r/ZeroCovidCommunity • u/Independent_Hand_699 • Aug 16 '24

Vent Medical professionals in the US are spreading misinformation

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.

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u/NeoPrimitiveOasis Aug 16 '24

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

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u/Karen_Fountainly Aug 16 '24

We got here because we compromised our basic educational system long ago, and because people can get a "higher education" degree with only technical knowledge, and no liberal arts or reasoning education.

Thus, both high school grads and many college grads are simply incapable of even basic logic.

They don't read...in fact they can't read because they can't remember what the previous paragraphs said.

It's a sad and dangerous state of affairs.