American Healthcare continues to go backward

I see stuff like this and it's all I can do to bite my lip. People who post stuff like this have no interest in learning anything that doesn't reinforce their beliefs.
The irony here is, we rely on authority every day. Every. Single. Day. We absolutely have to. Steross is an authority on emergency medicine. JD is an authority on the law. I'm an authority on pharmacology. I don't know what you do for a living, but whatever it is you are an authority on it and people trust you to know it and be right.

We are seeing the actual threat of the unvaccinated right now in the measles outbreak in Texas. It isn't in the threat to authority. My authority isn't threatened. I still know what I know and when someone comes to me I will still give them the benefit of my knowledge and abilities. It isn't a threat to Steross' authority. He still knows what he knows and when someone comes to him he will still give them the benefit of his knowledge and abilities. Likewise JD and you and everyone else in this forum. Authority simply isn't threatened by the unvaccinated. It is an actual threat to public health, to society. Right now the vast majority of those being hospitalized and dying of covid are the unvaccinated. It's stupid. Authority isn't threatened by stupidity. Lives are threatened by stupidity.

On the old site very early in the pandemic someone said something about not wanting to wear a mask. I said something to the effect that if you didn't want to wear one then make it a free speech issue, a political issue. I wish to god I hadn't been right about that.

The most fascinating thing about the pandemic is finding out that I'm a bleeding heart liberal commie pinko Reaganite conservative that has never voted for a Democrat. Go figure.
 
The irony here is, we rely on authority every day. Every. Single. Day. We absolutely have to. Steross is an authority on emergency medicine. JD is an authority on the law. I'm an authority on pharmacology. I don't know what you do for a living, but whatever it is you are an authority on it and people trust you to know it and be right.

We are seeing the actual threat of the unvaccinated right now in the measles outbreak in Texas. It isn't in the threat to authority. My authority isn't threatened. I still know what I know and when someone comes to me I will still give them the benefit of my knowledge and abilities. It isn't a threat to Steross' authority. He still knows what he knows and when someone comes to him he will still give them the benefit of his knowledge and abilities. Likewise JD and you and everyone else in this forum. Authority simply isn't threatened by the unvaccinated. It is an actual threat to public health, to society. Right now the vast majority of those being hospitalized and dying of covid are the unvaccinated. It's stupid. Authority isn't threatened by stupidity. Lives are threatened by stupidity.

On the old site very early in the pandemic someone said something about not wanting to wear a mask. I said something to the effect that if you didn't want to wear one then make it a free speech issue, a political issue. I wish to god I hadn't been right about that.

The most fascinating thing about the pandemic is finding out that I'm a bleeding heart liberal commie pinko Reaganite conservative that has never voted for a Democrat. Go figure.
Bill Kristol wants to abolish ICE and David Brooks wants an uprising. It makes sense, these are strange times.
 
The irony here is, we rely on authority every day. Every. Single. Day. We absolutely have to. Steross is an authority on emergency medicine. JD is an authority on the law. I'm an authority on pharmacology. I don't know what you do for a living, but whatever it is you are an authority on it and people trust you to know it and be right.

We are seeing the actual threat of the unvaccinated right now in the measles outbreak in Texas. It isn't in the threat to authority. My authority isn't threatened. I still know what I know and when someone comes to me I will still give them the benefit of my knowledge and abilities. It isn't a threat to Steross' authority. He still knows what he knows and when someone comes to him he will still give them the benefit of his knowledge and abilities. Likewise JD and you and everyone else in this forum. Authority simply isn't threatened by the unvaccinated. It is an actual threat to public health, to society. Right now the vast majority of those being hospitalized and dying of covid are the unvaccinated. It's stupid. Authority isn't threatened by stupidity. Lives are threatened by stupidity.

On the old site very early in the pandemic someone said something about not wanting to wear a mask. I said something to the effect that if you didn't want to wear one then make it a free speech issue, a political issue. I wish to god I hadn't been right about that.

The most fascinating thing about the pandemic is finding out that I'm a bleeding heart liberal commie pinko Reaganite conservative that has never voted for a Democrat. Go figure.
The true frustration is that posts like the one you included from Facebook are usually made by people who don’t even realize what they are posting. We have a similar family acquaintance who espouses those same beliefs but still takes ivermectin from a “trusted doctor” in a small Oklahoma town.

They “take a stand” against authority but submit to just an absurdity. I truly don’t know how we recover from this. It used to be fringe now it seems like it’s a majority.
 
The true frustration is that posts like the one you included from Facebook are usually made by people who don’t even realize what they are posting. We have a similar family acquaintance who espouses those same beliefs but still takes ivermectin from a “trusted doctor” in a small Oklahoma town.

They “take a stand” against authority but submit to just an absurdity. I truly don’t know how we recover from this. It used to be fringe now it seems like it’s a majority.
"trusted doctor"="authority" and therein lies the irony
 
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