Our Greatest Duty
“There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Rearden,” Francisco said softly, “except one: the refusal to think.”
― Ayn Rand
If you are already eye-rolling at a lead from this notorious thinker, then good, you need this and more of it. If you are a medical student having your head stuffed as full of politically-motivated garbage as is my frozen chicken with crawfish etouffee (man, am I looking forward to Fat Tuesday), then stop and question them! If they are willing to lie about non-science issues, why wouldn’t they lie about the scientific ones? If you are a beat-down, corporate-owned doc just trying to pay your mortgage and get the kids through post-mask therapy…you have my honest sympathies, but you too cannot escape this inexorable equation: we each have to think, and cannot abdicate this responsibility without awful, unforeseen consequences.
Recently I dumped an online CME service I’ve used for years because they had a module where credits were earned by identifying vaccine “misinformation,” because of course, I can’t think for myself. Recently I got an email from a happy-cheerleader-puppies+sunshine competitor of this site, wherein a mewling, whining ER doc sniffed about the “death of empathy” as she started bashing those in the waiting room who had not been vaccinated. I am not anti-vax, have written so repeatedly, so don’t bother accusing me of the same. But like the besieged medical students and whipworn practicing docs, I was trained to believe the pronouncements from the CDC, the NIH, and the IOM (the latter that cranked out that deceitful, corrupt 1999 report that resulted in the destructive extortions of the gangster MOC industry). It is not breaking news that the CDC, NIH, and Fauci’s NIAID are all on the take for mega-millions from Big Pharma, and so their declarations should always be viewed with extreme skepticism, never more so than their rise to feudal authority during the virus panic.
Do you recommend to your patients that they take the COVID-19 vaccine? If so, it should be based on YOUR best judgment, with the honest calculation that the risk-benefit ratio favors vaccination for that individual. Do you recommend that your patients do not take the jab? Same as above.
Recently the news has exploded from the New York Times that, “The CDC has admitted it is withholding large portions of COVID-19 data — including on vaccine boosters — from the public because it fears the information could be misinterpreted.” Because the lay public is too ignorant to think for themselves. Because physicians need to get their marching orders, and not worry about the details (the link is not to the NYT, behind a paywall, so help yourself).
“Among the data that has been collected but not made public is hospitalizations broken down by age, race and vaccination status over the last year and information on the effectiveness of booster shots.
When the CDC released data on the effectiveness of boosters for adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it did not include full numbers on those between 18 and 49 (my emphasis).
That data showed the booster shots were least likely to benefit younger adults because two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, or one dose of Johnson & Johnson, already left them well protected.” Wouldn’t young hipsters getting ready to march in a Vegans for Forced Vaccination rally want to know this? Wouldn’t parents want to know this? Wouldn’t you? By any available numbers, the odds of a child dying in a car accident en route to the pediatrician’s office for a vaccination against COVID are greater than actually dying of the virus. Why are the public health forces and Big Pharma pushing for mass pediatric COVID-19 vaccination, and where are the physicians pushing back against this crime?
I have heard and read far too many hospital administrators and – worse – doctors merely parroting the orders from the CDC without thought, qualification, or doubt. I know of one case where a psychiatrist told his patient, who already had COVID, that it was a “crime against humanity” not to accept the vaccine. This is not medicine, but frightening herd ideology of the kind that leads to and rationalizes any assault on the individual. Last fall the CDC weighed in on making RENTAL HOUSING POLICY. If they can do that, force hospital administrators to enforce pointless mask-wearing, and force benumbed doctors to unthinkingly administer vaccines and boosters to the horizon against a nearly harmless variant…what CAN’T they do?
If you choose not to recommend COVID vaccination to a patient, you must do so based on your best judgment, with their best interests in mind. If you recommend vaccination based only on guidelines from a financially captured, politically motivated CDC, and boosters to the horizon, well…
If we abdicate our obligation to THINK, then we are merely camp guards waiting to load the next boxcar.
Thank you!! When information is withheld, rational thought on recommendations is impeded, and “informed consent” is impossible. And when mandates are issued, rational thought is criminalized. If the medical part of health care is to be based on science, we should be questioning and testing everything, and widely sharing our thoughts and findings. At present, it’s not “follow the science”, it’s “follow the money”.
HooRah dear Physician.. Talking like a REAL PHYSICIAN.. I being a peon as a Physician Assistant-Certified for 45 years agree completely. I am almost 72 now. I have early Myelodysplastic disease.If I take a VAX odds are it will kill me from blood clots..Neat! aint it.. No Vax for Me.. It may be all those folks who took the Vax may develop OTHER PROBLEMS!?.. We Shall See. If anyone gives a Vax to a kid anyone under 21 yrs old should be charged with Child Abuse.. Benefits do NOT are not beneficial.. The Vax is More dangerous than the Disease to young people.. anyone under the age of 49 with good health…
Now if we could just charge those pediatricians psychologists,psychiatrists and social workers who recommend or encourage meds/surgery on children who might be “trans” ,avoid the parents. They are a danger to our Children..Evil comes in many Forms.. Amazing is it not..
It was doctors who first reviewed the new arrivals from the boxcars to decide their immediate fate.