Medicine is big business in the big state of Texas, and it’s become overwhelmingly aligned with the Democrats. From Dr. Mary Talley Bowden at rwmalonemd.substack.com:
Of all the controversies during the pandemic, forcing working citizens to choose between their right to bodily autonomy and staying employed was the most egregious, and it all started in Houston, Texas. In May 2021, three months before Biden announced federal employees would be required to get the COVID shots, Houston Methodist Hospital proudly declared it was setting a precedent – “leading medicine” as they like to say – and mandating COVID shots for all of its employees. At the time, these shots were only under EUA status and had been on the market for less than four months. In June of 2021, the hospital fired 153 employees who refused to comply.
I had many patients confide in me their reluctance to abide by the mandates, voicing concerns about the safety of these new modified mRNA shots. Because my clinic was doing a lot of testing, I saw the breakthrough cases and even reached out to an administrator at Houston Methodist, asking him if he was seeing what I was seeing. My concerns were dismissed.
Ignored by Methodist, I started speaking out on Twitter, daring to tweet “Vaccine mandates are wrong.” In retaliation, Houston Methodist suspended my privileges and defamed me online, demonstrating to other physicians the dire consequences of challenging their dogma. In a recent interview, Shannon Joy asked me how is it that a physician in the seemingly red state of Texas is undergoing the kind of persecution I’ve experienced; I answered, “Texas is not as ‘red’ as you think.” I believe healthcare is slowly changing the political landscape of our state, and COVID shot mandates started in Texas for a reason.
