Annual visit to my GP and he asked if I had taken the vaccine. I sternly said no and he was curious why. I told him over 9000 dead in the US alone, hundreds of thousands injured including myocarditis, seizure disorders, skin issues, memory loss, and neurological damage. And added that the UK reporting seems even more severe than in the US, but similar results in terms of what impacts they are feeling.
He is very up on the myocarditis and won't vaccinate teens because of it, but he's not aware of the stats in the VAERS database. I told him I'd prefer he went to the site and verified himself instead of just hearing it from me so that he's as informed as all physicians should be on the topic.
Final argument I made was at any time I can change my mind if its merits are later fixed in the future and I had a need. For now I am treatable with multiple medicines (HCQ and Ivermectin), chance of death from it incredibly low, and there is simply no reason to get it without proper testing and validation, which it has failed miserably already but not talked about in the mainstream.
He stopped questioning and said he will research it. That's all I ask. Another win for the informed.
Most docs have NO IDEA WTF VAERS is. Seriously. This is compounded by the huge push over the last 10-15yrs from major hospital systems to buy every primary care practice they can get their hands on. When this happens, most of the docs just follow orders, and are micro-managed to see as many patients in a day as they can. This leads to rushing patients through as fast as they can, rarely giving them the time or attention to actually diagnose/treat a patient properly. This type of assembly line medical practice usually extinguishes any flame of desire they had to learn more, research, and strive to truly help their patients. Just my .02 and obviously not all inclusive.
This is an excellent point. Doctors have given up their autonomy for financial security. Which might seem like a sweet deal when viewed through the lens of crushing student loans/debt, but now they are slaves to the system rather than powerful health care providers themselves. Cogs...
I do recognize the risks - and flat out career suicide - involved in standing up to the system. It's a big ask. But doctors are supposed to be more than service providers. They are supposed to be held to a higher standard. And that has definitely been lost.
The ones who are standing up to the medical industrial complex are true heroes! They are putting their careers, their livelihoods, even their very lives on the line to do what is right. I hope they get the positive recognition they deserve someday.
Which lends proof that reactions on VAERS are seriously under reported.