That was the best thing I've seen all day.
Consider it shared. Thanks.
Apologies, didn't mean it as an attack on you, as I stated in my opening statement.
I just took the opportunity to get that off my chest. I have a close friend who is a neurosurgeon and he is disillusioned by the profession too. But he's stuck in it until he can retire.
Your story does have an interesting, poetic symmetry to it. Good for you!
Running out of "fossil fuels" huh? Hahaha... that and a "future" full of electric cars is almost laughable.
Who cares? At this point, Bolton is a non-entity with little relevance except in his own mind.
This is not directed at you personally, but to all the members of your profession. I have lost a LOT of respect for your profession through this criminal rollout of untested drugs that, apparently, all the Deep Thinkers in the pharmaceutical-medical complex knew had troublesome side effects, inefficacy, and lack of thorough clinical trials.
I once regarded Medicine as a science, driven by research and a search for actual cures. Ten years ago I went through cancer and my doctors were successful in getting rid of it. What happened in the intervening years up to the covid hoax, I can only imagine, but the post above and many, many more like it point to profiteering, pseudoscience, and criminal conduct.
My own GP offered me the jab back in 2021 and I refused. He did have the decency to ask why, and I told him all that I knew back then, having done a lot of independent reading. He merely said, "OK" and dropped the subject. Since then at other checkups, I have also now begun rejecting even the flu vaccine, which I used to take regularly each year.... such is my skepticism of Medicine now.
I still go to my doctor for semi-annual checkups and to keep my few prescriptions (BP and gastric reflux) up to date, but other than that, I've now learned to keep the profession at arm's length, and do my due diligence to be responsible for my own health.
If I have lost that much confidence in your profession -- from cancer patient wholly depending on it for a 'cure' to thinking about it as a modern form of snake oil salesmen -- one has to wonder how the general public feels. I have yet to see any statistics on public confidence in the medical profession, but I would imaging it is down there with the approval ratings of Congress (7%), root canals, and colonoscopies.
What has been done to your profession is as damaging as what Jack Smith, Fani Willis, et al. have done to the Justice system in our country. Faith in ALL our institutions, including Medicine, has been eroded to a degree that I'm not sure it's going to be recovered in my lifetime.
I'm reminded of a scene in "A Man For All Seasons" where Thomas More says to Richard Rich, the false witness who just condemned More to death with his false testimony, ""Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world," sighs More, "but for Wales?"
Medicine sold its collective soul in recent years...for what? ... for a few dollars, and then a few dollars more. What has been revealed is a near-criminal enterprise, where patients are mere chattel, where "cures" are considered a bad business model, and frankly, few people trust you anymore. Snake Oil Incorporated.
That is exactly what your profession has earned... a lot of dollars and the disdain of thinking people everywhere.
Amen, brother. A very articulate presentation, well done. At the time of the covid-hoax, I was (and am) a retired Technical Writer and Technical Editor who had a long career in the tech sector. For me, it was simply a matter of looking at the then-available documents and what I knew about the role of mRNA in organisms, and the unpredictable outcomes thereof, that drove me away from even considering the jabs and boosters.
All around me I saw people living in abject fear, drummed up by national and local media, and willfully quarantining themselves in their homes. If they dared venture out in public, some of them wore double masks and avoided their fellow humans as far as possible.
I lost a couple of associates (I cannot call them 'friends') and in retrospect, I'm sort of glad they are out of my life now, they were such negative people. I've seen others with vaccine injuries such as brain fog, TIA's, crippling physical ailments, and such.
I don't consider myself special either... just a citizen of normal intelligence and not one to adopt the latest fad or craze. My wife and I decided that we were healthy enough to survive an illness with a 98% survival rate, and thought if we DID get sick, we'd deal with it. Well... we never did get sick, as we both exercise, eat a good diet, take vitamins and supplements to boost our immune systems, and don't smoke or drink, and live fairly regular lives of daytime activities, very few night activities, get to bed and get enough sleep... sort of a modern version of what the Puritans might have considered "clean living."
I do believe some of my associates from back in the hoax days have gained a new respect for both of us, and more than once we've been told "you all made the right decision."
I've gotten over the anger about all that, as anger is not a healthy place to be. I just find it saddening that so many people were taken in by the hype. We now know who would be the first to get in the cattle cars if ordered to by their Big Brother government. It has led us to be even more skeptical than we were before all this began.
The FBI lost "credible deniability" a LONG time ago. We The People see this and know this. They may never get their credibility back, and deservedly so.
Trying to "stack the Court" using a different tactic.
Heh! When I picked up IVM for me and my wife, I thought it was slightly pricey. I wonder if there is someplace where I can buy it cheaper, and in bulk? Any ideas?
I looked at the actual ICC statement on this ( https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state ) and searched for the words "equivalence" and "equivalency"... they don't appear in the ICC statement.
So it is quite interesting that politicians end up in lockstep, using the same word suddenly. Sounds like they got their 4am "talking points" and proceeded to issue their statements, all including the magic word of the day for the masses.
I do find it sad that three of them -- Tom Cotton, Tim Scott, and my own state senator, Bill Hagerty -- also got caught up in the rush to appear "relevant." Just quieten down, boys, chill... it's all Kabuki Theater and you know it.
Yes, if anyone is going to go the to the trouble of driving here from another state, do a little homework first. Depending on where they are coming from (Tennessee is a big-ish state), call ahead to local small pharmacies first before just driving here and going to CVS or Walgreen's or Walmart.
The width of Tennessee is almost exactly the width of Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama combined, so depending on where one is coming from, call ahead, or look online first.
Hey, good memory....and you call yourself "brain dead"... ha!
Nuremberg 2.0, now.
Corporate greed merchants.
If you're ever in the Knoxville or Knox County area, i go to Heartland Apothecary to get my Ivermectin. It's in west Knox County on Kingston Pike.
Oddly enough, when my home state of Tennessee legalized over-the-counter (OTC) purchases of Ivermectin, those very two stores -- CVS and Walgreens -- were the first place I headed to buy some for me and the wife.
At both places I was told "we haven't heard anything about that"...even though it had been on the news nightly the week before. What they MEANT to say was, "Our corporate out of state bosses have told us not to go along with that."
I did eventually find a couple of local independent pharmacies who WOULD sell it to me, no hassle, just tell them your height and weight (for dosage purposes) and in 10 minutes we had capsules designed specifically for us.
To my knowledge, those two big-box pharmacies still "haven't heard" about OTC Ivermectin being legal in our state. How incredibly stupid!
Ah, someone else "gets it".... I understand you, fren.
By the way, I seem to always see these stories accompanied by names with apostrophes (') in them. Is there a correlation? Hmmm...
MOAR OF THIS ^^^^^
He was just letting the people there know what he REALLY thinks about them.
When I refer to DEI, I prefer to say IED, as in "improvised explosive device."
Yeah, Mitt and a handful of loser RINOs and malcontents. By their fruits ye shall know them. The GOP could use an old fashioned purge like the Soviets used to do... sent to a gulag, erased from history, airbrushed from photos, and poof! ...they never existed.
Doomed to fail. No one wants Nikki.
I feel sorry for any of our soldiers in that region. Caught in stupid global politics and our own corrupt leaders.