The fact that they would viciously resent you feeling sorry for them doesn’t help.
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“What’s that? What’s that you say I should do with my feelings? Well, I was going to feel some basic human compassion for your suffering, but… OK.”
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Projection?
They think that they can inflict massive financial losses on Big Pharma by turning down vaccine doses that the government has already bought and paid for.
That’s why Garrison’s cartoon shows the ivermectin horse kicking the “medical industrial complex”, as if ivermectin itself were not also a product of the “medical industrial complex”.
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It is very hard to change a dead person’s mind.
For those that are still alive, there is some chance (it may be small) that someone they care about very much (like their own child) might be able to get through to them, but there is absolutely nothing that can be done by you if you aren’t in the immediate circle of them. I really took notice of the number of spots on shows that seemed to be designed to educate people on how to try to deprogram loved ones. Because that’s the only hope to save lives.
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Someday, one way or another, the pandemic will end. And when it does, they will pretend that the whole thing never even happened. And they will go back to being normal members of society, indistinguishable from those who gave a damn during the biggest crisis so far 20 some odd years into a century full of crises already. That is…if we let them.
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I don’t object to doing small clinical studies although I’m not convinced the in vitro studies actually showed anything worth investigating. That is, if I were in charge of allocating any level of scarce funding, time, or testing capacity I would not have selected it based on the very weak in vitro data. Its only worth it if it is “free” and you can’t do something else instead. The problem is that if you have researchers or funders that are willing to study ivermectin but not other treatments then it’s hard to trust that they do the study fairly.
In addition ivermectin in particular already had a bit of a crank following pre COVID. In principle cranks believing in something has no bearing either way on whether it is true but ivermectin has already been unsuccessfully tried as an antiviral.
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As an European, I was not exposed to the pleasure of contemplating his art.
So I took a look at some of his work.
Apart from the deep disagreement with everything he suggests, I can admit some drawing talent.
What I find extremely grating is his labelling of objects/persons/caricatures: I don’t know whether he is taking his public for idiots, or he’s unsecure of his skills in making good associations/similes/metaphors.
There, I’ll WNB myself:
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My favorite response to the news of his illness was “Ben Garrison’s tombstone will read ‘TOMBSTONE.’”
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Except for the cognitive decline. And strokes. And blood clots in their legs and lungs. And heart attacks. And liver failure. And shortness of breath. Frequent pneumonia.
Other than that, they’ll be just the same.
Seriously, though, while we have the near-term emergency to deal with, post-COVID folks are going to be medical train wrecks for decades. The long-term tragedy is the bulk of the iceberg.
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Wow, labeling the fanny pack, “FANNY PACK” is a real masterpiece.
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