Next pandemic? We’re more fucked than that right now today.
Fuck me, we got measles making a comeback. Y’all, I’m 53 and honestly don’t know what measles is. For us kids, it was ancient history like smallpox. We didn’t care.
“Be thankful you’ll never have to suffer that!”
“OK dad. Can I play Atari or I gotta rake leaves first?”
Grandparents raised me and I remember mom, who hadn’t a clue or care about science, extolling the virtues of the polio vaccine. She told me how fearful parents and children were and what a godsend Jonas Salk was. Can’t remember what she said, but it stuck in my little mind. Kids didn’t dare go swimming together for fear of being paralyzed, or landing in an iron lung. I’d seen pictures of those things. Fucking shoot me.
Had my first kid at 42, well before the pandemic, but well after these nimrods got traction. Everywhere we went we were bombarded with vaccine advice and posters and pamphlets. Honestly, it was annoying as fuck.
Yet another nurse was bugging about vaccinating our daughter, talking about “evidence-based medicine”, cut her off midsentence, “Hit her with everything ya got, on schedule. Just let us know when.” Wife was smiling and nodding right along. LOL, nurse literally had her mouth hanging open.
Jesus Christ on a flaming kayak, can you imagine a nurse trying to talk my mom into vaccinating me in the 70s?! Mom with a puzzled look, “That’s fine. Can we do this today? Wednesday is my grocery shopping day.”
And don’t start me on “evidence-based medicine”. I’m mad as hell such a phrase exists. “You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine.”
And don’t start me on “evidence-based medicine”. I’m mad as hell such a phrase exists.
You shouldn’t be. Its origins have nothing to do with distancing medicine from ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ medicine. Those can be evidence-based too, if someone does the trials. The problem was (and still is) that medicine in general was not being tested properly. And even when it was, the designs were too biased and sample sizes too small to say anything useful.
Testing Treatments is a decent explainer which includes some of the history. And AllTrials is an initiative to try to force Pharma to publish all its trials, not just the ones that are good for profits.
Just a few hours ago, I had to listen to a coworker try and explain how wearing a mask or isolating during COVID had weakened another coworker’s immune system. By saying “but COVID was years ago”, I only lengthened the nonsensical lecture.
I must say, though, that the woman is a sweetheart… unless you mention COVID or politics.
Might want to avoid religion, too.
that the woman is a sweetheart…
We must remember that our conservative coworkers, neighbors and family will politely watch as we are being loaded onto busses headed for re-education camps.
Only if Fox “News” made her genuinely believe that it was for my own good. She’d fall for it then. If not, though, then god help whoever fucked with someone she cared about.
Correction, it’ll raise the number of redcaps who welcome nurgle’s gifts into their homes
These morons will literally subject themselves to the godblight if it meant they’d get to see even one “city slicker liberal” be even mildly inconvenienced for it.
Bring it on and rapture those dipshits
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Politicizing a fucking virus has definitely left us less ready for the next pandemic. I will never understand the reasoning for this.
Less ready? We were caught with our pants down and a dick in a chicken.
And worse still, it was one of those fucking canned ones.
No fucking shit.
