She let you know she is with you and then shut it down. From a doctor's perspective, they never know what a patient will do - like making your discussion public. Everyone is treading carefully, for obvious reasons.

My hope is she will inform all of her fellow physicians and they will start to talk about it.

CDC former directors and workers are coming out today gravely warning that we’re all in terrible danger.

"NO POLITICAL DISCUSSION IN THIS OFFICE. THANK YOU,"

That's what they should have plastered on their rebel-red caps.

"IGNORANCE IS BLISS"

That's why they usually don't want to discuss politics with patients. Maybe she's had a bad experience (with a patient) and political discussion are off-limits. If she really didn't know about CDC, she must be a Faux Noise fan.

are pains in the butt. But we're the last generation alive that really knew anything about WWII (and WWI). We KNOW what happens if the U.S. stays on this course, and we're damned and determined not to see it come to fruition. So, they can think all they want that we're just pains in the butt, BUT we're fighting for them to live and raise a family in an environment better than most of us had in our middle years. We're protesting for their freedom, their clean water and decent soil in which to grow food.

Christian Nationalism isn't helpful either. Oh, and celebrity influencers! We care WAY too much for celebrities and not enough for people who do good things.

I am always dubious about Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Oprah etc being trotted out.
Maybe it does help with votes but I wonder..

With people so shallow and poorly informed that a celebrity’s endorsement could sway their vote, wouldn’t you probably lose the same sort of shallow empty-headed person who dislikes the celebrity in question? Wouldn’t you want more substantive people as vote influencers?
Francis Collins urged people to vote - yes he didn’t explicitly specify who to vote for because he can’t professionally. But he is the type of person who should influence people.

(I have yet to see what makes say Taylor Swift liberal, something as simple as abortion rights aside. Miley Cyrus is pretty green whatever else. All I ever read about Taylor Swift is tied to conspicuous consumption. I never got the fuss, but then I don’t get polarized one way or another based on celebs).

thank gawd she's a Democrat. The other side isn't so lucky (Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, etc.), but then they have monstrous evangelists, tech bros, oligarchs, mobs, villains, disinformation media conglomerate heads, etc.
I agree with you completely.
We should make like Finland and teach our children critical thinking skills in school. It helps them recognize disinformation considering they share a border with Russia, helps them academically, but not sure if it has helped them put celebrity influence in context, though it probably does.
I think our immigrants going through the naturalization process know more about civics than average people here do, too. They have to study and pass a basic civics test so they can understand how the U.S. government is set up and functions. We used to have Civics in school, but is in short shrift during a school semester or is an elective--easy to skip.
I have never thought highly of Oprah. She seems to give endorsements and financial backing, but she's also brought us Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz. I was also stunned when George Clooney went public to tell Pres. Biden to pack it up, Grandpa.
Clearly celebrities in all stripes carry influence.

I'm retired and at age 80 I'm not too concerned about what anyone else thinks about me or what I'm wearing. I wear khaki trousers and T-shirts, sneakers or Crocs.

I went on Amazon some time ago and bought a few T-shirts all displaying slogans.

"NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL." I have four of these, two have the slogan in English and Spanish. I get a LOT of thumbs-up, "I like your shirt" comments.

"Let justice roll down like a river and righteousness like a mighty stream" -- Amos 5:24. Get a lot of likes for this one.

"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere" -- MLK. LOTS of thumbs-up for this one.

"Pro-America, Anti-Trump" some people have asked where they could get one of these.

"Veteran. Not a loser or a sucker." Most folks don't understand this, but those who do love it.

This is Labor Day - and without unions we'd all be working 10 hour days 6 days a week Not saying medical people work those hours - but they do work more hours than we probably think. And then there's "on call" time. Or maybe it's close to when she has to renew hew license and she needs to rack up some continuing ed.

A lot of medical practices today are part of groups owned be selfish rich people. If you see a medical pro as a patient, you hve no idea what their private life is like.

Because we were in the office, she was very interested in what I had to say and kept me talking about it.

Now I just came from my cardiologist office and asked one person there and they didn’t know anything about it either, we are fucked.

Even most of the medical community doesn’t know what’s going on with Kennedy and the CDC and vaccines😡😡😡😡

Got some push back here. “It’s not legal”. Etc etc. he doesn’t care, his followers don’t care. Even Hitler wasn’t Hitler, until he was.