I honestly don’t even know what to say because this whole situation is so ridiculous! There are NCAA tournament games going on this weekend in packed arenas around the country and St Patrick’s Day celebrations in pubs and bars. I suspect more than one person who attended this event and was “protected” will be at one of these or a similar event that is not. How exactly did this make a difference beyond virtue signaling??
“The Coddling of the American Mind” and Lukianoff’s latest “The Canceling of the American Mind” are worth a revisit. https://www.thecoddling.com For decades now, this fear based indoctrination has fueled safetyism which is the enemy of rational thought as it regresses the most ‘educated/indoctrinated’ away from the principles of personal responsibility and optimism and courage in the face of challenges toward a mentality of grievance and victimhood. We are becoming a nation of tyrannical cowards.
My county is doing a small memorial garden for those we lost to COVID. It’s a small piece of land in an existing park. It’s not a huge effort. But to me it perpetuates the idea that this is something we should still be treating differently than other URIs. Is there one for flu? RSV?
Why should I believe we are back to normal if this is what we are still doing? Why should I believe that if in 2024 we are making gardens for those we lost to a respiratory virus that everyone will eventually get and making med students congregate outdoors? Why should I believe that every double sneeze or cough won’t be taken as evidence I’ve gotten this one virus and am being irresponsible for being out in the world?
The currency of public health is trust. I was always taught that trust, for a professional, is a combination of ethics and competence. I am a layperson who doesn’t understand, beyond the basics, how vaccines work, so I need to trust the public health professionals. Seeing policies implemented that are clearly incompetent and unethical (even to a layperson) erodes that trust. I don’t understand why healthcare professionals continue to squander their currency recommending policies that do not stand up to even the lightest scrutiny.
Imagine how far we have fallen from the wartime medics, who risked their lives on a regular basis to provide healing to soldiers. And for all the doctors from days past, who did not hesitate to diagnose and treat at the bedside patients with unknown infectious diseases.
This history is a major reason why being a physician was so highly respected. Now we watch as that status is steadily eroded in the name of safety and compliance. Sad.
While being an Intern and Resident (1986-90) involved many hours of work, often well beyond 60 hrs/week in clinical time (education time extra), the experience and exposure to multiple disease entities, clinical learning and practical skill set development was, in my opinion worth it and I did not regret it for the short time of my training. While we all joked about the “indentured servitude”, the large plurality of us were grateful and accepted this as best for our future career in medicine and patient care.
Now entering more the patient side of care, I am repulsed and appalled by the absurd fixation with Physicians presenting their “ Pronouns” (do they recognize me as a male XY?) and the failure to make effective eye contact and forsaking physical examination, for the EMR “god” and test ordering, thereby missing almost entirely the art and compassion of medicine.
It’s another sign of how elite institutions have lost their way. The most intellectually brittle and intolerant people are allowed to be uncompromising and those who disagree capitulate. As if any healthy community could sustain such a practice without become oppressive. The absurdity of this irrational practice is the school would not be required to go to such extreme lengths to accommodate a disabled person, whether student or employee. Saying an event must be moved outside in inclement weather would never be viewed as a reasonable accommodation. So Covid irrationalism allows fearful and dogmatic people to insist on accommodations that people who have actual physical conditions requiring accommodation cannot. Utterly irrational.
It's virtue signaling, but for health. It will now never go away for a set of folks. We are in a new world of safety at all costs, even if the safety is 1/10 billion return.
Let us not play dumb any longer. This is not about a few crackpot administrators or a conspiracy of incompetence. There is a dark agenda at play and many know what they are doing while the rest are useful idiots. To create this kind of scene at a top medical school is precisely the point: lend credibility to lies and intimidate people who are transcending the "mononarrative."
I can only imagine that the universities are still being paid to do this from basically hidden money from the same govt and clandestine agencies that have been pushing toward totalitarian control . Sure maybe it’s just stupidity or virtue signaling but given the large overall shifts that we are seeing societally, financially etc . These kind of actions keep the fear going thereby creating the ability to create the same situation all
Over again when a “ novel” pathogen conveniently shows up, and it keeps people
Agree with all your comments. It’s distressing to me to see young people in masks in particular. But—I still see physician colleagues masking. Regular people get it—80+% of my patients don’t want to wear masks and I agree with that.
Medical schools have regressed to shamanism. Should we trust any doctor who went to med school over the past decade? COVID and climate change public health hysterias are the new apocalypto: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/climate-change-esg-un-wef-apocalypto
I honestly don’t even know what to say because this whole situation is so ridiculous! There are NCAA tournament games going on this weekend in packed arenas around the country and St Patrick’s Day celebrations in pubs and bars. I suspect more than one person who attended this event and was “protected” will be at one of these or a similar event that is not. How exactly did this make a difference beyond virtue signaling??
Education does not equate to intelligence.
“The Coddling of the American Mind” and Lukianoff’s latest “The Canceling of the American Mind” are worth a revisit. https://www.thecoddling.com For decades now, this fear based indoctrination has fueled safetyism which is the enemy of rational thought as it regresses the most ‘educated/indoctrinated’ away from the principles of personal responsibility and optimism and courage in the face of challenges toward a mentality of grievance and victimhood. We are becoming a nation of tyrannical cowards.
My county is doing a small memorial garden for those we lost to COVID. It’s a small piece of land in an existing park. It’s not a huge effort. But to me it perpetuates the idea that this is something we should still be treating differently than other URIs. Is there one for flu? RSV?
Why should I believe we are back to normal if this is what we are still doing? Why should I believe that if in 2024 we are making gardens for those we lost to a respiratory virus that everyone will eventually get and making med students congregate outdoors? Why should I believe that every double sneeze or cough won’t be taken as evidence I’ve gotten this one virus and am being irresponsible for being out in the world?
I hate it here.
The currency of public health is trust. I was always taught that trust, for a professional, is a combination of ethics and competence. I am a layperson who doesn’t understand, beyond the basics, how vaccines work, so I need to trust the public health professionals. Seeing policies implemented that are clearly incompetent and unethical (even to a layperson) erodes that trust. I don’t understand why healthcare professionals continue to squander their currency recommending policies that do not stand up to even the lightest scrutiny.
Imagine how far we have fallen from the wartime medics, who risked their lives on a regular basis to provide healing to soldiers. And for all the doctors from days past, who did not hesitate to diagnose and treat at the bedside patients with unknown infectious diseases.
This history is a major reason why being a physician was so highly respected. Now we watch as that status is steadily eroded in the name of safety and compliance. Sad.
Universities are now the dumbest places on earth.
While being an Intern and Resident (1986-90) involved many hours of work, often well beyond 60 hrs/week in clinical time (education time extra), the experience and exposure to multiple disease entities, clinical learning and practical skill set development was, in my opinion worth it and I did not regret it for the short time of my training. While we all joked about the “indentured servitude”, the large plurality of us were grateful and accepted this as best for our future career in medicine and patient care.
Now entering more the patient side of care, I am repulsed and appalled by the absurd fixation with Physicians presenting their “ Pronouns” (do they recognize me as a male XY?) and the failure to make effective eye contact and forsaking physical examination, for the EMR “god” and test ordering, thereby missing almost entirely the art and compassion of medicine.
It’s another sign of how elite institutions have lost their way. The most intellectually brittle and intolerant people are allowed to be uncompromising and those who disagree capitulate. As if any healthy community could sustain such a practice without become oppressive. The absurdity of this irrational practice is the school would not be required to go to such extreme lengths to accommodate a disabled person, whether student or employee. Saying an event must be moved outside in inclement weather would never be viewed as a reasonable accommodation. So Covid irrationalism allows fearful and dogmatic people to insist on accommodations that people who have actual physical conditions requiring accommodation cannot. Utterly irrational.
It's virtue signaling, but for health. It will now never go away for a set of folks. We are in a new world of safety at all costs, even if the safety is 1/10 billion return.
Let us not play dumb any longer. This is not about a few crackpot administrators or a conspiracy of incompetence. There is a dark agenda at play and many know what they are doing while the rest are useful idiots. To create this kind of scene at a top medical school is precisely the point: lend credibility to lies and intimidate people who are transcending the "mononarrative."
I can only imagine that the universities are still being paid to do this from basically hidden money from the same govt and clandestine agencies that have been pushing toward totalitarian control . Sure maybe it’s just stupidity or virtue signaling but given the large overall shifts that we are seeing societally, financially etc . These kind of actions keep the fear going thereby creating the ability to create the same situation all
Over again when a “ novel” pathogen conveniently shows up, and it keeps people
Separate and still vaxxing which is $
Good for him in speaking out. What an eye rolling decision on behalf of UCSF. What a complete joke
Agree with all your comments. It’s distressing to me to see young people in masks in particular. But—I still see physician colleagues masking. Regular people get it—80+% of my patients don’t want to wear masks and I agree with that.
This sounds like Bob Wachter 100%. Vinay, you asked who made this policy, though I'm sure you already thought or knew the actual answer.