Politics, Power & Money

 

Got this from Dave Rubin's Locals. I repost it here for eyes to see and ears to hear.

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Be your own doctor: lose weight, exercise, eat right, take supplements like VIT C, D, and zinc and selenium

A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE?

Posted from an anonymous healthcare professional by Lee Harvey Griswald

I retired from the healthcare field after 26 years. I was an infection control & surveillance instructor and worked with foreign health ministries, hospitals, doctors, nurses, sanitation workers, plant and mechanical engineers, and risk management departments. I’ve worked in field hospitals to the largest medical institutions in the world in 15+ countries. At the end of the day, I was a glorified janitor, but during my career I witnessed the Man Behind the Curtain and boy it ain’t pretty.

A few observations about our current state of US medical care, guidance we are being fed, and the pandemic.

1. Just because you have a Dr. In front of your name doesn’t mean you know everything even though you might believe otherwise. Doctors today are little more than union employees thanks to the Affordable Care Act and Medicare/Medicaid. It’s all about Group Think, and you either comply with the program or you’re cancelled and lose your career.

2.  Today, the half-life of medical knowledge is less than two years. Most anything your doctor tells you is probably wrong or soon will be.

3. Not every medical solution comes from a pharmacy and a hospital. We like to believe the US has the best medical care and on many levels it does, but it is amazing the scotch tape and kite string medical innovation that happens in the most impoverished corners of the world.

4. US Hospitals are little more than Risk Management organizations. It’s no longer about Quality of Care, but managing risks and profits. Hospital CEO’s are bean counters focused on managing costs and liability and not on improving patient care.

5. US Hospitals are the only American industry that can kill 120,000 Americans a year through Nosocomial infections and employ doctors that kill another 250,000 Americans a year though medical errors and still remain open.

6. Defensive Medicine has turned into “How many bills can I submit to the insurer and Medicare/Medicaid?” Patients are little more than Cash Cows today. Check in and be prepared for a long, excruciating experience of endless tests and procedures while hoping that you survive the ride. Fun times.

7. Big Pharma controls the show. They control the FDA, they control the drugs available and promoted by doctors, they crush any outside innovation or competition, they control the treatment pathway, and they are in collusion with the Hospitals and Insurers. And like lawyers, they all get paid regardless of the outcome and have about as much emotional investment in the outcome.

8. Healthcare Workers (aka Nurses and PAs) are the real doctors today. I found few that were not invested in their patient’s well-being and were at a minimum, as knowledgeable and capable as someone with a Dr in front of their name. They save countless patient’s lives from medical mistakes made by their “superiors”. They are underpaid, underappreciated, and treated with all the respect of a disposable tongue depressor. They are the heroes of this pandemic.

9. US Medical Research Universities are controlled by and a slave to their funding sources. They produce the evidence based research they are instructed to produce. They, like virtually all other research institutions in the US, are professional welfare whores. Deviate from the plan and the funding evaporates.

10. The current pandemic presented the perfect opportunity for the largest power grab in human history. Politicians have become doctors and doctors are quietly complicit in the process for fear of being cancelled. In private, most of the US docs (that I know personally) who are still practicing are at a minimum terrified by what is happening. The retired doctors that I know are apoplectic with what they are witnessing.

The pandemic has been used as a political divisive tool to control group think and behavior; the Racism Tool pales in comparison. Every socioeconomic class has been shattered and pitted against one another.

And for the record, I am not vaxxed not because I believe in the conspiracy theories but because I don’t believe in the “science” that has been presented. I pour though PubMed and countless peer reviewed studies every day – an old occupational habit. I have not found any evidence that compels me to line up as an unpaid experimental lab rat. In fact, there is mounting evidence to reinforce my initial skepticism over the “science”. Contrary to what Fauci has promised, the facts show we ain’t mass vaxxing our way out of this pandemic and may well be making matters far worse.

In closing, question everything and do your own research. I do not believe ANY of the pandemic data that is being reported in this country. Politics, power, and money are controlling the narrative…. as it always does.

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[Personal addition: I am not vaxxed because Hubs and I had covid last year and survived and we are considered to have the best antibodies. Last year it was all about the numbers and those who survived Covid were admonished to donate blood. This year it's all about 'percentages' because it's easier to lie with statistics. All those covid survivors do not matter now and fall into the 'anti-vaxxer' category if they refuse to get the jab.]

We live in an age where truly everything is upside down and backwards, good is evil, evil is good. 

Even so, come Lord Jesus.

For Him,

Meema

So Much Change

 

I love it when other bloggers say things that I've been wrestling with because it helps me find my words. This morning I read Debbie Hudson's blog and the words came flying out of my head onto my keyboard. Whew!

Thanks Debbie!

When You Don't Want Things To Change 

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Charles Dickens has been attributed as saying there is nothing constant in life except change. A simple, profound truth.

While some folks resist change with every fiber of their being, I am more inclined to embrace the new and unknown, especially if it portends to introduce a learning curve, regardless how tough. Certainly I don't mind change when it comes as relief from being held down in a rut or stagnation.

There are other kinds of change, though, that has to be dealt with. Not always easily. 

I have embraced and endured a plethora of kinds of change across my 74 year stint on this planet. Some think of their life experience as chapters in a book, I see my life as completely separate books - a four volume set.

Book One was my childhood with my original family. Book Two was all about my life creating a new family, raising three kids, quickly scribbling down and editing the good the bad and the ugly when there was a rare free moment. Book Three was my middle-aged adventure with grandkids and the rewriting of the meaning of tribal traditions. 

Book Four is now in the first draft stage. It began with me adjusting to all the things I used to do and slowly had to abandon because of the natural human aging process. Full disclosure, that took a couple of chapters of whining and complaining that had to be seriously edited for uncouth language.

I am now in the final stage of making peace with this unstoppable revision process, this inevitable rewriting of our once well-established tribal traditions of how we have gathered to celebrate, commiserate, live, love, laugh, and eat together.  I concede to all the change that being human demands that we have no choice but to make peace with because life must keep moving on and cannot stay the same. The new books being written can't be copies of old books.  They have to come from new experiences and fresh perspectives. 

So. Change. It happens. Ultimately we have a Chief Copy Editor we have to answer to. I hope that when my final paragraph is punctuated that it makes Him smile and maybe even say, "Well done, good and faithful servant."

For Him,

Meema 

So Many Questions

 

The world has suffered not a few periods of what can only be described as tribulation in the last 2000 years. War, famine, tyranny, genocide, plagues. I conclude that satan has been very busy trying to destroy us for a long time. In fact, when Christ told His disciples that no one knows the hour or the day (of The End) accept the Father, not even Christ Himself, that meant that satan, who is in no way equal to God, doesn't know either. 

Let that sink in - if satan doesn't know, then why would he wait 2000 years (or longer) to seek to bring about our end? He has been at it without ceasing. Only God's own timing has allowed it to continue. 

So,  what if...

... as part of satan's long-game playbook, false doctrines have been inserted, over eons, into what we refer to as Christianity to confuse and distract us and keep us from being able to recognize the signs we have been given in Scripture? 

... we read the book of Revelation for ourselves, with an open spirit to receive, without influence of a dogma based on cobbled together verses pulled from the old and new testaments, that then created a whole new religion (that also made the authors multimillionaires)?

... as you read Revelation, you wonder about the saints the angel told John were those who refused to worship the beast or receive the mark and you want to know how they knew to refuse something they were not on earth to refuse? 

... you begin to wonder if the beast of Revelation 13 might not be a man but a global system? Like a One World Order made of a cabal of huge global corporations that seeks to reduce world population into two classes, the elite who rule the servants, and replace anything Godly with all things worldly and godless?  

... and the smaller beast might not be an individual man but a system of technology, (inconceivable in 90 AD), operated by individuals in league with the first beast, that makes it possible for everyone on earth to see imagery, even on handheld devices, that they can be in awe of and therefore idolize and obey without even realizing they are? 

What if I am wrong about these trying times being too Biblical to ignore? The world has survived some pretty epic conflicts and challenges. At any one time it was likely easy to point to current events aligning with Scripture.

What if the book of Revelation has been unfolding for 2 millennia though? 

So many questions.

But... given that one thing is absolute, the day does finally come...

What if we are way closer than ever before to the time when we have to say no even if we can neither buy nor sell, or we are outcasts from friends, family and society and cannot live normally, cannot leave our homes lest we be harassed and arrested by agents of the ruling government... or be incarcerated or even lose our lives for saying no to the mandatory shutting down of society and an experimental vaccine? 

Would that not then be a strong confirmation that we chose correctly? 

What if God decides to honor the prayers of the saints and give us more time? Would we recognize this, repent and actively change our wayward civilization? 

Or... what if there is a point of no return when lawlessness, depravity, greed and the worship of all things godless cannot be reversed? Can we stop pedophilia, abortion or sex slavery? 

So, what if this really is it then and we are indeed in the edges of the final countdown? I can't even begin to claim to know or even guess how long it will take or even how to determine what exactly to say no to. Is it a thing like an implanted chip, a false religion, edicts by political tyrants that demand I obey the god of 'SAFETY' instead of trusting my own faith? Whose mandates obliterate constitutionally guaranteed personal freedom of individual, health, speech and worship? 

Maybe all of the above? A package deal then? Is the long game a sum total of centuries of slow mind and soul control? Not just a few things that align with ancient prophecy but a long list of things that have come together like the perfect storm?

I'm not inclined to tell anyone else what to do or believe. All I can do is listen to the still small voice, obey and trust. I may have to live in this world but I do not have to be of this world... even if I die for choosing thusly. 

What if I simply choose to die standing... for Him... no matter the outcome or cost?

Meema