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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by biophysboy »

Aurornis wrote: post #112
geophile wrote: post #83

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Strangely, anti-vax sentiment is surging in a lot of countries. Canada has higher rates of vaccine rejection than the United States in some categories, as one example. It’s a strange global phenomenon and I don’t think there is one single root cause. MAGA/MAHA definitely jumped on to the anti-vax train as it became popular, but many forget that Trump presided over the rushing of the COVID vaccine into availability an…

They are not the progenitors of the skepticism, but they gave the skeptics significantly more authority than they previously had. Over surveillance networks, vaccine scheduling, public health comms, etc. MAGA sees them as useful idiots for the coalition, rather than threats to the US.

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by alpinisme »

1234letshaveatw wrote: post #216
gs17 wrote: post #175

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In the US it's entirely possible to do that as well. I've never been forced to see a doctor outside of getting a form signed before grad school.

Interesting, my insurers, through my employers, have always required a annual physical

Required in what way? Better coverage (or lower rates) if you do it? Or is it literally no coverage if you don’t?

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by antonyt »

gadders wrote: post #206
phillc73 wrote: post #204

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Not sure why the parent was downvoted, because I think it nails the current sentiment. For some people the COVID vaccine(s) were rushed to market, with limited clinical trials, intended to vaccinate the entire adult population, with limited data as to their immediate effectiveness and with no data about long term effects. You can debate whether the above points are valid or not, but for some people they certainly rai…

Yeah. People are lumping all vaccines together in an attempt to boost the credibility of the COVID vaccine. Unfortunately what it is actually doing is ruining the credibility of all the other vaccines that have been around for years and are well understood.

Were all the other vaccines "well understood" when they were initially rolled out en masse? Not a rhetorical question, I genuinely don't know the history.

I don't really understand what people's expectations were for a new vaccine intended to combat an ongoing global pandemic.

Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by 1234letshaveatw »

pacija wrote: post #193
sterlind wrote: post #147

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interesting. so if you get a bacterial infection, you plan to succumb to it rather than take antibiotics?

I'm not that extremist. My dentist is cool, my childrens' pediatrician as well. I trust them entirely and I know they would never compromise their credibility or my health for financial gain. I always take medicine they prescribe (mostly generic stuff whose patents expired a century or so ago). They always steer me to healthy habits such as excercise and eating fruits instead of taking supplements etc. Unfortunately,…

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Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by gadders »

antonyt wrote: post #223
gadders wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. People are lumping all vaccines together in an attempt to boost the credibility of the COVID vaccine. Unfortunately what it is actually doing is ruining the credibility of all the other vaccines that have been around for years and are well understood.

Were all the other vaccines "well understood" when they were initially rolled out en masse? Not a rhetorical question, I genuinely don't know the history. I don't really understand what people's expectations were for a new vaccine intended to combat an ongoing global pandemic.

I don't think they were developed in less than 6 months, and probably had more testing (and have had far more since).

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Post by [deleted] »

1234letshaveatw wrote: post #216
gs17 wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US it's entirely possible to do that as well. I've never been forced to see a doctor outside of getting a form signed before grad school.

Interesting, my insurers, through my employers, have always required a annual physical

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Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by chancer131 »

r_lee wrote: post #205
chancer131 wrote: post #194

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I mean this is liberal/left heavy, it's to be expected, you can't just rummage in and expect people to be like hm good points you're right! when most of the audience is against you it's expected if you could delve into what supports your arguments that'd help more than "trust me instead" I personally am skeptical of many things, including pharma, but I'm not going to claim that vaccines don't work when historically t…

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Re: England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

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Post by mrguyorama »

MoltenMan wrote: post #143
renegade-otter wrote: post #125

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COVID and anti-vaxxing explosion happened 6 years ago.

Look at the source I linked! Only 20% of cases are under 5!

RFK Jr has been pushing anti-vaccine bullshit for decades. He was already taking defensive stances on his activism (Oh, I'm not anti-vaccine, I'm just providing nonsense arguments and clout for anti-vaccine stances) back in 2015.

Kennedy was already pushing bullshit during the UK Measles vaccine fraud/scare, back in 2005. He was doing this along with a few other celebrities.

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