He must be terribly frustrated when other people publicly reject his advice. Especially when his advice is based on constantly repeated personal experiences in a professional setting that requires long hours and years of training.
I get that.
The boundary of that sympathy gets reached when I hear recommendations for effective treatments which the Federal Government has made increasingly unobtainable.
I have lost all patience with appeals to authority as well. Authorities have repeatedly disgraced themselves with pompous, self-serving, and incorrect decrees which cause problems rather than solve them. "Never let a crisis go to waste" is their policy. These people are Evil.
What should we do about COVID? Data sources that might help us answer that question in a rational manner have been corrupted or suppressed in service to totalitarian political agendas.
It isn't possible to know what to do with great certainty. Data are ambiguous, corrupted, or simply missing. The best one can do is try to pick information out of the noise level and then choose a course of action.
I agree with that. They used this to get what they want. They continue to do so.
Perhaps others, regardless of profession, need to be more flexible in their interactions with their fellow citizens. Everybody has their own reasons behind their opinions. (I do not include the outright pot-stirrers which are plentiful on FR in this; those folks have their own strange little agendas.)
For example, I suspect quite a few of us may have lost loved ones who were put on ventilators. I lost a very dear longtime friend who was like a brother to me. He was on a ventilator for two weeks before he died. Last fall, another friend was put on a ventilator and she passed about a week later. Do I think it’s because of the ventilator? I honestly don’t know; I’m not a doctor. But it certainly gives one pause.
People who come huffing onto this site, claiming to be in the medical profession while talking down to others here, replying to them with stuffy remarks laced with insults aren’t doing the medical profession any favors. People have lost faith in and respect for the medical profession. Arrogance and condescension isn’t going to repair any of that; it’s only going to further alienate people.
Until they drop the attitudes, they’ll continue to be addressed with disdain and there’s no sympathy for that coming from this corner.