Especially since early on, the diagnosis was made on a "positive" PCR technique, which was not designed to be a test at all according to Mullis, who invented the procedure.
In my social circle I meet a lot of health care personnel, especially doctors, and when…
Especially since early on, the diagnosis was made on a "positive" PCR technique, which was not designed to be a test at all according to Mullis, who invented the procedure.
In my social circle I meet a lot of health care personnel, especially doctors, and when they'd make the statement that so and so had "COVID," I'd ask them how they knew that. It was always "they had a positive PCR" at least til other tests came along. Not one ever believed me when I told them that it was not designed as a test. Also, apparently not one of them ever heard of false positive results and accepted a positive PCR as "gospel," symptoms or no.
As far as attempting to initiate a collaborative approach, I would guess a person would be battling a headwind since so many docs don't have a clue as to how little they actually know and that goes particularly for the young ones. They, like many young folk, act like they're convinced that they know everything. Part of it is the arrogance of youth coupled with a position of authority and a decent paycheck. I've long been amused at how people tend to act if they think they have a buck or two more than the next guy.
The other problem I see is that traditionally the route to obtaining medical training has been highly competitive so the ones that come through that come out thinking they must be gawd's gift to the world, a suspicion they no doubt harbored since forever. It's part of a the larger problem of handing out degrees to anyone and everyone able to get a loan and giving them some certificate that proves, in their (rather limited) minds, that they must have all the answers.
Ben Franklin, at the tender age of 16 and with two years of formal schooling under his hat wrote this editorial as "Silence Dogood." He was poking fun at the graduates of "Haw-vawd."
“I reflected in my Mind on the extream Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dulness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will needs send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.”
Before I was a pharmacist I worked in a coal-fired power plant as a chemist. One of the techs there had a Harvard MBA, and he was absolutely one of the dumbest individuals I’ve ever known in my life.
It's a brainwashing, obedient worker training, adolescent prolonging, narcissism promoting, and debt slavery system. To be avoided because no one really needs what they offer and it produces pompous mental and spiritual cripples who can obviously be rather easily manipulated through false promises and a herd mentality. All that is just for starters.
Accurate analysis. I will also include predictive programming in your list, as this contributes to the constantly confused mind and creates a permanent state of cognitive dissonance.
That could be fascinating. My PharmD nephew mentioned the CT findings in March 2020. I've heard almost nothing except PCR, and slight mention of antigens and antibodies, in the lamestream press. By "other infections" do you mean coronaviruses generally, or SARS/covid specifically? I noticed no bronchial inflammation from Omicron.
Well maybe they should be, but most seem to rely on the PCR "test" and maybe some antibody test. I doubt many patients have had a chest CT.
My point was that the true rate of infection is unknown because many doctors themselves haven't a clue as to how to diagnose it. Utterly ineffable incompetance or insouciance or worse.
"Caveat emptor" applies in spades when dealing with the commercial-medical complex.
Having lived in a neighborhood full of health care "professionals" who worked at a nearby "renowned" medical center opened my eyes to another side of reality. The general lack of integrity and humility was shocking with vanishingly few exceptions.
"All of the “Covid deaths” are fraudulent..."
Most of the diagnoses are as well.
Especially since early on, the diagnosis was made on a "positive" PCR technique, which was not designed to be a test at all according to Mullis, who invented the procedure.
In my social circle I meet a lot of health care personnel, especially doctors, and when they'd make the statement that so and so had "COVID," I'd ask them how they knew that. It was always "they had a positive PCR" at least til other tests came along. Not one ever believed me when I told them that it was not designed as a test. Also, apparently not one of them ever heard of false positive results and accepted a positive PCR as "gospel," symptoms or no.
As far as attempting to initiate a collaborative approach, I would guess a person would be battling a headwind since so many docs don't have a clue as to how little they actually know and that goes particularly for the young ones. They, like many young folk, act like they're convinced that they know everything. Part of it is the arrogance of youth coupled with a position of authority and a decent paycheck. I've long been amused at how people tend to act if they think they have a buck or two more than the next guy.
The other problem I see is that traditionally the route to obtaining medical training has been highly competitive so the ones that come through that come out thinking they must be gawd's gift to the world, a suspicion they no doubt harbored since forever. It's part of a the larger problem of handing out degrees to anyone and everyone able to get a loan and giving them some certificate that proves, in their (rather limited) minds, that they must have all the answers.
Ben Franklin, at the tender age of 16 and with two years of formal schooling under his hat wrote this editorial as "Silence Dogood." He was poking fun at the graduates of "Haw-vawd."
“I reflected in my Mind on the extream Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dulness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will needs send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.”
Silence Dogood
(Silence Dogood, No. 4)
Printed in The New-England Courant, May 14, 1722.
https://franklinpapers.org/framedVolumes.jsp
Before I was a pharmacist I worked in a coal-fired power plant as a chemist. One of the techs there had a Harvard MBA, and he was absolutely one of the dumbest individuals I’ve ever known in my life.
I always appreciate it when someone makes the point to repeatedly tell you they went to Harvard ;)
“You can always tell a Harvard man. You just can’t tell him much.”
Because they haven't the capacity to learn much.
Even Ben Franklin made the point. Did you notice the "Silence Dogood" quote I posted? If not, you'll probably get a hoot out of it.
Best response: "Oh really? I couldn't tell."
Like the Colonel I worked under. Terrible officer. “West Point this, West Point that...” was his mantra.
Yes, big egos indeed. We can, in part, thank the education system in America for that one.
They make it seem as if there are only a few universities every child must attend to be able to have any worth in society.
Shameful.
It's a brainwashing, obedient worker training, adolescent prolonging, narcissism promoting, and debt slavery system. To be avoided because no one really needs what they offer and it produces pompous mental and spiritual cripples who can obviously be rather easily manipulated through false promises and a herd mentality. All that is just for starters.
Tragic.
Accurate analysis. I will also include predictive programming in your list, as this contributes to the constantly confused mind and creates a permanent state of cognitive dissonance.
Good to chat with you, Goeff.
Covid diagnoses are based on chest CT showing bronchial inflammation. (NB: Not generally advised because it causes high radiation exposure.)
There are also fairly distinct laboratory values you don't see in other infections.
That could be fascinating. My PharmD nephew mentioned the CT findings in March 2020. I've heard almost nothing except PCR, and slight mention of antigens and antibodies, in the lamestream press. By "other infections" do you mean coronaviruses generally, or SARS/covid specifically? I noticed no bronchial inflammation from Omicron.
Well maybe they should be, but most seem to rely on the PCR "test" and maybe some antibody test. I doubt many patients have had a chest CT.
My point was that the true rate of infection is unknown because many doctors themselves haven't a clue as to how to diagnose it. Utterly ineffable incompetance or insouciance or worse.
"Caveat emptor" applies in spades when dealing with the commercial-medical complex.
Having lived in a neighborhood full of health care "professionals" who worked at a nearby "renowned" medical center opened my eyes to another side of reality. The general lack of integrity and humility was shocking with vanishingly few exceptions.
"… but man, proud man!
Dress'd in a little brief authority,—
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence,—like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal."
MEASURE FOR MEASURE Act2, Scene 2.
by William Shakespeare
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1530/pg1530.html
Even with his erroneous idea regarding the spleen, I think Shakespeare would've made a better physician than a lot of what we're burdened with today!