Off-the cuff post to vaccination thread

Need a good epidemic

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We need a good strong devastating epidemic to get all these ill-founded alternative views washed away. Thanks to the level-headed people who have gone before us, we have been spared from the polio and 1918 epidemic and smallpox and other diseases.

I'm a nurse. I've seen many times on my 52 years on the planet disciples of alternative medicine really, truly getting badly sick or injured, and where do they run to?...the ER. That's because alternative medicine is almost always only good for fantasizing, not for curing. When something REALLY happens, the sticks-and-berries gang will go straight for western medicine - for a REAL doctor -- because alternative medicine simply doesn't work, for all intents and purposes, except for the placebo effect or because of secondary variables.

Often people stick to alternative medicine even when deep down they know better because they have too much invested socially professionally or financially in it to change. They are too lazy and comfy-cozy to do the heavy-lifting of being honest with themselves and their associates. Or, they have not gotten REALLY sick, which is a splendid way to straighten out thinking in hurry.
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