Funny Political Memes

[steross]

On one hand it is funny to see him flip flop on this, but a lot of people are also being harmed by him and RFK.

The sad thing is they did have an opportunity to to some real good. If they would have harped on the metabolic diseases issues and that the answer is real foods and exercise/activity not more medications they could have helped. Instead, they cut off scientists, put in a bunch of quacks, and pushed the anti-vax stuff.

 

[cowboyinexile]

The sad thing is they did have an opportunity to to some real good. If they would have harped on the metabolic diseases issues and that the answer is real foods and exercise/activity not more medications they could have helped. Instead, they cut off scientists, put in a bunch of quacks, and pushed the anti-vax stuff.

Yep. If this were a serious administration RFK Jr could have been controversial but effective.

I was going to make an argument about how most people should already know about basic healthcare in this country. It seems common sense to me that if you look at obesity rates, the amount of exercise we get, and food ingredient lists from now versus 40 years ago you should be able to draw some pretty easy conclusions. Also if you look at common illness before and after vaccines became available you can draw conclusions as well. Even for the Gen X generation-we had chicken pox parties as kids but our kids got the vaccine-do you want your kids to get sick from something that's irritating over 99% of the time and sometimes dangerous or do you not? I think that's a pretty easy choice. Same way with food-do you want to buy something that's only ingredient is potato or do you want 5 different food dyes? But then I remember seeing videos about people getting upset over folic acid fortification and remember that even though Google is a thing a whole bunch of people don't bother doing 2 minutes of research to figure out the scariest thing their news feed told them that day.

So yeah, in a sane world half of this crap would go away because a civilization with access to more knowledge than anyone in history would take advantage of that access. But we don't live in a sane world anymore.

 

[steross]

Yep. If this were a serious administration RFK Jr could have been controversial but effective.

I was going to make an argument about how most people should already know about basic healthcare in this country. It seems common sense to me that if you look at obesity rates, the amount of exercise we get, and food ingredient lists from now versus 40 years ago you should be able to draw some pretty easy conclusions. Also if you look at common illness before and after vaccines became available you can draw conclusions as well. Even for the Gen X generation-we had chicken pox parties as kids but our kids got the vaccine-do you want your kids to get sick from something that's irritating over 99% of the time and sometimes dangerous or do you not? I think that's a pretty easy choice. Same way with food-do you want to buy something that's only ingredient is potato or do you want 5 different food dyes? But then I remember seeing videos about people getting upset over folic acid fortification and remember that even though Google is a thing a whole bunch of people don't bother doing 2 minutes of research to figure out the scariest thing their news feed told them that day.

So yeah, in a sane world half of this crap would go away because a civilization with access to more knowledge than anyone in history would take advantage of that access. But we don't live in a sane world anymore.

Yep, when they started with banning food dyes, real sugar in coke, and beef tallow fries as their metabolic health achievements I knew we were in trouble. But, much of the public likes that as there is perceived benefit with no effort involved .

 

[cowboyinexile]

Yep, when they started with banning food dyes, real sugar in coke, and beef tallow fries as their metabolic health achievements I knew we were in trouble. But, much of the public likes that as there is perceived benefit with no effort involved .

Yeah. Every time I want to say no one really believes this stuff I remember I have seen enough to know it isn't true.

Heck I even used food dye as an example of the "good" stuff they could have done. They are pointless and provide no nutritional value and I wouldn't care if they are gone tomorrow. But unless you have a specific allergy the sodium and sugar in your food is going to kill you alot quicker than the food dye will.