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Who makes money off people not getting vaccinated?
by ericmcer 3y ago
Who makes money off people not getting vaccinated?
- meepmorp 3y agoBig Disease, obviously.
- 98codes 3y agoMortuaries?
- ceejayoz 3y agoPlenty of people. In this case, it's pandering for votes/donations, but it's frequently to sell some alternative miracle cure or supplement. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/12/993615185/for-some-anti-vaccine-advocates-misinformation-is-part-of-a-business https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/12/9936151... > That selling can be big business. One of the leading anti-vaccine advocates, Joseph Mercola, is believed to bring in millions each year through his companies, which sell an array of branded natural supplements, beauty products and even pet supplies.
- logicchains 3y agoIf he only brings in millions, he's being trounced by the pharmaceutical companies that bring in billions. From a product that it's mandatory for children in some states to take, and for which pharmaceutical manufacturers are given special legal protection from liability. The perfect business model.
- ceejayoz 3y ago> If he only brings in millions, he's being trounced by the pharmaceutical companies that bring in billions. Sure, but I look more askance at someone being paid millions for disproven bullshit than someone being paid billions for effective medical treatments. Both are motivated actors, but one's purely a bullshit artist.
- logicchains 3y agoHow do you know it's effective medical treatment when the industry spends tens of billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying to convince you it's an effective treatment and suppress any negative press on it?
- ceejayoz 3y agoI look around and don't see measles cases anywhere.
- salad-tycoon 3y agoFunny, Apple started pushing stories to me that MEASELS IS EVERYWHERE now, get vaccinated. The advertising fund is a concern. I’m all for trust of pharmaceutical companies but a lot needs to change first.
- ceejayoz 3y agoYes, if people stop getting vaccinated, measles starts coming back. Thus far, in small, localized outbreaks. You're supporting my point, not contesting it.
- salad-tycoon 3y agoI’m saying it’s hard to separate reporting from advertising. Also, you simply said there was no measles. I said news cycle today shows differently but the real point is if your biggest supporter is big pharma, maybe you are less inclined to investigate certain things and more inclined to accept additional fancy dinners with their experts and maybe, just maybe, that influences what is reported and how.
- mritun 3y agoSick people with life-threatening diseases are incredibly impressionable and a lucrative customer base. … and dead people tell no tales. They can’t warn others against ineffective treatments and the preventive measures that they would love to have access to.