Those in the middle need to hear our voices - constantly. I try to target mainly Doctors in my area. it's really rather remarkable that our doctors read so little- quite shocking really. They literally get their CDC bulletin and bing- that's it! I started several months ago with numbers from Israel and the dropping efficacy. It's sometimes difficult but I put the spin about how I'm deeply concerned for the truly vulnerable and how they think they are invincible, etc. Then I talk a lot about Sweden. A lot of them pretend they have no idea what is going on over there- I tell them right away- hey, my best friend lives there (actually true), let me tell you all about it! The harder things to discuss involve vaccine injuries- there is oftentimes complete cognitive dissonance. So instead I couch it with numbers, if a young male has a 1 in 6,000 chance of getting hospitalized with myocarditis but only a 1 in 25,000 chance of being hospitalized for the virus itself, why should they get the shot? I live in New England and I'm just exhausted at how weak the people here are. Most have zero critical thinking skills.
I learned how few doctors even read medical journals based on being my mother's caregiver and advocate for the past 2 decades. My mother insists at this point that I should go to nursing school or medical school. I asked hey when did she start hating me. But seriously, a friend of mine just struggled her way through nursing school a few years ago. The struggle wasn't with the academic side but with the administration and politics. What she told me of her experiences explains a lot about some nurses we encounter.
You are absolutely right. I am a physician and many times feel ashamed of what my colleagues have become. I say that most current doctors are "guideline followers".
Thank you for reaffirming my conclusions. It's especially bad when doctors can more easily access these journals than I can and yet they refuse to. I bet they never liked to do homework.
In fairness, medical journals seem to be filled with dubious articles and dodgy statistics. It's not entirely irrational to ignore them.
In my industry most practitioners also don't read academic journals. I did for a while as part of my job - at first it felt good to be reading so much cutting edge research. After a while I noticed that every time I read something that seemed useful or important, there turned out to be some catch that made it unusable. After enough years of this I realized I was only keeping up with the literature so I could answer questions from other people who expected me to, or had heard about some "breakthrough" that they hadn't read the paper directly for and couldn't understand why we were ignoring it.
So, if the gap between a published paper and real-world practice is so very large normally, and so many papers are unreliable, it's not totally wrong to just write off the whole thing. If something is effective it'll get turned into a product at some point and you'll get more tangible proof of it working, like stories from colleagues you know and trust that they tried it and it worked.
The dodginess of medical journal articles very often is found in the contradiction between the abstract and conclusion announcements versus the fine-print data in the Results section.
My sister is a doctor, and I'm sometimes shocked at how little she knows about some medical topics. I'm kind, and I love her, so I don't say, uh, you didn't know XYZ?, but her lack of knowledge tells me the general state of so many other doctors out there.
She's been trying to talk me into the vax since it came out. She herself had COVID last year, then also got vaxxed, and is now afraid to see me for fear she'll catch it and test positive, but she's not afraid of her vaxxed co-workers or relatives, even though she knows they can be carriers, too. I've tried to talk to her about ADE and other vax concerns, but I'm whistling into the wind...
Board recertification busywork includes conducting surveys where your patients comment on the state of your parking lot or office decor. Yes this counts as medical education. Guess who sells you the survey--the cronies in power at the American Board of Medical Specialties. There have been massive lawsuits and fights over this. Covid has just demoralized doctors and destroyed thinking and research, many doctor friends went nearly bankrupt or got fired/relocated. Good luck keeping a doctor or even finding one today.
I figured this out when diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Endocronologist’s just looked at it as “give her synthroid, that’ll fix her!” When really it is an autoimmune disease and very multifaceted. They also go by lab numbers, as opposed to patient symptoms -which defies the logic of we are all different and have different tolerances/levels of hormones, etc. that are “normal” for us.
Jocelyn, I have Hashimoto’s, too, and I knew *way* more about it than my doctor. Have you read Izabella Wentz’s #1 bestseller “Hashimoto's Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause” (https://smile.amazon.com/Hashimotos-Thyroiditis-Lifestyle-Interventions-Treating/dp/0615825796/)? Izabella does an excellent job of explaining the science in the first half and interventions in the second half. Totally transformative.
Margaret, I am aware of Izabella Wentz’s book, though have not purchased yet. I do receive her emails and she has some interesting posts. Before Izabella was Mary Shoman, way back in the day. I learned a lot from her too. I should definitely check out Isabella’s book to compare if nothing else. Thanks for the recommendation!
Jocelyn, glad you’re on Izabella’s mailing list, and yes, she offers a wealth of resources on this topic. Thanks for the pointer to Mary Shoman! I’ll have to check her out.
Though most journals focus only on ‘peer reviewed studies’ which means these days consensus which means if there’s enough crappy studies to somewhat prove A, then it’s consensus! Hooray! Examples would be mammogram or selective induction of birth research…. Follow the $$, not patient’s best interest, but frame it as if you were saving lives.
The South is wary of vaccines, mostly because the Black people have been abused so often I am afraid. But I got multiple friends who did not get the shots, mostly for other reasons, but they are safe, that is what matters. Indeed, the knowledge or lack thereof under doctors is frightening. They all follow the line of BigPharma. Just scary.
Thank you, Charlotte. I am endeavoring to do this more as well. What El Gato and you (and hopefully many others) advocate for is also supported by history. Just bringing the truth to light/making them question the lies will hopefully tip the scales in our favor (especially as more data comes in). Please see the below podcast that talks more about how to overcome the lies put forth by tyranny.
Indeed! We’ve been following them for years but have found their sobering, philosophical take on the road to tyranny chillingly incisive. I especially appreciate the absence of references to specific current events and their scholarly approach as it makes it more difficult for Covidians to dismiss it as partisan propaganda. The combination of philosophy, history, art, literature, and culture makes each video both fascinating and a visual feast.
I, too, am always amazed by how few doctors seem to be aware of the latest data, peer-reviewed science, and findings on topics like diet and nutrition. My doctors usually end up taking notes from me and getting book/link recommendations during my visits ;-)
American doctors learn nothing at all about nutrition, I know this from a doctor. In Europe they have something like 24 hours about nourishment and health. All BigPharma, which supports schools, probably to teach only symptoms and what to prescribe? At least the doc where I go knows a bit about homeopathy.
Yeah, but nutrition is a famously terrible field full - it's full of 'experts' that invert their advice completely from time to time, lots of studies that don't replicate or turn out to be fraudulent, etc. If I were a doctor I'd ignore nutrition as well. It's just not a reliable producer of research.
Mike, there is an enormous difference between the field of nutrition (admittedly largely corrupted by the practice of research funded to generate press releases that promote a particular food/product, as exposed by Marion Nestle and others) and nutrition itself. To deny that diet and nutrition play a pivotal role in our health (both in terms of causation and healing) would be utterly irrational and destructive—and, unfortunately, that is typically the attitude found in conventional medicine. Instead of searching for the underlying causes of a condition such as diet, nutrition, and lifestyle factors, they turn to pharmaceutical solutions engineered to address the very health conditions created by the self-serving, corporate-defined food pyramid and Standard American Diet.
Good for you! I'm sure it feels like you're beating your head against the wall until it feels good. My PCP won't read any preprints, and she follows what the Boards tell her. She is incredibly under-informed. I am wasting my breath with her, but it doesn't stop me from talking and sending her the links to articles that support what I tell her.
As a doctor I completely agree with this! I myself only woke up to what was happening in April 2021. I have never seen so many people (re)gain a healthy sense of skepticism of authority and institutions. Unfortunately the last hangers on are indeed physicians. I attribute this to long work hours and groupthink (fear of what colleagues will say). This pattern of formally educated individuals being the LAST to recognize rising totalitarianism is not new.
Check out this 2012 paper: Why Did So Many German Doctors Join The Nazi Party Early?
Congratulations on waking up, Dr. Nicole! That takes tremendous humility, courage, and strength of will—especially for a doctor. Perhaps this article will help your colleagues recover from their menticide:
I have a friend who’s a doctor and he said most doctors don’t have time to read everything we see. He said if you want your doctor to know something, send it to her so she can read it.
Medicine has been decimated by Obamacare and electronic medical records. As a physician, I'm in a state that did not mandate this so I still use paper charts. My colleagues are completely burned out and hate their jobs, they spend hours every night and weekends with bings and alerts in email from their EHRs and they get paid zero for this extra work, in fact EHRs cost 6 figures. Hence the current practice of one doctor supervising 9 nurse practitioners or PAs and you get punted there when you need an appointment.
Oh my gosh I'm seeing all your comments today Sue and I am officially a big fan! You kept the paper charts?! You Ludditte! You brilliant, brilliant, brave Luddite! ;-)
I live in the People's Republic of California and have one teenager left in the house.
Just before Comrade Newsom his latest diktat mandating jabs for schoolchildren, I had a conversation with our pediatrician, who has cared for our children for over two decades.
She of course highly recommends the jab. I asked her some pointed questions:
- The risk to our child is near zero. What is the risk reduction benefit from the jab?
"I don't have that number".
- What are the long-term effects of these mRNA jabs.
"Nobody knows."
And then the kicker:
"You just have to take a leap of faith."
This put me at a loss for words, which for me is a rather uncommon event.
So, a Stanford Health Care pediatrician with decades of experience is using religious terminology to justify recommending the experimental jab to a child with almost zero risk.
We have truly passed into the realm of the surreal.
SHE has unclean hands. She is getting paid per jab. Conflict of interest. If I cannot give legal advise for that in which I have a financial interest, how can the doctors?
Most of the doctors don’t get directly much money. Yes for giving the shot but for the most part they’re brainwashed. It is so ingrained in them that it’s safe they refuse to diagnose obvious reactions. I’ve had it happen with mine. It is just random! 🤦♀️
Well if they are associated with a practice group, the group (aka business) gets the payout, so, yes. It enhances their bottom line. Reduces overhead. It is INCOME any way it is parsed. I love how virtuous the guilty pretend to be. Not you, Tigerkatze.
Yes. I talked to ex husband, a doc who I put through med school in 1978-80, twenty one years ago. Divorced in 1983. He told me in 2000 when I saw him for our youngest daughter’s graduation that docs could not have solo practices any more. High malpractice insurance, other liability costs. He admitted they had lost control of their profession. I have my own law firm with me, my husband of 31 years, and our legal assistant.
I’m surprised she even answered that. Mine would say you’re misinformed. They are safe and effective and generally the holy grail. Now stop those silly questions already. I avoid the ped and I we only see them for acute care and not ‘well checks’.
that is beyond tragic. however, as a former Stanford trainee, I can tell you that their illiberal, thought conforming groupthink borders on psychosis. Look at how they denounced ( via their Maoist declarations) Drs. Scott Atlas and Jay Bhattacharya who have been my personal voices of sanity amidst the madness. This happened a year ago but I can tell you the wounds are still fresh in the medical community https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/30/academic-freedom-questions-arise-campus-covid-19-strategy-conflicts/
I just escaped employment at College of San Mateo, which was once supposed to be a feeder school to Stanford. The psychosis there is epic. Of course, they received millions of dollars of covid $$ so - they are going to become a 'vax center' isn't that nice? A college practicing medicine, what will they think of next?
I agree with your basic premise here, and I'll illustrate with a little story. Here in WA we had mask rules basically the entire 'crisis' (starting July 2020) until the CDC came out and said vaxxed people don't have to wear a mask. Predictably, most of the masks disappeared from stores and shops.
Here's the important part - during that brief little window (Inslee re-instituted masks in August) the maskers would come into a store and get funny looks from the unmasked. This put them on the opposite side of their comfort zone. Some of them would remove the mask, others would just keep their heads down and do their shopping quickly. They REALLY REALLY REALLY didn't like being on the 'wrong' side, and I'm convinced that's why we have mask rules again. This way the sheep feel like they are on the 'correct' side again, since 'the rules' say that masks are required. Now the sheep are once again with the 'go along' gang, and said sheep feel protected by the expanded size of the flock.
Agreed from another fellow Washingtonian. BTW, my patriotic act of civil disobedience is not wearing a mask in stores. I still end up having to (sort of) wear the mask (under my nose) at some places (dentist, etc), but Costco I don't anymore nor at my local grocery store. My poor kids though have to wear the nasty rag every day, even at their private Christian school. I sure wish their school would push back against this tyranny. I've tried to exhort them to do the right thing, but they are too afraid of getting shut down. :-(
It's not easy to go without the mask - it's probably the most courageous thing I've had to do on a regular basis in my whole life. It would be much easier to just go along to get along.
WA lawyer. I feel all this exactly. I wear a one layer Fake Mask when I am forced to wear one. When questioned, I remind the Covidiot that the mandate only says “mask,” not a special kind. NEVER wear the blue ones- graphene oxide in them. Fight back every way you can. We have a sign on our law office door that says we do not discriminate against anyone. When people come in, most ask if they have to wear a mask. I tell them that is their personal decision. When they assure me they are jabbed, I tell them, that is their personal medical business. We don’t have a need to know that. Educate by example as much as you can. Smile at them. Be gracious. As Jesus said of his adversaries, “They know not what they are doing.”
I think I love you!!! These are the kinds of businesses I am dying to patronize. There is a restaurant near us that has a sign on the door that says, "Masks optional". I love them, too.
BRAVO!!! Make the mask Mandies show you the policy specifying what type of mask, what weave, thickness/ply or model you must wear to be in compliance with their absurd policy. I did this several times at Costco and I got cow-face back at me. I have cut out the white second layer and left the thin blue layer of surgical masks and went to clinics and even got a mammogram with one. You can see my lips moving through it. Nobody said a word, they're conditioned to just see the mask now and think you're in compliance.
Update Sue Hilda! I have cut the white part out of a bunch of the blue masks and I'm going to send my 10th and 7th graders with them on Monday, explaining what we've done and showing them how to do it. I want them to have some tiny sense of agency - that they are doing something that gives them a bit of control in the midst of the madness. The children, the children. All the children without parents that are telling them to resist living in fear. What will this generation be like? So so scarred. And at least my kids are to the (somewhat) critical thinking age. What about the littles???? Ahhhhhhh! It's enough to make my blood pressure start rising when I think about it.
So far we are doing better in the Netherlands where children under 10 have never had to mask. But the older children have suffered intensely. And we have vax passes for 13+ for frigging everything now. My hubby cannot stand it when I wring my hands about what this is going to wreak for the future of this country. He knows it and I know it, but all we can really do is raise our own intelligently subversive little rascals. I have really started upping my game and my plan this week is to order a set of Orwell's books for future reference as I don't currently own any copies. I have the luxury to homeschool if necessary and by God I'll do a better job of it.
There are "fake" masks on Etsy. They are glittery/sparkly which mostly hides the fact that the masks have huge holes in them. A few folks have realized they are fake, but most don't even seem to notice. Often, if I'm checking out at a store the attendant will look up and say "I like your mask!" I just say - yup! it's my dancing with the stars mask! And mostly, seems folks just smile and don't give it another thought. My daughter wears one of those pretty fake masks to school - thank god they've yet to spot it.
The Double Fake Mask (fakemaskworldwide2.com). Looks pretty solid on the outside but breathable. Do not tell them it is a “fake mask.” Kids blurt. I have four, grown up, but I remember.
Thank you! Interestingly, the link was blocked on my browser (and I even use Duck duck go) - but I was able to type in the address. Thanks! My boys' lungs will thank you too.
The problem is complying. Fake masking does nothing to fight back. It's the same as acquiescing. Until parents refuse to mask their kids - which is abuse - and demand this insanity stop, it won't. They will add on new abuses just watch. You are complying - so the punishments will just get worse.
You are fortunate to be in Idaho. I am in WA and it is totally different here. If I fought every battle with the same intensity, I would not have the energy for the important battles. Sometimes, flying under the radar for a quick errand is less aggravation. I deal with conflict daily, as an attorney. Then running my business besides, more conflicts. Just noticed yesterday at home doing online banking that a vendor I cancelled 15 months ago sucked money out of my bank account without my authorization. I had to sit on hold for a half hour with Chase Fraud Unit to dispute the charge. Now, tomorrow, I will have to send another certified, return receipt letter to the President of the Company and the VP of Global Sales (as I did last year when they would not cancel) to stop this insanity. So, a fake mask to run into Safeway for a bag of lettuce? Yes. I am tired and I can only fight so many battles per day. I learned a long time ago in the practice of law, that fighting for the principle of the thing does not always work out the way one wishes. Pick your battles wisely and save your energy for the important ones.
If you think all that's tough - you haven't seen anything yet. I'm not fortunate to be in Idaho; I did everything I could to escape CA. I guess the gravity of the situation is lost on most. Oh well.
Well, I used every bit of strength I had to get TF out of CA. And my rent is cheaper. I don't know why people don't pull up stakes and leave the wokie blue coastal states. It won't end well for you.
Vida, I agree with you in principle. In action, my boys are 12 and 15 and they WANT to go to school. They also DON'T want to draw attention to themselves. I've been advocating as much as I can with the school and the policy-makers, but I can't expect my kids to take a moral stand for something that is my fight and they don't see the long-term implications the way adults do. I have encouraged them that I will back them 100% if they get in trouble for not masking in the classroom; my 12 old plays games where he sees how many periods he can go before a teacher says something, and he likes the fake mask idea. These are some small things.
I'm trying Vida. I'd homeschool them in a second if they'd prefer that. But at the moment, they prefer being with friends and complying than standing up for truth and being persecuted. I wish it were different, but I'm not going to shame them for that at their tender ages.
I will say that they don't wear their masks when we go in stores. I think having me or their dad right there with them helps them find their courage. So they get a taste of civil disobedience.
My daughter tried this in college at the University of Arizona and they kicked her out of classes ... she's planning to transfer if they continue this.
Mine just graduated this past May. We are so thankful they got out right before this dystopian nightmare began. Maybe your DD should just postpone college until (hopefully) the non-delusional regain power of the world.
My son was at Texas Tech and was miserable sitting in his apartment all day doing online classes, ended up coming home for his second semester sophomore year and doing classes online. He's back this year and there are no masks, no mandatory anything, parties, packed football games, and he's doing great. There's no hysterics. At U of A they actually told me that they are going to keep masks until "there is no transmissibility" -- WTF does that mean? My daughter has a doctors note, she can't wear a mask (severe asthma, she has reduced lung capacity and masks make her dizzy.) ... Grand Canyon University, a private college, is full open, no masks, and she's thinking of transferring. She's working to see if she can get the same amount in scholarships that she has now at U of A.
I think about my eventual Life Review when I leave this plane of existence. I prefer being true to myself than going along with the herd. And your are absolutely right about those we thought we could trust. Inslee’s little surrogate eyes are everywhere.
That is probably the worst part about this entire last couple years. Our actual system of creating laws has simply been bypassed using vague health orders.
And people just follow them. That's why we're screwed. Not because the psychos are putting these vague health orders in place, but because we acquiesce. People think this is going away if they 'just behave' but if you notice, it gets worse and worse.
FL doctor here. Stay strong and brave. I'm glad to hear of left coast doctors that will not submit to the performative religion of the mask and when others see you they will think, OK, maybe I can go without a mask too. This was me last year when my county had a mask mandate yet many stores were not enforcing except for big box/national chains, and now they have dropped it. I am without a mask in my office since the governor rescinded the health emergency on 4/24/21. I am vaccinated. Nothing has happened. Not one case nor COVID in my office in 6 months, even thru the delta surge. This mask madness MUST stop and we are the ones to stop it, the politicians and bureaucrats will not cede an inch and love the control.
Wow. The idea that my kids could even go to the dentist normally seems years away here. They make me CALL from the parking lot, double check if we have COVID-like symptoms, and then they check the boys' temps, etc. Everything is plasticed over and it looks like something out of the last scenes of that movie ET. It's despicable.
I hear you about the courage it takes. It would seem such a dinky thing to have to exercise courage on, and yet, truly, I'm not there yet. The farthest I go while out shopping here in WA is to wear the thing below my nose. I look up to the 1% of people I see without a mask on at all.
For that brief respite in summer when we were told vaccinated folks didn't need the rag, I happily joined the 10% or so who were barefaced at the grocery store, and I kept it to myself that I hadn't been jabbed. (If memory serves, the percentage hardly topped 10% here before masking was demanded of us again.)
I guess what I've learned about myself is that I'm happy to break the rules when I don't like them, but I can't bear to be seen to be too brazen about it. So, yay me: it would seem I have neither the virtue of obedience nor that of courage in any great measure. C'est la vie.
You might surprise yourself yet. Sometimes I pray in the car for a moment before going in. I rehearse what I will say to someone if there is a comment or question.
This is the battle of our time. I don't want to sit on the sidelines and regret that I didn't fight when I had the opportunity and the ethical reasons.
I don’t wear one in the grocery. Usually I am one of 2 or 4 or 5 on a good day. I live in a blue city in a purple state. When I first walk in it’s hard. My neighbors wouldn’t take well to seeing me acting so immorally. I am so over this BS and people’s stupidity that I mostly don’t care. It’s been a learning curve for sure. I’m more of a live and left live person. When I last went shopping, I realized that I should probably have something ready to say if I were ever confronted.
I wore a red lace mask for most of the pandemic! Once or twice, I got called out for it, but for the most part, people didn't want to engage. Now, I mostly go bare-faced and just smile at people if they give me a weird look. I think most people realize how contentious all this has become, and they really don't want to get into a fight with a little old Italian lady!
The eastern part of the state is freer, but I live in the epicenter of marxism!
The worst worst worst is the kids. I can make a decision for myself and be refused service (it happens) but the kids won't get to go to school if they don't comply.
I didn't know this, naively I thought it was up to businesses. In FL it depends on the county , and there are like 5 leftist counties where the groupthink is horrendous. I'm in solid R Collier County where I haven't worn a mask in a public setting save healthcare for 6 months (and even then as thin as possible with the 2nd ply cut out). It's child abuse for the kids, full stop. Kids aren't developing language, socialization, reading, speech and their immune systems are being wrecked by masks. I would home school if I lived there, or move.
I have refused to wear one and last winter I was the only one who did so, over here in southeast Boise. It's not CA (I ran screaming from there in 8/2020), but they still have a Karen attitude in many places. I make it my goal to NEVER wear one. So far, so good.
Good God this is a giant psychosis!!! The mask does nothing to contain or prevent covid. Everyone I know who had COVID was "really careful and masked all the time" and still got it. I wonder if it hampers immunity to rebreathe your own vapor laden exhalations--it must. Keep fighting! Wear as thin a weave as possible and go without even the second you walk out of the automatic doors pull it off!
yes and posing on covers of mags like he is a rock and roll god. smug prick...(excuse dirty word). hopefully one day we all will have the last laugh as he is kicked to the curb.
I am an NP in MI that sees primarily elderly patients with vascular disease. Most are at high risk from multiple comorbidities (DM, obesity, HTN, etc), as well as advanced age (70+). Most are eagerly pursuing boosters, and the population that I see has been heavily vaccinated early on last winter-several, with breakthrough infections and hospitalizations. It seems to me, as generations are now widely-spread out geographically, the decreased physical closeness of an extended family, and perhaps decreased spirituality or religious presence in many people's lives, many of my patients are truly fearful of dying. They are staying home, masking up, and avoiding people and thus potential exposures. Many are very anxious about dying, and I suspect they are all watching way too much TV. They are spending their final years choosing not to live, in an attempt to avoid death.
100% I agree with this assessment. America (the world?) is covered in a crippling spirit of fear. Once you realize that you can be at peace with dying (even of COVID!) then the other pieces fall into place and it's easy to say no thanks to mask and vax.
When friends try to bludgeon me with “But you could die!” because I refuse to get vaccinated, my response is—besides sharing the extraordinary low odds of that happening—that if it’s my time, it’s my time. I’d rather die an honest death than one caused by me being too scared to stay true to who I am. I am sure they think I am brainwashed. You can see it in their eyes that they just can’t comprehend that I am not captured by fear.
Those in the middle need to hear our voices - constantly. I try to target mainly Doctors in my area. it's really rather remarkable that our doctors read so little- quite shocking really. They literally get their CDC bulletin and bing- that's it! I started several months ago with numbers from Israel and the dropping efficacy. It's sometimes difficult but I put the spin about how I'm deeply concerned for the truly vulnerable and how they think they are invincible, etc. Then I talk a lot about Sweden. A lot of them pretend they have no idea what is going on over there- I tell them right away- hey, my best friend lives there (actually true), let me tell you all about it! The harder things to discuss involve vaccine injuries- there is oftentimes complete cognitive dissonance. So instead I couch it with numbers, if a young male has a 1 in 6,000 chance of getting hospitalized with myocarditis but only a 1 in 25,000 chance of being hospitalized for the virus itself, why should they get the shot? I live in New England and I'm just exhausted at how weak the people here are. Most have zero critical thinking skills.
I learned how few doctors even read medical journals based on being my mother's caregiver and advocate for the past 2 decades. My mother insists at this point that I should go to nursing school or medical school. I asked hey when did she start hating me. But seriously, a friend of mine just struggled her way through nursing school a few years ago. The struggle wasn't with the academic side but with the administration and politics. What she told me of her experiences explains a lot about some nurses we encounter.
You are absolutely right. I am a physician and many times feel ashamed of what my colleagues have become. I say that most current doctors are "guideline followers".
Well thank you for holding up the standards of your profession.
Journal reading physician here. You are dead on right
Thank you for reaffirming my conclusions. It's especially bad when doctors can more easily access these journals than I can and yet they refuse to. I bet they never liked to do homework.
In fairness, medical journals seem to be filled with dubious articles and dodgy statistics. It's not entirely irrational to ignore them.
In my industry most practitioners also don't read academic journals. I did for a while as part of my job - at first it felt good to be reading so much cutting edge research. After a while I noticed that every time I read something that seemed useful or important, there turned out to be some catch that made it unusable. After enough years of this I realized I was only keeping up with the literature so I could answer questions from other people who expected me to, or had heard about some "breakthrough" that they hadn't read the paper directly for and couldn't understand why we were ignoring it.
So, if the gap between a published paper and real-world practice is so very large normally, and so many papers are unreliable, it's not totally wrong to just write off the whole thing. If something is effective it'll get turned into a product at some point and you'll get more tangible proof of it working, like stories from colleagues you know and trust that they tried it and it worked.
The dodginess of medical journal articles very often is found in the contradiction between the abstract and conclusion announcements versus the fine-print data in the Results section.
My sister is a doctor, and I'm sometimes shocked at how little she knows about some medical topics. I'm kind, and I love her, so I don't say, uh, you didn't know XYZ?, but her lack of knowledge tells me the general state of so many other doctors out there.
She's been trying to talk me into the vax since it came out. She herself had COVID last year, then also got vaxxed, and is now afraid to see me for fear she'll catch it and test positive, but she's not afraid of her vaxxed co-workers or relatives, even though she knows they can be carriers, too. I've tried to talk to her about ADE and other vax concerns, but I'm whistling into the wind...
Board recertification busywork includes conducting surveys where your patients comment on the state of your parking lot or office decor. Yes this counts as medical education. Guess who sells you the survey--the cronies in power at the American Board of Medical Specialties. There have been massive lawsuits and fights over this. Covid has just demoralized doctors and destroyed thinking and research, many doctor friends went nearly bankrupt or got fired/relocated. Good luck keeping a doctor or even finding one today.
I want YOU to be my doctor, Sue!
thank you dear, you'll find brave doctors, it just takes some digging!
Yikes, I'm sorry.
I figured this out when diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Endocronologist’s just looked at it as “give her synthroid, that’ll fix her!” When really it is an autoimmune disease and very multifaceted. They also go by lab numbers, as opposed to patient symptoms -which defies the logic of we are all different and have different tolerances/levels of hormones, etc. that are “normal” for us.
Jocelyn, I have Hashimoto’s, too, and I knew *way* more about it than my doctor. Have you read Izabella Wentz’s #1 bestseller “Hashimoto's Thyroiditis: Lifestyle Interventions for Finding and Treating the Root Cause” (https://smile.amazon.com/Hashimotos-Thyroiditis-Lifestyle-Interventions-Treating/dp/0615825796/)? Izabella does an excellent job of explaining the science in the first half and interventions in the second half. Totally transformative.
Margaret, I am aware of Izabella Wentz’s book, though have not purchased yet. I do receive her emails and she has some interesting posts. Before Izabella was Mary Shoman, way back in the day. I learned a lot from her too. I should definitely check out Isabella’s book to compare if nothing else. Thanks for the recommendation!
Jocelyn, glad you’re on Izabella’s mailing list, and yes, she offers a wealth of resources on this topic. Thanks for the pointer to Mary Shoman! I’ll have to check her out.
Though most journals focus only on ‘peer reviewed studies’ which means these days consensus which means if there’s enough crappy studies to somewhat prove A, then it’s consensus! Hooray! Examples would be mammogram or selective induction of birth research…. Follow the $$, not patient’s best interest, but frame it as if you were saving lives.
The South is wary of vaccines, mostly because the Black people have been abused so often I am afraid. But I got multiple friends who did not get the shots, mostly for other reasons, but they are safe, that is what matters. Indeed, the knowledge or lack thereof under doctors is frightening. They all follow the line of BigPharma. Just scary.
Thank you, Charlotte. I am endeavoring to do this more as well. What El Gato and you (and hopefully many others) advocate for is also supported by history. Just bringing the truth to light/making them question the lies will hopefully tip the scales in our favor (especially as more data comes in). Please see the below podcast that talks more about how to overcome the lies put forth by tyranny.
https://academyofideas.com/2021/09/the-big-lie-how-to-enslave-the-world/
Love Academy of Ideas!
It's been a fantastic and consistent "sanity check" during the past 19 months although I'd followed the channel before The Hysteria.
Indeed! We’ve been following them for years but have found their sobering, philosophical take on the road to tyranny chillingly incisive. I especially appreciate the absence of references to specific current events and their scholarly approach as it makes it more difficult for Covidians to dismiss it as partisan propaganda. The combination of philosophy, history, art, literature, and culture makes each video both fascinating and a visual feast.
Yes! My degree is in art history and watching the videos hit 90% of my happy spots. Absolutely brilliant.
Fabulous website!
I, too, am always amazed by how few doctors seem to be aware of the latest data, peer-reviewed science, and findings on topics like diet and nutrition. My doctors usually end up taking notes from me and getting book/link recommendations during my visits ;-)
American doctors learn nothing at all about nutrition, I know this from a doctor. In Europe they have something like 24 hours about nourishment and health. All BigPharma, which supports schools, probably to teach only symptoms and what to prescribe? At least the doc where I go knows a bit about homeopathy.
Yeah, but nutrition is a famously terrible field full - it's full of 'experts' that invert their advice completely from time to time, lots of studies that don't replicate or turn out to be fraudulent, etc. If I were a doctor I'd ignore nutrition as well. It's just not a reliable producer of research.
Mike, there is an enormous difference between the field of nutrition (admittedly largely corrupted by the practice of research funded to generate press releases that promote a particular food/product, as exposed by Marion Nestle and others) and nutrition itself. To deny that diet and nutrition play a pivotal role in our health (both in terms of causation and healing) would be utterly irrational and destructive—and, unfortunately, that is typically the attitude found in conventional medicine. Instead of searching for the underlying causes of a condition such as diet, nutrition, and lifestyle factors, they turn to pharmaceutical solutions engineered to address the very health conditions created by the self-serving, corporate-defined food pyramid and Standard American Diet.
Good for you! I'm sure it feels like you're beating your head against the wall until it feels good. My PCP won't read any preprints, and she follows what the Boards tell her. She is incredibly under-informed. I am wasting my breath with her, but it doesn't stop me from talking and sending her the links to articles that support what I tell her.
Charlotte - you are fighting the good fight! Hugs from Washington. Keep it up! You're doing awesome to share these things and not give up.
As a doctor I completely agree with this! I myself only woke up to what was happening in April 2021. I have never seen so many people (re)gain a healthy sense of skepticism of authority and institutions. Unfortunately the last hangers on are indeed physicians. I attribute this to long work hours and groupthink (fear of what colleagues will say). This pattern of formally educated individuals being the LAST to recognize rising totalitarianism is not new.
Check out this 2012 paper: Why Did So Many German Doctors Join The Nazi Party Early?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23040706/
Congratulations on waking up, Dr. Nicole! That takes tremendous humility, courage, and strength of will—especially for a doctor. Perhaps this article will help your colleagues recover from their menticide:
• “Letter to the Menticided: A 12-Step Recovery Program” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-menticided-a-12-step)
That paper looks fascinating. I have explored this topic extensively in past articles, including:
• “Letter to a Colluder: Stop Enabling Tyranny” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling)
• “Are You a Good German or a Badass German?” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/are-you-a-good-german-or-a-badass)
• “Letter to a Holocaust Denier” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier)
• “Letter to the Washington State Board of Health” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-washington-state-board)
Look forward to reading! Thanks for sharing
I have a friend who’s a doctor and he said most doctors don’t have time to read everything we see. He said if you want your doctor to know something, send it to her so she can read it.
Medicine has been decimated by Obamacare and electronic medical records. As a physician, I'm in a state that did not mandate this so I still use paper charts. My colleagues are completely burned out and hate their jobs, they spend hours every night and weekends with bings and alerts in email from their EHRs and they get paid zero for this extra work, in fact EHRs cost 6 figures. Hence the current practice of one doctor supervising 9 nurse practitioners or PAs and you get punted there when you need an appointment.
Oh my gosh I'm seeing all your comments today Sue and I am officially a big fan! You kept the paper charts?! You Ludditte! You brilliant, brilliant, brave Luddite! ;-)
I love that you know "Luddite" I wear the proud label!!!
you two are my people! I will always remember the teacher who taught me that term....
Thanks for what you’re doing.
I live in the People's Republic of California and have one teenager left in the house.
Just before Comrade Newsom his latest diktat mandating jabs for schoolchildren, I had a conversation with our pediatrician, who has cared for our children for over two decades.
She of course highly recommends the jab. I asked her some pointed questions:
- The risk to our child is near zero. What is the risk reduction benefit from the jab?
"I don't have that number".
- What are the long-term effects of these mRNA jabs.
"Nobody knows."
And then the kicker:
"You just have to take a leap of faith."
This put me at a loss for words, which for me is a rather uncommon event.
So, a Stanford Health Care pediatrician with decades of experience is using religious terminology to justify recommending the experimental jab to a child with almost zero risk.
We have truly passed into the realm of the surreal.
SHE has unclean hands. She is getting paid per jab. Conflict of interest. If I cannot give legal advise for that in which I have a financial interest, how can the doctors?
Most of the doctors don’t get directly much money. Yes for giving the shot but for the most part they’re brainwashed. It is so ingrained in them that it’s safe they refuse to diagnose obvious reactions. I’ve had it happen with mine. It is just random! 🤦♀️
Well if they are associated with a practice group, the group (aka business) gets the payout, so, yes. It enhances their bottom line. Reduces overhead. It is INCOME any way it is parsed. I love how virtuous the guilty pretend to be. Not you, Tigerkatze.
I know. It’s mine boggling. The whole electronic patient chart cost pushed private docs into groups that are simply assembly line ‘well care’.
Yes. I talked to ex husband, a doc who I put through med school in 1978-80, twenty one years ago. Divorced in 1983. He told me in 2000 when I saw him for our youngest daughter’s graduation that docs could not have solo practices any more. High malpractice insurance, other liability costs. He admitted they had lost control of their profession. I have my own law firm with me, my husband of 31 years, and our legal assistant.
I’m surprised she even answered that. Mine would say you’re misinformed. They are safe and effective and generally the holy grail. Now stop those silly questions already. I avoid the ped and I we only see them for acute care and not ‘well checks’.
that is beyond tragic. however, as a former Stanford trainee, I can tell you that their illiberal, thought conforming groupthink borders on psychosis. Look at how they denounced ( via their Maoist declarations) Drs. Scott Atlas and Jay Bhattacharya who have been my personal voices of sanity amidst the madness. This happened a year ago but I can tell you the wounds are still fresh in the medical community https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/30/academic-freedom-questions-arise-campus-covid-19-strategy-conflicts/
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/11/19/faculty-senate-condemns-scott-atlas/
I just escaped employment at College of San Mateo, which was once supposed to be a feeder school to Stanford. The psychosis there is epic. Of course, they received millions of dollars of covid $$ so - they are going to become a 'vax center' isn't that nice? A college practicing medicine, what will they think of next?
I totally feel you.
It has all the elements of a cult. This helps me deal when my compassion is low. BTW I love the handle. To be used as a verb?
Noun. Ablative singular of the Latin "libertas".
I knew I should have taken Latin! Like it even more now. My daughter has selected Latin as an elective, so maybe I'll learn something yet.
I agree with your basic premise here, and I'll illustrate with a little story. Here in WA we had mask rules basically the entire 'crisis' (starting July 2020) until the CDC came out and said vaxxed people don't have to wear a mask. Predictably, most of the masks disappeared from stores and shops.
Here's the important part - during that brief little window (Inslee re-instituted masks in August) the maskers would come into a store and get funny looks from the unmasked. This put them on the opposite side of their comfort zone. Some of them would remove the mask, others would just keep their heads down and do their shopping quickly. They REALLY REALLY REALLY didn't like being on the 'wrong' side, and I'm convinced that's why we have mask rules again. This way the sheep feel like they are on the 'correct' side again, since 'the rules' say that masks are required. Now the sheep are once again with the 'go along' gang, and said sheep feel protected by the expanded size of the flock.
Washington physician here. It’s lonely being awake
Indeed it is. What made you realize what's going on?
Agreed from another fellow Washingtonian. BTW, my patriotic act of civil disobedience is not wearing a mask in stores. I still end up having to (sort of) wear the mask (under my nose) at some places (dentist, etc), but Costco I don't anymore nor at my local grocery store. My poor kids though have to wear the nasty rag every day, even at their private Christian school. I sure wish their school would push back against this tyranny. I've tried to exhort them to do the right thing, but they are too afraid of getting shut down. :-(
It's not easy to go without the mask - it's probably the most courageous thing I've had to do on a regular basis in my whole life. It would be much easier to just go along to get along.
WA lawyer. I feel all this exactly. I wear a one layer Fake Mask when I am forced to wear one. When questioned, I remind the Covidiot that the mandate only says “mask,” not a special kind. NEVER wear the blue ones- graphene oxide in them. Fight back every way you can. We have a sign on our law office door that says we do not discriminate against anyone. When people come in, most ask if they have to wear a mask. I tell them that is their personal decision. When they assure me they are jabbed, I tell them, that is their personal medical business. We don’t have a need to know that. Educate by example as much as you can. Smile at them. Be gracious. As Jesus said of his adversaries, “They know not what they are doing.”
I think I love you!!! These are the kinds of businesses I am dying to patronize. There is a restaurant near us that has a sign on the door that says, "Masks optional". I love them, too.
Come to WA and I will help you with your will :-)
BRAVO!!! Make the mask Mandies show you the policy specifying what type of mask, what weave, thickness/ply or model you must wear to be in compliance with their absurd policy. I did this several times at Costco and I got cow-face back at me. I have cut out the white second layer and left the thin blue layer of surgical masks and went to clinics and even got a mammogram with one. You can see my lips moving through it. Nobody said a word, they're conditioned to just see the mask now and think you're in compliance.
Update Sue Hilda! I have cut the white part out of a bunch of the blue masks and I'm going to send my 10th and 7th graders with them on Monday, explaining what we've done and showing them how to do it. I want them to have some tiny sense of agency - that they are doing something that gives them a bit of control in the midst of the madness. The children, the children. All the children without parents that are telling them to resist living in fear. What will this generation be like? So so scarred. And at least my kids are to the (somewhat) critical thinking age. What about the littles???? Ahhhhhhh! It's enough to make my blood pressure start rising when I think about it.
So far we are doing better in the Netherlands where children under 10 have never had to mask. But the older children have suffered intensely. And we have vax passes for 13+ for frigging everything now. My hubby cannot stand it when I wring my hands about what this is going to wreak for the future of this country. He knows it and I know it, but all we can really do is raise our own intelligently subversive little rascals. I have really started upping my game and my plan this week is to order a set of Orwell's books for future reference as I don't currently own any copies. I have the luxury to homeschool if necessary and by God I'll do a better job of it.
"intelligently subversive little rascals"
Fantastic.
Stay strong Stephenie.
These are hard times that try our souls!
I think you are smart to focus on your family of rascals to prevent despair. Focus on your locus of control.
And yes - getting 1984 and animal farm are good to have on hand!
Hey that is a good idea about cutting them! I'm going to try that
You are a hero!
And dang it my kids wear the blue ones every day at school.
So I should switch them to cloth? Or other recommendations?
There are "fake" masks on Etsy. They are glittery/sparkly which mostly hides the fact that the masks have huge holes in them. A few folks have realized they are fake, but most don't even seem to notice. Often, if I'm checking out at a store the attendant will look up and say "I like your mask!" I just say - yup! it's my dancing with the stars mask! And mostly, seems folks just smile and don't give it another thought. My daughter wears one of those pretty fake masks to school - thank god they've yet to spot it.
The Double Fake Mask (fakemaskworldwide2.com). Looks pretty solid on the outside but breathable. Do not tell them it is a “fake mask.” Kids blurt. I have four, grown up, but I remember.
Thank you! Interestingly, the link was blocked on my browser (and I even use Duck duck go) - but I was able to type in the address. Thanks! My boys' lungs will thank you too.
This worked for me. https://fakemaskworldwide.com/
The problem is complying. Fake masking does nothing to fight back. It's the same as acquiescing. Until parents refuse to mask their kids - which is abuse - and demand this insanity stop, it won't. They will add on new abuses just watch. You are complying - so the punishments will just get worse.
You are fortunate to be in Idaho. I am in WA and it is totally different here. If I fought every battle with the same intensity, I would not have the energy for the important battles. Sometimes, flying under the radar for a quick errand is less aggravation. I deal with conflict daily, as an attorney. Then running my business besides, more conflicts. Just noticed yesterday at home doing online banking that a vendor I cancelled 15 months ago sucked money out of my bank account without my authorization. I had to sit on hold for a half hour with Chase Fraud Unit to dispute the charge. Now, tomorrow, I will have to send another certified, return receipt letter to the President of the Company and the VP of Global Sales (as I did last year when they would not cancel) to stop this insanity. So, a fake mask to run into Safeway for a bag of lettuce? Yes. I am tired and I can only fight so many battles per day. I learned a long time ago in the practice of law, that fighting for the principle of the thing does not always work out the way one wishes. Pick your battles wisely and save your energy for the important ones.
If you think all that's tough - you haven't seen anything yet. I'm not fortunate to be in Idaho; I did everything I could to escape CA. I guess the gravity of the situation is lost on most. Oh well.
Well, I used every bit of strength I had to get TF out of CA. And my rent is cheaper. I don't know why people don't pull up stakes and leave the wokie blue coastal states. It won't end well for you.
Vida, I agree with you in principle. In action, my boys are 12 and 15 and they WANT to go to school. They also DON'T want to draw attention to themselves. I've been advocating as much as I can with the school and the policy-makers, but I can't expect my kids to take a moral stand for something that is my fight and they don't see the long-term implications the way adults do. I have encouraged them that I will back them 100% if they get in trouble for not masking in the classroom; my 12 old plays games where he sees how many periods he can go before a teacher says something, and he likes the fake mask idea. These are some small things.
I'm trying Vida. I'd homeschool them in a second if they'd prefer that. But at the moment, they prefer being with friends and complying than standing up for truth and being persecuted. I wish it were different, but I'm not going to shame them for that at their tender ages.
I will say that they don't wear their masks when we go in stores. I think having me or their dad right there with them helps them find their courage. So they get a taste of civil disobedience.
So your kids make the decisions, even though you know better? Good luck with that.
My daughter tried this in college at the University of Arizona and they kicked her out of classes ... she's planning to transfer if they continue this.
Mine just graduated this past May. We are so thankful they got out right before this dystopian nightmare began. Maybe your DD should just postpone college until (hopefully) the non-delusional regain power of the world.
My son was at Texas Tech and was miserable sitting in his apartment all day doing online classes, ended up coming home for his second semester sophomore year and doing classes online. He's back this year and there are no masks, no mandatory anything, parties, packed football games, and he's doing great. There's no hysterics. At U of A they actually told me that they are going to keep masks until "there is no transmissibility" -- WTF does that mean? My daughter has a doctors note, she can't wear a mask (severe asthma, she has reduced lung capacity and masks make her dizzy.) ... Grand Canyon University, a private college, is full open, no masks, and she's thinking of transferring. She's working to see if she can get the same amount in scholarships that she has now at U of A.
I know exactly how you feel, but sleeping well at night has always been more important to me than just getting along.
The worst part about this whole thing is how many of my friends would have gladly turned in Anne Frank or runaway slaves, because 'it's the law'.
I think about my eventual Life Review when I leave this plane of existence. I prefer being true to myself than going along with the herd. And your are absolutely right about those we thought we could trust. Inslee’s little surrogate eyes are everywhere.
And, it's not even the law.
That is probably the worst part about this entire last couple years. Our actual system of creating laws has simply been bypassed using vague health orders.
And people just follow them. That's why we're screwed. Not because the psychos are putting these vague health orders in place, but because we acquiesce. People think this is going away if they 'just behave' but if you notice, it gets worse and worse.
You can't comply your way out of tyranny.
WA state MD here. I don’t mask unless there’s no option (on a plane but not in an airport)
"unless" - there's the problem. People should refuse, and walk out. No 'unless'. What are people not getting with regard to this?
FL doctor here. Stay strong and brave. I'm glad to hear of left coast doctors that will not submit to the performative religion of the mask and when others see you they will think, OK, maybe I can go without a mask too. This was me last year when my county had a mask mandate yet many stores were not enforcing except for big box/national chains, and now they have dropped it. I am without a mask in my office since the governor rescinded the health emergency on 4/24/21. I am vaccinated. Nothing has happened. Not one case nor COVID in my office in 6 months, even thru the delta surge. This mask madness MUST stop and we are the ones to stop it, the politicians and bureaucrats will not cede an inch and love the control.
Wow. The idea that my kids could even go to the dentist normally seems years away here. They make me CALL from the parking lot, double check if we have COVID-like symptoms, and then they check the boys' temps, etc. Everything is plasticed over and it looks like something out of the last scenes of that movie ET. It's despicable.
The repercussions from delayed and postponed care are going to be epic, I'm so sorry this whole disaster is affecting your children
I hear you about the courage it takes. It would seem such a dinky thing to have to exercise courage on, and yet, truly, I'm not there yet. The farthest I go while out shopping here in WA is to wear the thing below my nose. I look up to the 1% of people I see without a mask on at all.
For that brief respite in summer when we were told vaccinated folks didn't need the rag, I happily joined the 10% or so who were barefaced at the grocery store, and I kept it to myself that I hadn't been jabbed. (If memory serves, the percentage hardly topped 10% here before masking was demanded of us again.)
I guess what I've learned about myself is that I'm happy to break the rules when I don't like them, but I can't bear to be seen to be too brazen about it. So, yay me: it would seem I have neither the virtue of obedience nor that of courage in any great measure. C'est la vie.
You might surprise yourself yet. Sometimes I pray in the car for a moment before going in. I rehearse what I will say to someone if there is a comment or question.
This is the battle of our time. I don't want to sit on the sidelines and regret that I didn't fight when I had the opportunity and the ethical reasons.
I don’t wear one in the grocery. Usually I am one of 2 or 4 or 5 on a good day. I live in a blue city in a purple state. When I first walk in it’s hard. My neighbors wouldn’t take well to seeing me acting so immorally. I am so over this BS and people’s stupidity that I mostly don’t care. It’s been a learning curve for sure. I’m more of a live and left live person. When I last went shopping, I realized that I should probably have something ready to say if I were ever confronted.
I didn’t wear it then either. Now I wear a cloth one as shittily as possible. Small resistances.
I wore a red lace mask for most of the pandemic! Once or twice, I got called out for it, but for the most part, people didn't want to engage. Now, I mostly go bare-faced and just smile at people if they give me a weird look. I think most people realize how contentious all this has become, and they really don't want to get into a fight with a little old Italian lady!
Smile back at them, it confuses them!!!!
As shittily as possible has become my mo also.
Unless you refuse to wear one at all, you're just helping the people who have put out these illegal mandates. Acquiescence = agreement.
Good job fighting the sheep. Are masks required everywhere in WA? This madness has to stop!!!!
Yes they are!! An entire state mandate.
The eastern part of the state is freer, but I live in the epicenter of marxism!
The worst worst worst is the kids. I can make a decision for myself and be refused service (it happens) but the kids won't get to go to school if they don't comply.
I didn't know this, naively I thought it was up to businesses. In FL it depends on the county , and there are like 5 leftist counties where the groupthink is horrendous. I'm in solid R Collier County where I haven't worn a mask in a public setting save healthcare for 6 months (and even then as thin as possible with the 2nd ply cut out). It's child abuse for the kids, full stop. Kids aren't developing language, socialization, reading, speech and their immune systems are being wrecked by masks. I would home school if I lived there, or move.
If it was up to businesses, everybody would go where they don't require masks.
Inslee knows this so he doesn't give us the choice.
I have refused to wear one and last winter I was the only one who did so, over here in southeast Boise. It's not CA (I ran screaming from there in 8/2020), but they still have a Karen attitude in many places. I make it my goal to NEVER wear one. So far, so good.
I observed exactly the same thing
Good God this is a giant psychosis!!! The mask does nothing to contain or prevent covid. Everyone I know who had COVID was "really careful and masked all the time" and still got it. I wonder if it hampers immunity to rebreathe your own vapor laden exhalations--it must. Keep fighting! Wear as thin a weave as possible and go without even the second you walk out of the automatic doors pull it off!
this story is pleasantly, though distressingly, insightful. thanks
Your posts are my catnip 😻
Same :)
"that most astonishing and un-killable cockroach of public health tony fauci" Still laughing!
yes and posing on covers of mags like he is a rock and roll god. smug prick...(excuse dirty word). hopefully one day we all will have the last laugh as he is kicked to the curb.
I am an NP in MI that sees primarily elderly patients with vascular disease. Most are at high risk from multiple comorbidities (DM, obesity, HTN, etc), as well as advanced age (70+). Most are eagerly pursuing boosters, and the population that I see has been heavily vaccinated early on last winter-several, with breakthrough infections and hospitalizations. It seems to me, as generations are now widely-spread out geographically, the decreased physical closeness of an extended family, and perhaps decreased spirituality or religious presence in many people's lives, many of my patients are truly fearful of dying. They are staying home, masking up, and avoiding people and thus potential exposures. Many are very anxious about dying, and I suspect they are all watching way too much TV. They are spending their final years choosing not to live, in an attempt to avoid death.
100% I agree with this assessment. America (the world?) is covered in a crippling spirit of fear. Once you realize that you can be at peace with dying (even of COVID!) then the other pieces fall into place and it's easy to say no thanks to mask and vax.
When friends try to bludgeon me with “But you could die!” because I refuse to get vaccinated, my response is—besides sharing the extraordinary low odds of that happening—that if it’s my time, it’s my time. I’d rather die an honest death than one caused by me being too scared to stay true to who I am. I am sure they think I am brainwashed. You can see it in their eyes that they just can’t comprehend that I am not captured by fear.