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Thought Exercise:
Imagine a scenario where a Religious leader was suddenly given executive authority over the medical communities codes of ethics, methods of treatment, and had carte blanche authority to impose value judgements upon their decisions and trade offs.
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Imagine a scenario where a Religious leader was suddenly given executive authority over the medical communities codes of ethics, methods of treatment, and had carte blanche authority to impose value judgements upon their decisions and trade offs.
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Treatments, standards of care, and ethics are now dictated by order of the high priest.
What do you think would have happened? Doctors would have revolted and fought like hell to get their rights and protections back.
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What do you think would have happened? Doctors would have revolted and fought like hell to get their rights and protections back.
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Image that business leaders & economists were elevated overnight to the de facto authority on epidemiology and infectious disease, despite having no understanding, education, or expertise in this field. Models and risks assessments are now reduced to dollars and cents...
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You think the academic Epi/ID community might raise a stink about that?
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Imagine that suddenly politicians (and politicians only) were suddenly now the primary entities responsible for determining Public Health priorities & Initiatives, budgets, which diseases get priorities, and what policies and practices to implement...
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No MPH's allowed in the room. Political Science majors only.
You think Public Health experts might get a little up in arms? (As I type this last example I realize this example is actually not far from what's actually happening)
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You think Public Health experts might get a little up in arms? (As I type this last example I realize this example is actually not far from what's actually happening)
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I think you all get the point.
So how is it that we have experts in Infectious disease telling us how the economy should be run?
How is it we have medical professionals, (whose risk tolerance is very low) impose their value judgements upon religious communities
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So how is it that we have experts in Infectious disease telling us how the economy should be run?
How is it we have medical professionals, (whose risk tolerance is very low) impose their value judgements upon religious communities
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How is it that we have given MPH's and experts who spend their entire careers in a laboratory the authority to treat children in a schoolroom as if they are nothing but subjects of an experiment?
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A wise man I know said this recently: "I normally wouldn't feel right sticking my nose into another professionals business. However, epidemiologists and Public Health has certainly seen fit to tell me how to run my business, educate my children, and worship my God...
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So excuse me while I check their math."
And that's what I'm here for. I'm checking their math. I don't need their value judgements, just need the data, thank you.
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And that's what I'm here for. I'm checking their math. I don't need their value judgements, just need the data, thank you.
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