On the commercial-political-emotional success of the alternative, evidence-free wellness movement:
"You can look like us, feel like us, their chorus goes, if you follow our rules and purchase our powders"
from @elainegodfrey.bsky.social
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/wellness-rfk-washington/680977/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_633whbrGAx1IejGrCojPc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=applebaum
"You can look like us, feel like us, their chorus goes, if you follow our rules and purchase our powders"
from @elainegodfrey.bsky.social
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/wellness-rfk-washington/680977/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_633whbrGAx1IejGrCojPc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=applebaum
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MAHA-types are nothing new. My mom was a Christian Scientist, and tried to deny me medical care for religious reasons. My dad made sure I got vaccinated, but other C.S. kids weren't (aren't) so lucky. They suffer and die from easily preventable diseases.
Insane.
I stopped eating beef, pork, bacon, ham ( basically pig and cow) ten years ago. I'm going to stop eating chicken soon.
Of course, there's always child labor.
You something too. Further if vaccines are banned our life span will be reduced to like 35 years old. All of this complete folly because the wrong people were given power.
Now they have Instagram and use the same fear to sell people magic powders to make people their devoted slaves.
The new witchcraft.
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The problem is any of us trying to tell them what to do.
The mask mandate and vax mandate added fuel to their fire.
We should not make it our business.
Let them do what they want to do and mind our own business.
Otherwise they see us as the reason to vote for the opposite side.
Now selfish people refuse to be decent, but they infect the rest of us and use up resources.
Maybe calling selfish people selfish is our business.
How many more people do we want to alienate before the Democratic party can’t win a Presidential election again?
That's how people rationalized January 6th and sports cheating and other bad behavior.
Why can't we be the party that follows rules and enforces rules?
Listen I’m with you all the way but I also appreciate the evidence.
People that normally vote Democratic were pissed about the shutdowns, mask and vax mandates.
If we don’t meet people where they are we will not win.
My opinion is that people should be able to choose their own journey.
Same with a woman’s right to choose.
It’s just my opinion and I’m not alone.
As long as I’m able to still have access to Vaccines and masks I’ll be happily using them when needed.
Anything to own the libs.
Regardless of the overall outcome.
And the thing that frustrates me the most is that I’m sure we have much more in common than not.
We really don’t need to be this polarized.
Now these same moms that “did their own research” are suddenly dietitians sharing TikToks that Crumble cookie is trying to kill your children. And you need to buy their peptides.
And my skepticism is well earned after years of finding out whatever health fad of the day was more rooted in sales than any true health science.
But I guess an inability to ask questions of each other is indeed a reason we're here.
In decades from now, the answer to "What went wrong with the world's leading nation and largest economy?" will simply be 47.
Harken my words.
These people are not part of that, they don't speak the language or appear to be aware of common knowledge.
This is scam wellness.
They give tips on raw milk sources, share homemade Covid cures, say masks & vaxes kill kids, & much more.
They all have a powerful demeanor — they “know things.”
Terrifying.
Maybe Rocket Money has an app for this too (like their find-your-subscriptions one:-)
https://youtu.be/f02lF_iJ1FA?si=ZlpI53akeYPJHZEl
It becomes a hurricane of hungry locusts that devour the fruits of Democracy.
There’s afragile eco system of the unvaccinated.