The new rules of medicine per @MdBreathe :
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Lessons Learned and Fighting Back
Post-pandemic realizations:
• Viruses can be treated.
10:23 AM · Mar 8, 2024 · 9,447 Views123 Reposts 6 Quotes 381 Likes 17 Bookmarks
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• There are no coincidences.
I don’t even totally get what they’re trying to say with that, in the context of this post…but that’s a saying that’s always just annoyed me to no end. There are no coincidences? Bullshit, there are coincidences all the damn time! Because we live on a planet with like 8 billion people doing various stuff around the clock, there’s just bound to be some instances where, from someone’s certain perspective, things seem to “line up” or well, even “coincide”. Sometimes, maybe even quite often, that happens without any greater meaning behind it.
To mention one example I know of, because I’m a huge fan of one the teams that was involved (go Blue!)…in 2006, Michigan played Ohio State in a hotly anticipated game in their long-standing college football rivalry (said by some to be the best rivalry not only in college football, but in all of American sports, college or pro!). In the end, Ohio State beat Michigan by the score of 42-39. The funny part is that the winning four-digit number for Ohio’s state lottery was announced shortly after the game was over ….and maybe you can guess where this is going…it was 4-2-3-9. Is it really that hard to believe that that was just a random thing that happened, or do you have to ascribe some deeper meaning to it?
• Viruses can be treated.
• We can be treated.
What we learned from the pandemic:
“There are no coincidences.” This statement always indicates a belief in agenticity (even if one doesn’t know the name of it) - the idea that if something happened, someone meant it to happen that way. Common side effects of this include blaming random failures on other people’s malice. It’s one of the two main gateways to conspiracy theory, the other being paranoia. (Persecution complex is a form of paranoia.) It’s also every bit as much magical thinking as Animism, the idea that even inanimate objects are alive in some sense and possess a soul.
I’m not sure if the opposite has a specific name (though it’s a form of learned helplessness) but they are clearly in no danger of that. A healthy, competent person finds a good balance between the two extremes.
@Zinnia #191903
“There are no coincidences.” This statement always indicates a belief in agenticity (even if one doesn’t know the name of it) - the idea that if something happened, someone meant it to happen that way. Common side effects of this include blaming random failures on other people’s malice. It’s one of the two main gateways to conspiracy theory […] It’s also every bit as much magical thinking as Animism, the idea that even inanimate objects are alive in some sense and possess a soul.
Hence conspirituality.
• Viruses can be treated.
• We have a lot to learn about vaccines.
• Most doctors are not that good, many are evil. Lawyers are protectors.
• The FDA and CDC are led by politically-appointed tyrants corrupted by BigPharma.
• Politics is ingrained in our healthcare system. We can’t ignore the politics.
• There are no coincidences.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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