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The rest of the world should forbid all travels in and out of the US. And bring back lazarettos for those that must travel there.
pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons
Look, I'm not here to defend the pharmaceutical industry, but at least they're fucking REGULATED.
Unlike, say, the supplement industry which he so loves... That'll tell you: take these 50 expensive potions and you'll get better, not the thing that has been rigorously tested & proven over generations.
I'm not surprised. Carl Sagan saw this coming in 1995
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
I am at a loss as to how we could have regressed like this. At a complete and absolute loss.
As a 90s kid I remember the zeitgeist of the time (and even in the early 2000s) that the world was ever in a forward march and we will never stop going forward...
Holy shit they were not just wrong, but how wrong was scary. I will also never forget how on the internet shortly after 9/11 (albeit those view points predate 9/11) made the whole clash of civilization between the rational and intelligent and scientific west and the barbaric Muslim world that is stuck in the 12th century or something.
They made the then scientific lead of the west a result of a core, rock solid trait of the west that was reached purely through discussion and debate and based only on facts. Meaning it cannot be done away with that quickly.
But barely in the past 15 years (maybe even less) view points that would be seen as an absolute joke became mainstream, and not only that, the same loonies are the ones in charge now. Ironically in the early covid-19 time many were acting all shocked that Muslim countries not only had lock downs and that there was no resistance to them... as if Muslims are in such denial of modern anything that they think they cannot be barred from being sick or something.
And then they claimed that the Muslims morons who DID defy lockdowns and became super spreaders were purely unique to the Islamic world. Never mind the fact that religious people of all stripes (Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians... my god the Christians! Christians Koreans were singlehandedly responsible for making covid-19 a problem in Korea!) Fucked up, they still acted like it was purely a Muslim problem.
I wonder how many of them now even realise just how fucking FAST the entire world order they claim is a deep intrinsic trait is falling apart.
You know what they call “alternative medicine” that works?
Medicine.
Thank you Tim!
Thank you God, for curing the cataracts of Sam's mom!
"Alternate theory." Oh dear god, it's miasma, isn't it.
Ok.. he was aiming for miasma, but missed. We're doomed.
He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled "Miasma vs. Germ Theory," in the chapter "The White Man's Burden." [...] Kennedy contrasts his erroneous take on miasma theory with germ theory, which he derides as a tool of the pharmaceutical industry and pushy scientists to justify selling modern medicines. The abandonment of miasma theory, Kennedy bemoans, realigned health and medical institutions to "the pharmaceutical paradigm that emphasized targeting particular germs with specific drugs rather than fortifying the immune system through healthy living, clean water, and good nutrition."
Edit: Apparently "The White Man's Burden" is a racist poem by Rudyard Kipling from 1899 about how the US should colonize the Philippines.. the "half devil, half child" people of the Philippines... Curious what that has to do with antiquated ideas about illness, but I'm afraid reading his book might give me brain worms. That's how contagions work, right..?
Excuse me? In the chapter "The What, Now?!?!" Holy fucking christ... dude is pre-Darwinian in his takes.
Edit: autocorrect
Also, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
It's worse than you think.
The miasma part is pre-germ. The worst part is what's following. The immune system and healthy living part is an ideology that is popular in the New Age beliefs. It was very popular in some communities in the 60s and 70s. But, it's an older ideology about health. The Nazi themselves used this and believed (at least partially) in the immune system bullshit. They all base their beliefs on a German umbrella term and movement, the Lebensreform (German Wikipedia for a longer article )
It was promoted by wealthy bourgeois that lived in urban and industrialized areas of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The intent was a natural and healthy lifestyle to counter the detrimental effects of industrialization, urban living, and "modernity" on health and overall well-being. It included for example organic food, alternative medicine but also spiritual and religious beliefs.
I highly recommend reading some lines about it. It helps to understand RFK Jr. and where his bullshit comes from.
The ~~silver~~ quicksilver lining is that plague doctor masks might be making a comeback, at least?
Well, in that case he surely wouldn’t mind getting a shot of rabies virus, probably mixed with Ebola and Marburg. Just germs, nothing to worry about!
What doesn't kill him only makes him dumber and more dangerous
Rabies 100% mortality mate
Nononono the worm eats the rabies, goes rabid, but then it becomes a symbiotic connection like the Symbiont Trill in ds9. Crazy stupid guy + rabid symbiont worm = ???? Profit?
more like the parasites in tng, that was controlling starfleet command until they killed the queen, just right before it had sent a signal into the delta quadrant.
Is that the one with lieutenant Barkley where he gets really smart?
different episode. the opening scence was picard meeting secretely with 3 other captains on a planet to discuss the strangeness/acting of starfleet commands, they were moving "people around diffent star bases),,,etc. sometime later an admiral came on board, and he wanted to show riker something, it was the parasite, when riker saw the parasite, the "infected admiral overpowered him. more or less like the goauld that gives immense strentgh to its host.
you can type tng parasite on youtube.
I kind've remember it. I wonder if those parasites are related to the canon trill symbiotes.
Now we're at the core of it. These morons never believed in germ theory at all. Nevermind the fact that at this point you can actually look at germs in a microscope.
You can also just expose someone to a pathogen and predict the outcome based on the pathogen. Like the doctor who proved that Helicobacter pylori causes stomach ulcers and cancer by taking a shot of broth laced with the bacteria and, predictably, got stomach ulcers, which he successfully treated with antibiotics.
They don't believe in things they don't understand, and they don't understand things they can't see with their own caveman senses.
We crawled out of 30,000 years of trying and failing to start a civilization, we almost went extinct, we lost countless billions of lives to war, murder, famine, disease and hardships of a natural world that doesn't want us to live. Just to get to this point where a handful of coked-up, mentally handicapped rich fucks can decide all those countless sacrifices were for nothing.
It genuinely boggles me that Americans are at all accepting of this. Where the FUCK are my countrymen who see how stupid and dangerous this is? We should all be storming HHS and dragging RFK and his unqualified goon squad out to the lawn. Seriously. I am not kidding. Modern medical knowledge is too valuable to let some unelected clown who has zero knowledge or training to just decide to roll the entire thing back because his other clowns sowed distrust among our stupidest.
If we don't rise up and do something, I strongly feel you all deserve what the consequences will be.
Where was this kind of talk when your country destroyed countless democracies around the world? I never heard a peep from Americans regarding dismantling democracy in South America or in the Middle East or in Asia or in Eastern Europe.
The USA has always been a terrorist organization to the world that is not in their club, and now that the chickens have come home to roost, you are pickachu face surprised?
Nazies paraded in the streets of New York in the 1920s, ffs, this is not a new thing.
Okay, America bad, got it, very fresh take adds so much to the present conversation and context of current events. Point taken, nobody here will ever say anything again. We're all bad and so very evil. You win.
Your people can't even come to terms with slavery. How can you even talk about the current situation without facing the fact that your country was founded on the enslavement of Africans and genocide of indigenous?
There is no fresh take. The fact that you claim there is one is on you.
Hitler modeled laws based on American jurisprudence, and you want to talk about the present?
Until American exceptionalism is no longer, the world isn't safe from You.
As expected, you believe this is a competition and you need a winner and a loser. Sarcasm doesn't work as a defense.
You want to fix things? Face the past as a nation and heal with those you oppress in your own country. After that, maybe the world will trust you again. How you get there is on you. As I see it, your country won't last another 100 days of this, let alone a whole term.
But trump just allowed segregation again and is saving affricaners, so there is that. Tic Toc Tic Toc
Where is the Boston tea party of old? Where is the crossing of the Potomac? Where is John Brown? Where is the underground railroad? Where is the moon landing? Where is Iwo Jima?
All gone and replaced with a nation of mindless consumers wanting a quick fix to shelter them from the reality they have created onto themselves from years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of others.
The Empire is dead, long live the Empire.
Remember an M.D.. voted to install this dipshit because he's a Republican.
MD just means qualified to do doctorin, and confers no special further qualifications on not being an idiot or giant pile of shit. See also: Dr Oz and Ben Carson