This stupid country just lets people fucking die and get disabled everyday. I'm sick of it. My tax dollars just go to killing and dismembering people abroad. Fuck fuck fuck.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    That doesn't make quacks like chiropractors or chronic lyme specialists correct though, the latter of which is the context of this comment thread. The medical establishment is correct in their assesment of chronic lyme not being a real medical condition. In fact, pseudoscientific fraudsters such as people that run chronic lyme treatment camps, prey on people struggling with chronic illness so that they can sell them ill-effective treatments, which leads to coercive and abusive situations. The medical establishment being clear on what is real and what is not is good for preventing these abusive or coercive situations from occurring. Thus people suffering with undiagnosed chronic illness can move forward and seek a diagnosis based on sound medical advice, instead of wasting their time getting treatment for a condition that doesn't exist.

      • glans [it/its]
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        2 months ago

        medical establishment also says Covid is nothing

        US CDC; European CDC; WHO

        You might not think it satisfactory but I'd hardly call it "nothing".

        and the CDC in the US specifically ignores anything to do with avian influenza currently

        https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/index.html

        The fact of the matter of Lyme is inconsequential to the broader point: “trust the medical establishment,”

        well "lyme" it is explicitly the point of this thread

        the evidence to support a hypothesis is not irrelevant to the hypothesis.