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Then and Now, on the Fly
A friend emailed me just the other day to ask for my prayers for his father, who is hospitalized because of a blood clot in his leg. He had gotten the Pfizer booster last Wednesday and … you can fill in the blanks.
Then … we trusted medical professionals, relied on our family doctor, and knew that all outcomes were not propitious. Being human meant death, in the long run, and sadly, sometimes not the long run. But we knew and trusted those who cared for our bodies (as we did those who cared for our souls).
Now … We wonder what has happened. I, and perhaps you, like to blame Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, the CDC, and Joe Biden. They are targets of opportunity, deservedly so. Their incompetence is so glaring that even someone as ignorant as I am can see it.
Stepping back one step, I’d say the elite progressive class is responsible for much of the failure not only of public health policy, but of the entire catastrophe of our medical system. Too much tech in the hands of the wrong kind of experts, too much meddling, too many Teddy Kennedys fiddling with HMOs and whatnot for the public good.
But the truth is we also happened. We expected more tech to give us longer, happier lives. Tech got it half right. We expected medicine, a victim of its own success, to give us everything we ever wanted or needed. But it could not give us the human touch. The way you know that is that all the big health conglomerates advertise that they have the human touch.
Now, my doctor is a gatekeeper. I like him personally, but his role is simply to point me to this testing facility and that specialist. If I were him, I would not like my job.
If you wish, feel free to pray for my friend’s father. He was actually a teacher of mine my fifth-grade year, and I remember him fondly. And pray for our desiccated, etiolated nation. We could use some humanity.
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Our good friends mother was pressured into getting the vaxx by her husband. Now she’s dealing with two blood clots.
Praying for that man, my mother, our friend, and everyone else who was victimized by this industry.
ANYONE taking a Covid vaccine or booster should take an aspirin a day for a week before and 90 days after (unless having a known bleeding or clotting disorder, in which case talk to you hematologist).
Vince, so very many people have been victimized by the Covid industry and by the medical establishment’s complicity in their crimes. It makes me sick.
This. Too much money in the system, too. That came about because of wage controls. Benefits were offered instead. At the time, the benefits didn’t cost much, but as soon as someone else was paying the bills, people expected everything.
Not me.
Actually, I’ve always wanted medicine to take care of catastrophic accidents or illnesses, if possible, to stay out of my way regarding vitamins, and let me have antibiotics on occasion. I still regard my life expectancy at what it was when I was five, in other words, age 71. Got just a handful of years to go.
But for pete’s sake, Medicine Folks, don’t kill us, imprison us, or shut us out of society.
Agree if by “Medicine Folks” you mean the officials who made the rules, but not if you mean the docs. I have been quick to criticize the profession as a whole since I lean strongly toward so-called “alternative medicine,” but physicians have been pressured every which way and big pharma appears to run too much of their education. I don’t know why anyone would want to go into medicine today. I’ve heard doctors say this for years, but now it seems beyond argument. I would like to have seen many more physicians stand up to the tyranny but I understand, too, how difficult that is.
I am not vaxxed but I did have Covid and my physician ordered the D-Dimer test and then when my numbers were a bit high prescribed a proteolytic enzyme until my test improves (I can’t take aspirin). Nasty little spike proteins.
Well, that’s why I didn’t say doctors. I mean whoever has any say in determining what modern medical practice and its standards of care is, including regulating bodies, either professional or governmental, and for-profit corporations, and their lobbyists.