@Pezevenk @TheOneTrueChapo and @ClimateChangeAnxiety
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every time I see anti-vaxx shit posted here at least one of you is already in the comments, fighting the good fight.
@admins please reconsider chapo's site-wide tolerance of anti-vaxx/vaccine-skeptical/vaccine-hesitant rhetoric
Opiates have legitimate medical usage which is why they have been approved by the FDA. A private company paying off doctors, pharmacies and insurance companies to push their drugs is not comparable to this, which is just a drug approval process. If Pfizer is caught pushing covid vaccines on people that don't need them and lobbying against vaccine laws to keep the cash flow going you're welcome to dunk on me
The biggest difference I see is that the private company does not need to pay people off this time. They have a monopoly on a drug we all need. I doubt the US will be importing the Russian or Chinese vaccines any time soon.
Besides that, I have nothing to say on the COVID vaccine. I'm saying that an appeal to authority is not convincing.
Medical skepticism exists because the medical industry in the US has a long history of doing incredibly fucked up shit for profit, and often burying it for decades.
That skepticism will carry over to the most profitable drug in human history. The medical industry brought this on itself.
If "anti anti-vaxx", or whatever, people were serious about addressing skepticism, we would hear louder voices against medical profiteering. Instead, they just want to punch-down at people who are rightfully afraid.
I'll stop "punching down" then. If people want to buck medical science out of fear and nothing else, fine
As you said, most people are not doctors. Describing the minutiae of medical science will only convince people who are trained to understand it. I do not understand it. I need to trust medical experts to explain it to me.
Medicine requires public trust. Our problem is that The US medical system has been selling public trust for profit. Now there is none left.
Over half this country does not plan to get the vaccine. That is a reality we have to grapple with. Telling people "this for-profit company is actually right this time" will not convince anyone.