribe to the vax/et al. ...Have not (on searching through 'history') found source. Had been looking for months to find non-vaxxed med prac

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GAB?

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Remnant MD has written a couple of articles on the medical education system

https://www.remnantmd.com/the-degradation-of-medical-education/

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Allopathic medicine is indoctrination into a false system which teaches tripe.

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/who-are-the-quacks

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Amen. My best friend, a surgeon, said to me at one point in her last months - she had retired from practice as she fought cancer - that if she were to get better she'd no longer be a regular doctor. "It would be like belonging to a church, when I'd lost my faith". I wonder what she would have gone on to do and be, if she hadn't left us.

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Oh that is such a sad loss! But we have her words to bolster our convictions as we soldier on.

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Thank you, her words help me every day. The wisest woman I've ever known. She died at 56 of breast cancer, after doing absolutely everything right. That 1 in 10,000 - so we understood it was a sacred illness. And she always felt she wouldn't live to be old. She was a startrooper who blasted to earth, birthed a bunch of kids, helped people die, saved a lot of lives, had her kid, fought off the Dark Angel long enough to raise her to adulthood, and then sloped off. In many ways Laura always had only one foot on the planet. "How can you stand to miss all this??", I ask her. I actually think she's not far away right now.

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The thin veil. 4 immediate fam departed from dense human form. One in particular I hear from for close to 40y. NOT like a phone conversation, more subtle. Coincidences, over and over and over for nearly 40y cannot be... coincidence. Such a conclusion would be denying reality.

Everything is energy. Think about how the body works: no CNS/neural activity, i.e. no *electrical energy* = flatline, no life. That’s just the body. Then there’s the rest of everything our primitive science has yet to figure out, but at the subatomic level most of us “know” yet have forgotten that protons have a positive *electrical energy* charge, electrons neg *electrical energy* charge. We are energy. On all levels. Law of thermodynamics: energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form. Only the body dies. The everlasting piece of energy with consciousness that has no physical component survives.

Today’s sermon, from Science & Spirituality, superficial for brevity’s sake. For your consideration, in honor of and with deepest respect to your friend, Laura (same name as one of my departed). So missed, yet very close by. Yes indeed, as close as a thought. (Don’t dismiss coincidences.)

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thanks, and subscribed to your substack.

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Thank you for sharing.

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Quite sad. The coddling has been going on for years.

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Thanks for the link! Great content. 👍🏻

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he used to be on Substack. Not sure why he elected to leave and publish elsewhere, but he’s worth subscribing to. He’s on twitter too.

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Well, that's the plan. Doctors and staff are dying, disabled, faster than the general population because they were subjected to jab mandates right off the bat, thus the #s of doctors/population are far less and not proportional to population morbidity and mortality.

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Hospital and LTC facility staff was also fired and/or elected to leave the "industry", due to vaccine coercion.

In Canada, the legacy news is full of reports concerning critical shortages of health care workers. People "assume" they lack doctors and nurses, but that's just half the real story.

Plenty of employment postings for Care Aides ("no training, no problem!") in long term care prisons, where our elders are dying by the droves in forced lockdown.

Private Senior Care companies are desperate for staff too. ("No experience required. We train.")

The only requirement: "YOU MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED."

It's a "crisis". For sure...

On the bright side: lots of employment available for Ukraine War refugees who speak no English!

They are welcome to my slightly above minimum wage "essential" but thankless job.

On the pitiful side: McDonald's, Triple O's and other fast food outlets are in fierce competition with hospitals, LTC facilities and private Elder Care companies for the same untrained peons.

They're winning. Paying higher entry level wages too.

What a sad state of affairs.

#fuckturdeau

#honkhonk

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Right you are.

The other unspoken truth, by the propaganda media, is WHY there is a shortage in the first place………

Thousands of Canadians were FIRED for standing up for their Charter Rights (and Wrongs), only to be trampled by ignorant, monolithic government.

Plenty of help available, but many would now tell government to EFF OFF.

PUREBLOODS don’t give in, we are proud.

Canada is a lost country. I barely tolerate it here. Just a few steps more towards total Fascism, and we’re gone to Mexico for good, if not for my wife’s elderly parents

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Hey Dan, I hear you. Many unspoken truths, and fudged data.

In any event, I made my choice... they can kiss my behind.

Same situation here though with an elderly mum. 2.5 years, sole advocate & care giver.

Have 3 sibs. It's time someone else steps up.

I'm leaving BC in the fall come hell or high water, for points south, so yeah...

Can't bear any more of bs.

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Not only doc but firefighters. Headline today in the Daily News: Lack of Firefighters Becoming a Problem.

I attended local rallies. I think 40 percent of so of firefighters noped out around here when the shots became mandatory. The ones who are left post subversive signs on their station houses quoting the current number of emergency calls, etc. We are heading into fire season and Insanelee has borked us.

I just take hope in that those guys are still out there and their jabbed cohorts want them back.

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OMG

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Well it was a crap medical system anyway. So who cares :-)

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It's a good thing I've stopped going to doctors.

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With you on that

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Well…you never know when you may need one. Like me. Surgery next week. Shit happens.

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"Not going to doctors" includes "when I need one. " Why would I go to a doctor when I DIDN'T need one?

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Sending healing thoughts, Renee. Take care of yourself, and Godspeed.

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sending best wishes!!

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I'm with you 100% there! I never have been to one in my entire life, personally, nor taken their poisonous drugs or anything. An allopathic one, that is. I used to say that there were only a few reasons that I would consider it (as you put it in your follow-up post, "when I need one"), but I had avoided those conditions to-date. Now? No, I absolutely refuse to even ever consider going. I will never allow myself to "need" them.

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Nice.

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There's an old Bible verse that goes "You are not your own, you were bought with a price." In regards to doctors the verse should be modified to say "You are not your own, you were bought with a narrative."

There may be equity, Diversity and Inclusion, until they go into the weeds "narrative" wise. Then you are excommunicated. Every aspect of this New Health Order looks less like science and more like religion. We are purposefully shedding science and reason and embracing superstition which is:

a: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation

b: an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition

2: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary.

~Mirriam Webster.

And that means they have to buy into the dogma of the religion. Diversity is one pillar, and Covid is another. You know you have come to the right place when you enter the vestibule to see a sea of masked faces. They are the penitent awaiting the confessional. Or the sea of the unwashed waiting for a shaman with a talisman or effigy.

The CDC, WHO, and other organizations are like the Vatican. They can do no wrong as long as their thoughts align with the pillars of tha narrative.

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If covid is another wouldn't that make it, DICE? Diversity, Inclusion, Covid, Equity. That makes it even faker/more fake.

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It certainly makes it dicey.

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Dang, you beat me to it. Okay, the DICE are loaded. There.

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har!

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boom!

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I'm working on it.

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Same here. With rare exception, they suck. Disease hunters, drug pushers.

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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, GM. But may you never need to go to any kind of doctor -- that would be a good life.

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I am legitimately afraid that any remotely serious encounter with a doctor will end badly at this point because they will either be incompetent or abuse me for ideological reasons. I'm aware this is not a good position, but my experiences with my father over the past year have made it seem to just not be worth the risk. I'm aware society needs people to be able to go to the doctor. I'm just concerned I'm going to die forgotten and covered in my own filth or given a vaccine while unconscious and die that way.

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<3. I had so many docs over the years judge me for my tats or my profession. They figured I was stupid and gave me the cheapest 'care' they could. It almost killed me twice. Not going back again.

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GM, I hear you and it breaks my heart. Many of us still labor to do the right thing to avoid exactly what you fear. Read the sad case this morning (in Midwestern Doctor's blog) of his nutritionist friend with overwhelming sepsis who would not get it treated until it was too late and he died. I have seen many like it. Thus my baby/bathwater comment.

Caring for the very old is a tough business for families and for doctors. The end is inevitable, and striking the unhappy medium between comfort and restoration is an endless conundrum. I can recall fighting hard (and winning) to rescue a WWII Iwo Jima vet with 1000 pieces of shrapnel who had lifelong (after the war) osteomyelitis that was controlled. He came in at age 85 very compromised with a kidney infection. Many wanted to just let him pass on; I thought he could be saved and (after many twists and turns and heavy duty antibiotics) he went home and lived another 10 years. I still feel good about that...wish your Dad had something similar.

But the same kind of thing can happen to anyone, anytime...and most of us know it. All modalities need to be considered for every patient, but excluding some (including pharmaceuticals) is often bad patient care.

I know you have a deep mind -- just trying to keep it from having its wings clipped. As I said, many of us still try every day to make things better for each patient, one by one.

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You're not wrong, and I know my position is unsustainable, and I hope it changes. I just don't like the odds right now- especially when I hear the nationwide move to lower standards of competency even further.

If there was some way I could clearly see what individual doctors were like- their practice philosophy, their preferred protocols, free of censorship or threat of cancellation for saying what they really think- I'd feel safer trying to select a doctor I could trust. My position is nothing more than a total loss of trust.

Re: my dad, I'm very aware that we have a hugely unrealistic view of what elder health is and could be, but gross incompetence is gross incompetence. What happened to my dad had nothing to do with well-intended doctors failing at extraordinary life-extending efforts that were futile- he regularly suffered the effects of overmedication and gross negligence (forgetting he was even on the ward, for example) to say nothing of ideologues wanting to force a mask on him while actively coughing and the amount of treatment he'd have been denied if he wasn't vaccinated (and trying to bully me into boosting him while hospitalized). THAT's the stuff that scares the shit out of me, and it wasn't the exception.

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Wouldn't it be nice if medical students learned about nutrition instead?

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Wild idea! MD's are really just legal drug dealers, the revenues would plummet if people actually got healthy.

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Yep. And herbal cures. But if most people knew about those, there wouldn't be steady customers to charge 250.00 a visit.

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and the microbiome?

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And natural immunity.

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bang!

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Oh, you mean as opposed to their THREE hours of instruction or whatever the hell it is?? Yeah, it would be very nice.

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Not as much money to be made as keeping sick people on a subscription to shots and pills forever.

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I drove out to Oregon 40 years ago to visit my uncle who was a doctor. As I was leaving to drive back to Texas he came to my car window and said, "Mark, stay away from doctors." That puzzled me then but now I see he was right on the money.

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Bless him

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He was a hero who performed many surgeries at the battles of Okinawa and Pelelieu in WWII.

Doctors are great for trauma but not so good for chronic conditions.

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I bet your Uncle would have learned how to.

Seems others haven't been into Do No Harm

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Trauma, some surgeries, and if you find the right one, diagnosis. That's about it, in my playbook.

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Don't you know that we are defined by our superficial externalities and internal qualities like character and talent no longer matter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYj9k2oa680

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I identify as an MD. Isn't that enough? Save all the expense medical school.

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Brilliant!

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Hah! Look into the history of Western medicine sometime. Back a couple hundred or so years ago, the path to becoming a doctor was very different that it is now. A year or two of study, maybe one or two tests for a certificate (it depended entirely on your whereabouts), usually a period of apprenticeship (your choice), then you were off and running. Were there bad ones? Heck, yeah. Many of them. They usually didn't last long. Your professional reputation was everything. Some of the best doctors out there never had a single piece of paper framed on the wall. But as the population grew over time, a standard was needed, and was developed - and was corrupted, as we see.

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The only way the government could get its greasy claws in was… standards and certifications.

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Just as in 'education'

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another eye-opening point.

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In my younger days I was an athlete and don't know how many times I talked to the trainer about my sports-related aches and pains. Never once did anybody worry that he wasn't actually a doctor. (He'd probably spent more time around athletes than any doctor in the state, to be honest.)

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yeah. Just get the pronouns right.

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If you're a real swabbie it's enough.

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I arrh. I have always loved sailing, have owned several boats and built one. people would always call me captain or skipper, but when it is a twenty one foot pleasure boat, it seemed pretentious. Besides, the biggest job on the boat was washing, scrubbing the decks and waxing the topsides. Swabbie seems a lot more accurate.

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I am technically a chef. I have no diploma because when I started the thing, you apprenticed. My real title is professional dishwasher. Nothing can get done without the basics, its the biggest job and I do it well. Dishwasher to Swabbie, Cheers, bro!

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Character and talent are RAYCISS.

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Kamala's second most important talent is being able to blather on endlessly without actually saying anything.

She is truly a virtuoso in this regard, better than anyone I've ever seen. She makes Bush II seem erudite.

Also, you just have to love how the same vacuous morons pushing this destructive DIE nonsense will claim MLK as an inspiration when he *literally* dreamed of a world without it.

Lord what a world it would be if we could just be free of these people.

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"second-most" 😆

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Yes, "unburdened by what has gone before", =>}

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"To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child"

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Oratore, II, c. 80 B. C.

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Yes. A wonderful truth. And unfortunately we're surrounded by children posing as adults.

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Sed dic mihi haec verba latine, amabo

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Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.

Rumores de morte latinae vehementer aucti sunt.

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Quasi M Tullius dicit. Gratias multas tibi ago.

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The sheer, unadulterated, transcendent, dare I say it... *significance* of her profundities will truly go down in history as the defining truth of our times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS0yBgZrVas

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Every time I think to myself “there cannot be a more perfect representative of the Democrat Party and indeed the entire Left than the doddering, corrupt pedophile in the Oval Office”, Kamala proves me wrong.

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Just an entire pantheon of pathetic clowns.

Every time any of them open their mouths it is a gag routine, which inevitably elicits a gag response.

What is truly astounding is how not a single one of them appears to know much of anything about anything.

Even more astounding is that vast herds of sheeple keep voting for them.

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They’re the people who went for “Class President” in high school - the people with perfect hair who could stand up and talk. The people for whom perfect hair and the ability to talk were their only talents.

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🤣 (I think you meant "adulterated" ;-)

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Exactly! What's important is on the OUTSIDE! Superficial diversity, but NEVER diversity of thought.

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My entire life. Tall and fat. Nothing else 'til I got old, then that was added. 😑

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I'm a retired vascular surgeon with 30 years of practice and quite frankly I wouldn't see a doctor younger than 50. The training has been bastardized by the cultural Left no different than any other educational process. Most(not all) younger doctors are nothing but 9-5 ,glorified pharmaceutical or medical technology representatives. They follow a cookbook manual set forth by their specialties based on unscientific but very profitable data(think Covid vaxx). And most don't understand medicine because their income depends on them not understanding it.

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Spot on Doctor. I am still practicing part time (extended Urgent Care I call it - no longer Hospital EM). My patients are terrified of having to go to the ED. They sit for hours, get processed, tested and imaged and no one takes a decent history or does a thorough exam. They come to me with a pile of CYA papers that not even I can understand. My most common comments are, "You spent more time with me than any other doctor" and "Can you be my regular doctor?" When meds are needed, I use OTCs and generics - thanks to Obama and other criminals, my patients no longer have insurance and can't afford the latest brands (which are very rarely needed and are not better than generics). I know the GoodRx cost of every med I prescribe. But mostly what patients need is reassurance that they will get better, that they do not have a serious illness and that the body was created to heal. If they do need specialty care, I send them to a very few doctors whom I can trust to do the right thing. Lastly, the COVID debacle and especially the so called vaccines are the greatest crime in the history of medicine. The failure of doctors to call this out and protect their patients means that medicine as an honored profession no longer exists. What a pity.

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That's very fu**ing depressing to know. And I don't doubt you one bit.

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And that is why I have always relied on a naturopath for my medical care. It’s been bad for years. This only makes it worse.

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I am wondering if Naturopathic doctors are infected as well. I was looking for a practitioner, found an office that at first looked good, but when I downloaded the welcome packet there was a full page around your gender identity! Asking what it was, my "sex assigned at birth", if I am supported with it, am I interested in bio identical hormones... It was all I needed to see to be completely done this that.

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I’m sure some are infected by it. I’ve known my naturopath for over 12 years. We’ve become friends. I knew years back that she was a sensible, faithful, conservative person. She’s straightforward and direct. When COVID hit she lost patients over her refusal to support or distribute the “death jab”. (Her words) They’re out there. Keep looking.

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For sure. I was able to find a functional medicine office who was fantastic and helped me resolve several issues, including my ADHD symptoms. Unfortunately the doctor I really liked in the practice is moving to Florida leaving only the original doctor who I did not really like (the doctor I liked treated you like an intelligent peer in your care and would sit with you and puzzle out things in front of you, whereas the older doctor has more of the "I'm a doctor so just do what I say" attitude and doesn't listen as well, so that was a real disappointment, but yes they are out there.

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acculturation? assimiliation? these are evil now too?

in what corner of the earth would you not be expected (and would it not be beneficial) to assimilate into the larger culture of the country that you've chosen to move to?

im from queens, ny, the home of 1001 immigrant communities, and i've never met a parent who didn't want their child to assimilate into american culture and society (with of course maintaining the older cultural foods and traditions etc).

what's the other option, a nation of unassimilated separate tribal enclaves who speak their own languages and have their own laws and beliefs?

gee, it's not like that hasn't been tried before in places like the balkans, lebanon, syria, and we see what that led to.

the Soc Just cult really believes that every tribe on the planet has the right to their own home and culture except for Europeans; and they also obviously want us all to hate and mistrust each other bc in their fevered imaginations once the smoke clears and we've all killed each other, they can rule over the ruins.

this evil poison is the enemy of civilization.

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We are headed for a civil war, if only because peaceful secession won’t be possible with the tribalism and need to force their idiocy down our throats. Good thing we are the side that maintains arms like the founding fathers encouraged.

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We may be able to start fixing this by invoking Article V of the Constitution. If We The People put term limits on Congress we may be able to limit temptations...of course this is only one spoke in a variety of fixes needed.

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Only 19 states have passed legislation to support Article V. Need 34 or 75% of states.

https://conventionofstates.com/states-that-have-passed-the-convention-of-states-article-v-application

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Joe Biden and the Democrats are the worlds biggest arms dealers (ref. Afghanistan and Ukraine). Don't go getting too comfy thinking our side is the only side that is packing heat.

If and when the time comes the left will air drop all the weapons their side needs to get themselves and us killed. Again, see Ukraine.

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No doubt you’re right. Don’t trust any government. They’re all criminals.

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fiefdoms

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Revival of a more appropriate word for what we are witnessing.

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The Communist Manifesto comes to mind.

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DEI = DIE

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When they try to correct you, tell them that your interpretation is a product of your unlived experience and that it therefore must be respected.

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I like that.

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Exactly. This is the last nail in the coffin. DEAD!

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Gutfeld says that too--great minds

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We're living in clown world, and "Our Betters" are laughing while a good chunk of society eats this all up. They have plenty to eat, fly on planes with unvaxxed pilots and have fake vaxx ID cards.

As for the rest of us, If the vaxx doesn't kill you, you'll die in a traffic vaxxident, or a medical vaxxident, or you'll be starved out or frozen out.

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Healthcare has consistently grown inferior since obamacare & then covid. obamacare pushed all doctors into groups affiliated with a hospital, & put all decisions into the hands of bureaucrats. My doctor changed from one that took care of everything, to a one trick pony only able to handle mundane things. most all my problems except colds & sinus are referred out. So now I have a bevy of doctors that are all in the same group, but I can't just see one for everything. the covid debacle took away the doctors' ability to review what works & use something different. Now they can only use x or y, don't even ask for z. And don't get me started about medicare... palliative care (a pill, physical therapy, etc) first, then after you're much worse, then you can see a specialist that always says, you've waited too late to get that fixed properly! UGH!

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are they going to be abusing white patients now?

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They already did abuse white patients in some places by prioritizing monoclonal antibodies based on skin color rather than need / level of illness

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My husband & I (yes, Anglo-saxons) had wu-flu pneumonia pretty bad & got some of the last doses where we live (not NY) on 12/29 & 12/30, after which the MCAs disappeared from everywhere when the corruptocrats took over manufacture & distribution. You don’t even hear of that as an option anymore. Guess it was horning in on big Pharma profits (not to mention being a real treatment unlike multi-organ-failure-creating Remisdevir.

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Run, death is near.

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😂

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As with many things in life it's possible with hindsight that treatment approach might not have been the best from an autoimmunity perspective. See, e.g.,

https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/janus-and-the-four-horsemen-of-the

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Yeah. I forgot about that.

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No, just creating priority queues that didn't previously exist and putting us at the back and hoping we die in transit.

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When my husband & I were “forced” into medicare by age but not desire (we had credible & adequate insurance we wanted to keep), & were informed it’s now or never.... the carrot & stick

He’s 80 & still works full time, but we knows there may come a day...

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I didn't sign up for Medicare.

I had to have a witness sign for my rejection.

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The CDC reportedly suggested at one point in 2020 that there are too many white people in the Cardiac units, that priority should be given to other races.

I don't think the hospitals listened. They will take whoever comes in and add beds if they can fill them.

I got that from the The War on The West--eloquent and pithy

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They already are. More white old people died from Covid interventions than any other segment of society, if I’m not mistaken.

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They have been.

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The Epoch Times has a great article this week on the Hippocratic Oath. I'm a physician assistant and feel betrayed by the medical field and big pharma. Innoculations for the world, shut up and get in line. We need to create an alternate medical universe. There are still providers who care and want to help. We need a place to go where we won't suffer moral injury.

#IwillNOTcomply; #goNatural; #FunctionalmedicineRocks :-)

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The last 2+ years have really unmasked the ugly face of government “healthcare.”

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And perhaps corporate "healthcare" too. I think they go together now. We need independent practitioners who are secure and think for themselves.

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Yep you are absolutely right.

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I made a similar comment as below in another Substack. I worked for more than 34 years as a faculty member (and held an Assistant Deanship) in a US acredited medical school (until I was terminated for not getting "vaccinated" against COVID). I was appalled the last two times I attended AAMC meetings in 2018 and 2019. This organization, which used to be concerned with excellence in medical education, has become a political instrument. They just talk about "diversity", "inclusiveness", "my doctor looks like me"... and similar BS. They do not care if our medical students become competent doctors.

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That's partially because a considerable number of current medical students aren't capable of becoming competent doctors.

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I was discussing the Pfizer covid vaccine efficacy study with a young pediatrician over on Vinay Prasad's post on Sensible Medicine. He was talking about hard data, hard data, hard data and I was saying that the study data was about as hard as oozing phlegm because of the problem due to false negatives not being caught (say, by doing viral culturing) and the ILI counts in the arms not being reported by the study. The more false negatives, the closer the efficacy trends towards 50%. The study data was very, very mushy. Since the mushiness wasn't discussed in the NEJM article about the study, that article should be retracted.

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I suspect one of the really, really big problems is the size of medical school student loan debt. Who can risk being out of the herd? People in their 30s, with or hoping to start families, can't afford solo practices, and so many group practices are owned by medical conglomerates. Courage is great but paying one's bills is an imperative too.

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Doctors in residency can borrow against future earnings and roll that into loan debt. Living above their means. Big house, expensive vacations, expensive cars while in residency. Debt can get to half a million, easy. For those in dermatology, this is nbd. For those in general practice, uh oh.

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Sure. As we've seen, becoming certified as a doctor is no proof against idiocy.

But there are sensible ones, too, and every individual has different circumstances, and many who go into medicine come from cultural backgrounds where support of the extended family and multiple generations is an obligation. If a young doctor has parents and grandparents who put everything, themselves, into the raising of that doctor, he's going to have responsibilities even before starting his own family.

In my working days I managed to get myself fired from a lot of jobs for being a little bit ungovernable, but that was back when an uncredentialled person could easily find another, and living expenses weren't absolutely insane.

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Makes sense.

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All institutions have been infiltrated. Revolutionaries are always more eager to serve in these organizations than those focused on their career and improving their skills.

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There was a time, not long ago actually, when the American medical education system was the joke of the developed world. That time was as near as the early part of the 20th century. The John’s Hopkins would change that by demanding extremely high standards, and rigorous scientifically based education.

They’re taking us backward. Everything the left power-elites are doing right is is taking us back 100 years.

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Bingo.

"About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."

-Calvin Coolidge, July 5, 1926

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Only 14 Presidents have overseen a decrease in debt. Calvin Coolidge was the last President to do so, leaving office in 1929.

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Thank you!

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Why not? Obama single-handedly set race relations in the USA back 50+ years... that was just a start on the 'fundamental transformation' of the US. "The police acted stupidly..." "My son would look just like Treyvon..."

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How does identifying my relevant systems of oppression and exercise or lack of privilege lead to my hemorrhoids being treated properly?

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Or the monkeypox...?

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moneypox

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bwahhahaha!

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