It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Behold the anti-vax evangelist. When you contradict their mythology of COVID, they do not debate — they declare. When you say you were there, they accuse you of lying. When you describe hallways lined with ventilators and refrigerated trucks behind hospitals, they reply with a video of an empty clinic lobby taken at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday. Each move is deliberate. Each designed to plant doubt. You bring data — randomized trials, excess mortality curves, ICU capacity graphs — and they inform you that the data are fabricated. You explain how ventilators are used, and they insist you never understood them. You describe surge staffing, proning teams, tracheostomies at 2 a.m., and they counter with TikTok clips of nurses dancing for 20 seconds between codes. The performance is the point. They operate in a closed epistemology. If hospitals were full, it was staged. If they were not full in a viral lull, the pandemic was fake. If vaccines reduced admissions, the decline was natural immunity. If admissions rose before vaccines, it was hospital fraud. No outcome falsifies the belief. Every outcome confirms it. This is not skepticism. It is theology. Show them excess deaths — conspiracy. Show them ICU occupancy — manipulated. Show them randomized vaccine trials — rigged. Show them global replication — coordinated fraud. Meanwhile, they will tell you they know how to run a ventilator, despite never adjusting PEEP in refractory hypoxemia. They will mock exhausted nurses for dancing as a coping mechanism and then, in the next breath, deny the very surge conditions that made coping necessary. They deny the fire while criticizing the smoke. And here is the final absurdity: They insist hospitals were empty — until the vaccine arrived. Then they insist vaccines didn’t work. The contradiction does not trouble them, because coherence was never the objective. Conversion was. Doubt is their currency. Outrage is their marketing strategy. Certainty is their costume. Science revises. Medicine adapts. Data accumulates. But conspiracism calcifies. And so we arrive here — where those who have never held pressure on a crashing patient accuse those who did of inventing the crash.

There are thousands of physicians who would be qualified to be the US Surgeon General, so of course Donald Trump nominated Casey Means, someone who is uniquely unqualified to treat anyone, let alone EVERYONE in the country. My thoughts: docbastard.net/2026/02/ameri…

This aged either really poorly or absolutely perfectly. I can’t decide.

Hey everyone, I still remember how to write, so I wrote something about vaccines in case anyone is still interested in silly things like facts. docbastard.net/2026/01/more-…

For those of you keeping score, this is the guy who wants to Make Polio Great Again.

If RFK gets his way, pretty soon “thoughts and prayers” will be all we have left to fight infectious diseases.

As it turns out, these 2 things can be true simultaneously: 1) For-profit pharma and insurance companies are evil. 2) Doctors are doing the best they can to take care of people within this broken system. Oh, & doctors who sell supplements & “detox kits” are in the former group.

That’s how most jobs work - you get paid more for doing more. Meanwhile you sell unregulated and unproven supplements whilst criticising doctors who are taking care of patients. YOU, sir, are the problem.

I was getting aggravated by the bullshit on my timeline when my daughter randomly asked me for a hug. My irritation at Twitter began to spill onto her before I paused, took a breath, & gave her a huge hug, & if that isn’t the best reason to get off Twitter, I don’t know what is.

If this pandemic has taught me anything, it’s that anyone with internet access and a complete lack of knowledge about statistics can and will instantly misinterpret statistics.

Imagine being so arrogantly ignorant that you tell a surgeon how masks work.

"Experimental drugs" are given to a few thousand people in clinical trials. So far 4.3 billion people have received 8.3 billion doses of the COVID vaccines. The experiment is over. We ALL want to get back to normal, and the vaccine is our best chance. Please get vaccinated.

You can hate me all you like. I'm fine with that because your personal opinion of me is inconsequential. But please understand that comparing vaccine advocacy to the atrocities of the Holocaust actually makes you a terrible person. Cheers.

This pandemic has taught me one very sad lesson: Any moron with a computer and an internet connection can read a few headlines and somehow believe he knows more than people who’ve spent a lifetime studying this extremely complex issue.

It’s truly amazing how anti-life the pro-life crowd becomes when it comes to getting the COVID vaccine.

Viral diseases eradicated by vaccines: Smallpox Rinderpest Viral diseases eradicated by 'natural' herd immunity: None. Get vaccinated.

I'm tired of wearing a mask, but I do. I don't like getting shots, but I will. I'm tired of not visiting friends, but I don't. I'm tired of social distancing, but I do. We're ALL sick and tired of this pandemic. That's why we should ALL do everything we can to end it.

I wholerectumly approve the entirety of this thread.