(September 8, 2021 at 3:01 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(September 7, 2021 at 9:13 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: Will she treat morbidly obese folks who stuff their face all day long, or smokers who smoke two packs a day? They brought their bad health on themselves afterall, just like those who won't take the vaccine. That's one extremely immoral doctor. Do no harm.
Obesity is a disease, and there's good evidence that smoking is a chemical dependency. So you want to treat people who, through no fault of their own, engage in behaviors that compromise their health, the same as people who willingly compromise their health by ignoring doctors and health authorities?
Stupidity is a condition as well. Let's not ignore that. And when we're talking about memetics, once a person's mind has latched onto a meme like "vaccines bad", it can be as hard to get rid of that idea as it is to quit smoking or even let go of religion. And that's not even to mention that no one makes any choices in this world, as free will is a figment of religious people's imaginations and we know better in this modern day and age. We're not living in the stone age anymore. We know at least a little something about the brain these days.
People don't trust health authorities anymore, and for good reason I would assert. They are compromised and in large part are political agencies. Reports say the Biden admin doesn't trust the WHO and thinks their covid origin investigation was about as BS as it gets. You have Fauci who is a political actor, lying to the public over and over. First he said masks don't work, then they do work. First Fauci said the lab leak theory was preposterous, and then he backtracked and said he's no longer confident it didn't come from the lab, and now he's lied about gain of function while being questioned by Rand Paul a few times. The former head of the CDC is saying it was all a lab leak. Putting politics over science has made these agencies more distrusted probably than ever, and that's among liberals too.
And also, let's remember that many big democrat names we're pushing vaccine hesitancy during the election, and even saying they don't trust the FDA. There's a short compilation of this in the video below. I tried to find a video with just the compilation, but this will have to do. The part I'm referring to is 2 minutes 22 seconds into the video and is only a few minutes long.
