I got the jab. I was in the military for 17 years and I got regular deployment vaccinations. I figured if that hadn’t already killed me, I had nothing to worry about; and I maintain that frame of mind about it to this day.
To the extent I must, like keeping current in the VA health system, I go to the doctor. I work hard on keeping my diet good, so I go to my civilian doc once a year to get blood work to confirm the efficacy of my discipline. I blew up my shoulder a couple years ago and had to get my rotator cuff repaired.
The days of the family doctor that I grew up with are gone. Maybe that dynamic will come back, but I’m not gonna hold my breath.
I engage with that system only when I need it, and for my convenience. I do not let myself believe that they are wise, or even good. I assume they work in a system that has long since become parasitic, so I treat the system accordingly. I get what I need out of it, then I give it a wide berth. That’s the compromise I’ve made for now. By the time I’m older, I figure there will be a new generation of doctors who might not be as compromised by the Vid as the current crop. Maybe that’s a vain hope.
That seems like the most reasonable approach to take given the situation. Get things like lab work or orthopedic stuff taken care of where you can and try to otherwise avoid at all costs.
Yup. And honestly, that’s how I interacted with medicine as a kid: if you need stitches or your tonsils out, you went to the doctor. Otherwise, you did not. Somewhere along the line, interaction with the medical system (notice I did not say medicine) became like a yoga practice or, perhaps more telling, going to church.
Church is for the spirit, medicine is for bodily malady. Don’t mix them.
I already favor alternative medicine to orthodox (this was true even before the Madness of 2020; it's doubly true now). I will totally go to a black market healer, if need be.
I got the jab. I was in the military for 17 years and I got regular deployment vaccinations. I figured if that hadn’t already killed me, I had nothing to worry about; and I maintain that frame of mind about it to this day.
To the extent I must, like keeping current in the VA health system, I go to the doctor. I work hard on keeping my diet good, so I go to my civilian doc once a year to get blood work to confirm the efficacy of my discipline. I blew up my shoulder a couple years ago and had to get my rotator cuff repaired.
The days of the family doctor that I grew up with are gone. Maybe that dynamic will come back, but I’m not gonna hold my breath.
I engage with that system only when I need it, and for my convenience. I do not let myself believe that they are wise, or even good. I assume they work in a system that has long since become parasitic, so I treat the system accordingly. I get what I need out of it, then I give it a wide berth. That’s the compromise I’ve made for now. By the time I’m older, I figure there will be a new generation of doctors who might not be as compromised by the Vid as the current crop. Maybe that’s a vain hope.
That seems like the most reasonable approach to take given the situation. Get things like lab work or orthopedic stuff taken care of where you can and try to otherwise avoid at all costs.
Yup. And honestly, that’s how I interacted with medicine as a kid: if you need stitches or your tonsils out, you went to the doctor. Otherwise, you did not. Somewhere along the line, interaction with the medical system (notice I did not say medicine) became like a yoga practice or, perhaps more telling, going to church.
Church is for the spirit, medicine is for bodily malady. Don’t mix them.
I like this one, but don't know quite how to find one like him: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/
I already favor alternative medicine to orthodox (this was true even before the Madness of 2020; it's doubly true now). I will totally go to a black market healer, if need be.
I think it really may come to that. It’s hard to imagine another option with the system we have now, which is only growing and becoming worse.