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FortheLoveofFreedom's avatar

Yes, with the era of covid, it brought a lot out into the open for those with eyes to see, and ears to hear. Experts were being grown by the minute it seemed. However, there were never any experts on the side of sanity. I have heard people say well it is the highly educated that know the truth (the agenda) so therefore the rest of us must not be educated. Excuse me!

Gwaihir's avatar

I know I'm in for a treat when you start your article with "I was out with a friend..." because you will reveal something deliciously ridiculous in what they said. My blood boils at the same things. I lost my best friend for two years because I dared to mention some things I had learned, and she screamed at me "You're not a doctor!" I finally offered the olive branch of forgiveness and she agreed to reconnect, but the censorship is now part of the relationship. I hate being silenced, but there is enough overlap in the forty-year friendship to make it tolerable.

Debra's avatar
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I too lost a friend I had since childhood when I mentioned that some people believe Michele Obama is a man and they have interesting “evidence” to support their opinions. My friend never asked me if I believed it myself or what the evidence was, instead she was absolutely livid that I would even bring the subject up. She ended our friendship the same day by sending me a text saying it was time to go our separate ways. It still hurts to think that such an idle comment would end a friendship of over 50 years, but when I thought back on her reactions to other situations I realized that she was the rigidly intolerant one, not me, and we were destined to part ways eventually. In this case it had nothing to do with an expert opinion but more of an absolute denial of a different opinion.

Gwaihir's avatar

It's so disheartening to be in relationships with friends and family who do not accept the totallity of who you are. I don't remember this being a thing when I was young.

Debra's avatar

True! It seemed in the past that people were more curious about the opinions of others and were more inclined to agree to disagree. I find the hair-trigger fits of temper over unimportant matters (to me) startling.

Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Thank you!

"You're not a doctor!" is the agenda at work. Dismiss anything but the mainstream narrative is the goal. We are all stupid, idiot, sheep and don't know a damn thing.

The irony here is that we can be quoting a real, informed, even brilliant doctor, and THAT isn't good enough..."doctor" can only be defined by the agenda...

Debra's avatar

True! Look at how Dr Peter McCullough and Dr Vernon Coleman (just to name a couple) have been dismissed

FortheLoveofFreedom's avatar

True and even some of our outstanding Canadian doctors: Trozzi, Shoemaker, Hodkinson, Bridle, and more. By the way, I admire Dr. Coleman so much. So much of what he writes is absolute spot on.

Gwyneth's avatar

Deference to authority and blind obedience to an "expertocracy" is a regression to herd mentality with the thought and behaviour of primitive man.

Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Very, very well put!!