As we try to find words for exactly how we should object to medical tyranny, I would like to suggest one complaint that captures a growing aspect of the problem: elected officials, HR departments, and university administrators are practicing medicine without a license.
It is clear that health policy regarding covid is imposed by a central authority to the extent that in many cases even basic treatment is no longer possible by the physician. Sicking at home is the message. A small minority of physicians simply could not let this happen to high-risk patients and took matters into their own hands. The one-size-fits-all approach is downright criminal. Vaccination is the only remedy and the only message. Everything else doesn't exist if it isn't first approved by the bureaucrats. There comes a point when you don't even try to understand anymore, because the rationale in the discourse is simply lacking.
When you recommend a patient and doctor make a decision, I assume you are thinking of a individual discussion.
This cultural and political battle already has oppositional premises baked in. The covidians and leftists take a collectivist perspective when addressing any problem in the news, so your recommendation is indecent and mockable to them regardless of content.
Therefore, in their minds, if they do want consensus with you, they would likely say, "I agree David, which is why I support my school system superintendent imposing a mask, distancing, testing, and generally hysterical program, because, as he says, he is following Dr. Linda Vail, Ingham County, and Dr. Walensky. He is turning off his mind, and acting like a robot, because he knows he is not a doctor."
Likewise, I am pretty sure most pastors are doing the same. Wet the finger, put in the air to measure emotional winds, and make (%<& up.
Appreciate the reply. I was aware of that possible objection. The rebuttal to it, of course, would be that the CDC and county health agencies are also primarily political agencies, not medical agencies, these days. That may be (may be) better informed than your local school board, but they are still acting for political reasons first. (As are, even, groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics these days: https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1486172185983131653 .)
It is amazing, the degree to which covid treatments, vaccines, prevention: all these policies and practices are controlled by guidance and requirements handed down by detached, remote administrators, agencies, officials, epidemiologists.
It is clear that health policy regarding covid is imposed by a central authority to the extent that in many cases even basic treatment is no longer possible by the physician. Sicking at home is the message. A small minority of physicians simply could not let this happen to high-risk patients and took matters into their own hands. The one-size-fits-all approach is downright criminal. Vaccination is the only remedy and the only message. Everything else doesn't exist if it isn't first approved by the bureaucrats. There comes a point when you don't even try to understand anymore, because the rationale in the discourse is simply lacking.
Fortunately, there are still physicians who make an attempt at common sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ik6cxFBbBw
When you recommend a patient and doctor make a decision, I assume you are thinking of a individual discussion.
This cultural and political battle already has oppositional premises baked in. The covidians and leftists take a collectivist perspective when addressing any problem in the news, so your recommendation is indecent and mockable to them regardless of content.
Therefore, in their minds, if they do want consensus with you, they would likely say, "I agree David, which is why I support my school system superintendent imposing a mask, distancing, testing, and generally hysterical program, because, as he says, he is following Dr. Linda Vail, Ingham County, and Dr. Walensky. He is turning off his mind, and acting like a robot, because he knows he is not a doctor."
Likewise, I am pretty sure most pastors are doing the same. Wet the finger, put in the air to measure emotional winds, and make (%<& up.
Appreciate the reply. I was aware of that possible objection. The rebuttal to it, of course, would be that the CDC and county health agencies are also primarily political agencies, not medical agencies, these days. That may be (may be) better informed than your local school board, but they are still acting for political reasons first. (As are, even, groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics these days: https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1486172185983131653 .)
Excellent points, David! I am praying that eyes will see and ears will hear.
It is amazing, the degree to which covid treatments, vaccines, prevention: all these policies and practices are controlled by guidance and requirements handed down by detached, remote administrators, agencies, officials, epidemiologists.