Unpacking Truth

Things That Won't Age Well

A few pieces to add to your historical collection of the lies we have lived through and the news stories that aren’t going to age like a fine wine 🍷

Then there is opinion piece from The Hill. It makes my stomach hurt to read it. I can’t believe a trained medical doctor considered these thoughts, wrote them on paper, published them to the world and then put her name on it. If you are on the search for a new medical provider, a quick way to weed out your new physician would be to ask his/her thoughts on denying treatment. You might even go as far to ask did he/she research any early treatment modalities for COVID and offer them to patients. Your pool of providers will be severely narrowed or you will at least understand the lack of critical thinking of your current provider.

In our uniquely and deeply individualistic society, discussions of social dilemmas are quickly reduced to questions of personal liberty, choice and compulsion. Threats to essential institutions take a back seat to the widely reported and always moving stories of individuals. 

Given the resultant deep cleavage in worldviews, two camps emerge. Those who value science, American medicine and our health care systems are those who get vaccinated, wear masks and try to follow the evolving rules. We make every effort to stay out of the hospital unless all else fails.

Those of us facing regular visits to hospital clinics, the emergency room, dialysis or pre-transplant appointments must go the extra mile, answering the COVID-19 symptom questions, taking the test of the day and showing our vaccination cards — just to get through the door. We do this to protect ourselves, other patients and hospital staff. Because we survive on the fruits of this amazing system, we honor its demands.

At the same time — and in the same country — tens of millions of people differ strongly. They expect health care professionals to practice some version of the Hippocratic Oath, but they seem to practice what could be called “the Curse of Hypocrisy.” They appear to be comfortable treating society’s institutions as dispensable and disposable. Many ridicule medical best practices, promote fraudulent cures and demonize the nation’s leading infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci as well as tireless physicians and nurses. Yet, the people turn to them in breathless agony when, at warp speed, their ongoing vaccination denial turns to deadly disease. This solipsistic concern of the unvaccinated for only their well-being is at its heart profoundly anti-social. 

If you have read this far and can stomach one more paragraph 🤢

COVID-19 has attacked our society, its institutions and its people mercilessly. With nearly 1 million dead and with thousands more ill and our hospitals on life support, we cannot be guided by a distorted reading of Hippocrates or a rampant epidemic of hypocrisy. Ideally, those who seem to live in a distorted reality will somehow begin to revise their anti-science and anti-medical views. Failing that, they can abandon their hypocrisy and stay true to their skepticism by avoiding hospitals and, when stricken, treat themselves with the questionable cures they tout at home.

This last piece is just a photo, I have exhausted the number of times I can click for free to read a NY Times piece and hell will likely freeze over before I donate to the Globalist agenda. This news story just popped up yesterday 🙄. I thought we had moved beyond the nonsense that this came from the wet market. Propaganda!