So why are vaccines a “personal choice” (according to RFK Jr.) but abortions aren’t?
Years of propaganda showing fetuses as fully developed babies with like, wives and families at home waiting for them to be born. This is why they’re trying to crush science and reason, because it points out flaws in their emotional arguments. Emotional arguments that were spawned by people manipulating them for decades, the original purpose long since forgotten, so that now it’s just “culture” among conservatives to view other people’s pregnancies this way.
The wildest glimpse into our human failings of reason is on full display with the right though, because they have ZERO qualms about getting their own abortions. When they do it, it’s different. It’s a clump of cells or an unthinking organism when it’s them.
So why are vaccines a “personal choice” (according to RFK Jr.)
Oh don’t worry, they’ll get rid of that choice in due time too
RFK jr is obsessed with drinking methylene blue. someone posted a video on reddit a 2 weeks ago of him dropping a mysterious liquid into his drink.
Your body, your choice (sometimes)
Man my mother had us take cod liver oil with the usual multivitamin as kids. It tasted kinda bad, but otherwise meh. You know what it wasn’t though? A substitute for fucking vaccines. I just wish they’d had the chicken pox vaccine back then. That shit sucked.
Why will people try anything besides real medicine :(
Maybe if enough republicans die, Texas will turn blue.
They’ll just start a conspiracy that the democrats killed them and vote even harder conservative. Their brains are molded and crystallized, they aren’t fuckin’ changing lol
One can only hope
probably when real healthcare is affordable
I don’t think the answer is as simple as memes would like to believe. Personally I suspect the issue, in part, has to do with the cost of healthcare in the US.
Much like Republican voters have a need to pretend the GOP is actually helping them, I think holistic medicine rubes and anti-vaxxers have a need to discount the efficacy of unaffordable healthcare. They don’t need to worry about the price being a multiple of their income anymore, because they just now decided every doctor is a quack and a conman.
That’s good point. It’s sad but true
I think what also plays into it is apathetic doctors. People go to the doctor for help, if they have a doctor that doesn’t actually care about helping them and only spends a couple minutes with them before getting shooed out the door, this causes people to seek alternative forms of medicine. Another thing that happens is the doctor comes up with a treatment plan and insurance denies it. So once again, this is something that would cause people to seek alternative medicine. They get desperate for a fix for whatever problem ails them and the snake oil salesmen are right there ready and waiting for them on TikTok/Instagram/Facebook.
So between apathetic doctors and rising medical costs along with fear mongering on social media about medications being “poison” and natural cures being better, oh and let’s also add in there easily gullible idiots, you get where we’re at today.
It is amazing the hoops people will jump through to avoid actual proven medical treatments. “So rubbing this toad on my face and turning 5 times will protect me? Hell yah, beats the toxic vaccine!”
Technically not snake oil.
So this is fun: actual snake oil (the type made by Chinese railway workers) probably had some medicinal benefits. However, white “doctors” co-opted this for their medicine shows; it contained no snake and was just mineral oil, so this is where the term has its origins.
Maintenance Phase podcast did a great episode on medicine shows.
I believe cod liver oil does have some benefits too. My understanding is that historically one of the primary uses was to stave off rickets, a childhood disease. This actually worked because the oil is high in vitamin D, the thing these kids actually needed.
Drinking snake oil would be crazy
Drink cod oil instead
Lol and yet, simultaneously, it is snake oil, at least figuratively.
I mean, it’s not the worst thing in the world. In Norway it’s a pretty normal supplement, I’ve taken one tablespoon every(ish) morning in the months with a R in them, but that’s mostly because we don’t really see the sun… so fatty fish is one of the few natural sources of vitamin D we have.
That would be a legitimate medical use vs the complete nonsense of using it for measles.
Leeches and blood letting. I mean at this point why not?
From the “we take everything except real medicin”-department.
Dead people can’t get autism from vaccines! Winning!
First person to combine this with crypto will make bank.
$CodCoin here we gooooo!
Omega 3 aside, it’s not even effective in improving cholesterol levels. It does have a laxative effect though.
Where’s the ground zero for this misinformation? RFK?
pseudoscience doesnt use much evidence.
So now they’ll still have the measles but also be spewing out of both ends nonstop… Lovely.
they might as well drink a whole bottle of ipecac. they are going to get so dehydrated too(i once got dehydrated from food poisoning, from spewing out both ends)
I guess it’s better than drinking Borax or injecting bleach…
probably going to consuming essential oils. all these homeopathic, antivaxxers are all in on the essential oils.
What’s next, fucking frogs. Hasa Diga Eebowai 😩
licking cane toads.
