Ive heard this before, misinformation? Do you seriously believe that people take their health care directions from some guy posting on a message board? A lot of these alternative treatments are drugs you cant get without a prescription anyway.
Yes you've probably heard it before, and yes it happens.
A 4-year-old boy in Colorado died from the flu last week after his mother sought advice from a anti-vaccination Facebook group, according to NBC News.
www.beckershospitalreview.com
Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem with some adult aged quack job dying because he believes that shoving a teaspoon of cinnamon up his rear end will cure all his illness, but I do have a problem when such nonsense is used on children who can't know any better or have any choice in the matter.
And folks (like you?) and BMCL and that other guy, who spout off bogus medical advice are a serious problem. NOTE: Please excuse me if I have confused you with one of the other ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine idiots on this website. I really don't pay much attention to who says what, I just look at what's being said. If I have you confused, then I apologize..
In the end I hope you dont think youre saving the world fighting "misinformation" on the internet.
All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
Last year it was misinformation to say the virus came from a lab in wuhan. We found out the truth when the misinformation wouldnt die.
No, you found out nothing. Telling a lie often or loudly does not make it true.. A lie told a million times is still a lie. It also doesn't matter how many people believe it. Maybe it did escape from the lab, or not.. the only facts we have are that YOU don't know.. Well, unless I missed some huge news headline..
Discussion is healthy and I dont see anything in the constitution that suspends the first amendment for pandemics.
Not all discussions are healthy, that's a myth. Discussions are healthy when the people communicating are qualified to discuss the subject matter.. When some high school grad pounding nails, digging ditches, or working at McDonalds, thinks he's qualified to discuss medical issues, then it is most certainly NOT healthy. Unfortunately, in today's world where cell phones and video games have mostly isolated people from each other, the average person finds themselves lonely and seeking attention.. even if they won't admit that to themselves. To combat this loneliness and feelings of inadequacy, they take on a cause, become an activist, or take on the persona as an authority on something... and most frequently, they enter into conversations about subject matter for which they have absolutely zero qualifications.
It is the tell tale sign of a lonely person with a pitifully unfulfilling life.
We are all qualified to discuss our own opinions on things like our feelings, our abilities, our jobs, etc. But when we begin discussing subject matter for which we have no educational qualifications, its the first sign of someone who's looking for attention.
And a word of advice: Many (most?) of the plethora of little platitudes that have permeated our society for so long are total crap.
A few examples:
Crime doesn't pay
Don't judge a book by its cover
Everyone has a right to an opinion (Moral issue, not legal)
And about a gazzillion others... they are all poorly thought out.