Letter to the editor: The operation was a success, but the patient died

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The outcome of the experiment confirmed the expected, obvious results.

The test subject was reeducated through a program of continuous repetitive statements constructing an artificial perception of reality. Eventually, depending on the intelligence and/or the conditions of emotional maturity, the subject was either forced to accept and wholeheartedly adopt the position of the majority, or be forced out into complete isolation.

In the case we’re examining today, the subject had sufficient intelligence to see through at least some of the blatant violations of sound logic. The healthy, sane subject was told constantly that he was a selfish, ignorant person who willingly exposed himself and others to certain death because he continued to refuse a placebo vaccine that must be reinforced every six weeks or so.

Being a musician, he refused to accept the idea that if he performed in a public place after a certain hour, everyone in attendance would die because of his selfish ignorance of the chances he was taking with public health.

Every public forum was made unavailable to him: the public library somewhat relented and established a childlike admonition to secure his admittance: He must first wash his hands … (Curiously, when restaurants began to cautiously reenter the market they never followed suit with this commandment and treated their customers like adults).

His doctor refused him service, to the point of not even letting him open the door. But a loophole was provided: The doctor agrees to perform surgery over the phone.

(Apparently the medical profession had adopted the tenet that “time heals all.”)



Eventually, all his friends dropped him, calling him stupid and selfish for not playing along in the game.

In essence, the subject views his fate as being confined in a virtual leper colony for the criminally insane.

After three or four years a pardon and release is ordered. But without receiving any documents declaring why his danger to and from the public is now inconsequential, the subject has refused to budge from his cave. He continues to progress in his art, but he is the only one to appreciate it, since he has now lost his personal ability, and to some extent, his desire to exhibit it.

 

Dennis Shain 

Centralia