Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 53
Aug. 9th, 2022 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
As we move into the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. (Yes, the change in image theme reflects that; the earlier sequence served its purpose. With a nod to El Gato Malo (1, 2, 3), the posts to come will be headed by thoughtful memes relevant to the Covid mess. Yes, I'll take nominations -- you can post links in the thread.)
So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:
1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
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Date: 2022-08-09 07:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-09 08:41 pm (UTC)Murmuration
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Date: 2022-08-09 10:20 pm (UTC)I saw an article in the paper a couple of weeks back that hospitals in Western Washington are near capacity. That's what I know second hand, I haven't seen a doctor since summer of 2020. Barring acute illness or serious trauma, I'm done with doctors. I think my odds ore better given how bad it's gotten. Researching self care and keeping needful things on hand looks to be the way to go.
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Date: 2022-08-10 12:24 pm (UTC)Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A Balch
Date: 2022-08-12 03:02 am (UTC)Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A Balch
. "This book is designed to meet the differing needs of individuals and help each person create his or her own nutritional program." It was $23.95 when I bought the third edition, I believe there are more current editions.
. A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements, 732 pages.
Cheers,
Beth on the Prairie
Re: Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A Balch
Date: 2022-08-12 04:17 pm (UTC)Another is Janet Zand's Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child. (the first edition is much more user friendly than later editions)
Veterinary care shortage
Date: 2022-08-09 11:27 pm (UTC)We are *very* fortunate that we have an 'established' relationship with a wonderful crusty old school vet in our town. NONE of the veterinary clinics in our local area are accepting new patients.
There is a significant staffing shortage. Our vet said that young graduates can't make enough money to pay the ridiculous student loans they had to take on- it costs every bit as much as a human medical doctor, these days running in the region of $150,000 or more. But most vets make far less than human doctors.
He is deep in his 70s and I am terrified of him retiring.
Re: Veterinary care shortage
Date: 2022-08-10 12:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-09 09:55 pm (UTC)... well, I wasn't gonna wade into this, because at some point it comes across as navel-gazing, but speaking as a sometime Canadian ER doc, here's the truth: "slow days" are snow days and Christmas.
I'm not joking. I always wanted to do a formal research project into this question; I'm sure other people have and the statistics would be easy to pull; but observationally, a number of patterns are clear:
-blizzard days/hurricanes, nobody goes to the ER except true-blue emergencies. Likewise for major holidays like Christmas.
-conversely, great weather days AND WEEKENDS, fewer people go to the ER, because they don't want to "miss the weekend". If they must, they'll come in the evening after they've had fun all day.
-at my hospital, if you want prompt service, go around 07:00-08:00. Nobody much strolls in until about 11:00. But, there are more people on weekday mornings because they want a note for work. "I just can't go to work today, doc."
-there are more people on rainy days because "there's nothing else to do today" (and if you don't believe that people go to the hospital for "something to do", I could introduce you to some lonely people that I've met. I'm not making fun as much as pointing out the terrible isolation in our society.)
And there are probably other patterns that I forget at the moment.
Now back to the question about closing on weekends. Even it were true that weekends are statistically busier, well, what makes sense to you and I isn't always what the policy-makers implement, amirite, can I get an "amen"?
I've been thinking about the question of closings a lot, because of course my local hospital ER is closed more often these days. This has knock-on effects on the hospital ecosystem. For instance, if the ER is closed more often, then staff can't get the full-time hours they want, meaning they look for jobs elsewhere, meaning that in future it's that much harder to re-staff, and there may end up being a downward spiral. I don't know what's going to happen at my hospital truth be told.
A final word about working nights. Well, some people don't like working nights - and some people do. I LOVED working nights at the ER, personally - as the doc you got to sleep for half the night, see a handful of patients, and still get paid. Whether this is an optimal business model is a separate discussion, but in any case there are nurses who like nights for the quiet, too.
As for the question of *why they won't give it up and let the non-f0xxed staff come back*, I've pondered this a lot and I really don't know what they're thinking, I have a few hypotheses. Politically and/or from the perspective of legal strategy going forward, I don't think they can admit they made this huge mistake.
-Bofur
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Date: 2022-08-10 04:15 am (UTC)so when the tetanus shot showed up, i knew to ask "is that all that's in the syringe?" because if not, i don't want it. the nurse, without saying a word, stuck the syringe into the medical waste bin and walked out of the room. precious vaccines wasted! i sat there for a few hours, went out for a smoke, and on the way back in asked if i would ever see a doctor. they said "oh, we thought you'd left. we were told you refused treatment."
this led to nine months of what i would describe as inferior medical treatment, and re-breaking of the bone in question multiple times, which only was remedied once i had to see a different doctor due to a scheduling conflict.
"why haven't you had surgery to fix this?" he asked. "because it has never been brought up as an option" i replied.
that was a good twenty or so years ago. i had a spill where i basically tore my ear in half about ten years ago. it seemed like something that might require treatment, as i wasn't up to trying to stitch it back together myself. i went to the local urgent care, and the doc told me "i could have done a better job, but we ran out of sutures." what if i had showed up with a ten inch gash in my leg?
so, i guess what i'm trying to get at, is the system was broken way before the coof entered the stage.
and my cat has some sort of allergy i want to take care of. the allopathic vets give shots that do nothing. the homeo- and naturopathic vets are not taking new customers. so once again, i'm on my own. using the interwebz.
we really need some doctors, of all kinds, that are willing to go outside the system and actually provide care to those in need.
the last comment from last week posted a link to a video of the new aaps president's(?) speech. not sure about what the aaps is, as i've never heard of them before. they may be quacks. i'm in no position to pass judgement. here's their website:
https://aapsonline.org/
to cut to the chase, a majority of her speech is about karl brandt, hitler's personal surgeon, and how he went from trying to be a good doctor to being sentenced to death in the nuremberg trials. and how state sponsored medicine led him down the path to perdition, and once on it he couldn't get off.
perhaps there is a lesson to be learned here, especially since our western medical system seems to have been captured by private equity. yep, they're the good guys. the capitalists. let's see how that works out.
my takeaway is we are on our own.
Dr Lee Merritt
Date: 2022-08-10 09:16 pm (UTC)The video you refer to is Dr. Lee Merritt's talk as incoming president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons on Dr Karl Brandt, the German Nazi surgeon who was condemned to death in the Nuremberg Trials.
Feb 2011-- that date is not a typo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25yIRNGkvqA
It is a short but outstanding talk, informed, insightful, quite surprising, and illuminating, and I very highly recommend it.
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The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, because it stands up for doctor-patient relationship and medical freedom, has been smeared on the Internet and most especially on Wikipedia. I think at this point one really has to take anything wikipedia says about anyone who questions the covidian narrative with a wheelbarrow or 11 of salt.
Here is what the AAPS website says about the organization:
https://aapsonline.org/about-aaps/
"The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons – AAPS – is a non-partisan professional association of physicians in all types of practices and specialties across the country.
"Since 1943, AAPS has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine.
"Our motto, “omnia pro aegroto” means “all for the patient.”
Mailing Address: AAPS | 1601 N. Tucson Blvd. #9 | Tucson, AZ 85716
Phone: 1-800-635-1196
Fax: 1-520-325-4230 or 1-520-326-3529
Email: aaps@aapsonline.org
Media Contact: Jane Orient, MD | (520) 323-3110 | jorient@mindspring.com
"To serve the state? Or to serve our patients?
"That is the question we will increasingly face as government forces its power into every nook and cranny of our professional lives. I once belonged to all the standard societies—my specialty society, my state and local medical society and—dare I admit this—even the AMA. But I discovered that none of these societies stood on the principles I hold dear—individual liberty, personal responsibility, limited government, and the ability to freely practice medicine according to time honored Hippocratic principles.
AAPS Fights to Preserve Medical Freedom!
"The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS, has been fighting the good fight to preserve the practice of private medicine since 1943. When the Clinton health plan was proposed, we fought for open meetings. And when the details came to light, the plan was halted. In the current battle over health care “reform,” the AAPS helped organize numerous physician rallys and has a pending lawsuit suit in the DC Federal District Court challenging the constitutionality of the ObamaCare insurance mandate.
AAPS Stands up for Physicians!
"The AAPS legal team defends doctors who have been mugged by Medicare, or railroaded by hospitals using sham peer review. We sued the Texas Medical Board in defense of physicians’ due process rights; this suit is now on appeal. We drafted legislation for reform of the Texas medical practice act and are fighting for its enactment.
AAPS Helps Physicians Reduce and Eliminate Third Party Interference!
"The AAPS seminar, “Thrive Don’t Just Survive,” has reached doctors all over the country who wish to leave the hassles of Medicare and the interference of managed care and start a cash practice. We have helped hundreds of doctors opt out of Medicare through information on our website and our limited legal consultation service. We challenged the HIPAA “Privacy Rule,” and got the government to acknowledge the “country doctor exemption” for physicians who do not file claims electronically.
AAPS Keeps You Informed!
"Our monthly newsletter, AAPS News is packed with political, legal, and practical information that physicians cannot afford to miss. Our Journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons publishes the controversial issues—often with both sides in a point counterpoint–that you won’t find in most mainstream medical publications. AAPS email alerts and our website (www.aapsonline.org) will get you the late breaking news as it happens and provide you with urgent political action items to help in the fight to restore medical freedom.
"Individually, our members have appeared on Fox News, in the Wall Street Journal, in HumanEvents.com and other blog sites, contributing time, talent, and facts to counter the emotional arguments for socialized medicine.
AAPS speaks for Physicians NOT Corporate or Government Interests!
AAPS is completely funded by membership dues and contributions, so we answer to and advocate for our physician members and not big corporate donors or government funding sources. The AMA’s deal with HCFA gave it a monopoly on the CPT codes, from which it derives at least $70 million in revenue annually. AAPS was one of the first to expose this conflict of interest.
"All elected AAPS Board members and officers serve on a volunteer basis and even pay their own way to board meetings. We do not have a big building, or a bloated staff. Every dime in dues goes directly to the fight for freedom in medicine.
Join Your Colleagues to Keep Patient-Centered Medicine Alive!
"For almost 75 years, we have consistently stood for ethical patient-centered medicine—the kind only possible in a free market medical system.
"So, if you are like me, and you are tired of contributing to organizations which claim to be your advocate, but do little more than lobby for short term payment increases, support politicians who cannot be trusted, and feed their own self preserving coffers by selling you CPT coding manuals, come join us at the AAPS.
"AAPS Code of Medical Practice and Bylaws: http://www.aapsonline.org/AAPS_ByLaws.htm
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MY NOTES:
Dr Lee Merritt is also well-known for her outspoken opposition to the covid vaxxes and the mandates, and much of her other YouTube videos have been taken down. I think she has some important things to say, but I have not suggested her other talks and interviews here on this forum, since she is heavy on discussing the conspiracies behind the gain-of-function research. I am not saying I think she's wrong, but that it I respect that this is not material for this forum.
From her website https://drleemerritt.com/
"Dr. Lee Merritt began her medical career at the age of four, carrying her father’s “black bag” on housecalls, along the back roads of Iowa. In 1980 she graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York, where she was elected to life membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Dr. Merritt completed an Orthopaedic Surgery Residency in the United States Navy and served 9 years as a Navy physician and surgeon before returning to Rochester, where she was the only woman to be appointed as the Louis A. Goldstein Fellow of Spinal Surgery. Dr. Merritt has been in the private practice of Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgery since 1995, has served on the Board of the Arizona Medical Association, and is past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She has had a long interest in wellness and fitness, and has been Fellowship Certified by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine."
Re: Dr Lee Merritt
Date: 2022-08-11 03:05 am (UTC)i poked around their website last night. i was unsure whether they were a legit operation. now, i'm going to start paying some more attention to them.
they are pushing back on the right buttons. they are on my radar screen now.
again, thank you for putting them there.
the video was eye-opening. while she is by no means a good presenter, the story she tells is chilling. if it is indeed from 2011, even more so, considering "things."
one only has so many hours in the day to keep up with the perpetual malfeasance.
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Date: 2022-08-12 02:00 am (UTC)'Nuf said, here's why I'm posting. I have maybe a few thousand $US of homeo books, many off copyright and printed at low cost by B. Jain in India. I also paid for a copy of this wonderful ebook for which I have lost the source. If you can find it, please buy a copy there. If not, I am willing to assume the raspberry jam blowback by sharing it here because it's absolutely excellent and I hear your pain about no vets and the poor state of sickcare. Much of the information in this booklet obviously applies equally to naked apes which was once my field of practice. https://gofile.io/d/yRYYSd
If anyone finds the author's site please let me know and I will share that instead. I don't think this will stay up more than a month. Maybe just use it in a dire situation if needed, and donate to an animal welfare org.
For jam blowback tee totallers, there is a veritable mother lode of off-copyright homeopathic literature free for the taking including a lot of veterinary books. There are also great phone apps some of which I used frequently. Look for books and repertoires 100+ years old. As a trained clinician I actually find the old stuff much better than the new mind-oriented stuff. Most modern homeopaths have almost zero actual clinical exposure. India is the place to go for that, thankfully they have preserved and greatly expanded the treatment of physical diseases, essentially preserving it from the purges in the US and UK. Europe is more enlightened in this area but elsewhere is a pretty empty grab bag.
Hope this helps someone, in the event the post is allowed. Good night and good luck, my fellow travelers.
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