I'm still seeing people wearing masks. Some people just love them. The virtue signaling they get to do gets them off as well.

I recently had my mercury fillings out a few months ago. I'm autoimmune. My thyroid antibodies dropped from 91.5 to 55. Not perfect but man that's a big difference when I haven't changed anything but my teeth.

Labcorp, but they don't seem to allow self orders. I think it's Sonora Quest and Labcorp in my neck of the desert. I kinda don't think they have any competition. There was a law passed when that crazy woman did the Theranos thing that allows us to order our own lab work out here, but the labs don't seem to keen on it. Before they broke their website, I was able to order and pay and when I went in, it looked to them like a doc ordered it, so there weren't any questions. Now, it's an argument every time and they shut down a bunch of their offices, so the one I go to is weeks out for a blood draw appointment, when it used to be same day or at worst two days out.

Yeah, don't get me started on cops. My bf knows that if anything happens to me, he's to hire a private detective and a lawyer.

I lived with my mom for a bit and she was watching some movie that I caught a snippet of and I laughed out loud. Those docs would be reprimanded and fired. You have to follow the protocol set forth by the hospital/clinic/conglomerate.

Insurance is also a big determining factor in treatment. My doc had to diagnose me with some weird ass diagnosis just to get my insurance to cover a test that I'd been ordering myself for years to check on my autoimmune issues. He said even though I had a clear autoimmune problem, treatment would be the same no matter what my antibody numbers were so they wouldn't cover a test to see if my experiments were lowering them or not. He essentially gave me a mystery disease so we can keep ordering the tests to see what supplements help.

Exactly! I have my master's and learned to just spew what they told me while rolling my eyes. I just needed the damned piece of paper. It's why I didn't bother getting my doctorate. I couldn't deal with going through more of that bullshit.

The cool doc I found used to be a doc in a psych facility. I get the impression he got tired of dealing with drugged up zombies. He started his own family practice to have more freedom. He just started a few months ago and the number of times I heard him ask for something from the staff and they said "we've never done that here but I have a list of referrals" was amazing. He kept saying - "well put that on the list to order." Sounds like the previous doc just handed out scripts and didn't bother doing doctor stuff like draining abscesses or stitches.

I work with doctors every day. They are programmed to just believe "authorities" without question. If you argue with or question the chief medical officer, you will be either fired or harassed until you leave and those guys make all kinds of dumb rules to be followed for patients. They are also monetarily incentivized to do certain things. For example, depression screenings on each patient (written by one of the big pharma companies) and to do "follow ups" including prescribing drugs if the score is over X.

I finally found a doc I like. He was excited that I'd been treating myself for years and my lab work showed I've been successful and we discussed research articles about my issues and I was amazed that he was so open minded.

I'm not a particularly pushy person, I'll just not go back if something about them bothers me. The only reason I wanted a doc is because Quest has started giving me a very hard time ordering my own tests - they broke their website during covid and haven't bothered to fix it, so I actually have to talk to them and it's brutal. "Why come you don't have a doctor order?"

You can, but they have an algo checking for their no-nos. You have to dance around certain words that the algo might think mean a problem with the seller, shipper, or delivery.

I see a ton of reviews that get around it somehow. I guess it only pertains to real people.

I hate the listings with hundreds or thousands of reviews for an entirely different product. I report them all the time but have never seen anything done.

At my old apartment I used to get tons of unsolicited crap from Amazon and when I complained they told me it was 'gifts'. I asked how to return it but they couldn't tell me because it was all scammers. I asked if I could block 'gifts' and they told me to be happy getting free, Chinese, plastic junk.

Yep. Even after I was vax injured in the 90s and my bro knows it. He was there when it happened. According to him I'm just weak and unlucky. It made both my mom and I staunch anti-vaxxers. Got us kicked out of the doctor's office when she demanded he report what happened to me. 'You are no longer patients'.

Not that we were in the first place. We were only there because I got a full scholarship and the requirement was a huge list of vaccines. We were worried but didn't know you could fight it.

But yeah. I'm just weak and unlucky. His kids' damage is just a coincidence. My only healthy cats are the two strays that hadn't been picked up and vaxed by charities. All coincidence.

My nephew and niece already had serious speech issues immediately after vaccination (that was just a coincidence!) . They are 8 and 6 and sound like very, very young children with that pronunciation of everything with baby talk 'w' sounds. My niece usually defaults to grunting to get what she wants. It's so sad. Both are in speech therapy.

It's why I had them taken out. I have hashimoto's thyroiditis and other random autoimmune issues. I've had them gone for a few months and for the first time in years reduced my thyroid meds. I am going to get my labs done and if this doctor is cool I can get him to run the TPO test (otherwise I'll just order it myself but I figure I'll give this guy a chance to listen to me) and I can see if my thyroid antibodies are actually lower.

We have a ton of self driving cars out here and they are a menace. When they see flashing lights they just stop dead where they are and the emergency vehicles have to find a way around them. They stop unexpectedly all the time. Your best bet when you see one is to speed up and get around it as quickly as possible. They disrupt the traffic around them because they don't act like human drivers unless you cinder high/drunk/senile drivers. And the accidents are never considered their fault.

I have been to two types scammers and legit. When I was about 12 my mom took me to the local dentist. He treated me until I was 18. He was awful. It always hurt, something was always wrong, except for the two years I had braces and was going to an ortho (I had a severe overbite that would have caused problems later on so we went to a dental school). I didn't think about the pattern until much later. By the time I was done with him I had 7 fillings. A few of them done multiple times. All mercury.

I moved out of state and went to another dentist who was just an asshole. Constantly telling the hygienists I was scum etc (he used laughing as and so figured I wouldn't hear or remember but the ladies always gave me a way to control the amount since it freaked me out).

I stopped going because I was spending my hard earned money just getting berated. It was a small town and I wasn't going to drive far to see a new one. Moved around some more ended up in a relationship with someone who wouldn't let me see the dentist. My brother sent me an article. The dentist we went to killed himself during a trial for malpractice. He had been doing fillings and other unnecessary work to rip people off.

Fast forward 20 years. Another side of the country. I decide to go. Saved up figuring it was going to be bad. They were so sweet there. The hyegnists had a ball cleaning my teeth because of the difference that they could see. The dentist said I had one small cavity that I could wait on if I wanted. I mentioned I avoid fluoride and they put it on my chart and have given me no trouble and don't offer it any longer. I asked to have my mercury fillings replaced. He had no problems with it and did it over two sessions and fixed a chipped tooth for 35$.

I don't dread going to the dentist although they do spike me with Vax proteins and I've learned to take NAC before I go. I feel like this guy is honest and he listens which is amazing to me.

There are more bad ones than good ones. It's lucrative because they can tell you just about anything and it's hard to dispute. But there are good ones out there.

I've been hearing/reading about more and more "brain dead" people waking up after months/years. I don't think doctors really know as much as they say they do. Plus organ harvesting and transplants are extremely profitable for the hospitals and big pharma.

It is a money making enterprise. They will kill you to take and sell your organs.

Make sure the people close to you also know. My so and I are not married and will never be but he knows my feelings well. My mom also knows. When I had surgery, my mom was there and I made sure she knew they were not allowed to starve me to death nor donate my bits.

A lot of states set you as a donor unless you specifically opt out when you get a license.

My mom :) What is wild though is that for decades, I didn't talk to her about anything "controversial" because she was extremely liberal and I'm all over the place and I'm guessing your average Joe would toss me in "extreme."

When I was 35, I moved back in with her while I got my head on straight after a bad breakup. I worked from home, so it wasn't a big deal but we hadn't spoken for more than a few minutes in about 10 years (ex wouldn't let me talk to her). We still kinda danced around stuff, but got much closer.

After 10 months, I moved out and to another state and we began texting each other. One day, she sent me a link and said "if you don't like it, just ignore it" and I was shocked, it was a video I had watched the day before on the federal reserve.

Next thing you know we are talking about a thousand different "conspiracies" that are of course proven and when the scamdemic happened it just made us all the closer because we were pointing out inconsistencies and information. She even mailed me a bunch of ivermectin she'd gotten from Mexico and I sent her a bunch of fenbendazole I'd gotten from Ukraine.

She became a staunch conservative after Biden was elected after screaming about orange man bad for the Trump years.

We've talked about our education - she spent from the age of 10-18 in New Zealand while I was raised in NC and NJ with very, very different schools.

We've always been lied to and it's not just in the US. MKULTRA has really been put to good use.

That is a standard doctor's answer. My family was dropped back in the 90s when I was Vax injured and my mom kept asking the doc what to do and how to report it. We didn't have insurance so it wasn't like it was cheap for us. Doctors only care about their incentives.

I work as a healthcare data analyat and it's amazing how much stuff they get paid for. For example the new one is the 'PHQ2/9' which is a 'depression screening'. I haven't looked it up but I'm sure Pfizer or the like came up with the questions (like one of them came up with the 'pain scale' that got so many hooked on opioids) so that the docs will prescribe more antidepressants. Most of this is required by CMS and the Healthcare system gets money for meeting it all. It's just sick. If a doc disagrees with any of it they are reprimanded until they are either fired or leave.

I skimmed it while waiting at the dentist. It seems fine. A lot of it is the stuff we have talked about here. Depending on your feelings on terrain theory some of the virus stuff could be skipped.

Looks like it was looked over by someone with the Children's Defense so it seems to have their stamp depending on how much you trust them.

It's Hashimoto's. I take iodine every day along with low dose naltrexone, metformin, and desiccated bovine thyroid. I live in a state where I can order my own bloodwork, so I can fix myself. I just wish my bf distrusted doctors as much as I do.

My bf is a type 2 diabetic. We noticed this right away when I asked him to document what he ate and I began giving him different things and checking his blood sugar. Fruit is perfectly fine dispite what his doctor said. We also noticed my homemade bread didn't hit as hard as grocery store bread - even the fancy stuff.

Anything with corn syrup/'corn sugar' is awful. His blood sugar stays up forever. Same thing with potatoes (seems to be specific to him, everyone is different). Even if I give him something made with palm sugar or honey his bs goes down more quickly than corn syrup.

I have high fasting blood sugar due to my thyroid issues and have found having fruit before bed actually helps a lot. Might just be tricking my liver, who knows.

Crossing my fingers that my at least double boosted boss's boss is a statstic. My manager is cool but man his boss is awful.

My bet is on suicide. I've heard rumors she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and she recently lost her son.

Wow. I learned about them in the 90s in a high school psych course. We even learned about the mouse utopia stuff.

My brother is an elevator repair guy in NYC. The elevators are set to stop on every floor on the Sabbath since they can't even push a button. They have a million ways of getting around the rules. The rentals I lived in in NJ had 'Sabbath mode' on the ovens so they could toss food in there and set a time the day before.