A Pandemic of Testing

American Thinker.com ^ | January 12, 2022 | Blaise Edwards, MD

[Kaslin]

I was blessed to be greatly influenced by a wonderful physician. He was truly a giant, but some would not know that, and he would even perhaps deny it. He was divisive, to be sure — either loved or hated, never in between, but always respected.

He put the patient first at all costs. He would relate walking by a hospital room, with a patient alone on a bedpan, shouting for help, with no one to help her. Because of this, he was on the cutting edge of the outpatient surgery center movement, due to better costs but also better care. He was not considered a philosopher, but he did have, and still does, an overriding philosophy. In essence, do right by others, and treat them with respect until they lose it. Never quit.

Here's one of his few philosophical statements that holds with me to this day, important now: "If you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with b-------."

That being said, I want to share with you the hidden pandemic that no one is addressing. It is the pandemic of group A beta hemolytic streptococcus, otherwise known as strep throat. It is estimated that 5–15% of all hospitalizations have strep. A similar proportion of ICU admissions and death suffer from this same malady. It is probably no coincidence that roughly 5–15% of illegal aliens crossing the border bring this disease with them. The list could go on: car accidents, homelessness, drug addiction, murderers all have a 5–15% chance of having strep.

Why do we not pay more attention to this? Why have the government and medicine in general let us down? For years, 10% of all deaths have been strep-positive. That is roughly 250,000 to 300,000 per year.

[Elsie]

That is roughly 250,000 to 300,000 per year.

While CHOICE gets rid of just under one million future American citizens a year.

[Erik Latranyi]

Numbers are being inflated to create fear, panic and hysteria.

It was 2 weeks to flatten the curve. That was to prevent our medical systems from being overwhelmed.

After that 2 weeks, there was no need for masks, lockdowns or anything else (except to protect the most vulnerable).

But the lockdowns and mandates gave corrupting power to the ethically lacking elected and unelected officials.

But even more, the focus on Covid created cover for all the other acts of malfeasance by our corrupt political class, masking them from public scrutiny as we were does with daily fear porn.

[maddog55]

If all testing was stopped covid would be gone and we’d be back to common colds and a standard flu season.

[.30Carbine]

Amen.

[OHPatriot]

We can’t stop testing. How else is Big Pharma going to make money?? They need a steady supply of “Chicken Littles” to rush out and buy their useless crap. Big Guy needs his 10% too.

[palmer]

A great description of what's going on. If you are the incorrect class, you are constantly tested until counted as plague. If not, you are left alone, clean, and virtuous. Self-fulfilling prophecy.

[JoJo354]

Oh yes the CDC, NIH and FDA is running these hospitals and doctors! They are telling these doctors what they can and cannot do or they may lose their license or the hospitals their funding. It has been mass murder in my opinion. And there are a lot of doctors complicit with these deaths.