SICKENING: THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE GOES WOKE, PUBLISHING POLITICAL PROPAGANDA!, by DVM

This afternoon I saw a headline on the Drudge Report that the NEJM was calling for Trump’s firing. Because medical journals have historically been careful to remain politically neutral I immediately went straight to the source and read their lead editorial myself to see what they said. Sure enough it looks like they have been infected with a deadly virus for a scientific journal. They are attempting to inject their own political views into readers who expect better and more “scientific” articles. Maybe it will be fatal for them as a journal. I hope so!

The article is called “Dying in a Leadership Vacuum” and is attributed simply to “the Editors.” They begin by complaining that our leaders have “failed [the Covid] test” and “have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.” They marshal some statistics to try to show how bad it is in the US. I do agree with their statement that “Covid-19 is an overwhelming challenge, and many factors contribute to its severity.” They then praise the severe measures of China and claim they had a death rate of 3 per million vs the US’s 500 per million. The measures they praise, by the way, are very authoritarian (intensive testing [without permission], aggressive contact tracing, and [forced] isolation). This editorial view is astounding in its failure to recognize nations have agreed-upon governance with their citizens and longstanding cultures that must be considered with ANY kind of medical strategies, no matter how worthwhile they sound. No mention is made, for example, of balancing our freedoms with medical safety and security…or balancing our economy with medical safety and security.

So why don’t we go all the way in this idea for a minute. Why should medical workers themselves be immune from such a severe lockdown? If the Editors like strict severe authoritarian medical measures so much why didn’t they isolate THEMSELVES in hospitals for several months and wear full Biosafety Level 4 suits and force all medical workers to stay on their posts IN ISOLATION until the virus was eradicated? WHY DIDN’T THE EDITORS TAKE THE LEAD IN THIS AND BECOME NATIONWIDE EXAMPLES OF MEDICAL HEROICISM? Why didn’t all medical personnel across the US voluntarily (or encouraged by prompting by the major journals and Medical Associations) stay on their posts in the hospitals, never returning to their families for months? Wouldn’t that have been the safest way to handle the sick, as a medical profession? Well, you see the total unreasonableness of what could be argued as a best practice for handling Covid. The hypocrisy of the Editors is amazing. They are sitting around taking cheap shots at leaders who are doing something when they aren’t doing anything personally costly. Let’s put one Editor per NY nursing home and make them stay locked down totally until the virus is eradicated. They wouldn’t last 15 minutes away from their normal patterns of life. It is very obvious they favor heavy-handed Government control of healthcare. I will even say Marxism.

They also claim we, as a nation, didn’t have enough PPE to provide health care workers. Whose job is that? All the medical clinics I’ve seen had enough gloves. Can the NEJM definitively say that flimsy disposable masks (that we are being FORCED TO WEAR) are PROVEN to decrease your chance of contracting the virus or giving the virus to someone else? That is the kind of scientific information WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. Why don’t you work on that project Editors?

Well, the article goes downhill from there, and by the time it’s done they are calling for our current leaders to lose their jobs. Sad.

To finish I thought I’d suggest something else the Editors could work on: Hospital-Acquired Infections. That IS in your wheelhouse Editors, whereas political propaganda should not be. For those that don’t know HAIs are the infectious organisms you can get WHEN YOU ARE IN THE HOSPITAL, PRESUMABLY FOR SOME OTHER PROBLEM! These have been the little-talked-about bane of the Medical profession. Their dirty little secret, shall we say. A person goes to a hospital with high hopes that they can be treated for something and then contracts a harmful infection FROM THE HOSPITAL. Here are the latest CDC stats about HAIs:

On any given day, about 1 in 31 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection. Patients in the 2015 HAI Hospital Prevalence survey were at least 16% less likely than patients in the 2011 survey to have an HAI.

• 3% of hospitalized patients in the 2015 survey had one or more HAI.
• There were an estimated 687,000 HAIs in U.S. acute care hospitals in 2015. About 72,000 hospital patients with HAIs died during their hospitalizations.

This, ahem, dwarfs the Covid rates. Just since 2015, at this rate, there have been around 350,000 people DIE FROM HAIs. That is one and a half times the Covid death toll! Why don’t the Editors work on this problem? What is your esteemed Journal doing about this problem…anything?

DVM is a devout Christian, husband, father, veterinarian, professor, and patriot. He also has a M. Div. degree from an accredited seminary in the southeast US.

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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

7 Comments

  1. Anonymous October 13, 2020 at 05:17

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  2. Shadow Walker October 13, 2020 at 07:17

    Excellent reporting. I concur completely with your comments, and the whole world should be aware of this hypocrisy.

  3. Dale October 13, 2020 at 09:05

    Yea you are correct. The joke goes – if you want to get sick go to the hospital!!! Enuff said.

  4. Ralph k October 13, 2020 at 12:17

    Interestingly, the NEJM left out some other etiologies concerning the poor response to the virus situation. Why did they not speak up when governors in 5 states, all leftist controlled, began sending cover-19 patients to nursing homes (admittedly the most vulnerable segment of the population) with the resultant increase in deaths? Nocosomial infections (hospital acquired infections) per the CDC runs about ~80k/yr, certainly increased during this time as you alluded to above. Mortality from medical misadventures, known in the industry parlance as AEMT (adverse effects of medical treatment) has been considered the 3rd leading cause of death in hospital environment, per the CDC, think of the unwarranted use of ventilators (lets not forget the financial incentives to hospitals for using such treatments and the categorization of the diagnosis covid-19 resulting in increased financial reimbursement and the restriction, based on political viewpoints, of the use of hydroxychloroquine, zinc etc for treatment. All in hopes of a vaccine to save the day, manufactured by the consortium of companies influenced by Bill Gates’ agenda. I have always wondered why so many want to have a vaccine, hastily rushed to market, influenced by a man whose corporation created Windows, a program that crashes repeatedly, and requires continual tweaks and updates, ad nauseum. I am sure everyone who is inoculated will look forward to their first, second and continual updates as it were. And to top it off, many of the vaccines will alter our DNA, not something to be trifled with, and curiously, not mentioned very much. I am sure they know what they are doing of course. Reminds me of the Madison Avenue mantra, “don’t fool with Mother Nature”. We humans do not need millions of years to affect subtle change to our genetic information gradually, by God, we can do it in a New York minute. But no worries, all the pharmaceutical companies have been indemnified against any and all financial repercussions of any untoward results. All sounds like a recipe for something just wonderful…not. Don’t worry, you won’t die, you will be as immortal as the blue screen of death, hoping ever lastingly for a reboot.

    The NEJM has been infected with TDS.

    • Ralph k October 13, 2020 at 12:33

      please read ‘covid-19’ above. foiled by spell checker yet again.

  5. Johnny Paratrooper October 13, 2020 at 14:19

    Weirdly enough, Everyone I know who got Covid-19 also had their flu shots…
    I haven’t been sick, except the rare sinus infection, stomach bug, and sore throat, since I got out of the Army and stopped taking vaccines.
    Speaking in terms of the “3 day mystery virus” that induces 3-4 days of misery? Never had one once in almost 6 years.

    I did get H1N1 when it was going around. But I am pretty sure the Army made me snort H1N1(Flu Vaccine Nasal Spray) on my way home from Baghdad for R&R. I spent 3 days in bed with a hell of a fever. I felt MISERABLE.

    Rather unfortunate situation we live in.

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