Our patients and colleagues have moved from "I have a different opinion" to "I'm not going to discuss this" to just straight-up lying to us, fuck your consequences I gots my freedoms.

Good friend of mine lost a family member not to COVID, but to an overwhelmed hospital that couldn't treat him properly because of too much COVID.

Colleague is thinking of closing her facility, which has been open for 25 years, because she's got an entirely-vaccinated customer base (they're all military and have no choice in the matter) and two of her employees are Q. As of October 19, it's a gross misdemeanor for a healthcare facility to have unvaccinated employees or contractors. That's a year in jail and/or $10k in fines. She'd rather fold the practice than fight the war (yes she'd love to come down and deliver babies with us because we don't have to deal with this shit, we've got Brazilians with families full of dead people thanks to Bolsonaro this shit ain't no joke). Another colleague has been prescribing Ivermectin at 3x the therapeutic dose, 5x the therapeutic frequency, because "well there's this study." Which says "mainline Ivermectin for its anti-inflammatory properties if you're in the midst of a cytokine storm and about to die, it seems to cut mortality by 68%, what's the worst that could happen" not "megadose known teratogens as if they were fucking Vitamin C". We called three pharmacies to find out about side effects in pregnancy and all three volunteered that they're not filling Ivermectin prescriptions at the moment, they don't care if you have guinea worm it'll wait. It's like hydroxychloroquine a year ago - "Tough shit about your lupus we got freedom on the line here."

We know nurses. They're now posting on FB about teenagers dying of COVID.

I just finished Patrick Wyman's The Verge. He casually mentions that most of the innovations of the Renaissance were economic, and the driving force of that economic innovation was the massive redistribution of wealth brought about by the megadeath of the Bubonic Plague. Stands to reason; Tony Judt made the argument that the Long Boom was entirely due to the massive redistribution of wealth brought about by the Holocaust.

Shit tons of death - - - shit tons of liquidity - - - shit tons of innovation - - - shit tons of upheaval - - - shit tons of death

Black Death - - - Mercantile class - - - printing press and mercantilism - - - Protestant reformation - - - Thirty Years War

Holocaust - - - Marshall Plan & Globalism - - - Space Race and the Internet - - - Facebook and Q-anon - - - ???