This. We now have effective prevention and treatment of covid19 available at no cost(*).
But people who don’t know the difference between a multicellular parasite and a virus apparently know more about medicine than infectious disease specialists.
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Noticeable that Duck Duck Go for example don’t.
But then Google have always manually gamed their results a lot more than they admit. Which means the shitshow that is YouTube is entirely deliberate.
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Get the generic, though, it’s a lot cheaper.
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Also because morons who believe in the power of idiocy are likely to try and force their kids to use it as well.
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I honestly had no idea that a judge could legally order doctors to administer a medical treatment that went against their own training and best judgement just because some nutjob asked for it.
We are truly in the dumbest timeline.
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Perhaps I could convince them to treat my fear of blindness using homemade grain alcohol?
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I mean - it is, for animals.
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They are also camped on social media, arriving at coverage based on what surfaces from their bubble or what others send them. With that whole side line in seeking specialized social media where and when the major companies half heartedly point at accurate info.
I was lucky enough to attend a high school where several of the teachers were aggressively on board with critical thinking, when public schools had library and computer classes that covered this sort of thing.
Also attended a Church as a kid where it was a major runner.
But the fact of the matter is that this is unusual on both fronts. And particularly when we’re looking at the older demographics and states that are massively thirsty for Q and the like.
I recall a study a bit back showing Xers, Millennials and down younger are MUCH better at distinguishing fact from fantasy online, judging the credibility of sources and just checking shit in general than older generations. With a pretty close correlation/gradient from oldest to youngest. With a rather large jump starting with Millennials.
That seems to get pegged to “grew up with the internet”. But I kinda think it may be down to how even not so good schools started having computer courses which by their nature had to include some level of information literacy pretty much the minute “computers” stopped being 99% about typing.
I very much remember the first computer class I took just being typing, it having replaced “typing” in the curriculum. But about as soon as you could get an encyclopedia on disk or internet connection they became incorporated into library courses in exactly this way. Then by the time I was in high school the computer classes were much more about finding, using and glossing information. Basic programming and web skills etc. A lot less “office skills” and a lot more “how does this shit work/using it the same way you use other information”. I believe the basic end of it was later combined with that library skills curriculum.
So even if you didn’t go to a good, wealthy school district in a state with a good school system like I did. Shit tons of people in your peer group moving forward were already well versed in this sort of thing.
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Yeah - masks and medicine designed for humans are to be distrusted.
Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
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Theobromine literally translated means “food of the gods.” 
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It is also the part of chocolate that’s toxic to furkids.
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Good point. I added a disclaimer because any risk of hurting our beloved pets is no good.
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At least we now know why they hoarded all that toilet paper. 
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The article does mention that the family had found a doctor who had prescribed the medication and that the hospital was overriding that prescription, so there may be a whiff of grounds, but also says the hospital didn’t fight the suit. I guess they’d rather give it to the guy and have him die rather than become targets when the guy dies anyway and they “refused”.
The wildest part is the perfect little gem of Republican hypocrisy in the fact that Ohio recently passed a law specifically to allow hospitals to refuse a treatment based on moral or ethical standards (read: abortion, hormones for trans folk, etc…). Ah yes freedom to, freedom from.
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’ You can’t even buy the famously delicious apple-flavor horse paste anymore.’
Isn’t that a key ingredient in Tesco lasagne?
Oh for horses, not of horses.
In which case, capitalism demands that someone whips up a batch of denatonium-flavoured ivermectin and sell it to covidiots at $100 a pop.
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Cellphones exist now.
Social media exists now.
It’s not like these people have printed photos in their wallet.
If they owned a horse and didn’t have a single photo with them, I’d be surprised.
Unless it’s an older person who still has a flip phone, maybe
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No, we managed to escape to the second-dumbest. In the dumbest, the Shaitgibbon got re-elected.
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