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Thus my constant banging of the drum here about political capture and political content in medicine. The right thing is now the left wing horseshit and brainlessness, but again the kernel was there.
I guess it's possible that my intuitions are wrong about viral inoculation, my conceptualization is that low enough inoculation and your immune system clears it before replication time gives you a full illness.
When it comes to celebrities they seem to have mostly hidden in beach houses and such. Colin Powell, Herman Cain, Tommy Lister ...shit why do I only remember intimidating black men.
Haha not sure -- I admit to have heard of Herman Cain, but not prior to him dying of covid and being relentlessly mocked by all the good people -- Powell certainly counts, I'm surprised that I hadn't heard of his passing. Maybe there were some inconveniences there for the bloody-shirt wavers given that he was not only fully vaccinated, but also apparently "had multiple myeloma, ... surgery for prostate cancer ... and, more recently, Parkinson's disease."
No idea who Tommy Lister is, but if you were a fan prior to covid he counts -- as I said I'm Canadian so know more hockey players than intimidating black dudes.
But they (virtually) all got it eventually, right? Same as everyone else.
Dawg have you not seen The Fifth Element?
Herman Cain was a presidential candidate in the Obama era but Canadian is a good excuse.
re: lethality keep in mind that it's part of the expected course of a disease to eventually become less lethal as it mutates rolling through the population, which was observed with the various covid strains (not to mention the vaccines and immunity slowly building up). Importantly if you look closely a lot of people were pre-registering this so it's not a mere post-hoc justification.
I mean I did, but like 30 years ago and I don't think his name was, like headlining? Certainly the film had other... more memorable elements.
The last part is completely correct of course -- I do recall being told by Serious People at the time that I shouldn't expect it in this case and needed to Take The Vaccine and Stay The Fuck At Home however -- these people need to at least apologize (for this and their even bigger lies) if they want me to help them out -- that's the bottom line.
Exactly five of them.
I remember lots of language about flatten the curve until genetic drift, vaccines, and herd immunity kicked in. By the time vaccines rolled out to gen pop it was effectively over, now politicians and public health officials not reopening in a timely fashion is a problem, but it has little to do with the actual medicine and is mostly purity spirals etc.
OK I guess -- but those purity spirals were literally being driven by the people in charge of the healthcare system. Also individual doctors to some extent, although dissenters did face serious consequences from the people in charge of the healthcare system if they spoke publicly, so some people could maybe be considered victims. (chickenshit ones, but I have some sympathy)
So that is my stance: until the people who did this (ie. the people in charge of the healthcare system apologize and give some credible indication that they won't do it again, I will not only not believe and/or comply with anything they say, but will actively oppose them. If that means that the tree of liberty gets watered with the blood of some 85 y.o.'s with multiple myleoma and Parkinsons, it's sad -- but so be it.
The people in charge of the healthcare system are not politicians, they are the administrative state, both within medicine but also just the dems and their media apparatus etc.
Individual doctors were not in charge and just got their marching orders and beliefs via download as per usual.
Healthcare is rotted just like everything else but those tendrils are from elsewhere.
They tend to also be some form of doctor themselves though -- you can add "bring back medical ethics" to "I want an apology" if you like -- throw a pony on the list, I like ponies.
Hospitals aren't really run by doctors anymore, this is partly by law and partly by incentive (other types of staff, like nurses can increase income by moving into admin but doctors in the U.S. usually make less). Physicians can't own hospitals, and a lot of places will have an on paper doctor who is in charge of something as a medical director or whatever but doesn't actually run anything and exists mostly as a liability sponge.
Public health stuff is its own specialty and you can cast them into the fire. There are a few exceptions like Fauci but as is usual with a lot of doctor stuff we aren't really responsible for most problems.
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