[kwlug-disc] [OT] Ivermectin

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

In the past, some companies and industries did bad things indeed.

- Microsoft with the browser antitrust
- Tobacco companies and lung cancer
- Energy companies denying global warming is due to emissions from fossil
fuels
- Lead in gasoline causing severe developmental issues
- Sugar companies blaming fat for obesity and heart disease

Some tend to generalize from the above and claim : all companies must be
doing bad things. That is not a logical approach.

In every case of the above corporate cover ups, it was evidence that proved
that something bad was going on. There were independent researchers in
universities studying the effects of the products, whistleblowers who
leaked
company files proving that they knew what they are doing is bad, activists,
investigative reporters, and so on ...

It was not a blanket claim by extrapolation that "bad things happened in
the
past, so everything done by company/industry X must equally be bad", rather
it is gathering evidence (scientific, investigative, medical, ...etc) to
prove something
amiss is going on.

Where is the evidence that the entire pandemic is made up, and not due to
a known newly emerging virus, and that all the efforts to combat it are
conspiracies
(be it vaccines, masking up, distancing, ...etc)?

There is no evidence for any of the claims, and they are harmful because
they
make the pandemic last longer as people ignore health measures out of spite
for "the other side", and they hurt society by making any public discourse
immediately
polarize people for/against, damaging society in the long term.

Compare this to societies where people follow government advice without the
need for mandates, such as Sweden. They followed the recommendations
largely and had generally good outcomes.
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