What did you say about science?
Hey. I know you donât like taking medicine. Like pills. You donât like the idea of vaccination. You donât like meds. Because you donât like the big farma stuff, and itâs okay not to like the big farma stuff. I mean, you donât like capitalism, you donât like when your health is used as fuel for some rich personâs money-making car. Okay. Thatâs valid.
Itâs just. Understand me there. Medicine isnât made from a formula someone pulled out of their ass. Itâs not unnatural and bad because it was synthesised. The ingredients in the medicine you choose not to take are synthesised from things that exist in nature. Your herbal tea there? Itâs aspirin, just less effective. Your immune system? The stuff that stops you from dying of the flu? It grows stronger after youâve caught a disease, right? Thatâs what a vaccine does. Itâs litterally what it does. It gives you an innocent baby version of a virus, and teaches your immune system to kick its ass, so it will know how to kick adult versionâs ass later. Thatâs all.
Of course, itâs alright not to trust what people sell you, you donât trust whatâs inside the vaccine, itâs alright. Just. Are you absolutely certain youâre applying this criticism to that tea you bought on etsy? Or that potion your mutual on internet told you to drink? Or that piece of incense youâre supposed to sniff to âpush your disease awayâ, or something? Are you sure you can trust that essential oil to ârearrange your shakrasâ, and not poison you on the spot âcause itâs not supposed to be ingested????
This criticism, are you also applying it to the effectiveness of what youâre taking? You donât like to take aspirin but you love drinking that safe herbal tea, which has the same effect after you drink a whole teapot? Okay. Itâs alright. Youâll pee a lot, but in the end of the day, no harm done.
On the other hand, when youâre telling someone with cancer that plants will heal them better than chemo???? Stop. Nah bro, it wonât. Some plants might help. Some plants might make things a little better, yes. But. Science. Works. Science is there to help you. Science is one of the reasons humanity is still there to this day, âcause with the sum of bullshit a single human does in one life, we wouldnât be half as many as we are today if we didnât have science.
Please, consider the reason why people came up with vaccines. Consider why decades old remedies are still used for aspirin, paracetamol and all that. consider why science exists. Look at what youâre being suspicious about, then apply your suspicions to the alternatives you found to science. If the result is the same, I guess itâs alright. If itâs not? If itâs harmful? Perhaps reconsider using it, alright?
Anyway, this has been a PSA on the common sense thatâs still lacking in too many people to this day. Witchcraft doesnât discard science, âcause it was all that people had before science came along and saved thousands. Religion doesnât make science bullshit either, they can coexist just fine! Please, apply commmon sense and critical thinking to your actions towards others or yourself.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk, folks, and remember: safety first, safety second, witchy times third!