Thread by @OriginalGoove

A rant/thread.
Bear with me…please.

I’m absolutely gobsmacked by what I’ve been seeing and hearing…especially these last few weeks. People who I would normally consider sane, educated, stable, well-informed, community minded, are now peddling blatant disinformation.

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Many of them, and those that defend them, are passing it off as harmless ‘differences of opinion’.

Really?
If so, I’m missing something.

I just recently read a report that COVID patients are pulling vital resources away from paediatric patients, patients with…

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…heart conditions, patients who need certain surgeries, etc. According to that report, most if not all of the COVID patients were/are unvaxxed.
Widely accepted research indicates that these hospitalizations were avoidable.

I’m sorry, but ‘difference of opinion’ doesn’t…

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…cut it. Difference of opinion extends to things like music (Rush is a great band; fight me) and chocolate bars (Three Musketeers is chocolate coated baby poop…don’t @ me).

Beyond that, it’s something else entirely.

As Ricky Gervais stated, “your opinion doesn’t…

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…equal my facts.”

The Theo Fleury School of Medicine doesn’t equal Johns Hopkins.

My dad’s oncologist is renowned for her expertise is dealing with his particular brand of cancer. She just wrote him a prescription for his third COVID shot.

Good enough for him and me.

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I’ll roll the dice with her brain over that of TikTok / YouTube science any fucking day.

I happily subscribe to the philosophy that medical care involves an element of service / care for my fellow human beings.

Hey, I fully understand fear, skepticism, and hesitancy.

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But when those things turn someone into a selfish asshole who is only concerned with protecting their own skin, and knowingly spreading disinformation…all under the guise of independent thought…

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…and patriotic freedom fighting…then we have bigger problems…much bigger.

What happened to us…and our sense of community service? When did rabid individualism take over? When did trust in much smarter people die out?

I’m disheartened with it all.

My two cents.

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