Apparently doctors have left their jobs too

[herbgeek]

Zero Hedge is not exactly a reliable unbiased source. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/

[iris lilies]

Zero Hedge is not exactly a reliable unbiased source. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/

The chief source of tv information for many here, you know, the people who believe science, only rated one level up from zero Hedge.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/left/cnn-bias/

I remember when the sciency believer of science, Rachel Maddox, was chiding those who had not got a Covid vaccine about how the vaccine stops transmission so they need to go get a shot because science.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xij3eJrNhho

[jp1]

I'm not sure why some of us still throw shade at the unvaccinated, the vaccinated can still catch the virus and pass it along to others.

At this point the estimates are that 95% of the US population has been infected with covid. I'm not concerned that some office worker who has no direct patient contact is a risk to patients. I'm concerned that they don't believe in modern medicine. Hiring a medical professional who doesn't believe in the benefit, both personally and communally, of vaccination is to me similar to hiring an athiest to be a priest.

[Alan]

At this point the estimates are that 95% of the US population has been infected with covid. I'm not concerned that some office worker who has no direct patient contact is a risk to patients. I'm concerned that they don't believe in modern medicine. Hiring a medical professional who doesn't believe in the benefit, both personally and communally, of vaccination is to me similar to hiring an athiest to be a priest.

So, your being judgmental, snarky and unpleasant to others is simply a personal preference?

[jp1]

So, your being judgmental, snarky and unpleasant to others is simply a personal preference?

Apparently I didn't explain myself well. Or you're just being obtuse, as you often are when someone presents a viewpoint that doesn't comport with yours.

I, like a majority of Americans, am not personally capable of evaluating the merits of a given treatment a doctor recommends. Sure, I can go on google as well as the best of the youtube virologists that have emerged in the past 3 years, but at the end of the day I have to decide to either trust the medical professionals directly involved in my care, or to trust whatever random sources I have found online. I simply don't have the education, access, or time to go read through all of the scientific studies that were done for any given treatment over the years. Considering that the vast vast majority of medical professionals willingly got vaccinated for covid I have come to the conclusion that covid vaccination is a logical and reasonable medical treatment. Any medical professional who doesn't get this broadly accepted vaccination makes me question their competence more generally.

[JaneV2.0]

I'm not a vaccine absolutist. I always ask the question "Is getting this disease likely to kill or cripple me?" when considering one.

All medicines and immunizations have risks--the COVID vax side effects are just emerging. I'm not sorry I got the J & J, because I was in the high risk group. As it turns out, I could probably have skipped it, due to my (ongoing) lack of exposure to the virus. At any rate, I'll never be one to jump at a chance to be a mark for Big Medicine.

[cx3]

In 2003 my son's doctor was keeping us informed about an experimental gene therapy clinical trial in Europe that could potentially help our children. I didn't have any understanding of gene therapy. In my mind it was just medicine. A few months later the doctor informed us the trial had to be halted because 6 of the 21 participants had developed leukemia.
Fast forward 19 years, now 70% of my fellow Americans have been injected with an experimental gene therapy that hasn't even successfully passed animal trials. I feel like I'm living in a bad dream. Has everyone lost their minds.
You have my prayers.

[jp1]

In 2003 my son's doctor was keeping us informed about an experimental gene therapy clinical trial in Europe that could potentially help our children. I didn't have any understanding of gene therapy. In my mind it was just medicine. A few months later the doctor informed us the trial had to be halted because 6 of the 21 participants had developed leukemia.
Fast forward 19 years, now 70% of my fellow Americans have been injected with an experimental gene therapy that hasn't even successfully passed animal trials. I feel like I'm living in a bad dream. Has everyone lost their minds.
You have my prayers.

Thanks for proving the point I was trying to explain to Alan.

[Rogar]

All medicines and immunizations have risks--the COVID vax side effects are just emerging.

Other than rare disorders, I'm unaware of new side effects that are just emerging? At least on the order of peer reviewed. Am I missing something and should I be worried, as I'm now up to four mRNA shots?

[frugal-one]

Zero Hedge is not exactly a reliable unbiased source. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/

QAnon anyone?