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This is very insightful. I feel that there is a communist cultural connection here that I find familiar. Elders today who came up in communist systems have a de

This is very insightful. I feel that there is a communist cultural connection here that I find familiar. Elders today who came up in communist systems have a deeply rooted mistrust of anything that is served up into the body not because of suspicion of conspiracy, but because of a long experience with systemic incompetence and low quality. I’ve seen it here in Eastern Europe as well - people (grandparent age) trusted that Western vaccines are just fine - they just didn’t trust that the ones we obtained locally weren’t ruined or tampered with. They didn’t believe we’d get the “better” stuff. I think this mentality can be difficult for Westerners of all ages to comprehend. Or it is easier for Westerners to just superimpose their own similar, albeit different ideas/problems around conspiracy and mistrust.

powerapple 4y ago
It is not really about communists roots or anything. Old Chinese people believe in herbs, and believe anything unnatural is bad for your body. Especially old people, they believe doing less to your body is best for you, just let the nature take care of it. As for your grandparents, I don't think anything should be trusted blindly. It is very personal thing. For an Asian to take something 1/10000 of death/or other rate, it is not worth it. That's why many Asian still wear masks. The best way to understand developing world is to compress 4 generations or even more into two generations, like comparing the thoughts of your great great granddad to yourself, that's how fast developing world has developed, and the gap between generations can be so big.