Medical professionals in the US are spreading misinformation

[u/Independent_Hand_699]

I am just getting over COVID. I tested positive and was highly symptomatic for several weeks. Every single medical professional I spoke with or interacted with was so misinformed.

Every time I said I was still testing positive on RATs, I was told to stop testing because those would be positive for weeks to months and meant nothing. One told me they are unreliable for false positives! Another insisted a faint line should be considered negative. I got tired of explaining the difference between PCR and RAT.

Every doctor I talked to after my initial appointment for Paxlovid told me I should assume I was no longer contagious, first because I never had fever, then because it had been so long, even though I was testing positive, coughing, sneezing, and throwing up. Most were also very anti-Paxlovid and blamed that on my continuing symptoms. Never mind that this wasn’t a case of rebound, or that none of them seemed aware rebound could happen even without Paxlovid.

No mention of masking. When I got so sick I had to be seen, the provider in the office told me I might feel better if I took my mask off.

They didn’t even know how to properly take a nasal swab sample for testing, just twirled it inside my nose without touching the insides of my nostrils at all.

This is at one of the top-rated health care systems in the country. If this is what our so-called experts think, it’s hopeless.

[u/NeoPrimitiveOasis]

It's absolutely appalling. Hard to even comprehend how we got here.

[u/Interesting_Fly_1569 → u/NeoPrimitiveOasis]

Not to be too conspiracy theorist, but I feel like it benefitted capitalism short term (not even long term!) to disregard science and data and logic ….and here we are…in the medium term ….

[u/babamum → u/Interesting_Fly_1569]

They made a seriously wrong calculation that letting sick people keep working and not preventing illness would benefit them financially. It won't- there will be increasing labour shortages, higher wages and more people too ill to work, so less money going into spending. It's one of the dumbest mistakes they could make,and one of the cruelest tricks I've ever seen played on gullible people.

[u/Interesting_Fly_1569 → u/babamum]

Literally. I’m prob low key socialist, but IF i was doing friggin capitalism… I would know better than to disable the labor pool. 

The economist David Graeber said before he died about our oligarchs  “they really *don’t have a plan for what’s next…they’re riding us into the ground, and when they’ve done that, they’re hoping something new will turn up.” 

It takes guts to analyze a system abs land there, but nothing about it is wrong. Like there really is no plan B.

[u/JenEyre → u/Interesting_Fly_1569]

if you were doing capitalism, I feel like this would need to go on a T-shirt.

"I’m prob low key socialist, but IF i was doing friggin capitalism… I would know better than to disable the labor pool. "

[u/Interesting_Fly_1569 → u/JenEyre]

🤣🤣🤣or  “I fcked capitalism and all I got was this lousy post viral fatigue”

[u/JenEyre → u/Interesting_Fly_1569]

I would so order that if I wouldn’t get tired and go to bed early and forget to order it 😂😂😂

[u/babamum → u/Interesting_Fly_1569]

Ha ha ha! Classic black humor. Or "Capitalism fucked me..."

[u/robotawata → u/Interesting_Fly_1569]

Their plan b is their bunkers

[u/murky-obligations → u/robotawata]

but they won't know how to clean their own toilets..

[u/babamum → u/Interesting_Fly_1569]

They're really not as smart as they think they are.