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In southern NJ it is the complete opposite. We test and grill every single patient on Covid status vaccine and testing. We bring in outpatients hours early to test, photocopy their cards to put into the chart. Waiting for Covid results is the norm and sets back start times. These are people with zero symptoms made to wear a mask for hours while they are in the hospital to “get healthy “. It’s a joke. I’m at the end of my career of 40 years in the business as a nurse and paramedic I don’t encourage anyone to follow in my footsteps. Healthcare has become a pill pushing pimp that likes you sick to keep them rich. Never do we address the co morbidities we just give them another pill and tell them you will be fine if you follow the doctors orders... who is following the insurance companies orders. Medicine is not proactive but reactive. If the sink is overflowing stop mopping the floor and turn off the faucet. It will never happen unless the patient takes responsibility for their own health and finds a doctor who practices preventative medicine

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THANK YOU AND AMEN!!!!

I’ve been in the hospital twice since August...absolutely horrible! I am now petrified of nurses and doctors. I’m 59 and I’ve NEVER felt like this. It’s a true travesty.

I’m a retired deputy sheriff of 23 years and I lost my job because I didn’t comply. GOD gave me a gift three years ago! And I worked in a very blue area.

Good nurses and doctors need to start working in a parallel medical system! Believe me, it’s LONG overdue! God bless you and guide you!

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No hospitals for me. I'm doing my best to exercise daily, eat my fruits and veggies, and living a low-stress life in Florida by taking a lot of deep breaths, meditating, and doing frequent yoga.

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I’ve been healthy my entire life. Working in law enforcement puts a strain on one’s soul, especially if you love GOD.

It’s the job no one wants to do. Trust me.

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Wow, no wonder covid statistics in the US are the worst in the world. Of course the "vaccine" is responsible for most of the bad health outcomes.

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Jan 20, 2023·edited Jan 20, 2023

If the vax is responsible for so many adverse reactions -- and I believe it is -- then why are we not paying better attn to the country's blood supply? I just checked in where I used to donate blood. The Stanford Blood Bank in Palo Alto CA. They are not even asking the question: Have you been vaccinated? There is absolutely zero excuse for that!

If there is a danger of transmitting spike proteins via blood donations - what the hell do they think they are doing? And if they don't know - why aren't they finding out? They are supposed to be a leading-edge hospital. To not even ask the question, especially when they are asking their donors about HIV before they donate, seems utterly irresponsible to me.

Answers please!

What are other blood donation facilities doing?

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The answer is simple. We are witnessing pure evil manifesting right before our eyes. Here from a 1981 book by Bilderberger Jacques Attalli is an example of the Elite's mindset:

"The future will be about finding a way to reduce the population…..Of course, we will not be able to execute people or build camps. We get rid of them by making them believe it is for their own good...We will find or cause something, a pandemic targeting certain people, a real economic clisis or not, a virus affecting the old or the elderly, it doesn't matter, the weak and the fearful will succumb to it. The stupid will believe in it and ask to be treated. We will have taken care of having panned the treatment, a treatment that will be the solution. The selection of idiots will therefore be done by itself: they will go to the slaughterhouse alone."

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O.M.G.

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Just a side note: There has been some pushback from the left with regard to the English translation of the original French. Might be worth finding that passage as written in French, then translating yourself.

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I give blood several times per year. The San Diego blood bank is still asking if I’ve been jabbed. I feel a bit of pride when I check no on the form.

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Do you know if your SD bank is sequestering your pure blood from others?

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I don’t know. I’ve never asked them.

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They will tell you they will, but they won't.

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If I have scheduled surgery, I'm donating MY OWN unspiked blood in advance and making the healthcare facility sign a document attesting that only my blood may be used if needed. I will have my attorney draft something ahead of time, and I'll discuss with the providers as well.

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It's meaningless. You will not be assured of getting your own blood. It is almost an absolute certainty.

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Jan 20, 2023·edited Jan 20, 2023

Fun fact: Not only is it NOT "meaningless," but it's actually a real thing:

Autologous Donations (Self-Donation)

Autologous donations are blood donations that individuals give for their own use – for example, before a surgery.

Requirements for an Autologous Donation

Autologous donations require a Red Cross Special Collections Order form signed by your physician which serves as a prescription for this service. The order must be received by the Red Cross several weeks prior to the anticipated need.

https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/types-of-blood-donations/autologous-and-directed-donations.html

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Transfer of the spike proteins via transfusion is not a bug, but a feature. This demand for vaccine compliance is clearly not based on science. Wonder what it is based on? Bet it's nothing good.

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💥BIG ASS BOOM💥

I’ve been in the hospital twice since August. I made it clear I wanted no blood transfusions EVER!

And I was in your neck of the woods. The teaching hospitals are the worst! That includes UCSF.

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Additional reasons the covid statistics were so bad (especially early on) in the US are: no strategy or protocols for early treatment and the widespread use of remdesivir and ventilators well after the first 5 days of infection. Obesity and some ill-advised decisions in nursing homes also contributed.

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Thanks for sharing. My daughter finished her BioMed degree on her way to med school and is having second thoughts based on similar things you say here. Then she says "Dad, someone has to re-focus the ship." With totalitarian medical boards getting the guaranteed government cheese I am not so sure.

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She should think long and hard ... I dont recommend it.

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Thx for the comment. Her and her husband are moving to Texas where med school is half price(from MN) and government is less involved in their lives so we will see.

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She is correct...I almost gave up on medicine but practice now in rural South carolina. People need good preventative and palliative care. I will never be affiliated with a hospital since my forced resignation for not vaccinating...your daughter can be independent and make a difference. I wish her well.

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Thanks Julie and keep your head up, sanity has to return and you are a part of it. Thanks for gutting through the Scamdemic. Our youngest daughter couldn't get into Melrose here because 'there wasn't a bed'. She had to get to near death before a 'spot' was open. We were there for a week and I pulled the Chief Nurse aside and asked her what the place was empty yet there were 'no beds'. She said they lost 40% of their nurses because of the jab mandate and the staff/patient ratio's were too low. Government. Always government rules lead to ruination.

The crappiest part is all the smarter, critical thinking nurses quit and we were left with ones who cared more about masks than the kids in there. One persisted me about my mask under my chin and I stated quite loudly that this nurse was not allowed anywhere near my daughter if she thinks a face daiper actually works.

Have a wonderful day!

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Thank you for your comment and for speaking the truth. I hope your daughter is well.

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Doctors are vulnerable to coercion because they belong to the highest social group, take years to get educated, and are specificly targeted to lose their license, and many have lost it. I understand why but don't approve that they keep quiet. She needs to belong to the hero types of doctors or do something that keeps her "hands clean" have her talk to some of those hero doctors to see if she still wants to do that, I think doctors may eventually face backlash, make sure she goes in with open eyes

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Thanks for the comment. She has the courage. I know Obamacare has gobbled up private hospitals but that is where she has her sights.

I feel so bad for you medical professionals whose boards are now dictators of the Junta. So much waste.

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Is it early 2021? How is this still going on?

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Inertia and good planning. Little was left to chance. Incredibly demoralizing. Whole of government approach.

People watch CNN and other MSM and they have narrative that nothing is allowed to interfere with

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I fled NJ two years ago this week. Shlt like this is why.

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I love MN, but I am definitely leaving here as soon as the opportunity arises.

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I loved NJ (the people, food, and yes, the beauty) but also hated it (#SanctuaryPhil Murphy, the Democrat Machine, paying for other people's free stuff: abortions, college, healthcare, food, housing, oppressive 2A laws).

NJ's plandemic response was the nail in the coffin for my family. No way could we continue to live under such tyranny here in the United States. THANK GOD FOR RON DESANTIS and the red state of Florida!

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I feel the EXACT way as you, here in Commifornia.

And what’s funny, is that most of the state IS RED, not blue.

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But not mostly in big cities you have to drive out 45 minutes to Placerville from Sacramento before it you begin to see American flags again

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At least get out of big cities. Hive minds only there and cynicism rules. Go outside of big cities to where America still is, America isn't in blue states in blue cities, you will never see people with flags in back of pickup trucks in big cities because they'll steal the flag, it happened to me after 9/11

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Yup. I drove around Florida with a LET'S GO BRANDON car magnet on the back of my car for a year and two months. Visited libtoon New Jersey in December and someone promptly stole it. Instinctively, I bought a THREE-pack to replace it. Already, two have been taken (one in Key West, shocker), and this week while in Palm Beach, I came back to my car after only 30 minutes and someone had plastered a PLANNED PARENTHOOD sticker on top of it. That PP sticker got ripped up and immediately thrown into the trash, and I'm going to keep buying replacements.

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and, who can afford to pay said doctor... because insurance will not pay for sensible treatment protocols. too many providers need to be paid their pound of flesh along the way. Welcome to "affordable care"

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Every word you say is true. Big pharm and medicine doesn’t get rich when you get well. Find a good restorative health practitioner and be willing to make changes in your lifestyle. It’s not easy and it takes a bit of time for you to feel the benefits. It’s worth it.

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amen!

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True, but let's not pretend that patients have cllean hands in this situation.

Non-compliance is epidemic, and most would rather pop a pill than modify their unhealthy choices.

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It’s just like being a deputy sheriff…I got into that line of work because I truly wanted to help people. My personal experience with my own family (violent alcoholic father) made me want to some how help that, and then some. I found 23 years later, after losing my job, it will never change. The police change the symptoms, just like medicine

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Exactly right. Oxycontin made tens of thousands of addicts. Doctors would ask if you had any pain and almost regardless of the severity of pain you got Oxy. My doctor told me she had shoulder surgery as an outpatient and she realized later that the surgeon gave her a script for 90 pills. We are truly on our own with our health and healthcare and the consequences

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Congrats to this honest nurse at calling out all of this hypocrisy.

My sorry-ass profession (I’m a physician) has acted as camp guards, herding a frightened society on to the masking and vaccine boxcars. It has been shameful!

The best thing that ever happened to me was getting COVID early on. I never took the vax, never needed to, and have seen colleagues with no cardiac history get post-jab myocarditis so severe that they missed work and required full workups. When faced with being unable to work, I stated a religious exemption, and gave thanks I live in the Free State of Florida.

One hospital where I work reinstated mandatory masks, and it was hilarious to walk into the ER this morning and see every single staff member wearing the ridiculous things below their chins, their laughing faces uncovered.

Health care is a shockingly dishonest industry, and patients are right to mistrust us.

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I am in CA. I took a family member to a cardiologist's office (she had a prior heart condition, but also AFIB post-vax & not reported to VAERS). We didn't wear masks and the employees had theirs below their chins. They pulled them up as we walked in and I said don't bother.

Weeks later I went to my PCP. Everyone was wearing masks and they mandated that I put one on. This is the cruelty of the masks. I didn't want to wear one, but I had a very bad ear infection and I needed health care. So I wore the mask, but then asked my primary why we were wearing masks when they don't work. She has been my primary for many years. She was so annoyed and dismissive towards me. She basically said that everyone was being forced to wear masks because some patients are mean to the staff. So I said, because some patients think masks work, instead of educating your patients, you are giving into their anxiety and forcing masks on all of us. I haven't been back and I plan to find a new PCP.

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Good for you! Possibly the worst thing doctors did the past 3 years was to propagate and encourage fear. I felt dirty and ashamed playing along with this, and doing it because I have bills to pay is no excuse. No honest person should go into this work.

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Since I am youngish and healthy, I had considered volunteering at my local hospital. But the mandates have changed my mind.

When I finally got Covid a few months ago, I called my primary's office and they just spouted CDC talking points at me. And recently, when I was at the hospital with a family member for a non-Covid reason, I witnessed that they are still denying visitors to anyone that tests positive with Covid. Frankly, I am afraid to go to the doctor, dentist, or hospital for anything now.

But I'm happy to know there are still some good doctors out there. I want to move to FL.

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Can I ask if you would feel differently about it if the doctor would have said, “I totally agree that’s it’s ridiculous- but we are told (from higher ups/administration) we must.”

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If someone is honest and aware enough to admit that the masks are useless then they have a moral duty, imho, to oppose mandates. All that is necessary for evil to win is for good people to do nothing.

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The staff at my dad's podiatrist gave me "It's not our fault; the state forces us to do this." when I objected to wearing a mask in the WAITING ROOM, 10 feet away from the only other person there.

They weren't apologetic; they seemed to believe that I should behave as they do: FOLLOW ORDERS.

The whole mask charade was insane.

Yesterday, again at the supermarket, I counted 10 masked shoppers.

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Sorry. But the beancounters decree we wear masks so therefore we wear masks. Corporate medicine at its finest.

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Yes, I would have felt differently. And I have been a patient so long and we have had such a good relationship, I was so surprised at her attitude toward me. Perhaps she was unprepared because most people don't speak up. The CDC talking points a few weeks beforehand should have prepared me for what was to come. Either way, I will take my business elsewhere.

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I appreciate your comment. It’s so terribly tricky: agreeing with most patients, but also needing the job, (loans in the hundreds of thousands to pay back, family to care for), but not daring to take a stand against your employer. It’s hard not to feel like a hypocrite some days for not pushing back.

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I really worry for my pre -med son who is applying for medical schools this summer .

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I don’t recommend this work to anyone. There are more satisfying, more honest, happier lines of work without taking on six-figures debt. I regret not having the imagination to choose something better, and just do it to pay my bills. If I can ever quit, I’ll never look back.

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There must be a few medical schools that aren't reliant on pharma. We need good, decent doctors.

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Question: when you do find a new PCP, do you plan on letting your former PCP know why you left? (i.e. 'your annoying and dismissive attitude"). Would you tolerate that same attitude from say, your financial planner? Or would you seek out a new one? The reason I say that is that if it hits the pocketbook, more people might start to 'pay attention'. Yes, it shouldn't have to be the primary motivator, but I feel that we are on the verge of a large societal shift in attitude towards all this mess. Might push some of the slowpokes along...

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Yes, I will let her know. And the dismissive treatment is secondary. The primary reason is because I go to her for medical treatment based on data and science and I can't trust her medical judgment when her office submits to the tyranny of other ill-informed patients and subjects her other patients to that same tyranny. That is the antithesis of health care.

No, I won't quietly tolerate that treatment from anyone. Frankly, I should have gone elsewhere for my ear. I am angry with myself for putting on the mask even for a short time, even with my eardrum on the verge of rupturing. I think we should all say no to the masks and put these tyrants on the spot. I put the mask on, but I do speak loudly about how stupid and performative they are and how we are all idiots. I say it to everyone whether they like hearing it or not.

Last month, I was planning to visit an outdoor venue that had a masking policy for the unvaccinated. I told them that I wouldn't patronize a business that discriminated against people based on their personal health decisions. They said their policy wasn't enforced, but I told them that I wouldn't patronize a business with a written policy whether enforced or not. They said they were only following county guidelines and never acknowledged that they should not have followed county guidelines; however, they did decide to delete this policy from their web page. It was a small victory. And I kept my cool during all of our email exchanges, which was a growing opportunity for me. Lol

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I live in CA too (Orange County) and have had a similar mask story. My longtime primary care doc retired in December of 2021. The front office of a new doc I tried who was affiliated with the same hospital all had their masks off when my wife and I walked in the door. Sitting behind a plexiglass window wall they quickly put their masks on and requested that my wife and I do the same. We were the only ones in the reception area so I pushed back and said no. They insisted and handed me the mask which I begrudgingly put on but kept only over my mouth. Time after time I heard, "Sir, your mask needs to be up over your nose." After that dance I was finally told to go into an exam room and await the doc for the new patient meeting. In the exam room a sign on the wall stated to DO NOT REMOVE YOUR MASK EVEN IF YOU ARE IN THE ROOM ALONE. Madness! The doc came in donning an N95. I could barely understand him as he lectured me about the jab after I told him I do not need it since I had a prior infection nor would I ever take it. That was 7 months ago and I am still looking for a new primary doctor. The mask insanity and jab pushing needs to stop. I have lost faith in doctors because of the lies and the kabuki theater that is masks.

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Wow your experience is even worse. My primary told me I could take off the mask in the exam room and she also told me I could wait in my car. For an ear doctor, I made a point of taking off my mask in the exam room and no one has asked me to put it on. When I was in the emergency waiting room with my family member, I took off the mask to eat. After all, they have snack machines in the waiting room. And I pulled my mask down to talk to my family member because she is hard of hearing. I was intentionally slack and obvious about not complying with the mask wearing. And in the hospital room, I never wore the mask. But a nurse came in wearing a double mask and a shield. I couldn't understand a word she said. It just occurred to me... I wonder if I had paid every person in the emergency waiting room $20, if they would have all agreed to remove their masks at the same time and not put them back on.

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The ANGER I feel toward masking and mask wearers is palpable. The only thing that has helped me for doctor visits (necessary surgery) is a Fake Mask. At least I can breath!

Forcing healthy people to put something over their nose and mouth is PURE EVIL.

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My spouse bought a mask that is essentially mesh. lol

You are right. They are evil. The lockdowns/masks were the beginning of the tyranny.

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Become ungovernable.

Do not comply.

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While I was still living in kommie NJ, I also bought one of those mesh masks. The compliant sheep used to compliment me on it. LMAO

This one: https://www.amazon.com/Leg-Avenue-Womens-Rhinestone-Fashionable/dp/B08C2RPPMD/

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My brother, a cardiologist, developed AFib post vaxx. He is so bought into the lie that he won’t acknowledge Moderna is responsible for his new arrythmia.

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I am sorry for you both, truly. I’ve got colleagues that refuse to admit what is happening, and some that are furious and depressed that they were so harmed. Not taking that damned non-vaccine was one of the few really great decisions I’ve ever made, and I won’t change course.

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Wow, I'm sorry. It must be really difficult to accept that pharmaceutical companies might put money before efficacy and safety and that the regulatory agencies would fail to do their jobs. My college roommate's husband is also a cardiologist and she was hardcore on FB in favor of the vax. I just posted Alex's substack and logged off.

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I exercise an hour a day and dropped my health insurance since I can’t get care without a mask anyhow. I’m not taking a knee to the superstitions, fears and arrogance of others.

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You are likely much better off.

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As soon as the patient became the client and we had to call the case managers and social workers to get creative with paying diagnoses for admission it was game over for healthcare. It’s now all business run by insurance companies and big pharmaceutical. Once the old heads in healthcare leave the new regime will normalize this deviation

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So, the real question is, how did all those doctors end up heinous prison guards? Everyone seemed so reasonable before Covid (before the Third Reich, before Stalin, before Mao). Now we’ve become monsters, turning on our neighbors, turning on our families, and, the monsters may not know it yet, but turning on themselves.

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Jan 20, 2023·edited Jan 20, 2023

"How did all those doctors end up {as} heinous prison guards?" Just do a search on The Milgram Experiment (60s) and The Asch Experiement (50s). We all think we would resist totalitarian authority - but these are two classic experiments proving otherwise.

Milgram Experiment Conclusion: 65% of the participants would kill someone if an authority figure told them to.

Asch Experiment Conclusion: People were willing to ignore reality in order to conform to the group.

Backbone indeed. And the govrnmnt has gotten a lot better at manipulation over the decades.

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I have often said in the last couple of years that I never had understood how the Holocaust could have happened but that Now I do. It breaks my heart - particularly for our supposedly independent American spirit. There are fewer of us than I thought.

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Trusted News Initiative. NIAID controls grant money. Everything is 'brought to you by Pfizer' (regulatory capture). The unelected Bill Gates is so generous and wonderful. Etc.

Trust the experts. They know best.

Discussion/asking questions BAD, not allowed, go directly to JAIL. Conformity/obedience GOOD, encouraged, COLLECT $200.

It wasn't all that hard, actually.

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I completely agree with you.

We ended up here by not learning, understanding, cherishing, and defending our Founding; by thinking that we are our brother’s keeper (with or without his consent) and that “doing good” justifies the use of force; that the individual exists to serve the greater good, and not the other way around. The first obligation of the physician is not to all patients or the world, but to the individual patient with who he has a voluntary relationship. “Community health” has become the vehicle for collective force, and turned doctors into cowardly thugs.

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Most of the docs I know were anti mandate even if they believed the vaxx was “safe and effective”.

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How come they didn't speak up, though??? Rhetorical comment, I know.

But when forced masking finally became choice, I was told that I "HAD to let the maskers alone because it's their choice." PFFFT!!!!! I will NEVER forgive or forget and still today I absolutely abhor those who chose to mask. My family tells me I can't "be that way" because it's their choice. NOPE! STAY HOME IF YOU'RE STILL CONVINCED A PIECE OF PAPER WILL STOP A VIRUS. Stay home and out of public places. I REFUSE to be subjected to your neurotic nonsense any longer.

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I agree

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New generation of doctors are “woke”

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Not all, thank God! I told my PCP that I didn't want to get vaccinated (at age 69) and she was fine with that. But I don't tell too many people, and would never post her name. Not sure if there would be any repercussions from the state board.

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You’re right to be concerned. When we moved back to Florida in 2020 and had to find new docs, the “best group” in town had in large print at the top of their webpage - “We follow WHO guidelines.” I was horrified and finally did find a PCP who is more independent and had done reading on the mRNA technology and was troubled by what she’d found. There was no problem with telling her we were not getting the jab (she didn’t recommend or not recommend to her patients, except anyone of child bearing age - a definite NO.)

She was able to prescribe HCQ and IVM for us to have on hand and at one point when we had a couple of large reunions to attend, my husband and I were on HCQ as a prophylaxis. In early 2022, she got a threatening letter from Medicare about the HCQ. So, you bet - Big Brother is out there and watching.

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Patrick, thank goodness you’re out there as one of the good guys who has done his homework and “gets” it. I just hope you can hold on until this insanity passes - if it ever does. At least you’ll still be standing to give medical care to the many who need it. The medical “profession” as a whole has no idea the damage they’ve done to their credibility but this doesn’t include physicians like you.

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That's the way! Figure out a way to comply without being compliant. LOL! Good on you all!

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Thank you for telling the truth. As a person who unfortunately has had one medical disaster after another I can say the only way to stay healthy is stay far away from doctors and hospitals! God Bless you for being one of the few honest doctors left!

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I am also grateful that I got COVID early on. I was 64 at the time, and quickly and easily recovered. I never needed a vaccine, and therefore never had one. I am a blood donor, and my blood bank is always calling me to donate. Funny, my boyfriend, who has the same blood type, but is vaxxed, never gets bothered by the blood bank…

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Great article, thanks for sharing. I lost my job in 2021 for refusing the jab, and it’s been a rocky road since. That being said, best decision I’ve made. Never succumb to this EVER.

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You did the right thing! My colleague developed chronic heart problems after the jab, and has never returned to normal. I will go bankrupt before taking this poison.

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Here’s a tip for the nurse! Agency nurses are allowed ALL AND ANY EXEMPTIONS. Hospitals and facilities ask no questions.

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Ain’t that some bullsh*t!! The hospitals fire employees and staff their vacancies with EXEMPTED TEMPORARY STAFF!

Don’t tell, though! I’m joining the agency team😉!

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Wow, seems almost like a business strategy for them to take people off payroll and not provide benefits…

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Yes, but agency nurses make BIG MONEY...surely they can get their own health insurance if they're not partnered with or married to someone who can provide it. My cousin's kid is a travel nurse and she is living the dream!

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ICU nurse here. This is very interesting. My hospital stopped asking about covid vaccination a while ago. We also stopped testing every person that walks in the door (not sure about the planned surgery patients). Unless you have actual symptoms of infection you are not getting tested. We'll swab for flu and covid if you are symptomatic and maybe do a respiratory viral panel. That being said, OMG the MASKS! I am so freaking done. We all are. It's still masks for everyone 2+ in the hospital and all affiliated clinics, but only where the public can actually see us. WE are in a low transmission area BTW.

If I'm in a conference room or the breakroom then it's masks off. The entire learning center is mask free (separate building). It's awful, it's soul crushing. I am sick to death of seeing nothing but eyes. We are now being audited (spied on) for mask compliance. DNV (accrediting agency) recently visited and busted us for not fully enforcing our mask policy. I've asked numerous people where the pressure is coming from to keep the damn masks on. DNV? CMS? CDC? No one can tell me exactly. I think it's DNV.

Get this, we are supposed to enter the building (basement level) with either a cloth mask from home or put on one of the crappy masks left in a holder by the door. Those masks wouldn't protect you from a gentle breeze. When I get to my unit I'm supposed to swap the cloth or crappy mask for a "better" medical grade mask that I have to wear for my 12 hour shift, everywhere, even the nurses station. I refuse to mask in the basement. I don't put a mask on until I get to my unit. Screw them. It's not much but it's my way of telling them to kiss my ass. I also pull my mask down when I first introduce myself to my patient and their family so they can see the face of the person they have entrusted their lives to.

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I work in Texas at a rehab facility+ thank goodness they finally dropped the farce. It must be a state decision

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How long are you going to live like that?

It's soul crushing for me to hear you say it's soul crushing. I know exactly what you mean by it.

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I've heard they will re-evaluate this spring. I'm not holding my breath. I think the pressure is coming from outside the system, not in.

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My sister is not a nurse but works in a very popular hospital in an administrative position ( due to spacing problems, her office was basically in a broom closet with one other person). She fought and fought the vaccine mandate until she finally gave in in fear of losing her job, and got J and J. They MADE her get a booster months later or she would be fired. Less than 5 weeks after the booster she started getting massive bruising on her hips and thighs- overnight it came- one day it was not there next morning she woke up with it ( it looked like that platelet disease). I wish I could share a pic , it was horrfic(I think I emailed a pic to Alex when it happened). Her primary who was very pro shot ran a bunch of tests- she had been extremely healthy her whole life, zero medical problems, and her blood was all messed up especially whatever the factor is for hemophilia. Her thyroid was extremely out of whack too. The Dr. expressed she was having her own problems from vaccines, and wrote her an immediate exemption letter from any more shots. BUT WHY did it have to come to her trashing her health and risking her well being? this is a crime...

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God bless you! My son is in the healthcare field. He was forced to jab. I worry every day. And...his employer has come out with the study that the more you jab the worse the outcome! We are living in strange times! I hope your hospital wakes up and drops your mask requirements! Thank you for having the courage to speak out!

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The Alex we are seeing the last month or so is the Alex we loved from 2020-2021. Glad he is back. I think he was starting to get a few cocktail party invites again so he had to tone it down. Now he is back to being the bulldog we counted on and screwing those invites.

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Mark, yes!!!! I thought I was just thinking like a nasty person!!

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Hi nurse (via Alex), my daughter went to work for agencies and gets placed in a hospital or surgery center for 10-13 weeks at a time making large $$ aporox 100/hr. Maybe you can do that, you might even get placed in a red state and get to take off your mask. I hope you can do something. I'm sad for your suffering and pray for your relief.

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What happened to Americans like that?

She rocks!

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God bless her! Healthcare would be much better served with more like her in the workforce. I, too, am a board certified surgical RN. Fortunately, I am not currently working in nursing at this time.

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So true. RNs tend to be infinitely more qualified to make hospital-wide decisions than their remote superiors. They're also way more courageous. Long before their ascension, Socrates made clear in Plato’s Republic that he did not want public health officials to be the ones making the rules, because such an order would encourage excessive risk-aversion and ultimately result in transforming cowardice into a virtue.

https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/the-fetishization-of-masks

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Yeah, but Socrates wanted philosophers to make the rules, which is even worse. ;-)

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Thank you for your strength of conviction and your honesty. I am also a nurse, though I wasn’t working in a hospital setting and I’m past retirement age, so I finally just gave in and left the job I had enjoyed. I was so tired of all the political correctness and the drama from medical colleagues who should be open to reason and TRUE science. I too Hated wearing a mask all day, knowing that it is pointless at best. I’ll never give in to such nonsense again.

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I met a fellow critical care RN today. She helped me buy my camera at Target. Her job was stocking diapers but she saw I needed help so she jumped in to help me.

Yes. She left her nursing job to work at Target.

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Thanks so much to both the nurse and to Alex.

BTW, it is NOT terribly hard to fake a vaxx card, and I can easily walk anyone through the process (just as long as I don't end up jailed as a political prisoner for it).

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And why should it be illegal to forge a vax card? It the shot truly works, then what harm does it cause?

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Exactly! After all, the jab nothing more than a forged "vaccine."

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I only needed one to visit my moms care facility but the ladies knew I was a refusenik. I finally was allowed to see her for her 99 th birthday no test no vx, just temp. Now there are 8 + in her skilled. It’s been horrifying to be excluded

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This is what makes my blood boil! All of those seniors who couldn’t have family visitors and those who died alone in their hospital rooms and nursing homes. Tragic and inhumane.

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DTT you should put a web page up, or a reddit, or something. Or just make up a list of things needed and send them to people who are interested.

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I like your idea; am pondering it. 👍🏼

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🤣🤣🤣

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The content of your character is well reflected in your words. Thank you for sharing these insights via Alex with us. Much respect for your efforts to perform Good Works and share harsh Truths. God Bless.

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They convicted another doctor in La for destroying "vaccine" and giving children saline injections. So not everybody is coerced. There was another nurse IIRC. They are throwing the book at the doctor, but he'll eventually be a hero. It's just like Schlinders List.

Ironic that America won the cold war, but failed to stop the Communists from the "long walk thru the institutions". We are destroyed from within.

Anybody ever hear a communist say that the only reason that the OTHER communist countries faied is that they didn't do REAL communism?

China hasn't failed, but it must be HELL. involuntary 'organ donors', millions enslaved, genocide of the Wiggers (pronounced that way but spelling wrong) and SO much more. But ex mayor Bloomberg or whatever his name is, has a lot of respect for China. And Fauci saying that he urged lockdowns because China had them- like China should be copied for almost anything. I really feel sorry for the Chinese people, with the yoke of communism on their necks.

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Pilots are in the same shoes. If they are unvaxxed, they cannot get hired at a new airline as all new hires need to be poked.

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Did you know that Steve Kirsch just a couple of days ago discovered that the FAA lowered the standards for hearts in the physicals? Apparently it would have taken SO many pilots out that the lowered the standards. Steve had a article just a day or two ago. He was interviewing a cardiac doctor who was really outraged at the FAA.

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I saw that too.

Along with the "ground stop" last week, and the recent runway near-misses at JFK, the FAA is totally SCREWED UP.

Kinda makes you think twice about a plane ticket.

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I haven't flown since 2019. I moved to the free state of Florida two years ago this week, and I have visited NJ at least 10 times since then. We have driven EVERY trip. I just won't fly right now. Not sure when or if I will change my mind on this.

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You're not alone. I've heard others say the same thing.

I've never seen so many people lose confidence in the government agencies.

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I read the Steve Kirsch piece. Problem is the FAA actually updated the ECG range in 2017... still not great as the Spike Protein damage was well known way before it was unleashed on the peasants.

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…except that an article about this this morning stated that several charter companies and private plane owners are actively seeking out non jabbed pilots! At least it’s a start.

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Imagine how highly valued our pure blood will be one day soon?

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It is a start; sure. But private plane owners and charters are oftentimes not steady, permanent job opportunities with benefits. They also don’t pay well. When a pilot spends over 100k on their education they expect to make more than a low level manager at McDonalds.

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Understood and couldn’t agree more - “It’s a start” is a possibility and not necessarily a preferred route. Unfortunately, with what’s going on, what one might expect to make and what one might be able to make and still remain unjabbed but doing what he loves, may be different matters.

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If we bend the knee in one profession (and allow to be poked) then they’ll require us to bend the knee in all professions eventually. Existing Southwest pilots stood against the mandate collectively - they had time to wake up and prepare after what United did to their workforce. Southwest management broke under pressure and did not mandate. Standing tall and not allowing this shit show to happen is key. Especially now that the jig is up.

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Again, I couldn’t agree more and you and I and people on this blog realize this and would be standing tall as best they could. (I’d be over the cliff but that’s my stubborn personality when I think principle is involved.) And I didn’t know that about Southwest although the couple of pilots I know who used to work there before retiring are just the personality types - strong, former Marines - who would do this. The culture there is a good one.

But sadly, again, I’m no longer sure that people like us are in the majority. I sent Alex’s article to several friends and one, a former AA pilot, replied merrily that he had already gotten his 5th booster - had recently tested positive for covid but had no symptoms at all so the “vaccines” must be working. He’s happy as a clam. I now believe there are more like him than like us.

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Sadly, I believe you are correct...

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Thank you for your insights. So glad that you got an exemption but I had not appreciated how much this now ties you to your current employer given the mandates.

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I have a good friend who is a certified pediatric RN...she works in the NICU at Texas Children's in Houston. She did finally get a religious exemption but it was not easy. She is highly skilled...the hospital hired her away from another NICU unit in Florida. She finally told them that if they did not give her the religious exemption....they would have to fire her as she was not going to quit and she was not going to take the jab. They finally relented but she told me that 95% of the nurses took the jab because the hospital gave them monetary incentives. They were bought off. She feels very good about her decision at this point.

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Amazing. I saw a poignant quote today - They will keep pushing you as long as you keep moving. So glad your friend took a stand, although it takes a lot of bravery and resolve to stand pat on principle.

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Good for her. Never go quietly. Never.

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