Covid allowed a lot of medical people to discover their inner totalitarian. From Edward Curtin at off-guardian.org:
I think it is generally accepted that the practice of medicine has changed radically over the past fifty or so years. The medicalization and corporatization of life have “progressed” simultaneously as most doctors have become obedient servants of the corporate state.
But wait, one may object, and with some justification.
The development of micro-surgical techniques has significantly improved the methods of many operations that were formally very invasive and posed a great risk to the elderly and chronically sick. Many people have had knee, hip, and heart surgeries – to name a few – that would have been problematic or impossible in the past. Body part replacements are now common.
Soon everyone will be half-mechanical on the way to full robotization with a bit of pig and cow thrown in for good measure. Whether this is good is debatable on many levels, but the “procedures” (a word that seems to have replaced the more gruesome sounding words “operations” or “surgeries”) have clearly become more efficient and less invasive. These micro-surgical techniques have surely saved lives and improved the quality of life for many.
Before I went off all meds and sold the ones that skyrocketed under Brandon, a visit to the hospital during the height of the LARP was quiet as a mouse.
A receptionist at the main entrance behind plexiglass and this is a rowdy hospital that has bands play on the first floor during lunch and flamenco guitarists.