An instinctive distrust of the government/ worry about its over reach and in the US, combined with the politicization of the pandemic that makes vaccines/lockdown a liberal agenda. All warranted, but thats all principle. The reality is these authoritarian policies are needed to beat the pandemic, and the vaccines work. Either you accept that reality, or stick to principle and shrug at another 600k dead.
I can sort of wrap my mind around the ivermectin stuff, if I squint my eyes and assume good faith, then there are no prophylactic drugs against covid like, at all. The only way to avoid severe disease is vaccines which are woefully lacking everywhere except the first world, so having a readily available drug, outside of patent that can diminish symptoms however slightly is a good hopeful thing to cling onto, and if you subscribe to the notion that beautiful miracles can exist and ivermectin is one of them, then it seem like big pharma is dynamiting the third world's only shot at not filling their graveyards, especially when vaccines represent so much money for big pharma's bottom line.
It seems we're way past that now, though and I think they're doubling down on something that is very very obviously wrong.
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An instinctive distrust of the government/ worry about its over reach and in the US, combined with the politicization of the pandemic that makes vaccines/lockdown a liberal agenda. All warranted, but thats all principle. The reality is these authoritarian policies are needed to beat the pandemic, and the vaccines work. Either you accept that reality, or stick to principle and shrug at another 600k dead.
So much of this really does boil down to the cliche "Leftism is When The Government Does Stuff" attitude that westerners have embraced.
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In Russia a lot of people are "old Soviet-developed vaccines good, new vaccines bad".
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I can sort of wrap my mind around the ivermectin stuff, if I squint my eyes and assume good faith, then there are no prophylactic drugs against covid like, at all. The only way to avoid severe disease is vaccines which are woefully lacking everywhere except the first world, so having a readily available drug, outside of patent that can diminish symptoms however slightly is a good hopeful thing to cling onto, and if you subscribe to the notion that beautiful miracles can exist and ivermectin is one of them, then it seem like big pharma is dynamiting the third world's only shot at not filling their graveyards, especially when vaccines represent so much money for big pharma's bottom line.
It seems we're way past that now, though and I think they're doubling down on something that is very very obviously wrong.
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