@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
I have lost people in my life because Purdue Pharma got FDA clearance to legally deal opiates.
“An entire global network of scientists, review boards, and clinics trials” does not mean shit when there is a profit incentive.
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
A private company paying off doctors, pharmacies and insurance companies to push their drugs is not comparable to this
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
