Don’t Let Them Rewrite History or….
We will never learn from it.
To be honest, when CV19 hit I was all in on what Fauci and the CDC said. Then the inconsistencies started and I was suspicious. Then the lies started and I was pissed.
This video above was not made by Vinay Prasad MD MPH but he did comment on it at @VPrasadMDMPH
Yes. I think the video is accurate. And on many other issues his story is inconsistent. He did recommend school closure. In fact he criticized DeSantis for reopening. He recommended cloth masking, at a population level, which he denies. Media won’t cover it honestly.
Recently, CNN got Fauci back on and I see the plan as clear as day.
They are trying to rewrite history!
I like the following quote by Bret Weinstein, which I found recently:
People were required, coerced, misled and threatened into taking vaccines. Others were ostracized, shamed and impoverished for refusing. We were defamed and demonetized for discussing it. The injured were heartlessly gaslit. But no one was physically forced. Bret Weinstein
Remember the quote, “Because…science”?
Well, those people caused millions to distrust science with what happened. There are NO noble lies! The truth is important. We can never learn from our mistakes if we don’t admit them first.
THIS SHOULD NOT BE POLITICAL. STOP POLITICITIZING SCIENCE!
I have to agree with Michele. As I have stated here before, this virus was (and still is) a moving target. As my veterinarian told me in 2020, coronavirus plays havoc with animals, and look what happened to people. The ones who were hardest hit were elderly, immune-impaired, obese, diabetic, and unvaccinated, and frequently those who ignored the mask and no-gather mandates (like church choirs). As soon as the first dose of the vaccine was available at my hospital (connected to the clinic I volunteer at to treat the indigent, as I’m retired and “elderly”) I raced over to the immunization area, unshowered, and said “Hit me!” I’ve gotten all the boosters except this past spring, when, it seemed, the virus was in the rear-view mirror. I’ll get the next one next month, for sure, with the virus’ new strains seemingly increasing. And I’ll get the RSV vaccine and my annual flu shot. I haven’t had the Shingrix yet but my Zostavax years ago has been reported to decrease the risk of dementia! So maybe it’s good enough, and maybe for once I’ll go against the CDC recommendations! Meanwhile, I think I’ll pull my best mask out just in case…
Any of you have the experience of leading a hospital and medical staff through training for Crisis Standards of Care? Running out of ventilators or PPE or even Fentanyl to sedate intubated patients? Having to SOFA score patients to deny care (not just to covid patients, we are talking about all incoming and admitted patients including surgeries, acute MI, MVA trauma). We had never been in this situation before in the US, where our luxurious resources made us believe that the idea of overwhelming the system was unthinkable. Those who didn’t see it cannot believe it. Before the vaccines we watched our own hospital coworkers die of COVID. We needed time to stop the inpatient overwhelm, to develop treatments and vaccines. Thank God for the vaccines turning things around. I found more lies coming out of the Trump administration (where the CDC was compromised in doing their “scientific” job, and Dr Deborah Birx was gagged from speaking her science as Trump in a live briefing asked health officials to examine if injecting bleach could fight covid). Yes, there was horrible fallout from lock-down and other mandates, school closures and loss of jobs. It was unprecedented and damaging. We were in a complete crisis of care, and that is the reason for the masks and mandates, to slow things down, We still lost many loved ones, but it would have been many many more. Now that the virus is weaker and we have treatments, I do not foresee the same level of need for mandates. Let those who want to take a chance with their own health do so.
The virus, from Wuhan, killed millions. Yet they lied about the origins. They lied about masks. They lied about social distancing. They lied about the efficacy of the vaccine. They forced school closures to placate the teacher’s union. They killed peoples’ businesses like restaurants, etc. Remember “two weeks to slow the spread”. But three years? Bad things happened but it doesn’t excuse lying. Stop protecting them. What Trump said was stupid. Agreed. Shall we count how many stupid things Biden said? Even Birx, btw, was a liar. It is not okay what they did. Masking doesn’t work. I wish it did. They destroyed the trust patients had with the medical establishment. Enough is enough.
You should read “A Plague Upon Our House” by Scott Atlas, MD. Brought in late to the fight, he was the only actual public health expert on the COVID Task Force. He observed the contemptible Birx use color coded charts for states regarding their case numbers and expected spread using widely varying methodologies which invalidates her recommendations, and she would become unhinged and yell at those who questioned her. Your arguments demonstrate how emotionalism won the day, and how doctors’ panic wrecked the nation and destroyed trust in our profession.
Categorically NO!
Didn’t comply in 2020 and will not do it now.
Unvaccinated, unapologetic, unmasked and unafraid.