I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.State-of-Washington statists are generally aloof, opprobrious, insular, dour and, it would appear, deeply and studiously dumb. Unkind cuts are an everyday occurrence around here, where the busybody mentality prevails and where difference is deviance. Stand still long enough, and they'll tell you how to live. They'll even give chase to deliver a "corrective" sermon. A helmeted cyclist once chased me down along a suburban running trail. My sin? I had fed the poor juncos in the dead of winter. (Still do. Bite me, you bully.) This, as the first homeless person just ensconced himself (or herself or its non-binary selves), with the accouterments of homelessness, on one of our little city's main streets, a thing no one, but no one, will protest. Washington woke would sooner flout the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath than speak ill of the grotesquerie that is unfolding on our streets. Since the term "virtue signaling" has become a cliché – a term insufficient to the task – let me offer an improvement. The progressive's preening aims to emphasize his or her own providential purpose in the universe. To that end, progressives like to discredit the rest of us. That's more like it. When the appointment was scheduled, not a word of warning was forthcoming about the inquisition, the third degree, that would ensue at the front desk on the day of the visit. I'm healthy, masked and without fever. That ought to have been the end of it. It was not. Shoved in my face on a stark sheet of paper, bereft of the office's masthead, was the demand for my vaccination status. Well, of course. Doctor Lexus (diploma via Costco) wasn't owning this disgrace. This was nothing to boast about. I refused to divulge my vaccination status. Washington woke would sooner flout the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath than speak ill of the grotesquerie that is unfolding on our streets. Since the term "virtue signaling" has become a cliché – a term insufficient to the task – let me offer an improvement. The progressive's preening aims to emphasize his or her own providential purpose in the universe. To that end, progressives like to discredit the rest of us. That's more like it. When the appointment was scheduled, not a word of warning was forthcoming about the inquisition, the third degree, that would ensue at the front desk on the day of the visit. I'm healthy, masked and without fever. That ought to have been the end of it. It was not. Shoved in my face on a stark sheet of paper, bereft of the office's masthead, was the demand for my vaccination status. Well, of course. Doctor Lexus (diploma via Costco) wasn't owning this disgrace. This was nothing to boast about. I refused to divulge my vaccination status. Washington woke would sooner flout the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath than speak ill of the grotesquerie that is unfolding on our streets. Since the term "virtue signaling" has become a cliché – a term insufficient to the task – let me offer an improvement. The progressive's preening aims to emphasize his or her own providential purpose in the universe. To that end, progressives like to discredit the rest of us. That's more like it. When the appointment was scheduled, not a word of warning was forthcoming about the inquisition, the third degree, that would ensue at the front desk on the day of the visit. I'm healthy, masked and without fever. That ought to have been the end of it. It was not. Shoved in my face on a stark sheet of paper, bereft of the office's masthead, was the demand for my vaccination status. Well, of course. Doctor Lexus (diploma via Costco) wasn't owning this disgrace. This was nothing to boast about. I refused to divulge my vaccination status. Doctor (borderline retarded): "OK. It will be this many dollars. And if you could just go ahead and, like, put your [COVID] tattoo in …" Joe (realizing the date on the bill is 2505): "That's weird. This thing has the same misprint as that magazine. What are the odds of –" Doctor (trembling with fear, panic rising; he has encountered an unregistered individual): "Where's your [COVID] tattoo? Tattoo? Why don't you have this? … Why come you don't have a [COVID] tattoo?" (On the verge of hysteria): "Why come you don't have a tattoo? You're not an unscannable, are you?" Yes, the office of the Washington doctor had encountered an unscannable: me. The process of rejection took time. First, greedy mitts reached for my medical insurance card, but were told (slowly), "No service rendered; no payment." An exceedingly pleasant office manager then appeared. She presented the COVID Protocol on a plain sheet of paper, again without any identifying office markers but pock-marked with contradiction and medical disinformation. We talked through the contradictions to which the poor girl copped and for which she apologized, ashamed. The first sentence declares that, "Patients who will not answer the question regarding their vaccination status will be seen, but the health care provider needs to know your vaccination status as part of your total care." A medical lie. My general practitioner doesn't ask this question. Neither does the optometrist. Contradictory bureaucratese then follows, stating that, "Patients refusing to disclose their vaccination status will be asked to reschedule their appointment for when they are prepared to disclose their vaccine status." Me to Office Manager: You are aware that I could shed as much virus whether vaccinated or not? OM: I know. I'm sorry. Me: So, if I don't divulge my vaccination status? She: You may come back when you are ready to. Me: So, if I confess to being unvaccinated, will the doctor examine me? OM: Yes, but he will leave the door open and the fan on. Me: So, if I don't divulge my vaccination status? She: You may come back when you are ready to. Me: So, if I confess to being unvaccinated, will the doctor examine me? OM: Yes, but he will leave the door open and the fan on. Unlike this medical Idiocracy, the wily little RNA strand that is COVID acts rationally. The COVID index that matters is mortality; not the number of infected, with which we must learn to live. COVID is morphing in ways evolutionarily conducive to its long-term survival. It is, for the most – and just like the flu – living with its hosts, not killing them off. The trajectory of a pandemic is such that it sees the infectious agent powering it become less lethal, not more lethal. COVID is thus now endemic. While the current BA.2 variant du jour is more transmissible, it is also much more benign than previous variants. It is as it should be. This, independent, honest epidemiologists will confirm. For their part, human beings have been acquiring natural immunity; and communities herd immunity. The only deviants in this sad saga are those who've empowered themselves to deploy COVID as a cudgel against their betters. Read more at: WND.com
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