Tired of the seemingly endless headlines on COVID and the vaccines? They are not going away anytime soon. In the current issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. provides an overview of why she is skeptical:
COVID-19: A Weapon to Fundamentally Transform America
An old Russian operating room joke
says: Did you know that in Russia tonsillectomies are done transrectally? No,
why? People are afraid to open their mouths!
Sadly, this joke could be
describing the new America. What has happened? Why have we collectively lost
our minds? And what has COVID-19 got to do with it? While Americans have been
asleep at the wheel, the power brokers were manipulating us into constant
societal unrest, with dwindling individual liberties and growing dependency on
the government and big corporations. COVID-19 has been a handy justification
for left-leaning politicians to promote and solidify their ideology. What many
Americans were led to believe was well-intentioned concern for our safety and
health has turned into a morass of ever-changing rules designed not for our
health, but to accustom us to government control of our lives.
The collectivist political
philosophy that has been simmering in America for years may be coming to
fruition. We will recover from the COVID-19 disease, but will we recover from
the attendant malignant policy changes?
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The full article is here. It is quite long but worth the time. In a related story, Allan Stein at the Epoch Times reports:
An internet survey by a
non-partisan physicians’ association found that most respondents have not been
fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or plan to get the shot.
In the June 16 online survey by the American Association of
Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) in Tuscon, Arizona, nearly 60 percent of over
700 both retired and practicing physicians said they were not fully
vaccinated and would decline the shots based on their assessment of
risk.
“This contrasts with the claim by
the American Medical Association that 96 percent of practicing physicians are
fully vaccinated. This was based on 300 respondents,” the AAPS stated in a press release.
While neither survey represents a
random sample of all U.S. physicians, the AAPS survey shows that doctor support
for the mass injection campaign “is far from unanimous.”
“It is wrong to call a person who
declines a shot an ‘anti-vaxxer,’” AAPS Executive Director Jane Orient said in
a statement. “Virtually no physicians are ‘anti-antibiotics’ or ‘anti-surgery,’
whereas all are opposed to treatments that they think are unnecessary, more
likely to cause harm than to benefit an individual patient, or inadequately
tested.”
The survey also showed that 58 percent of the practicing
physicians who responded were aware of patients suffering a “significant
adverse reaction” after receiving a COVID
vaccine.
Orient said most
unvaccinated physicians had made their decision based on their
assessment that the risk of taking the shots exceeds the risk of the
disease, with many responding that they had already contracted COVID-19.
Other reasons for
declining the shots included unknown long-term side effects, use of fetal cell lines for vaccine testing, the experimental
nature of the injections, other effective early treatments, and reports of
deaths and blood clots.
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More at the Epoch Times here.
