One of the strange byproducts of the aftermath of the 2020 COVID pandemic, is the apparent abandonment of America’s reliance upon their Primary Care Physicians (PCP).
Let me explain. There was a time in America when medical doctors made house calls, to see patients. I never lived during that time – but previous generations did.
We now live in an age where we set appointments to see our PCPs and we are scheduled months in advance to see them. In the past we had a relationship with our PCP, we trusted their advice and their expertise. After all, we believed that they learned something when they attended medical school, and that access to that information would be beneficial to our personal health.
The trust bond between Personal Care Physicians and Patients was broken by the Pandemic Panic of 2020 through 2021.
Flashback to March 2020. Remember when things started to get weird? The government was talking about "flattening the curve," and that we needed to "shelter in place" for only two weeks. As time went on, depending on what state you lived in, you could be arrested by going to certain public places, or not wearing a mask. Most of America had been transformed into a police state and personal physicians were no longer treating their patients - Washington D.C. was in control and the entire public was quarantined and isolated, including children who were no longer allowed to go to school.
Did our personal physicians recommend all these drastic measures? In the past, if a child was sick, that child stayed home and was treated by their pediatrician. During COVID all children were treated like sick children, they were all forced to stay home, even when they were not sick. The American public, in general went along with all of this, because this is what the doctors in white coats in Washington D.C. were telling the nation to do. Americans willingly gave up their freedoms.
Remember the daily briefings by the experts from the White House? Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx stood next to President Trump and looked official and medically intelligent, usually wearing their white coats to identify them as physicians.
The point is that millions of Americans began watching this medical propaganda side show. We became enamored with an old bureaucrat, research physician that was impossible for common Americans to see for a personal appointment. We dutifully hung on every word that Dr. Fauci spoke.
Songs were written about Fauci to indoctrinate children and to get them to take the experimental mRNA jab. The song was called Fauci Ouchie, by Joanie Leeds. Dr. Fauci was appearing on talk shows and on a digital magazine cover for InStyle.
A Paradigm Shift of Trust Between Doctor and Patient
This is the paradigm shift that occurred in America. Suddenly it was cool to be a government bureaucrat, giving out medical advice to all of America.
The result was that Personal Care Physicians were left out in the cold. The doctor-patient relationship was now broken.
The evidence was everywhere on the Internet and across social media platforms. Everyone was talking about what Dr. Fauci said – and they were arguing about the efficacy of his medical advice. Should we wear masks? First, Dr. Fauci said "no" and later he said "yes."
How effective is the mRNA jab? Remember the catch phrase “safe and effective.” Personal physicians had no way to compete with the avalanche of chatter across the Web-o-sphere and social media truth-blab fact checkers. What else could the public conclude, as a result of all this media?
It was Fauci that commanded the attention of millions of Americans, especially the Americans that were addicted to cable television. During the COVID pandemic Dr. Fauci was a rock star, and our personal physicians were 3rd string bench warmers.
Millions of Americans hung on every word that Dr. Fauci spoke as “medical gospel.”
Where Are Americans Today?
What we are seeing is a bifurcation of the American public, regarding medical advice.
The first group of Americans are those that are dedicated to cable news, who have been re-programmed to trust the government more than their Personal Care Physician. This is a sad state of affairs. It will transform the way medicine is practiced in America. Personal Care Physicians will become order takers, who simply have pre-programmed patients coming into the office to have a script written for the latest “vaccine” that the government recommends. This will signal the death of the practice of medicine as we know it, and the end of the doctor-patient trust bond.
The second group of Americans have a more finely tuned BS meter, when it comes to vetting edicts from Washington, DC. These Americans are not dedicated to cable news and the lame-stream-legacy-media. I would suggest that they have now taken a healthy dose of the skepticism pill. These Americans are going to engage in their own due diligence, and they are going to verify and validate their sources of information more thoroughly. In short, this group of Americans they will decide for themselves whose medical advice they will heed and adhere to: The government will not be the first and last source of factual medical advice for them.
Conclusion
We are living in an age where our basic freedoms are daily being eroded and re-cast in terms of the good of society. In the past the American psyche was the stuff of independence, self-reliance, and individualism. All of this was sprinkled with the idea of helping your neighbor and believing that your neighbor would someday help you in a time of need.
That rugged individualism and sense of hard work and self-determination was once referred to by scholars as the Puritan Ethic: It was an homage to the zeitgeist of the New England Puritans that settled in the New World in the 17th Century. The Puritans played an important role in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the early 1600s. More can be said about other groups, that also came to the New World: The Pilgrims, Quakers (Friends), and other separatists that left England, in search of a better life and new opportunities.
The important takeaway is that the American Dream was based on the rugged individualism of its early settlers. These pioneers distrusted the English Crown. Many also distrusted the heavy hand of the Church of England. The pioneers relied on one another, and they established the foundation for what would later become the United States of America.
Is the United States of America now drifting from the platform from which it was launched? How is it that in the post-COVID era, Americans are now chided and branded as conspiracy theorists if they do not immediately adhere and conform to what the CDC and the FDA are telling them to both believe and do?
Perhaps it is time that we all pause and consider those who laid the foundation stones of this nation and set them in the fertile land upon which we now plant ourselves and benefit. Perhaps we need to take a deeper look into our souls and ask ourselves: Is conformity to Washington D.C., always the best course of action? Or are there other more reasonable alternatives available to us, as we look towards the future? Alternatives which are more reminiscent of the course of action which our forefathers took, when they set forth the principles of Liberty, which we now so greatly enjoy.
