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Borasha's avatar

"It’s a failure to recognize that, by far and away, the biggest negative impact came not from the disease itself, but from our response to it." -- Substitute the word "event" for the word "disease" and you have a general postulate that holds true, in so many ways, about so many things.

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The preoccupation with “Mis” and “dis” information is telling. For at least fifty years our public health institutions have been giving us bad information about the things that make us healthy and long-lived. The problem with people is not that we are too stupid, lazy, or weak-willed to follow their instructions; we are more prone to illness precisely because we’ve listened to their advice. (Eat low fat foods! Eat more frequently! Never skip a meal, especially not breakfast! Ultraprocess foods like meat and milk for hygienic reasons ! Dont feed your baby peanut products! Don’t go outside, even in winter, without spf 50! Exercise will make you lose weight! Etc.) How in the world could anyone think we should be more limited in what information we have access to— and that it should be under the purview of gov’t agencies?

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