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• Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I guess I can somewhat understand his obstinance towards you. If he admits he’s wrong, he also has to admit he had a hand in killing his wife through willful ignorance.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Truth hurts.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well at least she died free of worms.

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• MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  refused to say that ivermectin is a miracle cure

  What sucks the most is that ivermectin is a miracle cure! It just isn’t helpful again COVID or Hantavirus. The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded (in part) for discovering ivermectin.

  It’s what frustrates me the most about discussion with people like this. They’re willing to take a random drug, a drug that is fully backed by the medical community, but they’re not willing to take the drug actually recommended by the medical community.

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  • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is my favorite anti-anti-vax argument. You won’t take one medicine, here have another with the same medical backing 😂

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• entwine@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have a similar experience with my own father after he started using TikTok and Instagram, though it’s not about ivermectin (spoiler: he thinks I’m a “commie”). I think old people are just not equipped to survive on the internet. It’s like they lack the instincts to known when they’re being scammed.

  It gives me a tiny bit of hope for the future, because even though gen alpha aren’t exactly the brightest generation so far, they’re at least all fully attuned to the internet and (hopefully) better equipped to navigate its many perils.

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  • quinacridone@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think old people are just not equipped to survive on the internet

    I think its people in general

    During lock down when people were at home and having to amuse themselves some made bread and did arts and crafts, whilst others ended up jumping off a cliff into conspiracy theories and right wing bollocks

    One guy I know of suggested ivermectin and dog dewormers to treat my bf’s cancer because ‘cancer is caused by parasites… there’s plenty of information on the internet… you can do your own research…etc etc’

    I used to think the average person was mostly decent and sensible, but not anymore

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    • LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Never underestimate the strength of small town loyalty, where obviously everyone knows better than a century-spanning corpus of medical research

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  • LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Idk what the hell happened to baby boomers. When I was growing up my parents (boomers) constantly reminded me you can’t believe everything you read online and that the “girl” I was chatting with on AIM could actually be some fat 40 year old pedo.

    That wasn’t uncommon, that was the same experience all my buddies had and same thing was drilled into us at school.

    Now, I’m seeing these folks treat memes on Facebook like it’s the gospel truth. Or some random mommy blog post with zero references as straight facts. It’s so maddening … What happened to these people?

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• fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m also not talking to your father on behalf of you

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s no getting them out of it without several things, namely their consent and will to change and professional deprogramming.

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