I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about anti-vax “wellness” bs over the last few weeks because a colleague is has been in my face about their “beliefs”, and I have a chronic illness whereby common illnesses like colds and influenza can be a big deal for me.
The thing is, it’s all fun and games until it’s not.
For example, my parents are in their 80s and they’re big into alternative therapies. Like they don’t want a covid vaccination but they’ll take a course of ivermectin. They don’t want to take prescribed diabetes medicine but they’ll take Cinnamon or whatever other woo-woo they’ve seen on facebook. However, when they think they might be having a stroke it’s straight up to the emergency department at the hospital for some science based life saving medical intervention. It’s amazing to me that they don’t acknowledge the discrepancy in their behavior.
It’s easy to dismiss mRNA vaccines because of the prevention paradox. Because lock downs and vaccines worked so well, it seems like the underlying problem wasn’t that much of a problem. Sure there are some legit risks with the vaccines but they’re much better than the alternative of an unvaccinated population.
Since covid, I haven’t been able to shake the feeling that another pandemic is just around the corner. If something more serious and deadly than covid arises people will be scrambling all over each other to inject anything that purports to reduce the likelihood of infection.
Since covid, I haven’t been able to shake the feeling that another pandemic is just around the corner
It probably is, we’ve created a perfect environment for COVID and flu like viruses thanks to climate change, airtravel and factory farming. This stuff is only going to be more common if we don’t stop or reduce these things. The future is bright and with bright I mean heatwaves and pandemics
I think it’s pretty common for people to think doctors are great at treating acute conditions (stroke, broken bones, severe illness) but distrust advice on chronic conditions. So this may not be something they see as a discrepancy. And I can kind of see it if I squint - people on lots of medicines are often sick, and people on none healthier, and they may think this causation runs in the opposite direction, that they can magically join the healthy group by not taking medicines.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about anti-vax “wellness” bs over the last few weeks because a colleague is has been in my face about their “beliefs”, and I have a chronic illness whereby common illnesses like colds and influenza can be a big deal for me.
The thing is, it’s all fun and games until it’s not.
For example, my parents are in their 80s and they’re big into alternative therapies. Like they don’t want a covid vaccination but they’ll take a course of ivermectin. They don’t want to take prescribed diabetes medicine but they’ll take Cinnamon or whatever other woo-woo they’ve seen on facebook. However, when they think they might be having a stroke it’s straight up to the emergency department at the hospital for some science based life saving medical intervention. It’s amazing to me that they don’t acknowledge the discrepancy in their behavior.
It’s easy to dismiss mRNA vaccines because of the prevention paradox. Because lock downs and vaccines worked so well, it seems like the underlying problem wasn’t that much of a problem. Sure there are some legit risks with the vaccines but they’re much better than the alternative of an unvaccinated population.
Since covid, I haven’t been able to shake the feeling that another pandemic is just around the corner. If something more serious and deadly than covid arises people will be scrambling all over each other to inject anything that purports to reduce the likelihood of infection.
It probably is, we’ve created a perfect environment for COVID and flu like viruses thanks to climate change, airtravel and factory farming. This stuff is only going to be more common if we don’t stop or reduce these things. The future is bright and with bright I mean heatwaves and pandemics
I think it’s pretty common for people to think doctors are great at treating acute conditions (stroke, broken bones, severe illness) but distrust advice on chronic conditions. So this may not be something they see as a discrepancy. And I can kind of see it if I squint - people on lots of medicines are often sick, and people on none healthier, and they may think this causation runs in the opposite direction, that they can magically join the healthy group by not taking medicines.