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I think it’s this (skepticism that big-pharma funded studies can be legit) plus a reaction to the intensity of the aggressive push to vaccinate. (My friend put it to me this way- The government wants me to vaccinate my kids, but doesn’t want me to have public health insurance, paternity leave, etc. If they really cared about health, why are they not pushing vitamins or organic vegetables?)

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> If they really cared about health, why are they not pushing vitamins or organic vegetables

... Because there's no evidence that consumption of multivitamins or organic vegetables has any communal or individual health benefits?

Vaccinations are really low-hanging fruit. Even severely underdeveloped economies get their pops vaccinated. It staves off mass pandemics. And it costs so little to prevent so much. I really can't understand these kinds of absurd arguments.

> My friend put it to me this way- The government wants me to vaccinate my kids, but doesn’t want me to have public health insurance, paternity leave, etc. If they really cared about health, why are they not pushing vitamins or organic vegetables?

vaccines are a (roughly) one-time cost. you can be vaccinated faster than you can eat an organic carrot, and with wildly less infrastructural overhead than paying for everyone's health care.

the benefit : cost ratio for vaccines is astronomical compared to the benefit : cost ratio of any of those other things, even if they had the benefits ascribed to them.

Can we please stop it with this "Organic vegetables are better than normal vegetables" nonsense? Seriously, I can't even tell you how many times I've heard that BS as an excuse for why these mother forkers out there say they can't afford to eat healthy, and I'm saying this as a poor very fit person myself.

You don't need to eat organic vegetables to eat healthy. You just need to eat vegetables, period, full stop, hold the phone, stop the presses, etc.

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