Taking Care of the Sick
In a departure from our usual general discussion of work, today we'll focus on a specific industry: healthcare. While only some of us may work in that industry, all of us have likely been treated in some way by those who do.
One of the most terrible effects of the Pandemic Mess has been the wholesale degradation of the health care system. If you work for that system, you may know what we're talking about. People who were charged with caring for the sick simply didn't do their job. Many still don't - at least when it comes to treating those with Covid. It's a national, no, international disgrace. And those responsible have not been called to account - yet.
Think I'm exaggerating? If you're not sure what I'm talking about, just consider: If you went to your doctor feeling sick - name your disease - and he said to just go home until you feel really REALLY sick; at which point, you can check you into the hospital. What would you do? Wouldn't you find another doctor? But that's just how most doctors responded to those with COVID. They offered no treatment to stem the progress of the disease. And when the disease became much worse, they told their patients to get themselves to the hospital.
And what did they do in the hospital? During the initial stages of COVID they put many patients on ventilators. Over time, they offered some drugs, including Remsvesidir - a drug that causes more problems than it solves. There's more detail to this story, but we'll leave it up to you to research, if you're not already familiar with the terrible facts.
And all of this took place in the face of effective treatments offered by the very few - and very courageous - doctors who put their patients' health first.
Did the majority of doctors not care about their patients? It's not fair to conclude this. But they did lack the courage to stand up to the absurd - really evil - restrictions and prohibitions the health care industry imposed, following the dictates of the CDC, the WHO, the FDA, and other alphabet soup bureaucracies who banned the use of drugs and supplements that a small minority of doctors were using to save lives.
Instead of offering proven treatments to save their patients lives, they pushed untested (and decidedly not "safe and effective") so-called vaccines. And if you followed any of this, you must know by now that these shots of experimental substances have caused massive injury and death - perhaps more than the virus they purportedly treated.
I could go on, but let's leave it there for now and get to what St. Benedict offers in his Rule.
"Before all things and above all things care must be taken of the sick..."
Read those words again: "Before all things and above all things care must be taken of the sick" So before and above all things they must be cared for.
Think about this. With all the sections of the Rule we've covered (and all we'll cover in the future), all of which are important to the health of the monastery, this stands as Numero Uno. The care of the sick deserved urgent attention and action. If we consider how the health care industry reacted to sick folks during the COVID outbreak, do you think St. Benedict would consider their response to have been one of urgent attention and action? Instead of attention and action, it was "Wait for the vaccines." And when those "vaccines" were produced on an emergency basis, they were not simply offered, but pushed, even forced on to some via mandates of varying kinds by government as well as many companies.
Does any of this comport with this further comment from St. Benedict:
"...so that they may be served in very deed as Christ himself; for he said: 'I was sick and ye visited me'; and, what ye did to one of these least ones, ye did unto me."
Were people served as Christ Himself?
A bit of a rant? Maybe. But if you followed the whole sad and sickening story, maybe not so much.
In any case, in its usual fashion, the Rule considers not only those who must care, but those cared for:
"But let the sick on their part consider that they are being served for the honour of God, and not provoke their brethren who are serving them by their unreasonable demands. Yet they should be patiently borne with, because from such as these is gained a more abundant reward. Therefore let the abbot take the greatest care that they suffer no neglect. For these sick brethren let there be assigned a special room and an attendant who is God-fearing, diligent, and careful..."
As for our effort to try to build stability in the workplace, the healthcare industry pursued instead instability. Workers who refused the experimental jabs were fired. Care suffered - to say the least. We have personal experience with a hospital that fired experienced staff, hired new, inexperienced, largely untrained staff - a hospital treating children with cancer.
We'll leave it at that. It's painful to relate, even worse for the children receiving this second-rate attention and care.
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