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FedUpInOR's avatar

As a healthcare provider I’m trying to rebuild trust in the system, myself. One of the things that knocked the scales from my eyes was when the President of the AMA was at French Laundry with Gavin Newsom. When I learned that the President of the American Medical Association was going out in a large group while telling us all to Stay At Home, it was obvious THEY were all in this together.

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>> what should the public health establishment do to start rebuilding public trust?

I'm not blaming you for this, Jeff, but the question itself is frustrating. The answers seem obvious.

1) ADMIT FAULT. The gaslighting has been the psychologically worst part of all of this. If nothing else, ADMIT YOU MADE STATEMENTS THAT WERE LIES OR WERE DEMONSTRATED TO BE UNTRUE. The doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down made you our enemies. I'm so tired of seeing the "we know they are lying, they know they are lying, etc." quote in comment threads. ADMIT YOU WERE WRONG.

2) GIVE US JUSTICE. Show us the system at least partially functions properly and hold at least SOME of your number publicly accountable for policies and statements that demonstrably harmed others. Would you rather offer blood for peace, or have an enraged populace take the blood we think we're owed?

3) LEAVE HEALTHCARE WORKERS ALONE. Disband the lynch mobs and bounty hunters and Stasi censoring, firing, committing to mental hospitals, and ending the careers of professionals that are PEACEFULLY STATING THEIR PROFESSIONAL OPINIONS.

This is a good start of things that are so fundamental to any kind of reconciliation- and things that, frankly, I don't expect to ever receive.

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