I'm not sure that's how it works. There's a calculus to this I don't quite understand.

The group blesses and curses treatments based on contradictory criteria.

Ivermectin is blessed, supposedly because it is cheap. Molnupiravir is cursed, because it is a new drug Big Pharma wants you to pay more for. The vaccines are cursed, even though they're cheap. Monoclonal antibodies are blessed, even though they are very expensive, and are effectively just the products of vaccination.

I think it's more likely people are just doing what they are told by whoever influences them the most. None of it has to be consistent or make any kind of sense.

I'm being downvoted but in March, conservatives were screaming about how unfair it was that prisoners were getting their shots first. Things aren't always what they seem.

It's related to the Lindy effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Do open random executables that you get in your email? If not, why not?

No, I don’t.

But just like I can trust the things I buy from the grocery stone to not poison me or to have stones embedded inside, I trust medical products taken by millions or even billions of people

People in urban areas like yourself only get food from the grocery store, so they naturally treat everything behind that as a black box. You have a learned belief in the “API of the City”, and that’s OK. The API tells you to inject yourself with random concoction that you can’t independently verify and so you do it.

People in rural areas see how food grows directly— from the ground or from livestock. They can get food from the grocery or from their backyard: sometimes the backyard food is fresher and better. These folks don’t trust the “API of the City” to provide for them. That’s OK too. The API tells them to inject themselves with a random concoction that they can’t independently verify and so they refuse.

Do you apply random security patches signed by your distro maintainers?

No, I have the type of job where reading the changeset is important. For this reason, I prefer to run NixOS.

I don’t get injections or pills from random people stopping by my house.

You trust the manufacturer and their supply chain on the value of their marketing efforts. That’s OK.

I doubt it.

Source: https://babylonbee.com/news/pfizer-releases-popular-new-drug...