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Covid-19 FAQs for Physicians = refer avoiders to psychotherapists!

2 points by verisimi 4y ago

verisimi 4y ago
> It is also important that physicians work with their patients to manage anxieties related to the vaccine and not enable avoidance behaviour. For example, for extreme fear of needles (trypanophobia) or other cases of serious concern, responsible use of prescription medications and/or referral to psychotherapy may be available options. Overall, physicians have a responsibility to allow their patients to be properly informed about vaccines and not have those anxieties empowered by an exemption. Yikes! "That's NOT an acceptable opinion, citizen!"
- briandon 4y ago
  The phrase "properly informed" is very artfully employed. Scene: doctor's office with seated patient and a doctor who themselves had to comply with the vax mandate for healthcare workers (or else wouldn't be permitted to practice). Patient: I want a vax exemption. Doctor: Well, there are only a few grounds for exemption and I doubt you'll qualify. Patient: Tell me the accepted reasons for exemption. Doctor: Well you'd have to have had a severe allergic reaction to the ingredients of the vaccines or to have developed myocarditis or pericarditis as a result of a prior vaccination. Patient: Is there any diagnostic test I can get first to learn whether I'm likely to experience a severe allergic reaction or to suffer an inflamed heart or pericardium? Doctor: No. Your shot is the test. But it's very very very rare! Patient: I've read that some people seem to fare well after their first shot, but the 2nd or third triggers a severe adverse reaction. And the government is mandating infinite shots. Well, first it was two. Then, they added a booster requirement. And then... Doc: ...
briandon 4y ago
When the available liability-free, emergency-use-authorized medical products being marketed as covid vaccines prevent neither infection nor onward transmission (and in fact have been shown to actually select for variants that evade them), mandating them and coercing submission to them is indefensible. When they have been proven to be associated with known severe adverse effects* (up to and including death) for which there are no means of testing anyone beforehand, strong-arming people into getting them is especially vile. * Note the CPSO document's reference to experiencing myocarditis or pericarditis as a result of mRNA shots as grounds for an exemption, and the curious absence of any acknowledgement that while the acute symptoms of these conditions may subside sufferers can be left with permanent, life-changing (and sometimes fatal, weeks or months or a few years later) damage. Many healthy people at no significant risk of serious illness from this virus are being forced to submit to multiple rounds of experimental shots on the long-disproven pretext that doing so will benefit others or protect their local health systems. It's madness. Coerced multiple turns at Russian roulette with injury from the preceding round serving as one of the few ways of opting out of subsequent rounds.

2 points by verisimi 4y ago

> It is also important that physicians work with their patients to manage anxieties related to the vaccine and not enable avoidance behaviour. For example, for extreme fear of needles (trypanophobia) or other cases of serious concern, responsible use of prescription medications and/or referral to psychotherapy may be available options. Overall, physicians have a responsibility to allow their patients to be properly informed about vaccines and not have those anxieties empowered by an exemption. Yikes! "That's NOT an acceptable opinion, citizen!"

briandon 4y ago
The phrase "properly informed" is very artfully employed. Scene: doctor's office with seated patient and a doctor who themselves had to comply with the vax mandate for healthcare workers (or else wouldn't be permitted to practice). Patient: I want a vax exemption. Doctor: Well, there are only a few grounds for exemption and I doubt you'll qualify. Patient: Tell me the accepted reasons for exemption. Doctor: Well you'd have to have had a severe allergic reaction to the ingredients of the vaccines or to have developed myocarditis or pericarditis as a result of a prior vaccination. Patient: Is there any diagnostic test I can get first to learn whether I'm likely to experience a severe allergic reaction or to suffer an inflamed heart or pericardium? Doctor: No. Your shot is the test. But it's very very very rare! Patient: I've read that some people seem to fare well after their first shot, but the 2nd or third triggers a severe adverse reaction. And the government is mandating infinite shots. Well, first it was two. Then, they added a booster requirement. And then... Doc: ...

briandon 4y ago

When the available liability-free, emergency-use-authorized medical products being marketed as covid vaccines prevent neither infection nor onward transmission (and in fact have been shown to actually select for variants that evade them), mandating them and coercing submission to them is indefensible. When they have been proven to be associated with known severe adverse effects* (up to and including death) for which there are no means of testing anyone beforehand, strong-arming people into getting them is especially vile. * Note the CPSO document's reference to experiencing myocarditis or pericarditis as a result of mRNA shots as grounds for an exemption, and the curious absence of any acknowledgement that while the acute symptoms of these conditions may subside sufferers can be left with permanent, life-changing (and sometimes fatal, weeks or months or a few years later) damage. Many healthy people at no significant risk of serious illness from this virus are being forced to submit to multiple rounds of experimental shots on the long-disproven pretext that doing so will benefit others or protect their local health systems. It's madness. Coerced multiple turns at Russian roulette with injury from the preceding round serving as one of the few ways of opting out of subsequent rounds.