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Date: February 14, 2021 10:46PM
Dr. No Wrote:
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I would love to see some good statistics on these subjects. Venn diagrams, just a table, bar graphs, pie charts, whatever other format that exists.
Looks like I forgot to address the issue of vaccination.
My experience with them is very low. I have more experience with the homeopathic medicine believers (HMB).
My opinion:
I think some are YEC science deniers but there is probably a bunch of people who go with trusted sources. They hear the opinion of a family member and then they join them and spread it around. They care about their well being and the well being of their kids. They feel that the pharmaceutical companies are just interested in profits. They don’t want to fix you. They just want to sell you a product that needs to be renewed.
That was the sentiment that a bunch of homeopathic medicine believers (HMB) had. They all tell me that pharmaceutical companies don’t want to cure you. They want repeat customers. One story is that a certain cure for diabetes was shelved so that metformin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metformincould be sold to people continuously.
A lot of them (HMB) give me the example of cancer. They (Big Pharma) don’t want to find a cure for cancer because they want repeat customers.
First off, doctors don’t call them cures. They call them treatments. In some case, there are multiple choices for treatments.
There is of course chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The doctor will tell you if you are treatable and what your chances are. I think HMBs want a guarantee.
This article talks about vaccine, trust, people from Ukraine and Russia living in Washington
Source:
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/19/18263688/measles-outbreak-2019-clark-county=====================================
The CDC says 75% of recent measles cases are linked to tight-knit communities.
In Washington, the virus has predominantly hit Russian-speaking groups hailing mainly from Ukraine and Russia, according to a source close to the matter. These groups have the lowest rate of vaccination of any population in Washington, the state’s most recent data shows.
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While the reasons for vaccine skepticism may be different in each of these communities, the groups themselves have a lot in common. They’re cohesive and conservative. They appear to trust each other more than outsiders. They also speak the same languages and read or watch the same news. “We think these communities are more alike,” Messonnier added, and their insularity helps “outbreaks escalate.”
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“I went through the time of Chernobyl [the 1986 nuclear disaster],” she said. “There was a big explosion and the government didn’t tell people for over a week.” There, government was also synonymous with medicine since the state delivered health care. And she thinks her peers have had a tough time disentangling the two in America.
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But there’s another factor at play. “[It’s] an issue of tribalism. The community of Slavic people are close-knit — they know each other personally and there’s a strong sense of cultural identity,” he said. “The downside is that very often, people coming from outside of the culture or subculture, especially when they’re promoting values outside the traditional values and norms, can be viewed with suspicion.”
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“Moms are more inclined to trust each other rather than a random nurse they don’t know,” he added. So if other moms say vaccines are dangerous, whatever a public health official argues about the science might not hold much weight.
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