

Quadrant

Let me say at the outset, I am not an epidemiologist or virologist, nor do I have any medical training other than the experience which my 73 years on this planet has provided me. However, I am a mathematician, so am blessed with more than a smidgeon of those qualities that have sadly gone missing in recent times: logic and common sense.
The first thing that needs to occur to fight our way out of the pandemic blues is the restoration of the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. It should be as sacrosanct as the lawyer – client relationship or the priest – confessor relationship. To be quite honest, I rarely visit a doctor, so do not have a particularly strong doctor-patient relationship. However, every couple of years, I visit my doctor to have my ears de-waxed. This year, in September, my wife came with me. In addition, early in 2020, prior to COVID even being given a name, my wife had been a little off-colour, with a sore throat, headaches and a cough. Later, when thinking and reading about COVID, she suspected she might have had a mild dose of the virus, so she asked the doctor to test for COVID antibodies. To our surprise and, indeed, shock, the doctor informed us that he would be subject to a $50,000 fine should he request such a blood test.
We were so shocked by this call we didn’t ask him another key question, that being ‘Who imposed the fine?’ (We assumed the state government). When we asked him why this was the case, he responded with some garbled message about too many people would want the test. It was only after we left that we realised that he had been told by some bureaucrat that he was unable to carry out his job as a medical practitioner in mutual cooperation with his patients because the bureaucracy wanted everyone to be vaccinated. I have read of a doctor in the Eastern States whose surgery was raided by government officials and records confiscated. Apparently this doctor allegedly strayed from the prescribed treatment plan, which boils down to this: if diagnosed with COVID, you go home until you get better or, if you don’t, you go into hospital. Vaccination at that stage was the only approved treatment.
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