It seems to me the authoritarians and authoritarian wannabes thought average people would never allow themselves to question the sanctified authority of nurses, doctors, and other medics. They're "heroes", right? They forgot how many people in the US cannot afford health insurance at all. A huge and constantly growing number of the uninsured end up healthier because they avoid seeing doctors unless they break a leg -- doctors in the US generally have not sought to heal anyone for a very long time. The medical people don't live in or near the class that cannot afford health insurance, so they danced in empty hospital wards while claiming to be overwhelmed with caring for the Covid-afflicted. Now they are forever stained with the cringe of dancing while they literally killed grandma by leaving her to her unnecessary respirator, isolation, dehydration, starvation, and bedsores. Not a good look, and not a good strategy to keep the Pharmakeia grift going long term. https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/tag/pharmakeia
Here in the UK, we have a state-sanctioned cult of the NHS. Despite the fact that, as taxpayers, we have no choice whether to pay into the NHS whether we make use of it or not, it's common amongst Britwit liberals to hear the rhetoric that people who criticise the NHS and/or vote Tory should be denied access to it, for thoughtcrime.
It really is more popular than the monarchy. By a long shot. Systemic problems are blamed on "funding cuts", despite the fact that the propotion of the UK's GDP allocated to the NHS has more than doubled since it's inception. Brits only have the American system as a reference point, and assume that any private healthcare system would end up like that - despite the fact that numerous European countries, such as Germany and Switzerland, have insurance-based healthcare systems that (until 2020) actually functioned vastly better than the NHS. But then, Brits are very resistant to learning from other countries...
It's falling apart, and thankfully, a greater number of people are realising that the system is broken beyond repair.
It's no surprise that Brits have followed the American plunge into obesity and lifestyle disease. Of course one size does not fit all, but there's a certain attitude of "Imma jam my face full of fat and sugar and then whine and compulsively visit the doctor because there's no magic pill to let me eat whatever I want and look/feel great". The medical system is built to profit off of such attitudes and attempts to punish anyone with the self-motivation to stay far away. That's why I was amazed when healthy, fit people who otherwise took care of themselves lined up to take the quaxx (my pet name for the MRNA shots) when they were not willing to go the panacea route in any other aspect of their lives.
Sometime in 2019, I went to my local NHS clinic for a physio appt. One of the better services provided by the NHS, although of course it's inexplicably struggling for funds whle the "Diversity Tsar" gets £215'000 a year - funny, that.
While in the waiting room I saw an advert that said
"If you have a cold, don't ring us. Just stay at home, get plenty of rest, and take paracetomol"
Not vit C, not ginger tea, not elderberry syrup - nope. Paracetomol. That's right, suppress the very symptoms that your body is using to fight the infection, so the infection gets worse, and you spend longer in bed.
...but at least the paracetomol manufacturers get their wad!
I started figuring it out when I went to the ob/gyn and women were lined up out the door because every Pap smear (seriously, every single one) was pre-cancerous. The budget, male ob/gyn was one of the worst reviewed in the system but he was the one who had openings in his schedule, so I went to him. I don't suppose it was any different at the "better" ob/gyn though. The whole Pap smear thing, which every woman is supposed to get once a year, is a racket so women can be preyed upon for uterine surgeries. Of course I could be wrong, but I believe the same is true of the supposedly crucial yearly mammogram. I have never had a mammogram and never will.
What troubled me is how the UK govt auctions off whole pieces of the NHS to private corporations, like they're trying to do with Palantir. That darling concept of the leadership of our time - the public-private partnership.
Well, to be fair, those teams were hired by the multibillion dollar PR firms that made fortunes during COVID (Weber Shandwick, the Edelman Group, Publicis in France, Fors Marsh etc.). I knew docs & nurses who never danced, though they did buy into the propaganda.
Another thoughtful post - yes, we can hope for more Peckham Experiments to bloom. BTW, you said during the JM Greer interview (most appreciated) that Huichol shamans were coming to the UK to heal the land or contact the land spirits - more about that if you can, please!
Yes, the Peckham Experiments sound wonderful. I hope that model has success everywhere. As far as the Huichol shamans, why wait? Get out there and talk to some trees. I have never been there, but I believe the UK has some beautiful land spirits who are waiting for people to wake up and talk to them again.
Oh man there are some gems here: from Fresh Prez thru Monty Python, and the humiliation built into industrial healthcare and into the medicalized totalitarian cringe. Congrats on a great push into the ether, power back to you
It seems to me the authoritarians and authoritarian wannabes thought average people would never allow themselves to question the sanctified authority of nurses, doctors, and other medics. They're "heroes", right? They forgot how many people in the US cannot afford health insurance at all. A huge and constantly growing number of the uninsured end up healthier because they avoid seeing doctors unless they break a leg -- doctors in the US generally have not sought to heal anyone for a very long time. The medical people don't live in or near the class that cannot afford health insurance, so they danced in empty hospital wards while claiming to be overwhelmed with caring for the Covid-afflicted. Now they are forever stained with the cringe of dancing while they literally killed grandma by leaving her to her unnecessary respirator, isolation, dehydration, starvation, and bedsores. Not a good look, and not a good strategy to keep the Pharmakeia grift going long term. https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/tag/pharmakeia
Here in the UK, we have a state-sanctioned cult of the NHS. Despite the fact that, as taxpayers, we have no choice whether to pay into the NHS whether we make use of it or not, it's common amongst Britwit liberals to hear the rhetoric that people who criticise the NHS and/or vote Tory should be denied access to it, for thoughtcrime.
It really is more popular than the monarchy. By a long shot. Systemic problems are blamed on "funding cuts", despite the fact that the propotion of the UK's GDP allocated to the NHS has more than doubled since it's inception. Brits only have the American system as a reference point, and assume that any private healthcare system would end up like that - despite the fact that numerous European countries, such as Germany and Switzerland, have insurance-based healthcare systems that (until 2020) actually functioned vastly better than the NHS. But then, Brits are very resistant to learning from other countries...
It's falling apart, and thankfully, a greater number of people are realising that the system is broken beyond repair.
It's no surprise that Brits have followed the American plunge into obesity and lifestyle disease. Of course one size does not fit all, but there's a certain attitude of "Imma jam my face full of fat and sugar and then whine and compulsively visit the doctor because there's no magic pill to let me eat whatever I want and look/feel great". The medical system is built to profit off of such attitudes and attempts to punish anyone with the self-motivation to stay far away. That's why I was amazed when healthy, fit people who otherwise took care of themselves lined up to take the quaxx (my pet name for the MRNA shots) when they were not willing to go the panacea route in any other aspect of their lives.
Sometime in 2019, I went to my local NHS clinic for a physio appt. One of the better services provided by the NHS, although of course it's inexplicably struggling for funds whle the "Diversity Tsar" gets £215'000 a year - funny, that.
While in the waiting room I saw an advert that said
"If you have a cold, don't ring us. Just stay at home, get plenty of rest, and take paracetomol"
Not vit C, not ginger tea, not elderberry syrup - nope. Paracetomol. That's right, suppress the very symptoms that your body is using to fight the infection, so the infection gets worse, and you spend longer in bed.
...but at least the paracetomol manufacturers get their wad!
*paracetamol, lol.
I started figuring it out when I went to the ob/gyn and women were lined up out the door because every Pap smear (seriously, every single one) was pre-cancerous. The budget, male ob/gyn was one of the worst reviewed in the system but he was the one who had openings in his schedule, so I went to him. I don't suppose it was any different at the "better" ob/gyn though. The whole Pap smear thing, which every woman is supposed to get once a year, is a racket so women can be preyed upon for uterine surgeries. Of course I could be wrong, but I believe the same is true of the supposedly crucial yearly mammogram. I have never had a mammogram and never will.
What troubled me is how the UK govt auctions off whole pieces of the NHS to private corporations, like they're trying to do with Palantir. That darling concept of the leadership of our time - the public-private partnership.
Well, to be fair, those teams were hired by the multibillion dollar PR firms that made fortunes during COVID (Weber Shandwick, the Edelman Group, Publicis in France, Fors Marsh etc.). I knew docs & nurses who never danced, though they did buy into the propaganda.
Another thoughtful post - yes, we can hope for more Peckham Experiments to bloom. BTW, you said during the JM Greer interview (most appreciated) that Huichol shamans were coming to the UK to heal the land or contact the land spirits - more about that if you can, please!
Yes, the Peckham Experiments sound wonderful. I hope that model has success everywhere. As far as the Huichol shamans, why wait? Get out there and talk to some trees. I have never been there, but I believe the UK has some beautiful land spirits who are waiting for people to wake up and talk to them again.
https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/46174.html
As a resident I can confirm we have some very gregarious trees here ;)
Not everybody can be Pope, but anyone can talk to a tree! I merely suggest asking permission first.https://www.tiktok.com/@whitewitchoftheprairie/video/7213895780095200558
Thanks - I think it was facilitated by an organization called Second Sight, here's some info: https://secondsighthealing.com/indigenous-collaboration
Oh man there are some gems here: from Fresh Prez thru Monty Python, and the humiliation built into industrial healthcare and into the medicalized totalitarian cringe. Congrats on a great push into the ether, power back to you
Thanks!