A University of Pennsylvania Medical Student Sent me this Anonymous Note During the Pandemic
A University of Pennsylvania Medical Student Sent me this Anonymous Note During the Pandemic
The Schools Policy was Anti-Science, Anti-Evidence, and unethical
During the pandemic, I received hundreds, perhaps thousands of notes, this was one of them from an anonymous med student at UPenn. It is similar to dozens of others.
Let me outline some lessons
Universities failed to host debates. They held ~0 debates on school closure, lockdown, beach closure, masking toddlers, boosting young men even though that was harmful, etc. They capitulated to societal fear, and worried constantly about upsetting their donors. They largely failed to uphold their portion of the social contract. If I were a politician, I would gradually withdraw their tax exemptions and drain their endowments.
Students at universities were forced to get dose after dose of a vaccine that had no efficacy data in people who had COVID. A young man suffered net harm from boosters— given the 1 in 10k risk of myocarditis. Universities worked too closely with the Biden administration to uphold unethical, non-evidence based mandates.
Students were scared to speak freely b/c they worried their careers would be ruined. The UPenn community is not one that fosters intellectual freedom or diversity of thought. Honestly, given their recent press releases, it is clear that licensing patents to corporations (Novartis/ CART) is the primary goal— even though they are so stupid that they lost out on massive revenue and frankly accepted a bad deal.
Universities and journals will die in the next 50 years. Substack and podcasts will destroy them. They are too close minded and fearful of cancellation.
The student’s letter is excellent.
Tho I am a surgeon (oral and maxillofacial), I was a history, major in college, primarily driven by the need to understand why “history always repeats itself”.
In this day and age, where the policy makers, the politicians, the medical school faculty, and the journalists have all “learned” from history, and “learned” learned from psychology classes and sociology classes they took as undergrads, they all fail to apply the lessons learned to themselves and their own human nature.
The policies were all instituted under a blanket of ignorant fear (understandable, and perhaps not forgivable) and perpetuated by a lack of humility (the tendency with those of authority NOT to admit they were flat-ass wrong, for fear of loosing their credibility, position, or both)--and one, the other, or both are commonalities in the historical rise of authoritarian or tyrannical regimes--yet our medical school leadership (among others) refuse to see this or acknowledge what they once learned as an undergrad, because of human nature.
No matter how much we “learn” from history, human nature will fuck it up.
And THIS, above all else, is the problem. Until we all can swallow our pride and humbly accept the truths that we have learned from the past, fear will always trump reason and we will always find ourselves repeating the past....
And the answer, a simple.
I’m a Nurse Practitioner married to a psychiatrist. My daughter is a just out of residency practicing pediatrician. My sister in law, in Maryland, is head of an ICU there and they were the accepting unit for many Covid cases. Most of our friends are either medical doctors or health care practitioners. None of them did ANY reading, research, or any dives into an alternative view. My current personal MD in Nashville (moved out of California 3 years ago) told me last Friday during my visit in which I told him I would never wear a mask, get any Covid vax, and had done 3 years of research on my own, told me I should get a booster. I politely declined. He’s kind so he let it go, but not before citing CDC guidelines. I can read research papers and abstracts, I can analyze data-I did research for Pfizer in my role in the 90’s at a mental health clinic, on combining 2 of their meds to be a new treatment for schizophrenia. I also was a research assistant with a brilliant but insane MD at UCSF in the 80’s on cocaine use. I didn’t get paid but the clinic or PI got paid handsomely. What many people don’t understand is that unless you’re scientifically curious and want to see RCT and outcomes, from many reputable sources, debates from researchers not paid by pharma (hard to find) MDs don’t do this. They stick to their specialty and just follow edicts from the rotten captured CDC, FDA, and now the White House. I watched it all happen and knew that I couldn’t participate in Tony Fauci and Deborah Birx and the WHO and Bill Gates fraud and lies. When I began a very lonely deep dive on my own starting on Feb 14th 2020, I watched many if not all the info I was researching disappear from every source. Including citizen journalists in China, MD’s in South America, and at least 50 others. My daughter was in medical school in Israel and to my disbelief as a Jew who supports Israel in many ways, Israel had a complete militaristic approach with tracing, apps to alert if you were too close to another or early on to alert if you’d stepped beyond your allowed space. And PLEASE no Israel bashing replies, this isn’t about Israel. To this day, none of my husbands family will even allow me to speak on my views of Covid. Or BLM. OR TRANSGENDERISM. The conversation will be met with “we’re NOT talking about that”. The result for me is a big chasm with my in laws, distrust of everything Covid on MSM, and terrible (deserved) mistrust of the medical world. As a young or even older nurse, I never got the flu shot-primarily because I liked clinical work more than killing even 30 minutes of my day walking or driving to get the flu jab. I never had the flu. Now I refuse the Shingles vaccine. Flu vaccine. Any vaccine a 65 year old reportedly should get according to the CDC. So call me paranoid, idiot, or anti-vaxxer-or delusional conspiracist all day. That happened regularly in Oakland California. And I was spit on, yelled at and cursed. If you choose to follow orders from the CDC, I will certainly not spit on you, or even call you names, hopefully I’ll get the same courtesy. And all I want is my freedom to live as I see fit