It's not over where I live. I had a UTI last week and my doctor wanted me to come in to be seen. I had not improved from the RX she had given me. I asked if they were still requiring masks. And yes they were despite me telling them that I have a problem with chronic dizziness. It's believed to be due to me drinking diet soda when I was younger and I got this form of dementia. I prayed for God to heal me so I wouldn't have to go. I argued with them that masks are not necessary and they are so brainwashed they thought I was nuts. It got better enough to cancel my appt. I found an alternative tx and I am now much improved. I refuse to go to a doctor who forces me against my will to wear a mask to see them. When a person is as dizzy as I am, a mask is very dangerous. I'm a retired RN so am not entirely stupid. I have had two falls. One more fall will probably break my hip. I keep falling on the same hip. I am also very small boned. My entire family are brainwashed as well but at least they don't make me wear a mask. Going to see my newest grandson tomorrow! If I was sick, I would not go to visit anyone. I am so frustrated from everyone I know being suckered in by this fake pandemic, it is really causing much more stress on me. When I fell down a flight of stairs early in the fake pandemic, I was shocked and delighted to clearly hear God's voice in my left ear, tell me to "Be Still". He KNEW what I was going to try to do but he stopped me. Although I never saw a doctor, I can walk okay and without pain after a year. God is my only doctor now. I don't trust the ones with MD after their name now. It is obvious that I have a lot of dislocations from that fall; however, I have no pain. No one looks very closely at an old lady so no one has said anything.
Dr. McDonald, you are absolutely the clearest thinking psychiatrist out there! Hmmm that may not be high praise, let me restate that--one of the clearest voices out there. Thank you for sharing your insights. You make me feel better about regarding all of these masked people as fools.
Mar 10, 2022·edited Mar 11, 2022Liked by Mark McDonald, M.D.
Thinking for yourself! How novel, fresh and necessary! You would think that such an attitude would be axiomatic with people. Yet, as evidenced by the protracted, face-masking brain-drain behavior around us, some folks avoid it like the plague.
Although fear-based behavior and superstitions have been with us for a very long time, I can’t help but suspect that the penchant for group-think and the virtue signaling that compel some people to follow things like – “greater suffering means you’re a better person” – is exacerbated today with smart phone/social media addiction.
Many people, especially younger folks, simply scroll and scroll to find something to do or something to send that will attract attention or display virtue. Much of today’s activity is just to put out some “noise” just to get a response. Not much time is spent on thinking or simply being alone with one’s thoughts. Not much evaluation or researching an item of news to get a better handle on it. Indeed, as Dr. Macdonald argues, not much thinking! Just take a look at people walking around. Many have the smart phone clutched in one hand, even when both hands are occupied with multiple bags! It’s like they grew a new appendage – “the smart phone limb!”
Of course, cell phone addiction is not the whole story, but it certainly doesn’t help. We’ve got to move away from group-think and foster self-think. It seems to me that a focus on better time-management, digital minimalism and spending some time alone without the bloody phone might be a step in the right direction, however modest the progress.
It's not over where I live. I had a UTI last week and my doctor wanted me to come in to be seen. I had not improved from the RX she had given me. I asked if they were still requiring masks. And yes they were despite me telling them that I have a problem with chronic dizziness. It's believed to be due to me drinking diet soda when I was younger and I got this form of dementia. I prayed for God to heal me so I wouldn't have to go. I argued with them that masks are not necessary and they are so brainwashed they thought I was nuts. It got better enough to cancel my appt. I found an alternative tx and I am now much improved. I refuse to go to a doctor who forces me against my will to wear a mask to see them. When a person is as dizzy as I am, a mask is very dangerous. I'm a retired RN so am not entirely stupid. I have had two falls. One more fall will probably break my hip. I keep falling on the same hip. I am also very small boned. My entire family are brainwashed as well but at least they don't make me wear a mask. Going to see my newest grandson tomorrow! If I was sick, I would not go to visit anyone. I am so frustrated from everyone I know being suckered in by this fake pandemic, it is really causing much more stress on me. When I fell down a flight of stairs early in the fake pandemic, I was shocked and delighted to clearly hear God's voice in my left ear, tell me to "Be Still". He KNEW what I was going to try to do but he stopped me. Although I never saw a doctor, I can walk okay and without pain after a year. God is my only doctor now. I don't trust the ones with MD after their name now. It is obvious that I have a lot of dislocations from that fall; however, I have no pain. No one looks very closely at an old lady so no one has said anything.
Dr. McDonald, you are absolutely the clearest thinking psychiatrist out there! Hmmm that may not be high praise, let me restate that--one of the clearest voices out there. Thank you for sharing your insights. You make me feel better about regarding all of these masked people as fools.
Thinking for yourself! How novel, fresh and necessary! You would think that such an attitude would be axiomatic with people. Yet, as evidenced by the protracted, face-masking brain-drain behavior around us, some folks avoid it like the plague.
Although fear-based behavior and superstitions have been with us for a very long time, I can’t help but suspect that the penchant for group-think and the virtue signaling that compel some people to follow things like – “greater suffering means you’re a better person” – is exacerbated today with smart phone/social media addiction.
Many people, especially younger folks, simply scroll and scroll to find something to do or something to send that will attract attention or display virtue. Much of today’s activity is just to put out some “noise” just to get a response. Not much time is spent on thinking or simply being alone with one’s thoughts. Not much evaluation or researching an item of news to get a better handle on it. Indeed, as Dr. Macdonald argues, not much thinking! Just take a look at people walking around. Many have the smart phone clutched in one hand, even when both hands are occupied with multiple bags! It’s like they grew a new appendage – “the smart phone limb!”
Of course, cell phone addiction is not the whole story, but it certainly doesn’t help. We’ve got to move away from group-think and foster self-think. It seems to me that a focus on better time-management, digital minimalism and spending some time alone without the bloody phone might be a step in the right direction, however modest the progress.