When Doctors Get Gagged

California's Assembly Bill 2098 is Now Law

When I was in high school I was fortunate enough to have a US History teacher who was an East German immigrant.

He was raised in communist East Germany and escaped.

He wore the same brown shortsleeved shirt and brown pants everyday and he taught us a side to history that I know I would not have gotten otherwise.

He taught us how to identify propaganda and how communism and socialism gets wrapped up in the lovely packaging of idealism and sold to unknowing, unthinking and fearful humans as virtue.

How fear is the weapon of choice and how division is critical to the plan working.

One thing I remember clearly from his teachings is how doctors and scientists are gagged and vilified FIRST. God forbid you have educated people, who can CLEARLY see through the nonsense, speaking out against the narrative.

I bet a LOT of you healthcare professionals are thinking “Phew! I’m sure glad I didn’t speak out before when I wanted to. Now that California has passed this, it’s only a matter of time before it works it’s way up the coast and across this country. Better go scrub any and all posts of dissent off my social media the past few years!”

Yes, the same people signing relief right now for staying silent are the same people who’ve been dropping into my DMs and emails the past ~3 years thanking me profusely for standing up, staying strong and being brave. All the while they remained silent.

You know, every time a healthcare professional thanks me for being brave, and I go look through their social media accounts to see if they too have been brave, 9 times out of 10 they have not.

So they thank me for my bravery and I want to write them back and thank them for their cowardice, because that’s exactly why we are sitting in this position right now having the government taking over our ability to practice freely. Because nobody stood up.

People LOVE cheering on the hero in the arena, taking all the arrows and bullets, while they sit in the bleachers safely clapping. Especially doctors.

“Well, I have my license to think about! I have kids! I have student loan debt! I have a family to support!”

And they don’t think that I have all of those same EXACT concerns as well?

The difference between them and I is that I can’t look my daughter in the face and tell her that I knew better, but I chose to do nothing in the face of tyranny.

Assembly Bill 2098 has now been signed into law and it is my strong opinion that this is just the beginning.

How did this happen?

People were complicit. The ones who remained silent and complied to keep their jobs, so that they could travel and so they could go out into public places are who I’m pointing at right now, most specifically.

If you are in healthcare and you kept your mouth shut when you KNEW in your soul that everything happening was wrong, you get to claim partial responsibility for this as well. Good job.

And if you think this won’t impact you because you are a doctor who was silent, just wait until they dictate how you can practice even MORE. Better yet, wait until you’re a patient on the other end of this stick.

This will impact ALL of us when our time as patient comes. In a healthcare system where doctors are not allowed to discuss or exchange ideas freely, are not allowed to practice in a way that is best for their patient and who has Big Daddy Government sitting in the middle of the sacred doctor-patient relationship: it’s the patient who loses most.