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Tamritz's avatar

I am really surprised by that post. It seems that you have never heard that vaccines have amazing not specific benefits. Actually it is well known with big wikipedia article. ‏https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-specific_effect_of_vaccines

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The ultimate side-bet: The reason why wokesters promote vaccination, is that they are also more likely to be hypochondriacs/germophobes, and that deep down they know that a small piece of natural hormesis has been lost. https://www.secretorum.life/p/the-one-heresy-to-rule-them-all/comment/14221811

If Zizek's "decaf caffeine and 0% beer" thesis is correct, this is another form of sanitized desire, hormesis without encountering nature. Perhaps puritan thinking ("uncleanness" obsession), neuroticism (paranoia), anti-idolatry (verbal tilt), and conformist thinking (witch burning), and ineffective rituals (religious "cures") are all related.

The core thing that bug me is the gap between obsessive compulsion on one end, and avoiding good alternatives in the other. Another would be the uncertainty of immunity difference between people with moderate exposure to pathogens (e.g. rural farmers) versus metropolitan hypochondriacs.

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