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> “Some of these people, they think that they know better for you than you do for yourself,” DeSantis said. “They think because they have medical training, or they have this, that they should just be able to decree how we live our lives.”
New bumper sticker coming soon: My Opinion Can Beat Up Your Master's Degree
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@feld he's right, being a doctor doesn't tell you what is good in life, it seems like it often perverts peoples sense of humanity
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@sun come on man, this is just anti-intellectualism cosplaying as personal freedom of choice. It's making people feel powerful and like they have agency because they're dumb and mad and does nothing but drag down society to entertain it
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@feld doctors have a lot of dumb opinions too. Like a ton of them don't give a single shit about informed consent, they hate it and wish they didn't have to do it.
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@feld You're right about desantis I just mean he has a point.
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@sun indeed, just because someone has a job doesn't mean they're actually good at it or really earned the respect of their professional opinions. It's a universal truth but humans are easily manipulated into thinking that someone with a job must be good at it
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@sun the system is being attacked right now because there has been no appetite to spend resources on these sorts of problems.
e.g., we know some children have issues with vaccines. (animals as well) But it is mostly ignored because the odds are low of a negative reaction. Is anyone spending money studying how to calibrate vaccine dosages to prevent this? Why does a morbidly obese person get the same dosage as everyone else?
Why aren't we doing more titers? Actually measure the level of immunity instead of demanding people get vaccines they may not need a booster for?
I can do this for my dog. I can demand a titer and then she won't need a rabies vaccine for 6 years instead of the normal yearly vaccination (some places are moving to 3 years now, but still)
I'd pay out of pocket for this. Let me go to a lab, draw some blood, and then tell me what I actually need boosters for. None of this guessing bullshit. We have the technology, just use it
But no, we just assume that the way it has always been done is the best way. We don't challenge these notions anymore because they're just considered "solved problems".
People are right to be concerned and even angry but the answer isn't "stop doing it", it's "do it better with modern science"
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@sun oh wait if we do titers Big Pharma won't make as much profit, and then we divert that money to American lab techs.
More American jobs in healthcare, already trained to do important work if a national health emergency happens?
Why that's crazy talk :clint:
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@feld @sun I had to look that up: https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/tests/antibody-titer
That would have been helpful back when I was in high school. Because of frequent moves, shot records were lost. There was a day when all students had to prove they were up-to-date or get re-vaccinated. So I had to get some shots that I'd already had.
> no appetite to spend resources on these sorts of problems
I think the antivax "vaccines cause autism" movement caused even those who would have been willing to close ranks against a powerful anti-evidence movement. And the legal immunity from lawsuits (which started in 1976 with the swine flu vaccine and gradually spread) does little to motivate an organization to change what it does or how it does it.
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@sun @feld i know a GP who after having to deal with normalfags and boomers every day has turned into a misanthrope pretty quickly
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