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Bill Russell's avatar

Prior to all the now, super-boring pharma commercials which eventually will drive anyone insane, I enjoyed the days with the Maxwell House coffee commercials, Tide Soap, Brylcreem (A little dab'll do ya), Mr. Clean, etc. Of course, I'm going back to the 1950's when life was simple and I looked forward to watching those Saturday morning shows of Buster Brown, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Lone Ranger. Simply lots of fun shows for the kids. When someone was killed in a cowboy show, you knew it was fake; the guy fell down and no blood. Then the Hollywood squid was invented to spray blood everywhere ... especially good when color TV came around in 1954 (if you had $1K and $500 in 1957). Everything had to be made to look real. Now we have "real" fake politicians offering free stuff. Adults are suckers like little kids accepting candy from a stranger. Seems everyone has to be pampered now to keep them happy; provided fake promises from politicians like paying school debts and on and on and on. People pretend to be happy but are really miserable. We are going through an end-of-the-world syndrome.

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Jeff barton's avatar

I used to respect my doctor. I admired the pharmaceutical industry for what I believed were miracle cures. I viewed science as an uncorruptible search for the truth. I devoted my life to science. Then covid came along and all of my views changed. Not about science but about human nature. I learned that science is as corruptible as human nature. People can be deplorable in their quest for wealth or equally in their complacency. The greatest healthcare system on the planet knowingly forced most Americans to to inject a substance with no demonstrable benefit and significant risk. Most doctors were complacent. My doctor will no longer see me for questioning the efficacy of covid boosters. I guess easy money has a powerful corrupting influence which used to draw people to politics but now draws many to medicine.

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