The degree of cognitive dissonance required to jump from "You can't make me take an unapproved vaccine!" to "I'll take horse de-wormer instead!" is frankly pretty astonishing. Interesting too, in a frightening sort of way.
@eee Looking for alternatives I can understand. To me there's a huge logic gap when someone doesn't want an unapproved treatment so they take a treatment with even less approval as their alternative. The idea that people can convince themselves of literally anything in order to rationalize their behavior is what I find off-putting. Frightening was maybe too strong of a word in this particular context.
This is apples and oranges. People don't distrust the vaccine because it's unapproved. They distrust it because of the heavy handedness it's being sold to us with despite the, at best, ineffectiveness, and at worst, danger, by a government that on any other day of the week wants us dead. It's also disingenuous to say that the horse cream isn't approved, as it's approved for human consumption in other treatments. It not being approved for this one hyperspecific scenario doesn't suddenly make it deadly, or even harmful. Most people are able to make the risk assessment and conclude that the horse cream is worth a try.
As far as I know the baxin is at least 80+% effective two doses in, and reported side effects number a percent or less of the people who got it.
Somehow that number is insignificant with the virus but terrible with the baxin.
I agree with the not trusting govt though, burger public communication and decisions have been terrible, so I'd probably think the same as you were I over there.
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@MechaSilvio @b6hydra @eee haha really crazy how when a drug in an important niche goes off patent they suddenly discover it’s been deadly dangerous the whole time and needs to be replaced with something new
Source for the image: Maxwell, J., & Briscoe, F. (1997). There’s money in the air: the CFC ban and DuPont’s regulatory strategy. Business Strategy and the Environment, 6(5), 276–286. doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0836(199711)6:5<276::aid-bse123>3.0.co;2-a
Further reading: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/05/the-ozone-scare-was-a-dry-run-for-the-global-warming-scare/
@FederalAgent69 @eee It didn't work so it's no longer recommended. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
@FederalAgent69 @eee Sure, if it works. A lot of people seem to be missing my point. If you're someone who always believed the FDA and the executive branch were going to fuck you over, and therefore were never going to follow their recommendations, you're not who I'm talking about.
@FederalAgent69 @eee In that case there is no cognitive dissonance because your current behavior and beliefs are consistent with your existing patterns.
they're here to make profit, not to help.