Cod liver oil embraced amid Texas measles outbreak; doctors fight misinfo
Overdoses of vitamin A have serious risks—and it doesn’t prevent measles.
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Why will people try anything besides real medicine :(
Maybe if enough republicans die, Texas will turn blue.
One can only hope
They’ll just start a conspiracy that the democrats killed them and vote even harder conservative. Their brains are molded and crystallized, they aren’t fuckin’ changing lol
Voting is over. There will not be another fair election in the US until the guillotines fall.
I don't think the answer is as simple as memes would like to believe. Personally I suspect the issue, in part, has to do with the cost of healthcare in the US.
Much like Republican voters have a need to pretend the GOP is actually helping them, I think holistic medicine rubes and anti-vaxxers have a need to discount the efficacy of unaffordable healthcare. They don't need to worry about the price being a multiple of their income anymore, because they just now decided every doctor is a quack and a conman.
That’s good point. It’s sad but true
I think what also plays into it is apathetic doctors. People go to the doctor for help, if they have a doctor that doesn't actually care about helping them and only spends a couple minutes with them before getting shooed out the door, this causes people to seek alternative forms of medicine. Another thing that happens is the doctor comes up with a treatment plan and insurance denies it. So once again, this is something that would cause people to seek alternative medicine. They get desperate for a fix for whatever problem ails them and the snake oil salesmen are right there ready and waiting for them on TikTok/Instagram/Facebook.
So between apathetic doctors and rising medical costs along with fear mongering on social media about medications being "poison" and natural cures being better, oh and let's also add in there easily gullible idiots, you get where we're at today.
probably when real healthcare is affordable
Vaccines are almost always free.
