How Did We Get Here?

[@MedlifeCrisis]

In an alternate timeline, little Farrokh Bulsara followed a more typical Indian immigrant path into medical school, rather than changing his name to Freddie Mercury, and I guess he makes KZbin videos occasionally. I read a quote under one of Hank Green’s videos just now that seemed appropriate for this video, from another fellow alumnus of mine (school), GK Chesterton: “The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.”

[@nomennescio7571]

That is a very good quote, I'm going to remember that one! No, wait, I'm going to save it somewhere in my brain and not be able to ever retrieve it again 😂

[@Bibibosh]

as an australian. i support trump!

[@anguscampbell3020]

The world needs you.

[@anguscampbell3020]

@@Bibibosh I guess stupidity knows no borders.

[@RICDirector]

@Bibibosh...take him....please!!

[@bilboswaggings]

The password finally found him

[@erdood3235]

What is this a reference to?

[@bilboswaggings]

@erdood3235 the famous "He remembered the password " when someone finally uploads

[@Floedekage]

​@@erdood3235 boring repetitive youtube comments.

[@meretriciousinsolent]

​@@Floedekage first time I've heard it 😅

[@The_Normalised_Cyclist]

@@meretriciousinsolentwe the boomers of the internet

[@ShoaibKhanZ]

He was working on getting the moustache to grow. Now finally he is back.

[@MedlifeCrisis]

Growing a moustache for 11 months? No, this was just Movember.

[@FirstSynapse]

He can grow that moustache overnight

[@tobylegion6913]

​@@MedlifeCrisis let me guess, you started late? This Wednesday?

[@andrewdunbar828]

Rumour has it that it was the moustache that grew him.

[@andy_ppp]

I’ve been working on mine for over 25 years and it’s still not great 😂

[@eedobee]

When I first found out Dr Oz was the appointee I went to bed shortly after. The next morning I actually had to check because I thought I’d dreamt it.

[@firestar7774]

Open your mind! Oz could be there to widely out the rest of those baddie! Trump is playing a chess game but it will all come to light!

[@Madferreiro]

​@@firestar7774trump and chess hahaha

[@cgttc0441]

nightmare come true

[@R4de]

@@firestar7774 Oz fits in perfectly with the other frauds in the administration

[@madshorn5826]

​@@firestar7774 If you open your mind too much your brain will fall out. Seems to have happened to the next US administration.

[@aayushgsa]

Never in my wildest dreams I imagined the Matrix being reenacted in front of Edward Jenner's statue with some quality Hindi dub

[@DanielBrotherston]

One of the reasons that school closures in the US and Canada were so prolonged was because the other measures to control the pandemic were significantly less effective, and less quickly applied. I remember refrigerated trailers filled with bodies were parked outside our hospitals where tents outside were holding the least critical but still dying patients. This was the context in which these schools were closed. As usual, North America failed our children because we weren't willing to make any other sacrifices for ourselves. The same reason we have the highest rates of all other causes of childhood harm and disease, because contrary to the "think of the children" bullshit, adults only think of themselves.

[@VicvicW]

The refrigeration lorries used as temporary morgues was certainly shocking, but to pretend it is unprecedented is another of those pernicious bits of misinformation that infests the well meaning left. A lot of people died during COVID. This is not something anyone can really argue with. These bodies need to be put somewhere. Refrigeration lorries are a standard part of disaster response and management of the dead. I wish people would stop bringing it up like it's something massively shocking. It's not to anyone who has done the minimum of research into what is done when a lot of people die and it can be managed. We also had huge hospital overflows here in the UK. Large convention venues were converted to "Nightingale Hospitals" (not really used as I don't think they were properly staffed, as opposed to them not being needed.) the US was not unique in being overwhelmed. You're engaging in American exceptionalism: that what you faced was so uniquely bad that ignoring research was called for. It wasn't. Stop pretending it was.

[@maverick9708]

It's not like covid writes the policies, people do So in other words, people in America chose to prolong them

[@rhapsodyinblue111]

43:14 "Nobody was talking about raw milk a couple of years ago" Perhaps not in the mainstream, but having grown up on the white American homeschooled evangelical side of things, people have been talking about raw milk for at least two decades. RFK just gave them a platform.

[@FartyHarley]

Have you tried activated raw milk?

[@bluester7177]

Also, some years ago was already pretty popular with gym dudes, who think it helps their muscles. Edit- I researched and there is a video from 12 years ago of a guy recommending it for muscle gain.

[@lukelun]

@@bluester7177 Its still popular with gym dudes unfortunately. If placebos are what you want, being a gym bro takes the cake (or raw milk) on taking and thinking they're getting effects from it physically and/or mentally. Annoying to always see people say "i drink raw milk every day and im fine" still, why? i would rather you take imaginary test increase pills and placebo on something safe instead of e coli bacteria

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

louis pasteur is rolling in his grave right now

[@robertjenkins6132]

I like raw milk. But before drinking it I prefer to first have it heated to a temperature that is high enough to kill pathogens. (Ain't nobody need bacteria in their tum-tum.) But I'm too lazy to do this myself, so I have other people do it for me. They deposit it into the refrigerator at the grocery store, where I purchase it.

[@TheRealistMus]

Also unintentionally funny translation of MAHA in Somali is “It isn’t”. Make America Healthy Again, It isn’t.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

this is maha funny (maha in prefixes mean really/very/greatly)

[@HweolRidda]

Make America Honest Again. Campaign slogan for a future election. Yes it is a poke at "great" (=maha) in a different campaign.

[@Pseudonyymi568]

maha in Finnish = belly

[@firestar7774]

Wow you people are so lost! Just find out that the English language was created by the Jesuits! 🙃

[@Daniel-yy3ty]

So, to condense all the meanings, "Make America Belly Great Again, It isn't" Is that about reducing obesity? 🤔

[@kehlery]

RFK’s appointment was making me think about your videos a lot, seems like a fitting time to return.

[@rokssolana]

Even as a child in rural Ukraine, where we didn't even have an indoor toilet for the first few years of my life, I would not drink raw milk. We bought milk from our neighbor's cow, but we would ALWAYS boil it first, no question. Some Americans are going so far backwards it's just baffling.

[@ariiiii773]

ill make sure to boil my milk just in case for now on 😋 (help)

[@Ad1nfernum]

I think what's going on here is most people now - not just Americans - spend their lives in the city and have never in fact seen how dirty cows are and so have no understanding of the risk of bacteria being introduced into the milk just from the cows themselves. I grew up in cattle country in rural Canada, and though I was surrounded by mostly beef operations, my cousin worked on a dairy farm and once took me with him to milk the cows one morning. So I've seen it firsthand. Also, I almost died as an infant from e. coli meningitis. It's not something I'm going to mess around with, ever.

[@T-aka-T]

​​@@Ad1nfernum There was a report the other day of a baby dying from listeria in packaged meat (US product, Chinese company). Getting rid of govt agencies and regulations is the goal of religio-corporate Project 2025 as it stops them gouging even more $$$ out of the govt and markets. There will be many more examples, the more they deregulate. On the other hand, RFKJ wants more regs. It doesn't compute. Possibly even worse, the listeria event will also be seized upon by vegans as a reason not to eat meat.

[@scania9786]

yeah, as someone growing up on a farm buying non pasteurized milk makes no sense. Though i prefer the taste of low pasteurized milk

[@catc8927]

The saddest part is that some of these American raw milk enthusiasts are boiling the milk at home … y’know, to kill the germs. 🤦🏻‍♀️😭

[@charmsz566]

internal medicine resident checking in here, fully embarrassed, happy to see Medlife again commiserating over our collective misfortune. cheers from this sinking ship; your sound reasoning is a soothing titanic orchestra for my forlorn soul

[@i.k.8868]

Why be embarrassed? Doesn't matter where you live, we are all facing the same problems.

[@charmsz566]

@ particularly acknowledging and responding to the points throughout this video touching on the way the US has an outsized influence throughout the world. I’m disappointed in the trajectory of my country and I regret that our poor leadership may contribute to adverse outcomes (to put it blandly) worldwide.

[@i.k.8868]

@@charmsz566 You are not that influential or special. This false idea comes from the concept of US 'exceptionalism'. All around the world quacks, cranks and grifters have jumped into the information gap left by scientists and doctors. Us Europeans shouldn't become complacent with the idea that all our problems are imported from the US. We had quacks and charlatans in suits long before you did.

[@bluester7177]

​@@i.k.8868they are influential in a lot of the world, most of their brain rot gets exported to other places at least in he rest of the American continent.

[@kitefan1]

Hang in there. Life is change. (Northeastern US.)

[@StrongMed]

Rohin, you hit the nail on the head here. In particular, I agree 100% on the impact of overzealous and oversimplistic messaging related to the COVID vaccine, meds (Paxlovid and remdesivir), masks, and "lockdowns". The attacks that the medical establishment launched on anyone - including academics - questioning the effectiveness of any of these interventions resulted in the individuals adopting more dramatic rhetoric and catering to an increasing anti-establishment (and right-wing) audience. I expect some of these folks will be involved in the new Trump administration in some capacity, and I worry that their decisions will be impacted by the memory of their colleagues' harsh criticisms. Healthcare in the US is in for a wild ride...

[@MedlifeCrisis]

Thanks my friend. As was perhaps predictable, a lot of the comments are people who still see everything in a binary way, but I’m heartened by those keen to see the nuance and common ground, and especially colleagues and friends like you. I completely agree re medical professionals who’ve gone full MAHA in response to the wokescolds, you’re in close proximity to a few, it’s just so depressing that people are like this

[@seaofseeof]

Yep. You see this same thing happening in the lifting community. Everyone is suddenly "anti science." And I think this goes back to lockdown and covid messaging. I wasn't initially anti-lockdowns. I was just skeptical, wondering if the downstream economic effects of the lockdown policies could eventually culminate into a greater net number of deaths than were saved by flattening the curve. That isn't.... anti science. That's questioning the policies based on pre-existing knowledge of other scientific fields (like economics). But there was absolutely no room to voice this on any sort of public forum without being lumped in with the "vaccines give you autism crowd." And in that moment, I knew that this sort of messaging would set back science communication by several decades.

[@unom8]

We could have eradicated SARS-COV-2, but the political will was missing.

[@unom8]

It isn't just about the impact to individuals, it is about quality of outcomes over generations, we will see lower life expectancy for some time to come

[@3nertia]

I s'pose that's what happens under capitalism when healthcare is more about profits than it is about health or caring ...

[@olof3474]

"Mähä" in Swedish is when you are referring to a person who is helpless from being incompetent - "he is a complete mähä". The quacks are getting to loud these days.

[@T-aka-T]

Every zillion years or so we learn something fascinating/useful on YT. You win the internet for today, and perhaps forever. 👍😊

[@maverick9708]

And a similar fun fact, just for the other candidate, In Finnish, "Kamala" means terrible I feel like hopeless and terrible candidates fighting ewxh other alps happens to be a fantastic metaphor to describe modern politics 😂 💀

[@svos7559]

​@@maverick9708Glömmde dig vad "maha" betyder på finska?

[@spasticbrit]

Too*

[@FreshGreenMoss]

@@maverick9708 And we all know what 'Harris' means .

[@SageThyme23]

Massive videos from hank green and medlife about the situation of the world one day after the other. At least thats a golden lining I guess

[@StichYul]

"They both just love children" You are a savage!!! Loved it!!!

[@firestar7774]

It is better that parents will have a choice to vaccinate or not to vaccinate their children!

[@DahVoozel]

​@firestar7774 They do have a choice, they have always had a choice.

[@firestar7774]

@@DahVoozel not true!

[@fahrenheit2101]

@@firestar7774 From the looks of it, it is indeed true. You're somewhat free to endanger yourself, just stay tf away from a public school if you do so. No vaccinating your kids because of paranoia is your problem, being around others in then their problem, and they're well within their right to not want you around. Of course, even so, individual states will have their own laws on top of the universal and obvious requirement I detailed above.

[@firestar7774]

@ I don’t know what the heck you are talking about but I stand by what I said! It’s about choice and that’s that!

[@wondering_benzoate]

As a biochemist in Europe, the potential threat to NIH is scary to me. The resources they provide as well as funding for research are invaluable to human progress. It is truly one of the best things America has done, and it would be a terrible mistake to gut or hinder the NIH.

[@CompComp]

Funny many people in America can't afford healthcare that their taxes developed. I have a bs in chemistry. Trying to decide if I want to go into more debt you can't get rid of... I mean further my education. I hate America. My first taste of this was a friend dying from diabetes at 19. (neonatal diabetes if memory serves me) He couldn't afford the right amount of insulin.

[@njay4361]

Chemist in America here. Regret my grad school student loans immensely. Loved the research and experience in school, but cannot stand corporate America culture. Been in it for over 15 years now and feel sorry for those behind me. You'll eventually make decent money, but as you make more, you'll have to pay more on your neverending student loans. So you never get ahead, just barely keep your head above choppy waters. It is not a good to be a worker -- sorry 🥲 Best path is to start your own thing and figure out how to make money doing it. Good luck 🫶

[@CompComp]

@@njay4361 I would love to get more education, and I have excellent grades. I think it's just not in the cards for me. I came from poverty. Husband came from poverty.

[@3nertia]

@@njay4361 Welcome to capitalism!

[@solarissv777]

@@CompComp The thing is that insulin is 10 times cheaper in Europe (depending on country, e.g. in Poland it is 20 times cheaper).

[@dbandia]

Welcome Back! Forgive me, I could not bear to watch this. As an American trapped in this system it was just too depressing.

[@andrewdunbar828]

Sanewashing is my second favourite new word of the day. But only because you also introduced me to cloutchasing!

[@tombuckman9278]

I love off-the-cuff videos. I'm going to refer to them as vlogs. One might call you a vlogger now.

[@MedlifeCrisis]

😤

[@hive_indicator318]

A healthcare influencer, even

[@PlaCerHooD]

Cheeky 😂

[@omarambon883]

this election so bad they got old youtubers come back to life to talk about it

[@LinusBerglund]

Judging by the mustache he died about 130 years ago.

[@hosermandeusl2468]

After listening to the 10 minute anti-vax/mask tirade a chiropractor I was visiting for the first time, I calmly told him his services were NOT needed & I left.

[@awakenotwoke1973]

I guess you still haven't caught up with the reality. You're very slow.

[@Liloldliz]

Good idea. Chiropractic is not based on evidence. You'll be better off with physiotherapy, which is backed by science.

[@great-garden-watch]

You probably prevented your own paralysis

[@不幸屋の娘-o6l]

You're probably vaxxed from COVID? RIP poor soul. You weren't smart enough to understand what was going on.

[@prieadieu]

​@@awakenotwoke1973 Bot

[@mggardiner4066]

I will say a lot of the pushing young people to vaccinate for covid was somewhat needed because of the high presence of chronic health issues and immune deficiency in America that go unaddressed. A 28 yo acquaintance of mine through mutual close friends fell down this whole anti covid vaccine rabbit hole and refused to get vaccinated even though she had weight issues. We were all heartbroken when she got covid and ended up passing away after lingering for days in the hospital. Her fiancé who had argued with her early on when he saw her going down that path was especially devastated. She’d told him when hospitalized she hadn’t realized how bad it was (due to consuming rampant disinformation about it being perfectly safe if you are young) and if she’d known she would have gotten one.

[@someperson8670]

Majestic Mustache! On a more serious note, while I haven't seen the whole video yet, I'm so glad you are making this as it feels really important rn!

[@GlutenEruption]

Freddie Mercury is alive!!

[@xmfclick]

He obviously thinks it's important to spout more bollocks and fake facts. The poor bloke evidently gets all his "information" from CNN & MSNBS.

[@ronald3836]

@@GlutenEruption So HIV did not cause AIDS after all?!

[@wgolyoko]

It's insane that the world has someone forgotten plagues. We used to have the biggest cause of death be diseases and now that we've stopped that, people just... forgot it was a thing :/

[@njay4361]

Yep... 😞

[@3nertia]

Because it's historically meaningless data lmao. All those plagues and there are still over 8 billion people today - I'd call that a negligible difference ... Before COVID? 7 billion people! After COVID? 8 billion people! Almost as if all the lockdowns did was create another billion pawns for the system ...

[@catc8927]

Sigh, the public health people talked about this early in the pandemic - measures that work well become their own best enemy, because people think it was an overreaction without realizing that the measures taken are WHY they looks like an overreaction.

[@ronald3836]

@@catc8927 I never get wet when I leave my house with an umbrella, so I think I'll stop taking my umbrella with me.

[@hadassahm3016]

He's alive!

[@robertjenkins6132]

A mere hologram of the doctor, it is. You can see it flickering at 1:33 😁

[@kellydalstok8900]

The moustache, you mean.

[@User122-ty]

U mean the worm in the empty skull of RFK Jr?

[@ronald3836]

He reincarnated.

[@CheckeeAintAmused]

It made me laugh out loud and then immediately very sad when you felt the need to clarify that "leaky brain" was in fact "not a real thing".

[@wakingcharade]

CSF leakage, on the other hand...

[@Just_a_Goth]

​@@wakingcharade That's *usually* due to injury, tho.

[@wakingcharade]

@@Just_a_Goth it can be caused by congenital things, anything done to the spine, and also increased intracranial pressure. but certainly not 5G. the only thing 5G does is mess with some meteorological instruments as far as I know

[@saltoftheegg]

I bet you could convince conservatives it's real

[@turkyandgravy]

His argument is the radiation from phones can harm the blood brain barrier. Studies are inconclusive about the risks associated with wifi radiation, so it's a little premature to dismiss him.

[@Xob_Driesestig]

Rohin took off the gloves so violently the friction caused his fists to ignite and he can now roast people without throwing hands.

[@Jakey4000]

The increase in vaccine hesitency due to covid is really starting to show in Aotearoa, New Zealand. I'm a pharmacy technician, the ministry of health has sent out a few warning emails about the sharp increase of pertussis in the community. Pharmac has recently expanded the funding criteria for Boostrix, I've ordered in a few boxes as people are calling and want it. I did further study earlier in the year to become a vaccinating healthcare worker to take the stress off of my pharmacists. This will still get much worse before these vaccinations can work, and if children still aren't getting vaccinated they will suffer gravely.

[@maverick9708]

Thank you for your insight

[@juliamonaghan1506]

Hi, I follow the stats in NZ on childhood vaccinations. They had the opportunity not long before the 2019 measles epidemic to follow the lead of Australia and implement a "no jab, no pay" policy of not paying some family benefits to parents of non-vaccinated children. They did not do this. In addition, I have noted that under the Ardern government, childhood vaccinations rates had immediately begun to drop. I do NOT know the actual reason for this but was told by a friend that the Health Dept there was moved to a more centralised model that directly impacted the vaccinations rates. As such, NZ rates were below the 95% needed to provide general herd immunity, with disastrous results for both Samoa (whose peoples have close links with NZ) and for all in NZ, including Maori, a group that was underrepresented anyway. So utterly sad and unnecessary - is this what the US has to look forward to?

[@Jakey4000]

@juliamonaghan1506 Yes, it is what the US should look forward to experiencing soon! Unvaccinated children are excluded from public schools, however it doesn't stop them from interacting in a community setting. These unvaccinated kids inevitably get seriously ill, parents take them to ED (ER for US I think?) and expose extremely vulnerable people to severe illness. I wasn't personally well versed in the Ardern governments first term health policy as I was in Australia at the time. I believe they fairly placed a focus on building new hospitals around the country as our old hospitals aren't fit for purpose in the modern world. This shouldn't have came at a detriment to our public health. I personally believe that the measles outbreak in Samoa was fully the fault of the ministry of health, or Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand) I liked Ardern as an empathetic leader through serious tragic events that rocked our nation over her tenure, however the empathetic nature of Ardern was her downfall. Sometimes we needed a leader to communicate a clear message without feeling like we're being talked to by an early childhood educator

[@95mudshovel]

it's like living in a reality show where the contestants race to the bottom and we, the audience, all lose no matter what.

[@SimulacresSimulacres-h6i]

Trump's tariffs mean easy money to Americans. He may be putting in some of his kronies, but he's a good guy at heart looking out for the American people (why he won the popular vote and got his convictions dropped)

[@snoozley853]

​@SimulacresSimulacres-h6i you're an embarrassment if you honestly believe that.

[@Leo_Zeo_Lhang]

@@SimulacresSimulacres-h6i “Good guy at heart” LMAO Pretty much every major economic organization and every respected economist has said the tariffs Trump proposes will raise prices for Americans and hurt economy. They also won’t bring jobs back either they will just move to other developing countries. Also Trump doesn’t care about you.

[@FartyHarley]

@@SimulacresSimulacres-h6i You clearly don’t understand what tariffs are or how they work. It is a tax paid by consumers on imported goods. There is no money being brought into the country. It is designed to make imported goods relatively more expensive than locally produced goods, however, there is often not a local industry manufacturing those goods anymore because they cannot compete on price, so the consumers just get “taxed” more by these tariffs. Also, foreign nations don’t like this type of unfair trade so they retaliate with their own tariffs on imports hurting the US. No free money from tariffs.

[@bluester7177]

​@@SimulacresSimulacres-h6iThat's not how tariffs work, I know, I live in a country which uses them, and I pay at least 20% in everything I import.

[@antlerman7644]

It makes me proud of the UK medical system to see so many UK doctors online spreading factually accurate information in a digestable way. Whatever the industry you are in, disinformation and the post truth era, is one of the most pressing issues of our times. Also, great stash

[@xmfclick]

Agreed, it's great to see a doctor giving a reasonable, unbiased opinion. I'm just off to a channel where there actually is one.

[@i.k.8868]

I wish we had a similar culture in the Netherlands. I don't think I have ever seen a public statement by a doctor. In general, Dutch medical professionals don't even want to talk to nurses or other "lower pay staff".

[@Soundbrigade]

A) we have a medical TV show here in Sweden where doctors, often specialists, explain various medical conditions and answer questions from the viewers. B) a doctor giving lunatic advices or is using medical procedures not accepted will be investigated and possibly loose his/her diploma.

[@nirfz]

I think that all depends on what you intent to watch. If you start into the conspiracy wannabe medical quacks realm, you will just see more and more of it. That's sadly how the internet works. And people even do it with "old media" too. Rabbitholes are a real thing. Inthis day and age you can choose if you want to be well informed or follow insane people. And many do the later without even realizing. They just look for someone that says what they want to hear. And as soon as one or two sentences fit their needs, they ignore the rest, or over time take over the insane standpoints. I have seen that with working collegues and relatives over the last 4 years. Even thought they could choose to listen to actual scientists that get checked if they talk shit. But some prefer to ignore that. Where i live vaccination against tick-borne-encephalitis is recommended to everyone from child to old people. Every 5 years for anyone under the age of 60 and every 3 years for people over 60. And it works. Sure there is also Lyme desease that ticks can transmit, and the vaccine doesn't help against it. But at least brain and neve damage is prevented from the encephalitis vaccine. And yet one of my working collegues acutally belives that the vaccine attracts ticks. Because since he stopped getting vaccinated he hasn't gotten bitten by a tick. If that would be the case, those vaccines would have stopped being adminstered after the first time.

[@cjay2]

Now you have a 'post truth era'? And the usual 'disinformation' term too? 'Disinformation' used to be a propaganda response to 'another opinion'. Now it's 'disinformation'. I guess I can leave now.

[@felixvarghese2307]

I am so happy you are back Dr. Francis. I've been praying for this moment. This was such an important topic and I was waiting on what you have to say as well.

[@NeroKoso]

Maha in Finnish means stomach. Which is also kinda fitting for this.

[@firestar7774]

Maha means supreme in French so your point exactly! Why can’t you hope at least that pale would be onto a healthy path! At least let’s see what happens! Gosh!

[@viktorw2322]

Mate, just the introduction made me pause the video to take a deep breath :D "...will american children be able to say the same in 4 yours time?" Bloody hell, talk about shooting from the hip

[@cheydinal5401]

The "RFK Jr being forced to eat McDonald's" was about him once recently mocking how Trump eats only junk food, so he had to bend the knee (again) and eat what he considers to be poison (rightly so actually, American food has like 20 random lab chemical ingredients while European food just doesn't have any of it, our preservatives are vitamin C (named as ascorbic acid) and citric acid etc, stuff you eat in regular food anyway so it's 100% safe, not "We ran a study and couldn't show a connection of somebody dying from this random chemical, ergo it's safe. Yay!" Which is especially dumb because it doesn't prove eating 20 of those random things isn't going to have non-lethal harm (like on the very precarious nervous system))

[@T-aka-T]

Yes - and not just RFKJ. It is the coercive control method of 🍊. Like an abuser, switching between "love" and debasement/humiliation. Being owned. Especially gratifying for a malignant narcissism to humiliate a Kennedy (substitute royalty to the max)

[@ronald3836]

RFK Jr made a video about E102 (Tartrazin) which he wants to ban. E102 is allowed in the EU.

[@BenjaminSmith2]

While I do think there should have been more time spent on how the COVID-19 vaccines were proven to be safe and effective, I don't agree that comparing them to childhood vaccines was a bad thing to do. Vaccine hesitancy was already rising in the US, because of the likes of "Dr" Oz and RFK Jr.

[@wakingcharade]

Yeah, I think the good doctor is really underestimating things like Qanon and the sheer level of tribalism and conspiratorial thinking in the US that was well on the rise way way before any of what he seems to... almost be complaining about. I'm glad he made the comparison to the post election post mortums because this reeks of "we didn't mediate far ENOUGH to the right! Dems were too woke!" talk that doesn't actually reflect anything on the ground. Even less so, because all of this would make sense only if these forces started in year 3. They didn't. they started month one.

[@searchingfortruth619]

Just because they are safe and effective, doesn't mean we have the right to force people to take them. Some people are stupid, and for evolutions sake I say we should let them be. We can't save people from themselves. What each individual should do is save themselves from being dragged into the Darwinian vortex.

[@bluester7177]

​@@searchingfortruth619but some people cannot take them for health reason, so more often than not these people die and the uncooperative people live to be 100.

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

⁠​⁠@@bluester7177 this! i’m immunocompromised and the covid vaccine is contraindicated for me because of concerns about my autoimmune diseases and possibilities of cytokine storms. it’s scary how people spit in your face and basically tell you that you should just die because you’re not healthy enough to get over a mere “sniffle” and survival of the fittest or whatever. i still encourage people to get it if they’re able to because i can benefit from herd immunity(in its scientifically correct meaning and context) without risking the potential adverse effects me getting it would have

[@lmaolol9357]

​@@S3lkie-Gutz Covid vaccine is indicated for immunocompromised, according to WHO.

[@eaofdeath187]

You know the system is failing when the guy that got brain worms form eating roadkill is in charge of food safety.

[@paulgreen9059]

No, road kill gives you trichinosis. We don't know what gave him a brain worm. My favorite theory is unwashed salad, where he eats an infected slug, but we may never really know.

[@Liloldliz]

A more empathetic person would be trying to prevent other people from experiencing the same pain he did. But no.

[@overseastom]

​@@Liloldlizmaybe the slug ate that part of his brain?

[@ReelityEngine]

Don't forget, it was Rfk who brought this up so it could be used against his wife in divorce proceedings. The man is a dishonest worm himself.

[@firestar7774]

Hmmm like the out going one is a woman oh a man!!!

[@doomass4ever]

Every pick Trump makes for his cabinet is very logical if you listen to Steve Bannons (the architect behind Trumps presidency) ideas about the deconstruction of state institutions. OZ and RFK are not chosen because of their competence, but from their potential to decimate the institutions they are in charge of while being loyal to the leader.

[@clouduponthemoon530]

As my feed constantly reminds me, "This isn't a Cabinet; it's a junk drawer."

[@syncionebresgal8523]

I, for one, am very happy to have your take on all this. Thanks!

[@PeterHamiltonz]

Glad to see you back. And thanks for the Matrix interlude. 😁

[@great-garden-watch]

Rfk is absolutely insane. Accidentally, he has said one or two ok things about food but that was accidentally. Sometimes a true idiot says a thing that’s correct. They’re still idiots.

[@marianhunt8899]

Not idiots, they're more like charlatans and are getting very rich from it.

[@randomnobody8770]

RFK is an environmental lawyer who thinks he's a scientist.

[@Tsotha]

Here in Denmark we have a proverb that goes "even a blind chicken sometimes finds a grain".

[@riveteye93]

This but reversed ,he said a couple weird things but in general he's great, keep coping Now dr Oz is pretty bad news

[@pooflakes1]

​@@riveteye93 Don't know much about RFK. What resource do you recommend to get unbiased info on him?

[@owensquelch449]

I was honestly wondering where you were a few days ago, and I have to say I’m glad you’re back, also congratulations on getting the lead role for the reboot of Magnum, P.I.

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

I was thinking Manuel from Fawlty Towers.

[@suzannetitkemeyernlq]

As an American citizen living abroad who has to fly back every so many months to pick up biologic medicine and low level chemo for my mastocytosis I am freaking out. I have been largely stable for 15 years now with a few interesting side rambles into new allergies and I'd like to stay that way! Costa Rica does not have biologics and they don't prescribe the same low level chemo I get for off label things like masto. My CR doctor and US doctor are both also freaking out. We've already come up with a plan forward with what's available in CR. This is a cluster-you-know-what! I think the brain worm is piloting its host RFK Jr. Good to see you again.

[@jlvandat69]

This probably isn't helpful, but literally everyone I know is freaking out, to a greater or lesser degree. I had just managed to deal with the fact the USA elected a master con man in 2016, and then the country did it AGAIN, after an Insurrection, felony convictions, etc. I am not sure I'll ever be able to grasp this. Best wishes on your treatment....🙏🙏

[@Ki_Adi_Mundi]

As an American citizen living abroad who has to fly back every so many months to pick up biologic medicine and low level chemo, you can probably afford to just not do that like most people with debilitating diseases. 🤷🏻‍♂

[@cjay2]

@@jlvandat69 Are your borders open enough? Enjoy your new 'neighbors'.

[@maverick9708]

Can't believe this terrible healthcare system is going to crumble, >Oh yeah I fly to that country for regular treatment BTW 😂 I wish you the best of luck, disease is an awful thing 💙

[@tristan7216]

Realistically, I thinkhope he's not going to ban chemo drugs, more likely he'll expand the available set of treatments to nonsense like hydroxy and "functional mushrooms", and you just ignore it and keep taking what your oncologist prescribes. That's my plan anyway, my 30 years of C++ experience don't qualify me to pick my own cancer treatments.

[@sirBrouwer]

17:50 a Indian version of the Matrix interesting you missed your calling for the big screen I see.

[@jeffruebens8355]

We are getting closer and closer to the Idiocracy movie, especially Hulk Hogan at the Republican Convention, and the wife of the WWE leader maybe becoming the Education leader.

[@JohanKylander]

Their president had the worlds smartest guy in charge of solving their problems.

[@jandrozd3139]

This is what we have all been waiting for. Informational, interesting, funny and relevant. Love your videos, greetings from the Czech Republic.

[@ihdieselman]

If you think it's alarming just imagine living in the US right now

[@bluester7177]

I read this and thought it was probably not that bad and then I scrolled down the comment section, it must be excruciating.

[@Just_a_Goth]

I don't have to...

[@xunqianbaidu6917]

@@bluester7177 It's fine tbh.

[@ronald3836]

Still there is a shimmer of hope that RFK Jr will tackle at least some of the real issues mentioned in the second half of the video. But I don't live there, so I'll just take my Tartrazin-colored popcorn and watch.

[@i.k.8868]

Thanks for coming back, but I think you overestimate the medical knowledge of the average European. At least here in the Netherlands, we are not that far behind the craziness of the US. Everyone who pays extra for physiotherapy coverage unwillingly subsidizes others going to chiropractors. And hyperbaric treatments are also very popular here. Vaccination rates of children are dropping like a brick, especially among the lowest and highest (!) educated parents. In some areas of cities it is now below 70%... And our minister of healthcare is also a mental patient.

[@bluester7177]

It seems to me that it is kind of a worldwide thing, probably because of a variety of factors but mostly because the US affects most of us, so it emboldens the people who think the same in other countries and social media potencialize the reach and impact of those beliefs.

[@i.k.8868]

@@bluester7177 Please stop blaming the US. It is dangerous as it absolves us of taking responsibility for our own mistakes.

[@bluester7177]

​​I can't, I'm not European y, I'm Brazilian, the US governemt has literally done multiple coups here, the last was 10 years ago, Trump called my ex president when he won this time, Steve Bannon helped said ex president campaign in 2018, there was an insurrection here too, we are affected, most of the global south is.

[@ahmedbenlahrech5352]

It's 100% a worldwide thing, and social media is doing anything but amplifying it even more

[@ronald3836]

Before the pandemic, antivaxxers tended to be well-educated leftwingers (of the RFK Jr type), at least in The Netherlands, Germany and the US (and probably in all of the western world).

[@ironstevie]

yay, welcome back! your assessment is in dire need.

[@my_name_is_rhyme]

I missed your brilliance. You're so bloody smart

[@my_name_is_rhyme]

Acá hilarious

[@cyan_oxy6734]

As a German I appreciated the "koching" joke. For non-germans "kochen" is to cook and "Koch" is "chef" but also a common last name.

[@christopherrobinson7541]

Is that your Koch postulates, or are you just pleased to see me.

[@Davoerlo]

Missed your videos and humour. Great to see that your, in the words of Granny Weatherwax, "I aint Ded!"

[@kellydalstok8900]

*aten’t

[@MorgurEdits]

25:00 Vaccine mandates were indeed not in place in many places around for example around Europe, but mandate of a vaccine pass or vaccination proof when traveling internationally or when visiting certain establishments was in place, which did force people to vaccinate if they had to travel between countries.

[@ag4444]

but how many people actually had to travel? most people just wanted to go on vacations but hardly anyone was forced to travel. a lot of people that used to travel for work did not need to do that. if you think many people were forced to travel you are lying to your self. in Germany you could very easily just not get vaccinated, but if you needed your yearly Mallorca/Spain vacation which was not possible without the vaccine that's your problem.

[@ncammann]

Excellent analysis. Goof to see you back, even if briefly. And I agree - Tom Nicholas is a superb documentary maker. Thoughtful, detailed and professionally made.

[@mikechiu9767]

Welcome back! I felt 50% smarter (and calmer) just seeing your video appearing on my feed again.

[@00dfm00]

Medlife Crisis is always worth watching. Informative, witty, topical, hilarious. Welcome back! We're going to need people like you more than ever during the next 4 -years- generations it will take to recover from this.

[@jellicle_kitten]

I'm glad a version of paxlovid is available in my country to just buy whenever I want. I know in Europe and Usa even old ppl with multiple health conditions often don't get this medication. Which is horrible bc paxlovid reduces many risks, not just death but also long covid. Btw vaccines DO influence the spread of covid. Vaccinated people spread it much less. In my personal opinion vaccine mandates weren't strong enough, and that combined with the lack of other measures is what enables the virus to spread and destroy lives.

[@cheekibreeki4638]

Unreal that you can let fear contol your life so hard, you would just willingly let the gov press the boot on your neck. In fact, you wish they pressed HARDER.

[@tanya5322]

Good to hear you are not dead ! 😊

[@Serioslump]

Love your work, and your voice is very much needed and appreciated right now. Good to hear from ya

[@colleenwilliams1689]

God I'm seeing people who don't even live in the US having to educate Americans about our own country and it makes me sad

[@guccidaniels]

great to have you back. hopefuly we will get more videos soon too.

[@DjDolHaus86]

Call me an extremist if you may but I feel that the person in charge of a nations healthcare should be a reputable member of the healthcare profession

[@Goodgu3963]

You mean like the people who are in charge of the current system we have right now? I supposed if you like the current state of American healthcare and do not think it should change, than this is a good stance to have.

[@DjDolHaus86]

@@Goodgu3963 I mean people with a genuine interest in the health of the public

[@jaykanta4326]

@@Goodgu3963 Anti-establishment crank.

[@Gnomes_]

Ahh Rohin! Don't worry, as one of your many millions of followers on bluesky, I knew you weren't dead!

[@meretriciousinsolent]

Is it worth joining or is it just another time suck?

[@Gnomes_]

@meretriciousinsolent it depends on what you want to get out of it, but personally I've already had some cool discussions on there, and found it to actually have the 'social' element of social media. I haven't found it to have the same endless time suck effect as other platforms like instagram (I've never been active on twitter so I can't compare the two), probably because I've curated who I follow + added some content filters so that I'm not seeing hyper inflammatory outrage bait :^>

[@Jack93885]

I appreciate the edit at 6:38, very smooth

[@ace.of.space.]

I'm watching this on nebula but I just had to comment here about how entertaining 18:09 is. incredible student filmmaking

[@stevesmith-sb2df]

I predict a surge in sales for magic crystals, magic holy water and coffins.

[@kagitsune]

time to throw in some investments 🥲

[@Liberperlo]

As a USA citizen, I can say you have hit all the issues we have here. Half the battle is getting the right care that the insurance companies are resistant to paying for. Most of the time I have to manage my own care, especially for women's issues or hearing care. ( I benefit from hearing aids and one often has to wait months for an appointment) Thanks for your commentary on this. I feel bad for the valiant nurses and doctors who have to work in the system we have.

[@Aphelia.]

As Turkish med students, we're ashamed of Dr. Oz. He's a disgrace on this earth

[@boyblob]

You had me at the thumbnail. Let's go!

[@agentp92115]

Dr. Oz is a straight up grifter.

[@geordish]

Strong Freddie Mercury vibes with that moustache!

[@Amaryllis-4U]

Yeah- regarding cabinet picks, “can anybody find me somebody to love?” 😢

[@Floedekage]

He wants to break free.

[@colleenwilliams1689]

Now his channel's under pressure to keep the vibe going.

[@PainfullySubjective]

how rare & wonderful it is to hear reasoned & nuanced online discussion on this (or any) topic. thanks for the video!

[@fran21159_]

I love it already 😂 so glad for a new video after so long

[@rockmusicman21]

I was slightly skeptical when i started this video but the amount of nuance and tact in addressing these issues was amazing. Well done Doc.

[@dimitriostarsky5845]

Happy to see you back, watching from Ukraine, still insane

[@Flixio-6]

Stay safe brother

[@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst]

Слава Україні Я не голосував за маріонетку Путіна.

[@aleksanderrubik]

Take care ❤️ Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦🤝🏻🇮🇹

[@yeetyeet7070]

I'm just a bit sad that Nebula and Second Thought parted ways. What are your thoughts on that? It's the only reason I decided against getting the Lifetime Membership

[@zachsharp4564]

“As democracy is perfected, the office [of president] represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” (H. L. Mencken, 1920) And that moron will appoint morons.

[@Sebloe]

Great vid, although was hoping for you to address his flouride position. Perhaps you can do it in a separate video? 🤞

[@CTCTraining1]

Excellent video - and rarity enhances the joy 😀👍 …. …. although I was guessing you might post something on the upcoming assisted dying bill. Keep up the great work!

[@hoenheim94]

"Nutriceutical" is unfortunately more than just a marketing term in the U.S., its actually a category of goods created in the early 90s that allows for supplements to fall into a regulatory gray area where they are not considered medications nor foods with regard to safety/efficacy or marketing regulations

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

Could you point me towards the actual legal text that you refer to?

[@nancyreid8729]

Good to see you back, especially in these dire circumstances. The presence of sane people helps.

[@robertjenkins6132]

I live in the USA. I'm pretty sure I was never mandated to get a Covid vaccine. (I did get it voluntarily, though.) No one ever asked to see proof that I was vaccinated. From my limited perspective, there was not any mandate (at least in my locality).

[@x219c]

Because my employer (a multinational-not local) followed the "guidance" of the government, people were required to show proof to return to work. Anyone who didn't provide said proof was, in short order, hit with a reduction in force.. I'm sure they weren't "fired" for reasons of liability, but it was well known that was the cause. Maybe my employer was the outlier, but it definitely happened. There were some restaurants wanting to see your vaccination record. Though, admittedly, they were privately owned rather than the bigger chains. I live in a center-left leaning state, in a further left leaning town. That could color things.

[@snarfmaster2]

@@x219c The Biden admin used OSHA to enforce vaccination or weekly covid-negative test results that the employee (not employer) had to pay for. The employee was required to wear a mask at the workplace. This was at a time that it was 100% certain that the v DID NOT prevent infection nor transmission, nor did masks. Furthermore, dpartment of health agencies were beginning to allow employers to fire non-vaxed.

[@Karagoth444]

If we call pasteurization "plastic free sous vide" do you think they will get it?

[@maverick9708]

Maybe, idk maybe they'll bring up the non existant vitamin c and saying you're degrading it to profit the insurance companies lmao

[@funkystrunk9228]

you're doint the important work of still educating people about this bs thats happening! thank you so much

[@jlvandat69]

I needed this video like the desert needs the rain. America is about to go into 4 years of retrograde motion, not a future we wanted. November 5, IMO, was comparable to 9/11 in that the country was hit hard by an enemy we had vastly underestimated. In such a scenario, there's a LOT of soul-searching and reflection needed. Really appreciate that you're fully aware of the political debacle that took place 'across the pond' and wish you well. Your videos are exceptionally good.

[@Marcus-xb7le]

I diagnose you with severe TDS.

[@Ki_Adi_Mundi]

Will you make your pfp transparent when Ukraine is turned into glass?

[@jlvandat69]

@@Ki_Adi_Mundi Having abusive parents doesn't mean a lifetime of anger and misery. Quality therapists are available online at reasonable prices. GL, comrade.

[@Ki_Adi_Mundi]

@@jlvandat69 Mm, delicious projection. Feed me more. And some gaslighting next time too, I want to see while I eat.

[@batrachian149]

Slava Ukraini, brother.

[@jaroslavkyprianpolak]

Welcome back, Rohin! You're one of my most favourite creators!

[@theondono]

I think the worst part of the issue is that this is not a new phenomenon in any way. We had the same thing with climate change, where the issue became politicized, and afterwards we had a massive simplification of the actual problem for “science communication”. The problem with that process, is that the “simplified” model runs afoul of high school/college freshman physics, so it’s bound to generate doubters. At this point, I find it very hard to blame honest skeptics for not finding the right model, because it’s very hard to do so! It has become a needle in a massive haystack of wrong explanations, that push people further into disbelief. It’s clear for me that the lesson to learn is that to maintain trust science communication is way more complex than people assume, and just making simplifications isn’t good enough, they need to be simplifications that successively approach the truth, and there needs to be an obvious path to the “actual thing” (even if that is intractable by the layman). The big question now is how do we get that trust back!

[@JustCallMeEm.]

I promise this is a good faith question, I’d love to understand this more, like could you provide some examples of narratives you’ve seen around climate change and the classroom contexts they conflict with? It’d be great to have the understanding of these blind spots.

[@theondono]

@@JustCallMeEm. These stuff has become the "go to" for most climate deniers, if you look around you'll find plenty. Sabine Hossenfelder has a video called "I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works." that does a much better job explaining that I could hope to.

[@minimumapature3361]

​@@theondonofunny how most climate change deniers live in northern countries. If you live in the tropics it's very obvious. 33 C with 80% humidity at night, 41 C 60% day.

[@bleda7612]

I checked just yesterday to see if you uploaded anything new. Today I am surprised to see you did! Welcome back

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Correcting what appears to be a common misconception here - vaccines, especially childhood vaccines, do not work by making individuals immune. They work by slowing the spread of the disease to the point that the outbreak ends because people get better faster than they get sick. Herd immunity is typically not an incidental side benefit, it is the entire point of vaccination. That was the strategy the US aimed for in COVID vaccination. The flu vaccine is a very different beast in that (local) eradication is impossible because of animal reservoirs and individual protection (usually just to reduce mortality with no expectation of immunity) is the main consideration. That is the way the rest of the world used in COVID vaccination. Different strategies, so different vaccination recommendations.

[@OR10777BE]

Gosh, I have missed you! Thank you so much for bringing us a bite of reality and your wonderful play of words. You are fresh and beautifully vital - thank you.

[@KelsomaticPDX]

If you sold a snake oil mustache growth supplement I’d buy it ngl

[@Agtsmirnoff]

RFK’s slew of beliefs, with noble efforts, such as environmental protection, vague but seemingly worthwhile initiatives related to public health, along with utter pseudoscientific nonsense dangerous to public health, can best be explained by two concepts: 1. Anti-establishment/contrarian tendencies 2. And undying loyalty to things that are “natural”

[@VinceBalens]

24:04 please don't say risks of covid are vanishly small for young people. Long Covid is a serious, life changing illness caused by covid. Young people are very vulnerable to this.

[@christopherrobinson7541]

Long Covid affects a high proportion of those who have had COVID-19. Some studies estimate that this may be as high as 20%. The risk of getting Long Covid is about the same with each infection and the symptoms from Long Covid accumulate. The risk of getting Long Covid correlates with the severity of COVID-19, so being vaccinated reduces the severity of Long Covid. The age group that is most affected is women in their middle years. In my opinion for the young Long Covid poses a much greater threat than COVID-19.

[@Israelpwn]

Statistically speaking, he is correct. I did the maths back during the pandemic when I was in my mid-late 20s and risk of any serious harm came out at like 0.2% if memory serves me well. Of course, to each their own whether they prefer to take that risk.

[@abody499]

Doc, you mention being frustrated with the problems of irrational discourse. I think some important issues are often missed when trying to work this out. Consider the problem to be a pretty deeply entrenched detachment of epistemology from ontology. It begins from day dot, but in public education this shows up in a reliance of presenting knowledge as discreet facts to be reproduced in standardised tests, rather than exploration and investigation of how topics link to our lives. This supports the view of knowledge as commodity and utility, training learners for obedience and consumption instead of developing personal agency and the critical enquiry skills required to understand and change our reality. This all leads to a separation of facts and values - values become purely subjective and therefore personal, which brings about a situation where change is off the menu, because, well, who is anyone to impose their subjective values on me. The antidote is to reform education and make it about collaborative inquiry and active participation in knowledge production, investigating how systems and structures shape our lives, and in turn what that might say about how we should move forward.

[@ChrisBrown-si1vg]

How did we get here? Billionaires + citizens united.

[@DebMoon17]

Thanks for taking the time to do this Rohin!!! We need much more of you - especially now.

[@Jack93885]

24:50 I think this glosses over how people felt like having an ID system for public events was akin to a mandate, even if there are key distinctions between the two.

[@user-lguqrux]

Ah, he's back!🎉 You know, several years ago, your channel inadvertently launched me down a path that ultimately led to my getting into olympic weightlifting, a sport I am singularly unsuited to but can't seem to stop doing! 😂 It's always nice to see you in the feed, good chap!

[@brendalong3852]

Thank you for coming back! I've missed your channel. American health care really started going wrong when the government made it go "for profit." Maybe there was some good but mostly that allowed the current crisis. Instead of patient health-based care everything is based on the bottom line and just like Boeing, all else is forgotten but the bottom line and the happiness of the investors.

[@marianhunt8899]

💯

[@lucasmano8187]

Christmas came early! Always happy to see a notification from this channel! 🤗

[@overseastom]

Praise Odin, you've returned safely.