They were already pretty much robots who’d memorized stuff finding a good one was hard to do. >Expecting any discussion regarding electron microscopy’s effect on clinical medicine, techniques of viral isolation and culturing, or the number of Nobel Prize-winning ideas now scientifically abused is not within anyone’s ken. **Instead, the conversation becomes who got their booster, when they are next due, how they interact, or not, with those around them so as to stay safe, how they worry about their child being exposed, and much other utterly time and life-sucking conversational trivia**. It’s everywhere. I don’t even go out because this is what most conversations devolve into to, it’s mind numbing. >All things COVID will eventually pass. Few things last forever. But at some point, physicians may pay a price for their poor judgment in suspending critical thinking. **The question is, who will judge them?** That’s an easy one.