Today: βMy doctor doesn't mask, so that must mean I don't have to mask.β
1960s: βMy doctor smokes, so that must mean I can smoke.β
19th Century: βMy doctor doesn't wash his hands between patients, so that must mean washing hands isn't necessary.β
I respect doctors, but the history of medicine is full of examples when doctors were slow to accept science and change.
COVID remains a risk worth protecting yourself from, regardless of what your doctor does.
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There was a time when in was super into photography and would go out of my way to find interesting things to take photos of.
(Luckily I can now just stay home and take photos of my cats).
February, 2020. A lifetime ago.
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Has anyone seen my cat? I can't find my cat
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My understanding is that she improvised most of this, too.
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in reply to Augie Ray • • •I recall reading something about how doctors (like regular people) are often swayed by popular sentiments in media. Perhaps thatβs the case here
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in reply to Augie Ray • • •2027: "My doctor wasn't vaccinated. They refused the safe vaccine made available under emergency use in 2022."
"They couldn't comprehend why there were so many anti-vaccine and anti-mask bots on social media"
"They denied the disease existed. They didn't know about the century of development as a weapon."
"They died in the first wave. Now I have an anti-vax AI instead of an anti-vax Doctor."
Ellie Kennard
in reply to Augie Ray • • •I feel so sorry for that poor Ignaz Semmelweis, especially knowing how he died. And that all these years later the medical profession refuses to act on scientific evidence in the same way. How many other people will have to die?
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in reply to Augie Ray • • •Doctors used to hand examine women just before and after they had delivered, after dissection. No gloves.
Even TB Clinic doctors smoked in 1950s.
Like other professionals, there are good and bad doctors.
Some teachers smoked in class in late 1960s.
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in reply to Augie Ray • • •"A U.K. study in the New England Journal of Medicine found people who fully recovered from mild COVID infections experienced a cognitive deficit equal to a three-point drop in IQ. Among the more than 100,000 participants, deficits were greater in people who had persistent symptoms and reached the equivalent of a nine-point IQ drop for individuals admitted to intensive care"
3 points per 1Β½ year IQ decrement gets us to Idiocracy in ONE generation
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in reply to Augie Ray • • •Stupid anti-maskers rarely can.