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Re: The curse of the goitre in Switzerland

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How come that the disease wasn't widespread earlier?

I am always flabbergasted when people question incredibly effective public health initiatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodized_salt#In_public_health_... > Worldwide, iodine deficiency affects two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual and developmental disabilities.[1][2] According to public health experts, iodisation of salt may be the w…

This was pre-internet and in remote areas where there is a distrust of central authority.

And there are loads of examples through history up till current day that show that blindly trusting authorities is naive. Heck, even in the article, some doctors were poisoning their patients with iodine. It is not far fetched that some people in these areas were informed of these problems. So a tiny amount kills us... and so you are saying any even tinier amount will save us. I'd be pretty skeptical too.

It seems that when presented well and with personally verifiable evidence, people were willing to accept.

I am really flabbergasted when people blindly accept in mass what authorities tell us.

Re: The curse of the goitre in Switzerland

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Only if sensible people continue to run the public health authorities. You now have people that refuse to vaccinate their children against measles, COVID vaccine hesitancy is a widespread phenomenon with some people resorting to heresay remedies like horse dewormers instead, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is running for US president and polling with double digit numbers. Health-related insights are particularly…

A large number of people have refused the COVID vaccine for completely valid reasons. The vast majority of that group absolutely vaccinates their children against polio, measles, etc. They aren’t the anti science luddites your comment paints them as. They are (rightly) skeptical of “the science” which often isn’t very scientific at all. As we’ve seen, the medical science community is heavily motivated by profit and p…

Well said. I am a strong believer in vaccines.

Injecting code that causes all of your cells to mass produce spike protines to train your body to fight the spike proteins that your cells are producing just seems really questionable and the VAERS db seems to support my skepticism.

When I started reading the details of how this vaccine worked from the pro-mrna sites, my engineer side started ringing alarm bells and noped right out of it.

When google and others started silencing alternative viewpoints and major govt related employers mandated it, I dusted off my tinfoil hat.

They should have just let the information be free (bad or good) and not pushed so hard. Now they have created distrust.

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