I just love this response... “You don’t have an MD or PhD, so you are not qualified to talk to us about anything related to science or medicine. Your job is bullshit compared to ours.”
Since when has it been mandatory to have a MD or PhD to know anything about science or medicine?? In my experience many MDs and PhDs are rather myopic in their outlook as they are either too busy to learn anything new (MDs) or too consumed by their specialisation to know anything outside their narrow field (PhDs). I've deliberately NOT spent years doing a PhD but rather multiple Masters degrees and been an autodidact so I can have a broader appreciation of the big picture.
I find many doctors have just sold out - very little respect for the profession now.
Oh Yuri, another misinformation screed. When are you going to give up your "railing against the machine" and come on in for the big win? Using facts and real statistics against emotion is simply cruel and just...just...Mean! Please remember when you were part of the collective, and consider reintegration. Come on in, the water is fine.
After deviously marrying American Capitalist Pig with cancer, I was able to infiltrate and observe Capitalist American Healthcare for nearly a decade. What I discovered was shocking;
1) Capitalist American Healthcare appears to have the highest amount of interpersonal in-fighting imaginable, even more than so-called American Education. They call it 'office politics', but it is not politics of any form we would recognize. Instead of firing squad or gulag for dissidents, they metaphorically stab each other in back often and without warning. The results are far more frightening, invasive, and omnipresent, and should be studied for possible application in quelling dissident satellite states.
2) Capitalist American Healthcare attracts divas and drama queens to a degree that even Bolshio Ballet would say "This is too much...". While I had hoped these divas and drama queens might make good recruits for The Soviet Arts Directorate once Capitalist system inevitably fails, it turns out that while they like to dance and sing, they are not very good at it.
3) Capitalist American Healthcare utilizes a billing system that is astoundingly effective at obfuscating, misdirecting, and charging for procedures and visits that did not happen without anyone ever being the wiser. I suggest KGB study and learn from this system.
4) Capitalist American Healthcare is hierarchical in nature, with administrators at the top of that hierarchy and patients well below any janitor on their first day. This rank system is so rigid, effective, and unquestioned that I suggest the Political Directorate study it for ways to improve discipline in the ranks of our great Soviet Armed Forces.
5) Capitalist American Healthcare seeks pill or potion for everything, every ill, real or imagined. If you are not taking pill or shot, how can you be healthy? Imagine the possibilities, Comrade! If you were to come up with, say, an injection you claimed would prevent a minor cold but instead caused lasting health issues, why you could bring the Capitalist Pigs to their knees!
I hope you find this report helpful, Comrade. Please tell Politburo I tire of this place and wish to come home. I have nightmares of becoming ill at the mercy of incompetent Capitalist American Healthcare and their feeble nostrums, instead of our great Soviet Medical Directorate.
Feb 3, 2022·edited Feb 3, 2022Liked by Yuri Bezmenov
Comrade, you've hit one out the the park. Really well done. I'm sharing to my friends and all eleven of my followers on Gettr (I'm Naughty-Listed on Twatter). Brace yourself for the accolades!
One thing that surprised me is your assertion re N95 masks; it would be news to me if there has been a well-designed study demonstrating any significant effectiveness against aerosol virions. I've seen plenty that demonstrate the contrary.
SARS2 has an average diameter of 100 nanometers, the N95 is designed to stop 95% of particles >= 300nm, and almost all the breath goes around the mask anyway, regardless of fit. Your brother in arms, the eminently cancelled wicked feline El Gato Malo, wrote a good piece on this:
there is a lot of fear and ignorance in doctors to even look because it might destroy what they thought they knew, there is great pride in training for all those years.
it would be most upsetting to find out that half of what you were taught at college was wrong within 5 years but no one knows which half
Someone said that the USA is the most propagandized nation, yes even more than the USSR. At least most people in the USSR knew it was bullshit.
Here, we have fake freedom of choice as portrayed by the market delusion. Instead of monopolies of corporations, we have monopolies of industries that block any and all competition because money buys power here.
"Why do American citizens have vaccine mandates in order to keep their jobs or re-enter the country, but illegal immigrants and refugees entering the country do not? No scientific reason, just money and power."
There is a financial one, though. Pfizer (for one) won't allow its vaccines to be given to anyone who can sue them, which is why they continue to sell the experimental version under the EUA in the US, even though Comirnaty is approved. The EUA version is liability proof; the accepted version is not. But apparently the EUA liability shield does not apply to refugees and illegals, so not only are they not required to get a vax, they're prohibited from getting one.
But it's not about profit... it's about helping people, right?
I know someone who ended up arguing against COVID policy and lies. Just her and three others, one person who works in a government health institution and another who had. Didn't even try to engage data or the facts. They were literally the "They wear masks outside to keep them safe and show that they are considerate." types. Dodged all critical questioning with moral posturing and virtue signaling.
These are also the same people who, with no irony, complained about doctors not being trustworthy, lying, and just wanting to prescribe pills instead of looking at the problem.
I like your idea of preventative - NOT visiting your doctor every 2 months or so, but check your diet, cook healthy food, exercise, etc. This article is genius and should be read by everyone.
After reading through your post a couple of more times, I have to vent. The terms "Surreal" and "Dystopian" do not do justice to what I have been seeing out there since early 2020. I no longer have any trust whatsoever in our medical personnel. I used to assume that their profession required a certain IQ level. I assumed they would naturally have the ability to analyze what was occurring, then use available non-political information to arrive at an informed response. WOW, was I wrong. Their willingness to parrot the pronouncements from "Public Health Officials," and the vociferousness with which they do it, is simply stunning. As you have noted, you can present them with actual RCTs, even meta-analyses of past RCTs, and they will tell you that you are not qualified to interpret them. I even had a physician (former friend) tell me that he hates the internet because people think they understand medicine now, and he wishes they would quit looking at stuff and just listen to him. Finally, what really galls me is the assumption by these people that I am intellectually incapable of understanding or making decisions about this SCAM. I don't trust IQ tests, but I can easily get Mensa membership, and most of them cannot.
I'm a very conservative MAGA physician in my mid 30s. I'm against mask mandates and COVID vaccine mandates. There are more conservative Dr's than expected, but we are in hiding. I'm also a married mother of 3 kids. We have a secret Facebook group for Conservative Physician Mothers. Secret so we don't get fired. I live in a large, very liberal city.
I agree with most of what you wrote, in particular:
"Corporate mergers and private equity roll-ups have reduced system capacity and quality of care. Two-thirds of doctors are now employed, a massive shift from two-thirds being private practice ~30 years ago. Like other industries, mom and pops are being eaten alive by the behemoths. Stunningly, there are fewer hospital beds in the system now than pre-COVID or decades ago even as the population has grown and become less healthy.
Healthcare executives are profit driven and COVID incentivized bad practices. Power law applies as 20% of patients (VIP aka chronically ill) drive 80% of the revenue. I’ve heard many use the creepy phase “we want to own the entire patient”, which is a code word for milking cash cows for as many procedures and treatments as possible. "
Healthcare executives, excessive bureaucracy and healthcare administrators drive high costs. They pay physicians less & less, to see more & more patients. Same with nurses. Less money more work. All about profits. Hire more administrators & pay them, while paying hospital workers including docs less.
I'd like to add that much of this is due to the ACA (ObamaCare). Thanks Obama!!!! For Obama to get Congress to approve ACA, he had to get the Lobbyists to approve. Lobbyists in Big Pharma, Big Insurance and Big Healthcare Hospital Corporation Chain Executives.
Big Insurance and Big Healthcare Hospital Corporation Chains come to mom and pop private practices & threaten them, unless they sell out to the Corporate Mafia. Basically they say they'll take the private practice docs off all the insurance plans, so the docs won't be able to see any patients, unless they sell their practice to the hospital chain. Essentially you have to sell to them or be forced to close your doors. Thanks Obama.
Please don't paint all docs with the same brush, as there are many of us with conservative opinions (even young docs), who unfortunately can't talk publicly or we get fired.
I just love this response... “You don’t have an MD or PhD, so you are not qualified to talk to us about anything related to science or medicine. Your job is bullshit compared to ours.”
Since when has it been mandatory to have a MD or PhD to know anything about science or medicine?? In my experience many MDs and PhDs are rather myopic in their outlook as they are either too busy to learn anything new (MDs) or too consumed by their specialisation to know anything outside their narrow field (PhDs). I've deliberately NOT spent years doing a PhD but rather multiple Masters degrees and been an autodidact so I can have a broader appreciation of the big picture.
I find many doctors have just sold out - very little respect for the profession now.
90s: Fuck the Man! Fuck the Corporate Oligarchy!
Today: I'm compliantly woke bc I am good. Consume.
Oh Yuri, another misinformation screed. When are you going to give up your "railing against the machine" and come on in for the big win? Using facts and real statistics against emotion is simply cruel and just...just...Mean! Please remember when you were part of the collective, and consider reintegration. Come on in, the water is fine.
Comrade,
After deviously marrying American Capitalist Pig with cancer, I was able to infiltrate and observe Capitalist American Healthcare for nearly a decade. What I discovered was shocking;
1) Capitalist American Healthcare appears to have the highest amount of interpersonal in-fighting imaginable, even more than so-called American Education. They call it 'office politics', but it is not politics of any form we would recognize. Instead of firing squad or gulag for dissidents, they metaphorically stab each other in back often and without warning. The results are far more frightening, invasive, and omnipresent, and should be studied for possible application in quelling dissident satellite states.
2) Capitalist American Healthcare attracts divas and drama queens to a degree that even Bolshio Ballet would say "This is too much...". While I had hoped these divas and drama queens might make good recruits for The Soviet Arts Directorate once Capitalist system inevitably fails, it turns out that while they like to dance and sing, they are not very good at it.
3) Capitalist American Healthcare utilizes a billing system that is astoundingly effective at obfuscating, misdirecting, and charging for procedures and visits that did not happen without anyone ever being the wiser. I suggest KGB study and learn from this system.
4) Capitalist American Healthcare is hierarchical in nature, with administrators at the top of that hierarchy and patients well below any janitor on their first day. This rank system is so rigid, effective, and unquestioned that I suggest the Political Directorate study it for ways to improve discipline in the ranks of our great Soviet Armed Forces.
5) Capitalist American Healthcare seeks pill or potion for everything, every ill, real or imagined. If you are not taking pill or shot, how can you be healthy? Imagine the possibilities, Comrade! If you were to come up with, say, an injection you claimed would prevent a minor cold but instead caused lasting health issues, why you could bring the Capitalist Pigs to their knees!
I hope you find this report helpful, Comrade. Please tell Politburo I tire of this place and wish to come home. I have nightmares of becoming ill at the mercy of incompetent Capitalist American Healthcare and their feeble nostrums, instead of our great Soviet Medical Directorate.
Comrade, you've hit one out the the park. Really well done. I'm sharing to my friends and all eleven of my followers on Gettr (I'm Naughty-Listed on Twatter). Brace yourself for the accolades!
One thing that surprised me is your assertion re N95 masks; it would be news to me if there has been a well-designed study demonstrating any significant effectiveness against aerosol virions. I've seen plenty that demonstrate the contrary.
SARS2 has an average diameter of 100 nanometers, the N95 is designed to stop 95% of particles >= 300nm, and almost all the breath goes around the mask anyway, regardless of fit. Your brother in arms, the eminently cancelled wicked feline El Gato Malo, wrote a good piece on this:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/no-n95-masks-do-not-stop-covid-either
there is a lot of fear and ignorance in doctors to even look because it might destroy what they thought they knew, there is great pride in training for all those years.
it would be most upsetting to find out that half of what you were taught at college was wrong within 5 years but no one knows which half
Someone said that the USA is the most propagandized nation, yes even more than the USSR. At least most people in the USSR knew it was bullshit.
Here, we have fake freedom of choice as portrayed by the market delusion. Instead of monopolies of corporations, we have monopolies of industries that block any and all competition because money buys power here.
This is my fave article of yours so far and my fave collection of memes. Bateman meme FTW. Молодец, Юрий!
inb4: DSM-6 to include equivalent of 'sluggish schizophrenia.'
Nicely Written Yuri. It isn't easy to share personal communications and info, but you did it well.
"Why do American citizens have vaccine mandates in order to keep their jobs or re-enter the country, but illegal immigrants and refugees entering the country do not? No scientific reason, just money and power."
There is a financial one, though. Pfizer (for one) won't allow its vaccines to be given to anyone who can sue them, which is why they continue to sell the experimental version under the EUA in the US, even though Comirnaty is approved. The EUA version is liability proof; the accepted version is not. But apparently the EUA liability shield does not apply to refugees and illegals, so not only are they not required to get a vax, they're prohibited from getting one.
But it's not about profit... it's about helping people, right?
I know someone who ended up arguing against COVID policy and lies. Just her and three others, one person who works in a government health institution and another who had. Didn't even try to engage data or the facts. They were literally the "They wear masks outside to keep them safe and show that they are considerate." types. Dodged all critical questioning with moral posturing and virtue signaling.
These are also the same people who, with no irony, complained about doctors not being trustworthy, lying, and just wanting to prescribe pills instead of looking at the problem.
I like your idea of preventative - NOT visiting your doctor every 2 months or so, but check your diet, cook healthy food, exercise, etc. This article is genius and should be read by everyone.
An excellent compilation, and priceless memes! Thank you.
After reading through your post a couple of more times, I have to vent. The terms "Surreal" and "Dystopian" do not do justice to what I have been seeing out there since early 2020. I no longer have any trust whatsoever in our medical personnel. I used to assume that their profession required a certain IQ level. I assumed they would naturally have the ability to analyze what was occurring, then use available non-political information to arrive at an informed response. WOW, was I wrong. Their willingness to parrot the pronouncements from "Public Health Officials," and the vociferousness with which they do it, is simply stunning. As you have noted, you can present them with actual RCTs, even meta-analyses of past RCTs, and they will tell you that you are not qualified to interpret them. I even had a physician (former friend) tell me that he hates the internet because people think they understand medicine now, and he wishes they would quit looking at stuff and just listen to him. Finally, what really galls me is the assumption by these people that I am intellectually incapable of understanding or making decisions about this SCAM. I don't trust IQ tests, but I can easily get Mensa membership, and most of them cannot.
I'm a very conservative MAGA physician in my mid 30s. I'm against mask mandates and COVID vaccine mandates. There are more conservative Dr's than expected, but we are in hiding. I'm also a married mother of 3 kids. We have a secret Facebook group for Conservative Physician Mothers. Secret so we don't get fired. I live in a large, very liberal city.
I agree with most of what you wrote, in particular:
"Corporate mergers and private equity roll-ups have reduced system capacity and quality of care. Two-thirds of doctors are now employed, a massive shift from two-thirds being private practice ~30 years ago. Like other industries, mom and pops are being eaten alive by the behemoths. Stunningly, there are fewer hospital beds in the system now than pre-COVID or decades ago even as the population has grown and become less healthy.
Healthcare executives are profit driven and COVID incentivized bad practices. Power law applies as 20% of patients (VIP aka chronically ill) drive 80% of the revenue. I’ve heard many use the creepy phase “we want to own the entire patient”, which is a code word for milking cash cows for as many procedures and treatments as possible. "
Healthcare executives, excessive bureaucracy and healthcare administrators drive high costs. They pay physicians less & less, to see more & more patients. Same with nurses. Less money more work. All about profits. Hire more administrators & pay them, while paying hospital workers including docs less.
I'd like to add that much of this is due to the ACA (ObamaCare). Thanks Obama!!!! For Obama to get Congress to approve ACA, he had to get the Lobbyists to approve. Lobbyists in Big Pharma, Big Insurance and Big Healthcare Hospital Corporation Chain Executives.
Big Insurance and Big Healthcare Hospital Corporation Chains come to mom and pop private practices & threaten them, unless they sell out to the Corporate Mafia. Basically they say they'll take the private practice docs off all the insurance plans, so the docs won't be able to see any patients, unless they sell their practice to the hospital chain. Essentially you have to sell to them or be forced to close your doors. Thanks Obama.
Please don't paint all docs with the same brush, as there are many of us with conservative opinions (even young docs), who unfortunately can't talk publicly or we get fired.