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Monday, February 17, 2025

The Year In Review and the Incredible Opportunities Before Us - A Midwestern Doctor

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Shifting Times

Since this publication was started on 2/12/2022, each year I try to reflect on how things have changed for the newsletter and the world at large, as I feel our world is changing so rapidly now, a single year can constitute a lifetime. Likewise, I firmly believe that societal shifts, rather than occurring in a linear manner, tend to bubble under the surface for a long time (where it seems as though nothing is happening) and then suddenly “emerge out of nowhere and rapidly shift things” and many things that long were impossible suddenly becoming possible.

For example, as I’ve tried to show in this publication, for well over a century, millions of people across the world have protested against the immense harms of (“safe and effective”) vaccines with very little shifting (e.g., it took 89 years of injuries and protests to overturn the disastrous smallpox vaccine mandates), but in the span of just a few years, the widespread faith in vaccines has suddenly broken. Similarly, there’s been an utterly unprecedented loss of trust in the medical system—something the medical industry has depended on for generations. At the start of COVID, 71.5% of American adults trusted doctors and hospitals, but now only 40.1% do—something I never imagined would happen during my lifetime."

However, while these changes are significant, I feel they are just the tip of the iceberg as there now seems to be a full-throttle effort by the Trump presidency and the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement to: