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Posted on 03/14/2026 2:47:38 PM PDT by CFW
The sound I remember most from the early days of Covid-19 is not the alarms. It was the silence between them. Intensive care units became Covid wards. Monitors glowed in dark rooms while ventilators pushed air into failing lungs. Nurses, shrouded in protective gear, moved quietly. Families were absent—barred from being with loved ones in their final hours.
There are no politics in an ICU at 3 am. There is only a physician and a patient, and the responsibility to do everything possible to keep that patient alive.
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That philosophy has guided physicians for generations. It is the foundation of clinical medicine: when a patient is dying, you explore every reasonable option that might help.
Yet during Covid, something extraordinary happened. What made the shift so jarring was not simply the presence of disagreement. Physicians have always disagreed. In fact, disagreement is the normal language of medicine. Grand rounds exist for that reason. Journal clubs exist for that reason. The entire structure of scientific publication—from peer review to replication—exists because medicine advances through argument, not obedience. During the pandemic, however, the culture of medicine changed almost overnight. Instead of asking whether a treatment might work, institutions began asking whether discussing that treatment might create the wrong public message. The priority quietly shifted from discovery to control.
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continued from the article:
“Scientific debate faded. Physicians who questioned policies or explored treatments were treated as threats rather than colleagues. Instead of debate, there was enforcement.
Hospitals warned physicians to stay quiet. Medical boards hinted at disciplinary action. Social media platforms censored discussion of therapies that doctors around the world were actively studying. Media outlets portrayed dissenting physicians as reckless or dangerous. What had once been normal scientific discourse was suddenly labeled misinformation.
To physicians trained in earlier decades, this shift was deeply unsettling. Medicine has always lived with uncertainty. Treatments begin as hypotheses and evolve through observation and debate. During the AIDS crisis, clinicians tried multiple strategies before effective therapies emerged. The same was true for sepsis, trauma care, and organ transplantation. No one expected immediate unanimity. Yet during Covid, uncertainty itself became suspect. If a physician acknowledged that evidence was incomplete—or that clinical experience suggested alternative approaches—those statements were sometimes interpreted as challenges to authority rather than contributions to knowledge.”
General observation — many people at this point feel that something is “wrong”. Something has “changed”. The world has become “different”.
I’d say it’s because Truth is no longer valued. Even by the experts. If you want to get ahead, you have to believe what they tell you to believe. Even if everyone knows it’s wrong. This messes with your head.
In hospital, I was told by physicians that they would not code me if I didn’t take the vaxx. I didn’t. Someone died in the bed next to me.
Still here.
Great point. In the past, "experts" were expected and trusted to look for the truth in any situation. Now, they are just pushing a stance to support their financial or political advantage. Thus they are no longer trusted.
For instance, the doctors that insist that men can become women. We know they are lying and they know they are lying. But politically and financially, it is currently to their benefit to lie.
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Further from the linked article: (It will be interesting to see how this project develops)
"In theory, medicine is guided by science. In practice, during Covid, it often appeared to be guided by messaging. That realization has prompted an important effort to document what happened during the pandemic and to ensure that physicians’ experiences are not erased from the historical record. One such effort is the COVID Justice initiative, which seeks to collect and document the stories of doctors, nurses, scientists, and patients affected by pandemic policies. The COVID Justice Resolution is an attempt to ensure that the suppression of scientific debate, the censorship of physicians, and the professional retaliation many experienced are openly acknowledged rather than quietly forgotten. The goal is not vengeance. It is accountability and transparency."
In hospital, I was told by physicians that they would not code me if I didn’t take the vaxx. I didn’t. Someone died in the bed next to me.
Still here.
That’s evil.
We (all in my household) didn’t take it either and we are still here as well.
They really really really wanted everyone taking those “vaccines”. I don’t think it was for our health. We can speculate but the truth is probably far worse than we can even imagine.
I surmise they were quickly silenced by medical boards that threatened to revoke their license to practice if they didn’t follow the “correct” protocol.
Just like we have politicized bar associations that go after lawyers that dare to defend Trump supporters, the medical boards are leftist infiltrated too.
Agreed. The whole experience was like a dystopian nightmare. I knew that our society was deeply fractured, but did not know how quickly most people would willing be to take sides and lash out against their fellow human beings. The non-stop and ever-changing ‘news’ was horrifying, and meant to disorient us; it worked. I now know that my fellow citizens are mostly idiots, and easily provoked to support great violence. For those of us with some understanding of history and human nature, it was destabilizing. All of us saw it, and we all now know that something has indeed ‘changed’, is most definitely ‘different’, and fundamentally ‘wrong’. We know that we are not united, and we know that we are not safe.
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This paragraph:
"If the medical profession refuses to confront what happened during the pandemic—if it pretends that physicians were not pressured, censored, or punished—then the same mistakes will almost certainly be repeated during the next public health crisis."
Nearly fell out with my brother over my stance. He was a doc, too. Notice I said “was.”
Having grown up in a hospital world, I knew doctors would follow the mandates of hospital administrators. The “elite” wanted us dead. The liberals needed to ruin Trump’s economy because he was campaigning on a great one. The liberals and the elites want us all dead. They think the Erf is too populated.
The hospital admins mandated the most deadly of protocols as prescribed and paid for by the NIH/CDC: Intubation with Remdesivir. Turns lungs into pudding, kills the patient.
Anyone walking into an ER with even the slightest symptom of COVID-19 was treated to that protocol. They were dying as fast as they could be admitted.
Most, not all, doctors knew it. They loved the money. They denied being paid for it all, but the truth came out.
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