How Did the Medical System Lose Its Credibility and the Public’s Confidence?

Americans are growing more skeptical of major institutions. Is this good or bad? Volatile or stultifying? Destructive or creative?

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Gallup’s recent poll on the public’s confidence in major institutions saw the most significant decline in confidence over the last two years in the presidency and the medical system.

Only one-third of Americans now have a “great deal/fair amount of confidence” in the medical system and only one-quarter in the presidency. Yet the medical system is what all hospital-born Americans—or 98.4 percent of us—are thrust into at birth, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From delivery by gloved hands, under the white coats backlit by fluorescent tubes, and jabbed the same day for a sexually transmitted disease, hepatitis B, and an insanely large dose of synthetic vitamin K, with aluminum poisoning in both of those shots, it’s a backhanded greeting of: Welcome to the world, baby!

From there, infants are brought to a visit every two months for more shots (or vilification of nonvaccinating parents as negligent) as an introduction to a system that has ties to you through your Medicare years, wherein there are stiff penalties against your social security payments if you choose not to sign up. (Medicare does not cover naturopathic or alternative medical treatment, even when practiced by a functional medical doctor, let alone a naturopathic physician.) Ready for hospice? Don’t worry, because the drugs that take us out will be pharmaceuticals, too: midazolam and morphine.

So unless you commit acts of rebellion here and there, you are born, hanging around for decades, and then retire and die in the conventional medical system.

Indeed, you and I may have other plans for how we choose to live, rather than a passive slide along Pharma’s conveyor belt.

And I think we have lots of company.

Now that a whopping 66 percent of us are not expressing confidence in the medical system that is provided and urged on us, we are starting to see quite a large and growing gap between the health interventions Americans seem to be choosing versus those we are expected and guided to take.

Compare the 34 percent of Americans having confidence in the medical system on the one hand with 79 percent of Americans seeing the dietary supplement industry as trustworthy, on the other hand.

That latter survey also found that 80 percent choose to take nutritional supplements, which, by the way, are unreimbursed by the badly misnamed “health insurance” industry.

How Did the Medical System Lose Its Credibility and the Public’s Confidence?

Consider masks, for example. If someone living in the United States through the last three-and-a-half years never accessed the internet, never read a newspaper or journal, never zoomed into the workplace or other meetings, but traveled even a tiny bit, maybe over to the local hardware store or post office, that person could not have escaped the following observation. He or she would have seen a vast majority—nearly all—masked faces in any public place, and would also see that nearly nobody wears a mask now, three years later. At some point, masks were widely accepted as a valuable tool to accomplish something not now seen as valuable. Nearly everybody masked back then, and nearly nobody does now. What could explain such a massive change in social behavior to the offline observer?

What was it that actually took away masks from most people’s faces? Was it the relaxation of mandates? Was it the growing recognition that mask-wearing does not stop viral transmission from or to the wearer? Was it a generally declining fear of COVID and viruses in general? Or was it that a large portion of our population starts or stops a behavior as soon as they sense a shift in the zeitgeist and rushes to behave accordingly and in lockstep with the majority? The type who would say, “Are you kidding? Nobody wears masks anymore,” or “Nobody is getting vaccinated for COVID anymore” as their reason for their eager use of those before and not engaging in those acts now. As if the intrinsic qualities of each—masks and vaccines—were less important than what the neighbors are doing these days. The parabolic rise and fall of mask use over these recent years were steep, very high, and narrow for the public.

However, the medical community soldiers on and stubbornly cling to their masks and forcing COVID vaccines on their employees. Despite overwhelming evidence of both negative efficacy and bodily injury of both, as I’ve shown in over 900 medical studies cited in my last two books, and now beginning to be acknowledged around the world, most medical venues still insist on both masks and COVID vaccines, perhaps only due to fear of litigation if they now reverse their stance and/or acknowledge the harms of each. In its recalcitrant stance, the conventional medical industry has boxed itself into a place of increasingly foolish appearance to a now awakening public.

In the same Gallup poll, newspapers and television news are even less trusted, at 18 percent and 14 percent, respectively. Only 8 percent have confidence in Congress.

Mass complacency and corruption of elites are comfortable interdependent bedfellows that enable and reinforce each other. But the disgusting duo repels the rest of us, an increasing number of people who lack confidence in the big institutions’ incestuous nests and self-serving behaviors. For the rest of us, we see complacent lemmings entrusting the control over health to those who make an industry from sickness.

Is skepticism a healthy response to a Pharma-controlled medical system or a captured government and media elite? Or is skepticism so demoralizing that corruption will become more entrenched and the masses detached and without hope? Only the future will show us whether current and future generations can create new institutions from the wreckage of the current malfunctioning, morally bankrupt, and public-nuisance ones.

Reposted from Colleen Huber’s Substack

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