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My mother was educated. She bought into some misinformation and fear-mongering about modern medicine and rejected it entirely. No vaccines no doctors. Mostly it
by more_corn 2y ago
My mother was educated. She bought into some misinformation and fear-mongering about modern medicine and rejected it entirely. No vaccines no doctors. Mostly it was fine till it wasn’t.
I took myself to a doctor as a teen with bad strep. Not our doctor we didn’t have one. just a doctor. No insurance. They could see I was in rough shape. They just diagnosed me with strep (although I already knew that’s what it was) and sent me away with a prescription. I didn’t even realize how weird that was till much later. (That they saw me with no insurance and no previous relationship and no payment)
My sister was in town once years later and my younger brother was in such bad shape she took him to a doctor. She swears to this day he would have died. Again strep.
Misinformation is a big problem. People who buy into it put their kids at risk. When we allow purveyors of nonsense to thrive because “freedoms” we do everyone a disservice.