Public Health Doppelganger

True Believers or Muddled Middle?

Unlike Naomi Klein, her glamorous Doppelganger, Sarah Gorman, MPH didn’t take a deep dive into conspiracy theories, before writing a book on how to cure them. More Public Health funding. The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health in America is curiously devoid of definitions. No division into conspiracy genres, the multitude of fecund fields of fiercely contested facts. More of a mirror than a rabbit warren.

Her analysis of American medical treatment she calls “healthcare”, sounds as if she read Save Trillions with Universal Health Care, first book in my Medical Monopoly series. “There‘s a myriad of completely legitimate reasons to absolutely distrust a system so notoriously, irreparably broken, out of control costs, with worse outcome than any other wealthy nation.” Big Pharma routinely makes “highly suspect and sometimes illegal behaviors to make a profit. Doctors are mired in conflicts of interest that influence their decision. We’re over tested, diagnosed and over charged.”

Yet, Americans shouldn’t “distrust the scientific basis that legitimate health and medical recommendations rest on. That mistrust has tragic consequences. Fixing the problems around conspiracy theories and institutional mistrust require systemic changes to our government and corporate structures.” Gorman, doppelganger of Lucy coaxing Charlie Brown into giving the pigskin another kick.

She claims “poor access to even the most basic levels of medically necessary and preventive care, primarily drives mistrust.” When “people try and fail to get the health care they need, from a sense of abandonment they turn to alternative treatments and viewpoints. They’re suspicious of a system that does not let them in.”

Yet, doctors have less trust than the general public. Pandemic Practices caused “major changes in trust levels in healthcare” for 47% of physicians and 44% of the public, the NORC survey found, while 43% of doctors expressed less trust in government medical agencies.

I gathered from her examples of misinformation that Conspiracy Theory means any deviation from the official medical narrative and covid talking points. A very narrow sliver of CT. She seems supremely naive with her trust in authority, and totally ignorant that the first flaw in evidence is Reliance on Authority.

For all her faith in science, she adheres to the disproven efficacy of “Public Health” lockdowns, masking, testing, contact tracing, asymptomatic transmission, plexiglass, social distancing, school closures, remote work, vaccines, boosters and faith in Fauci. The Full Monte laid bare by a deluge of data dissidents. Like a limpet, Dorman calls following these “guidelines”, “prosocial behaviors”, healthy for individuals and society. Since Social Determinants of Health are the current public health fad, any mistrust in their benefits sickens both.

She obviously didn’t read What the Pandemic Revealed abut Who America Protects and Who it Leaves Behind by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean, published by Portfolio Penguin in 2023. It’s a limited hangout by Business Journalists who shred the flimsy “science” most of those recommendations rested on. These “mitigation measures had no basis in science”, except for mRNA covaxxes. They laud those as a Commercial Enterprise Unicorn that created 500 billionaires, (not all from inoculations).

Gorman didn’t have time to investigate the veracity of any tenets of her faith. She was too busy reading and citing the expanding literature of manipulating vaxxbeliefs. Like Naomi Klein, she wasn’t swayed by our crazy claims, even after facts flooded over their sandbags. No argument or evidence will persuade these True Believers. She recognized the same adamantine opposition among us heretics, without doubting her projections.

She conducted “70 interviews with people who had high levels of mistrust in the system or close family members who did” from May 2022-Feb. 2023. One was a “pharmaceutical representative who described corporate fraud and mistrust in their intentions” about Warp Speed injections, but even insider anecdotes couldn’t budge Gorman.

The Muddled Middle is the target audience of these manipulators, as they should be ours. More Americans know only enough to say No!, now, but will be dragged back to acquiescense with their dark skills. More than a billion dollars, (public and private), was spent in the U.S. alone to convince Americans we were the enemy, endangering their health.

Almost the Burn Rate of Harris/Walz blowing $2.5 yards. Despite this globally coordinated chorus of denials, 31% of Americans believe the virus was created and spread on purpose. Evil Masterminds were mainly split between Chinese biolas a created and spread the virus to weaken the West, or medical/pharmaceutical industry invented it for profit. The CDC purposely blew it out of proportion to damage Trump’s 2020 election was believed by 29% , and about the same thought that was only a side effect.

Americans have always favored conspiracy theories to explain events. We declared war on the British for conspiring “to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions”, as one grievance in our Declaration of Independence.

We almost universally accept conspiracy theories. Only 9% did not believe at least one of 46 historically popular CT’s, while one third believed in more. More Theories is “positively associated with non-normative behaviors, including criminal acts , and negatively associated with pro-social behaviors, such as vaccination.” There is an inverse relation between accepting more, with obeying their whiplash science mandates and intention to vaxx.

Non-Whites had the highest rates of non compliance, although those with higher levels of medical mistrust trended younger and college educated. Highest rates of compliance were mostly white, high school education or less, men with less knowledge about COVID.

I don’t blame those who were sold, but those who pushed the products and the hidden planners behind them. Gorman, et fils and their ilk are useful idiots, educated enough to follow orders bundled in grants. That’s no conspiracy theorizing, that is conspiracy fact.