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I dont really understand your point. Yes agreed for complicated, rare problems you should do your own research if you can. You're clearly smart enough for prima

I dont really understand your point. Yes agreed for complicated, rare problems you should do your own research if you can. You're clearly smart enough for primary sources so the media pipeline doesnt matter for you anyways. I would argue most Dr in America will give good advice for covid. Certainly better than most media sources! Having media in between is what I'm arguing against. Media is biased and not objective and should play no role in health.

m3047 5y ago
> Yes agreed for complicated, rare problems you should do your own research if you can. When it doesn't work out the way they planned when they pull it out their a* they call that a "complication". Seriously. I think there's operant conditioning at work: It seems like there's less interest in extracting money from us by (cough) "practicing" medicine than in edubicating us that something is "serious" and it's our obligation to learn more about it, and extracting money from us that way. I think there's a model for this operational paradigm, I think it's the smart phone. They train you to dismiss "alerts". Then they show you inchoate alerts, engendering anxiety and a feeling of lack of control. Then they propose a way you can get "in control" by following their narrative. Are you really an expert because you're over 50 and you still have college loans to pay off? Really? You're gonna say that with a straight face, doc? Funny you should mention Covid. Last year I asked for an antibody test, they said they'd do it. They didn't. They lied and said I'd never asked. Then they piled it higher and deeper by telling me that if they had, they'd have had to report the result to the CDC. WTF? Is that a bad thing? My wife was there for both exchanges. Furthermore, because electronic records there is no record of the tests which were ordered, only of the ones they want to tell you about: that is correct, I have no receipt for the blood which was taken or the tests which were ordered. (Lesson learned.) I suppose it's easy to attribute this to some grand plan, but I'll choose mundane misfeasance as the reaction to errors arising from incompetence. If there's any question about the efficacy of the treatment or any way for these amateurs to screw it up, why the hell would I trust my life to them?

m3047 5y ago

> Yes agreed for complicated, rare problems you should do your own research if you can. When it doesn't work out the way they planned when they pull it out their a* they call that a "complication". Seriously. I think there's operant conditioning at work: It seems like there's less interest in extracting money from us by (cough) "practicing" medicine than in edubicating us that something is "serious" and it's our obligation to learn more about it, and extracting money from us that way. I think there's a model for this operational paradigm, I think it's the smart phone. They train you to dismiss "alerts". Then they show you inchoate alerts, engendering anxiety and a feeling of lack of control. Then they propose a way you can get "in control" by following their narrative. Are you really an expert because you're over 50 and you still have college loans to pay off? Really? You're gonna say that with a straight face, doc? Funny you should mention Covid. Last year I asked for an antibody test, they said they'd do it. They didn't. They lied and said I'd never asked. Then they piled it higher and deeper by telling me that if they had, they'd have had to report the result to the CDC. WTF? Is that a bad thing? My wife was there for both exchanges. Furthermore, because electronic records there is no record of the tests which were ordered, only of the ones they want to tell you about: that is correct, I have no receipt for the blood which was taken or the tests which were ordered. (Lesson learned.) I suppose it's easy to attribute this to some grand plan, but I'll choose mundane misfeasance as the reaction to errors arising from incompetence. If there's any question about the efficacy of the treatment or any way for these amateurs to screw it up, why the hell would I trust my life to them?