Which my universal health care won’t pay for until I’m 60 for no discernable reason because under 60 people get shingles. I’ve had chicken pox as a child and I fear shingles.
Problem is people are stupid, lazy, and/or corrupt in all fields, including the medical field. It’s a big part of the reason why anti-vax and anti-science movements exist: partially from that retracted study that initially claimed autism was caused by vaccines, partially from cases where the “expert” is following some obviously flawed dogma (like “people that young don’t get shingles”), partially from corrupt studies being exposed later on as fraudulent, like the tobacco industry “studies” that claimed smoking wasn’t dangerous.
The part that sucks is that I don’t believe there’s a good solution to this because that set of flaws can hit either side of any argument.
I also believe that it’s related to our ability to progress itself: humanity kinda brute forces beliefs and it sometimes works out for the better, when people like Galileo, da Vinci, Newton, or Einstein think everyone else is missing something or flat out wrong about some stuff and revolutionize our understanding of physics or what’s possible with machines. Sometimes it works out for the worse, like the anti-vax movement, flat earth, anti-Semitism, or believing that opposing oppression and genocide is anti-Semitism.
The irony of mentioning shingles. You can get shingles if you had chickenpox. The best way to prevent shingles is to get the vaccine.
Edit: it says singles. Downvoted my dumb self.
It says “Singles.” They’re warning unmarried people who have sex to be wary of “secretions.”
Oh. My. God.
Thanks. I guess in the context I read what I wanted to read. How funny!
Which my universal health care won’t pay for until I’m 60 for no discernable reason because under 60 people get shingles. I’ve had chicken pox as a child and I fear shingles.
My 30 year old boss recently got shingles. It was the same issue with him. They wouldn’t vax him because “people that young don’t get shingles”.
Problem is people are stupid, lazy, and/or corrupt in all fields, including the medical field. It’s a big part of the reason why anti-vax and anti-science movements exist: partially from that retracted study that initially claimed autism was caused by vaccines, partially from cases where the “expert” is following some obviously flawed dogma (like “people that young don’t get shingles”), partially from corrupt studies being exposed later on as fraudulent, like the tobacco industry “studies” that claimed smoking wasn’t dangerous.
The part that sucks is that I don’t believe there’s a good solution to this because that set of flaws can hit either side of any argument.
I also believe that it’s related to our ability to progress itself: humanity kinda brute forces beliefs and it sometimes works out for the better, when people like Galileo, da Vinci, Newton, or Einstein think everyone else is missing something or flat out wrong about some stuff and revolutionize our understanding of physics or what’s possible with machines. Sometimes it works out for the worse, like the anti-vax movement, flat earth, anti-Semitism, or believing that opposing oppression and genocide is anti-Semitism.
I’ve known four people younger than 60 to get it personally so that’s some horse pucky, of course. Why not just give it to people who had chicken pox?
I just though you were channeling your inner Sean Connery.
Let It Snow!