So Faux Snooz now is out with this:
"It’s perfectly reasonable to get vaccinated right now," Dr. Stanley Deresinski, clinical professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Stanford University, told Fox News, noting the recommendation to get a flu shot extends through the end of October. "You could roll the dice and get it later with the assumption that the flu season is going to come later wherever you are."
Or you could suck-start a shotgun, Mr. Deresinski.
After the last 18 months I really don't care what you advocate or advise. Nor any other doctor. Or nurse. Or politician.
You see, the folks in your profession lied too many times over too short of a period of time for it to be overlooked as "mistakes." You've been caught, and rather than apologize and point the finger at who coerced you into lying (or even better, shivving them in public on TeeVee) your response was to double down and place your job and income above people's lives.
If I can read medical journal articles so can you. But it's not my job to do so -- it is, however, part of yours. As alleged "experts" you have a duty to keep up to date on what's been discovered and to be prepared to discuss and debate it. Dismissing such out of hand isn't the mark of a professional in any field; it is the mark of someone who wields credentials as a weapon and deserves to have them shoved up their ass.
But now the joke's on you. You've destroyed the credibility of the so-called "medical profession" on a permanent basis for a huge number of people, myself included. I'd rather go to a Voodoo practitioner for medical advice; there, at least, all I might get conned out of is $20 or $50 to sacrifice a chicken to a piece of rock with some feathers sticking out of it.
You, on the other hand, will tell me to go eat chicken soup for a viral infection that has a reasonable chance of becoming systemic and screwing me hard rather than debating the merits and risks with me, and then allowing me to choose from possibly-effective, unproved drugs that have decades-long safety records and thus, at worst, won't do any more than the chicken soup -- but on the other hand they might work. Indeed, while the so-called "gold standard" trials of tens of thousands of people in double-blind, placebo-controlled objective studies haven't been done on them you have not demanded, as professionals, that the organs of government run those trials over the preceding 18 months and get the answers when nobody else will because said drugs are off-patent and cheap. There is thus no incentive to spend the half-million to few million dollars to run such a trial. The government, of course, blows billions on known-bogus tests and uses them as fear pornography instead.
Indeed you're perfectly happy to shove Remdesivir, which a very large multi-national study showed was worthless and worse, on the data has a nasty side effect profile that screws about a quarter of recipients in one form or another, up my arm should I wind up in the hospital. The only "benefit" from that drug, on the data, is to the hospital and manufacturer in the form of revenues. Yet today, more than six months post-publication of that peer-reviewed study in the NEJM, it is still considered "Standard of Care Slaughter."
We could also discuss shoving infected persons into nursing homes, refusal to call for isolation of nursing home personnel 24x7 at the initiation of the pandemic when we did not know how to control cross-infection at all, refusing to recognize natural immunity via infection to this day despite multiple large data sets proving it is equal or superior to a vaccine and screaming about massssssks -- which all the way back to 1981 were proved worthless when used in an operating theater by trained medical personnel. Among the general public who are untrained and couldn't maintain proper sterile procedure if they wanted to you obviously can't do better than the results found in an operating room. That was a lie -- not a mistake -- and you knew it, particularly after over a dozen attempts to falsify that result were undertaken over the next 20 years and not one of them succeeded. Yes, it's part of your damn job, *******, to read and understand those studies too before you open your crap-spewing orifice.
Now comes Merck who, big shock, invents an oral drug that will be on patent and appears to work. I'm not surprised at those results; they may or may not bear out over time but it wouldn't shock me if they do. You see, Merck has every reason to invest money in something they'll profit handsomely from if it does work. Who has a similar incentive if HCQ, Ivermectin, Budesonide, Claritin+Zpak and several other readily-available, inexpensive and off-patent medications also work? Nobody. There's no way to prevent some other generic manufacturer from making the sales, is there? Why would you study a drug if you didn't get to keep the proceeds from success?
Does that prove they don't work? Nope. That which you don't study you don't prove. Anecdotes, such as my personal experience, are not data. But bans and public maligning of the off-label use of drugs which have decades-long safety profiles and are safe are the work of ghouls, monsters, and profit-driven *******s who, in the middle of a pandemic, deserve destruction -- personally and professionally. May I remind you that it is exactly through that process that we discovered HCQ, which you wouldn't expect to work for Lupus and RA, in fact does?
This of course isn't the first time either. For decades you so-called "experts" told Americans to eat the "food pyramid", loaded at the bottom with fast carbohydrates. You also told us to substitute for butter and other saturated fats with unsaturated, machine-processed and stabilized vegetable oil replacements and claimed they were good. We now know that was bull**** and in fact transfats, which do not exist in nature, have a safe human dose approximating zero.
I listened to you folks on "what to eat" for a couple of decades. My body mass and waistline kept getting bigger. After Obamacare was passed it became abundantly clear that within a decade or so the health system would go straight down the crapper and thus if I needed it I was going to die, and it would probably hurt. So I did the exact opposite of what all you ghouls recommend -- and promptly lost 60lbs, entirely stabilized my glucose metabolism and now am faster, as a runner, than I was at 17 in High School. Argue with the clock if you'd like.
Oh, there was not one pharmaceutical preparation involved in that and I consume zero on a routine basis as there's no need.
As for the medical system going down the crapper I made that call in 2011. Is it not ten years later? Threatening to, say much less actually firing doctors, nurses and support staff who won't take a medication they believe, on good evidence, is dangerous -- especially when they've already had the disease as a result of providing care to sick people for the last 18 months and thus are presumptively immune -- into the maw of an alleged health emergency with flu season just around the corner is flat-out insane.
I'm sure as time goes on something will go wrong with me. The human body is a machine, and while endowed with the ability to repair itself in many cases, especially if you cease assaulting it with various pharmaceuticals and stop doing what caused the problem in the first place it may be able to heal itself. Or maybe not; you can certainly do enough damage that you're screwed. But if someone is indeed screwed on that basis how much of that is your fault for lying to them for years if not decades when it comes your proffered "advice"? How many people did Vioxx kill again -- and that was not a one-off.
It may well take 10, 20, 30 or more years to kill yourself by eating the "Standard American Diet" as offered up or, as Obama called it and continues onward with "My Plate" -- which still recommends less than 10% of dietary intake be from saturated fats. There are only three foods when you get down to it -- proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. If you decrease intake of one you must make up for it with one of the others.
Or maybe it doesn't take 20 or 30 years after you become fat and diabetic eating fast carbohydrates, which is what winds up replacing fats when you do that for 90% of Americans, simply on cost. Oh no, all you need is a virus that comes around and kills fat and diabetic people with ferocious efficiency, 10 or even 100x as often as it kills lean, healthy people who are not insulin-compromised, obese or hypertensive.
Oops.
So take your advice and shove it up your own ass, diktor.
I'll read the journals myself, since you obviously don't think you have to. I'll read the studies. I'll do my own research. If you'll cooperate with me when I need your pen on a pad with "Rx" in the corner, and wish to offer advice but leave the decision to me, not you, at a reasonable price I'll pay for your time and that conversation.
If not?
Go suck-start that shotgun.
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