Behind the Mask

Beset on all sides by Big Insurance thieves, Big Government looters, avaricious non-doctor LELTs, and the always circling malpractice lawyers is bad enough.  After dissipating a lot of traditional goodwill by promoting COVID panic, the beleaguered profession of medicine has enough Sisyphean Mountain to climb without picking up an extra bag of rocks along the way.  For far too many of the herd media and therefore the cowed public, the face of medicine is the amoral destroyer Dr. Fauci.  Recently we were treated to a story about a fourth-year medical student bragging about jabbing a patient twice because she/her didn’t like his politics.  So, when a federal judge struck down the moronic mask mandate for airlines,the last thing we needed were idiot doctors like “Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician).”

Early on mass masking was shown to be a joke, and the few physicians who said so were dismissed, disdained, fired, or threatened with loss of license.  Running around in a permanently de-faced state was seized upon overnight to be an outward signal of seriousness and compassion, despite no credible data ever showing the actual worth.  I routinely tell ER patients trying to mumble through the damn things to take them off, that I HAVE to wear one, but that it is only for show.  The last time I flew, I made sure to follow all the rules and garb up (pic above) to embrace the idiocy of it all (my girlfriend went to futile lengths to avoid me in the terminal).

When the mask mandate was ended, Faust emptied his purse on Twitter: “Hi @united.  When I bought my tickets for me, my wife (who is pregnant), and our unvaccinated 4-year-old, I assumed you would continue to have a mask mandate. Now you cancel it and we will have to board our return flight under your new no mask required policy?! Thanks so much.”

And then: “The odd thing about my being disappointed in @united dropping its mask mandate is how many people who claim to love kids are totally cool with this meaning that a small number of babies will die of Covid, when we’re weeks away from a vaccinate (sic) for all ages over 6 months.”

And then: “Imagine celebrating the deaths of a small number of kids so that you don’t have to wear a mask on a plane. What happened to decency?”

Faust (what a perfect surname) can wear all the masks, goggles, shields, gloves, and HAZMAT suits he likes for all I care, and the same goes for his progeny, poor things.  But like the “vaccines,” if the masks actually work, why does he care who else wears them?  And speaking of “vaccines,” exhorting them for toddlers is plainly obscene in its unnecessary danger. 

If there is anything more insufferable than an ostentatious handwringer, it’s one waving his MD label around as some sort of phony credibility to justify his politics.  And that’s the point of this piece.  Increasingly through the dubious comforts of social media, twerps like Faust are acting as ideological agents trying to force their views on everyone else using false terms of compassion, safety, and tolerance.  It is sad and scary that bleating medical students are being indoctrinated by idiots like this whose prescriptions have the intellectual rigor of the average Tik Tok video.  His kind are mean-spirited and a complete disservice to this strangled profession.  Worse than being complete jokes – and they are – is that they have become the public face of medicine as a profession wiling to whore its moral authority to politicians, bureaucrats, and sympathetic media who will force their prescriptions on everyone else.  I’ll say it again, to make sure you didn’t miss it:  these people who hide behind their little costume white coats and social media posts are agents of force against the individual, something every physician should resist.  They are easily, unwittingly exploited, even as they self-immolate.  They should be laughed at, yes, but they should also be fought at every chance.