"If a government can tell employees of one private enterprise (yes, yes railroads are publicly held and heavily regulated, but just dance with me for a minute or two, let me blow in your ear) that they HAVE to work but tell others to stay home and live on a stimulus check, how does that government have any credibility?"
"Physicians, too, are in short supply in certain specialties and EVERYONE is busy, near or at capacity (calm down, doctor haters, I'll address loss of trust in my chosen profession in an upcoming post. I hate us, too). "
My Dermatologist is ALWAYS busy.
As to trust, there are three professions that are bathed in it -- Doctors, Lawyers and Judges. If any one of them is not upholding a standard of excellence long term they are out of a job. Those they serve will just stop showing up. To the medical profession in particular, the whole lot should have gone on strike the minute the EUA for The Jab was authorized. It was contrary to the basics of health: You don't start immunizing in the middle of a pandemic only to trigger variant selection. Since I have been on this planet the use of a EUA was selective not broad based. Those were the Tells that the profession should have raised hell about and walked out.
Something that does more to free you intellectually is the ability to step back and see how everything is interconnected, rather than viewing everything as distinct and unrelated.
"If a government can tell employees of one private enterprise (yes, yes railroads are publicly held and heavily regulated, but just dance with me for a minute or two, let me blow in your ear) that they HAVE to work but tell others to stay home and live on a stimulus check, how does that government have any credibility?"
A LOT of truth in that ^^^^
"Physicians, too, are in short supply in certain specialties and EVERYONE is busy, near or at capacity (calm down, doctor haters, I'll address loss of trust in my chosen profession in an upcoming post. I hate us, too). "
My Dermatologist is ALWAYS busy.
As to trust, there are three professions that are bathed in it -- Doctors, Lawyers and Judges. If any one of them is not upholding a standard of excellence long term they are out of a job. Those they serve will just stop showing up. To the medical profession in particular, the whole lot should have gone on strike the minute the EUA for The Jab was authorized. It was contrary to the basics of health: You don't start immunizing in the middle of a pandemic only to trigger variant selection. Since I have been on this planet the use of a EUA was selective not broad based. Those were the Tells that the profession should have raised hell about and walked out.
Something that does more to free you intellectually is the ability to step back and see how everything is interconnected, rather than viewing everything as distinct and unrelated.
Maybe what we need is a truth in practice law. Those serving the public have to put a notice in their offices:
* In the past year I have killed/maimed/misdiagnosed X number of patients. Adjust the parameters based on averages for a given specialty.
* A lawyer would have to post the number of cases performed and lost.
* So on down the line.
If a provider is not at least beating the averages maybe the recipient should think twice about selecting that provider.