ME: “I’ve lost trust in Medicine.” MEDICINE: “Don’t come.”
My response
Maybe you should instead explain the failure of medicine and public health especially over the last three years.
(1) Covid was a nothing burger to anyone without multiple comorbidities, and so how is it that the medical community allowed itself to frighten the population to such an extent that the average person in the U.S. believed 9% of the population had already died of Covid by summer 2020, and the average respondent in Australia believed the infection fatality rate was 38%?
https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1428910753575325700?s=20
(2) The non-pharmaceutical interventions (lockdowns, shutdowns, social distancing) didn’t slow transmission, had devastating harms, and violated civil liberties en masse. They were strongly recommended against as of 2019, so how did the medical community treat lockdowns as “common sense”?
https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1254796958964858882?s=20
(3) Why did the medical community allow so many panicked changes to medical practice, and encourage people to stay away from hospitals?
https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1343597474334838791?s=20
(4) Why were doctors losing their ability to practice just because they chose to try Ivermectin?
(5) Why did the medical community embrace and encourage mandatory masking when they don’t work, have harms, and encourage immuno-suppressed and sick people to socialize? And why did the medical community allow people to falsely believe surgeons wear masks to slow respiratory viruses, when they wear them to stop spittle, not aerosols?
https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1629598883981451268?s=20
(6) Why did the medical community not give the full information about the vaccines, such as that they were never tested for transmission, nor for all cause mortality? That’s a violation of the “informed” part of informed consent.
(7) Why did the medical community refuse to write letters giving those with natural immunity a vaccination exemption? This was a failure to recognize the superiority of natural immunity, and the extra unnecessary risks of taking a vaccine.
https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1418238879912628228?s=20
(8) Why did the medical community in many places refuse medical treatment to those that are unvaccinated? Hint: It’s because they fell into the same human-universal “hate the unclean out group” behavior.
(9) Why did the medical community encourage and/or not speak out against the State censoring voices critical of the public health response to Covid? That again ensured the population was not informed.
https://www.freex.group/1a-xase.html
(10) Where was the medical community when people were told to vax or lose their job, and be unable to go to public establishments or travel? That’s straightforward coercion, and another en masse violation of informed consent.
The medical community were abject failures over the last three years, fanning the flames of fear, demanding obeisance to the Zero Covid Cult’s rules, canceling opponents, cheerleading any and all restrictions suggested by the State, and having no appreciation for civil liberties, cost benefit analyses, or bodily autonomy.
We will indeed steer clear of medicine so long as medicine continues to steer clear of their central responsibility: do no harm.
After living through covid, probably 10 people in my family went from "My doctor knows best, I'll do whatever he recommends; I can't do better than my Doctor's recommendation anyways if I tried" to some degree of "I know you are full of sh*t now, I know your sources of knowledge are corrupt, I know you can't do math and I know you aren't free to give me your knowledge to the best of your ability due to political constraints. I will treat you as I treat a used car salesman for the foreseeable future, I'll never take another vaccine in my entire life and what are those people you call 'quacks' recommending, by the way?"
Unfortunately, there are still some parts of my family who would inject manure into their vein if their MD recommended it.
I have only gone to the doctor when absolutely necessary, during the past 3 years (since February 2020). Absolutely necessary: to accompany elderly parents on their appointments or to the ER, or for my own absolutely necessary eye appointments.
Masks all the way, up until my most recent appointment last month. I saw my doctor continuing to put his mask on for the elderly patients who continued to wear their masks, and take it off for any patients who were not wearing one. It's so bizarre. Why? Being polite? Why not just kindly tell your patients that the masks do not work to prevent transmission of viral illness? Set an example?
I told him it was wonderful to finally be able to see what he actually looks like after these few years, as opposed to the photo on the website. So crazy-making.
No, I am not going to "find another doctor" because that's a needle in a haystack exercise around here, and otherwise I have a very competent doctor I trust for my eyes, which is extremely important to me.
I'm angry about the forced participatory charade, which is far from over.