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It seems like the title has changed since it was posted. I'll change the title, but please I can't keep it up if they change the title since some sources keep doing this.
I'll note that if it changes again, and we'll lock it in here. Thank you.
I’m not sure if it happened in this case but Ars is known to use A/B titles. It auto selects the title more people clicked on after a couple hours.
yup, some sources like Reuters, AP and mostly tech sources always changes their titles.
Sure that's why I didn't just pull it down for the violation. I'll give it some time, but I still have to enforce the rule eventually.
Is it possible to edit the title? Just curious, I'm neither OP nor a mod anywhere.
Yes, the original poster can edit the post. I cannot, and really shouldn't be allowed to.
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Other than potatoes and Micron I'd ignore anything produced in political nutjob Idaho.
I'm amazed at how determined the nation is to return to the 1800s. Wonder if they'll bring back muskets and riding horses again.
We'd still have polio and smallpox if they had their way.
I feel like we need to keep shit like that on-hand just to reintroduce it when people start to forget why we created vaccines in the first place.
Never underestimate how much bless grand father nurgle gives his followers. Its insane they eat this up but they really are feeling euphoria being ravaged by disease and parasites.
Wild. I wonder if quarantines for the unvaccinated are also deemed "medical intervention". How about handwashing and bathing?
This is Idaho in 20 years. If they successfully spread this madness, it could be the whole US.
They won't even enact the most basic gun regulations so why do you think they'd care if their kids died of polio?
The MedBeds are real?! Whoa!! 🙃
Where do i buy iron lung stocks?
Ever since i saw a movie as a kid with a guy in an iron lung, these apparatuses fascinated me. The mix of then modern technology and the name and the kinda brutal look of it, i always wanted one to hang on a wall or something.
I had no idea i might have to use one at some point. It's like they say, if America gets a cold, the whole world gets sick. And they are bleeding out of their asses right now. Thanks
She transitioned to work as a homeopath and advocate, ultimately returning to her home state of Idaho.
Well, if she's a homeopath, then surely she must have informed medical views.
Manookian has said publicly that she thinks vaccines are “poison for profit,” that continuing to let daycares require vaccination would “put our children on the chopping block,” that measles is “positive for the body,” that the virus protects against cancer, and that it can send people “into total remission”—an assertion she made on an Idaho wellness center’s podcast in April.
Manookian told ProPublica she believes infectious diseases have been made “the bogeyman.”
Well, I guess that claiming that measels are good for you and that infectuous disease has been made a boogeyman is consistent with opposing vaccines.
I do have to say that "COVID-19 cures cancer and is fantastic" is a new one on me, though.
EDIT: Wait, sorry. It sounds like she's claiming that measles cures cancer, not COVID-19. Still a new one on me.
Wow. She sounds clinically insane. Up is down, left is right.
Manookian just hates competition for her homeopath profits.
Almost makes me wish I wasn't vaccinated. I'd get the measles and spend the whole time walking through every Walmart and Waffle House in Idaho.
If the patient dies of measles, then, technically, they're now immune from cancer.
And broken bones.
Well, probably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951)[2] was an African-American woman[5] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line[B] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.[7][8]
What upsets me the most about this, aside from the dead babies, is that the only reason this sort of lunacy has suddenly become extremely popular is because certain people have suddenly figured out how to make a ton of money on it. The biggest impetus behind all of this is its profitability, not any ideology.
And, I think that the people who are fighting against this kind of bullshit often overlook that.
For me it’s the politicians. There will always be a few misguided souls but the politicians who manipulate their concerns are the real evil. They know what they’re doing, they know the consequences, but greed for power and sociopathic tendencies means they don’t care.
It’s not that there are nutcases but the new focus on manipulating them brings it all out in the open and spreads it like bed bugs
Besides the tiny coffin industry, where is the money in anti-vax?
When the pandemic was at full force, i worked for some lady tgat did foot massages. At least that's what i gathered from what it said on her car. But she saw herself more as a doctor or even super doctor than someone who rubs feet.
I often heard her on the phone telling people/customers/future customers to not get vaccinated becase you get shingles from it, vaccines are the real illness, autism, whatever. Instead they should just massage it away. I don't even think she was straight up scamming people, she just lived on Facebook, or a bit of both. Her customers more often than not took her advice very seriously. I know that because they often gave me a weird look because i was wearing a mask and they would deliberately hug and talk really closely without masks when i was around.
I worked for one of her customers not too long ago, pure coincidence. She has long covid now, she can't walk up the stairs anymore without being out of breath. She told me she has long covid, while also explaining me that she doesn't believe in covid.
I kinda forgot where i was going, but some people just have to believe what they want to believe.
Supplements. Iodine, colloidal silver, sea moss, and methylene blue. Completely unregulated "cures" for everything from the common cold to erectile disfunction. And if it doesnt work clearly you took the wrong dose or are possessed by demons.
Radium water used to sold as a cure all until it rotted out the jaw of a rich guy.
Oh hey Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson have joined the chat!
Yes, it's also a talking point for the entertainers to appease their tribe.
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Selling a fuck ton of snake-oil as an alternative.
They aren't mad at the pharma industry so much as they are mad they aren't getting a piece of the pie.
Going viral on social media. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok… YouTube, too. If you start getting a certain number of views per hour or views per day, they start paying you for it because of the ads that play during your videos.
Making insane bullshit that gets a lot of clicks and views is an extremely profitable industry, especially if you’re some idiot who is otherwise unemployable. This is why all of those crazy AI slop videos are suddenly very popular, because if you post ones that go viral, they get a lot of affiliate rewards from all of the views and add impressions. Basically, that translates into cash.
Based on the comments a lot of idiots take the AI slop videos and ads seriously.
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“It’s literally landmark,”
"Literally."
I guess a gravestone is sort of a landmark. Idaho will be needing a lot more of those.
The act makes it illegal for state and local governments, private businesses, employers, schools, and daycares to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any other “medical intervention.”
So if I ran a PRIVATE daycare, I couldn't refuse to accept people who weren't vaccinated? I knew this was stupid, it always, but I am just blown away by how stupid. The layers of dumb are confusing.
There aren't enough health care providers to go around, and the red areas are becoming hostile to those educated in medicine.
Maybe all health care providers should move en masse out of red areas into blue ones and let "Jesus take the wheel" in the red areas. At least until they finally figure out, the hard way, that they should leave these decisions to the medical professionals.
The poor innocent kids are going to suffer either way. But maybe my way teaches the adults faster.
That's happening to an extent, but don't forget these are real people that care. They don't want their communities to suffer so they do their best. Even if their communities are hostile to their efforts.
I thought ObGyns were already fleeing Idaho. Maybe the pathologists and/or immunologists will soon follow.
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