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   RetroEdgeTech (retroedgetech@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 00:12:07 JST RetroEdgeTech

   • BowserNoodle ☦️

   @BowsacNoodle

   I'm certainly more doubtful about viruses now than before.

   But sounds like rabies is transmitted through those bites and does serious damage to our bodies. That is observable and if we've found something that works (rabies shot), I'd use it for myself and family members if one of us was bit by a rabid animal.

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     Ruling Otter (totalslothdeath@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 00:12:04 JST Ruling Otter

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     @BowsacNoodle @retroedgetech Yup. My general POV, now, is no intervention unless I'm dying right tf now and it's preventable. If one part of my body gets separated from the rest and I'm bleeding out, I'm kinda, sorta hoping that they can stanch the bleeding and stitch me back together. And for known ~100% fatality things like rabies, I'll take my chances with Big Voodoo.

     I had an intention (not a goal, as that implies some degree of flexibility that you might not meet that goal) to absolutely refuse to ever start on a med that I 'can't ever get off of' (according to them). Average 60yo in the US is on about 8 meds, 4 of them to counter adverse effects if the other 4. I'm on zero and intend on keeping it that way.

     There us no such thing as a pharmaceutical deficiency. And that includes vaccines. Read up on how the universally vaccinating against measles has made it demonstrably worse for subsequent generations, for example.

     In all cases I know of, natural immunity (including that passed on by the mother) is always superior. So if the mortality is low (definitely the case for measles since we got better sanitation and nutrition...with the latter deteriorating since Ancel spit Keys...but I digress). So there is a significant high bar for safety for nearly all childhood illnesses. At least in places where pooping in the street is frowned upon.

     So at 61, all prophylactic vaccines are a hard no for me.

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 00:12:04 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @totalslothdeath @retroedgetech >worse for subsequent generations
     It's sort of a paradox that they just gloss over and don't want us to talk about. Chicken pox is the same way. Shingles was a rare disease many years ago, because exposure to chicken pox virus kept your immune system prepared. Suddenly we have a chicken pox vaccine, so anyone alive right now who got chicken pox is very likely to have shingles. If it breaks through to any kids, they'll probably get a horrible case too and continue the cycle. It's an allegedly noble goal to try and remove these viruses from humanity, but is it really plausible? I'm not so sure. I still wonder if we truly eradicated smallpox, for example...
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 00:12:05 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @retroedgetech The COVID hysteria did so much damage to peoples' trust in the healthcare system, myself included. I was already skeptical of pharma and the medical industry at large, and my belief that they can be trusted to make social decisions is now completely gone. As far as viruses are concerned, I don't buy the null hypothesis; the alternatives are generally easy to disprove even if our modeled understanding of viruses isn't perfect.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 00:17:22 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @reallyangry @totalslothdeath @retroedgetech I went to a pox party when I got it. Spreading that around nawmsayin.
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     annoyed (reallyangry@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 00:17:23 JST annoyed

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     • Ruling Otter
     @BowsacNoodle @totalslothdeath @retroedgetech man my chicken pox experience was kinda shit, i had it for a long time cuz i got it when i was already a teenager.