Re: Vitamin D Defficiency and Mobility Issues in Old People
Originally Posted by
Twink55
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Nobody is forced to take the pharmaceutical companies medicines, they have a choice whether to or not.......so long as they accept the responsibility of not getting better if they choose not to take them.
Yeah I'm not entirely sure that's true in reality. It comes down as ever to social conditioning and how things are presented. In a very literal sense, yes, I agree, people always have a choice whether or not to take up a medication.
In reality people have for years been conditioned to treat the medical industry as an "Authority" and as such people very often just blindly go with what it says very innocently assuming that they would never put people on meds for profits.
A key problem here is information. To be able to really say that
"Nobody is forced to take the pharmaceutical companies medicines" there needs to exist a world where all the salient information is given to people so they can make informed decisions. Unfortunately that is most definitely not the case. It turns out to be extremely difficult to get hold of impartial and independent information and health service staff and GPs frequently don't provide or even offer salient information. Our old favourite the flu vaccine is a case in point. GPs will simply invite their patients to have the vaccine, will encourage them to do so, some have even used bully-boy tactics saying if they don't get their jabs they will be removed from the surgery list.
Most of these GPs never once mention the plethora of research about the extremely low efficacy of the vaccine.
So in those circumstances really where do people have a choice? They are not being given the information they need to make any kind of choice and thus just "do as they are told". Personally I find that a wholly immoral situation.
Originally Posted by Twink55
so long as they accept the responsibility of not getting better if they choose not to take them
And yet do the medical services take responsibility when people DO take their pills and medications but fail to get better?!!
I wonder what would happen if all the people who have had flu vaccines and yet still contracted the flu, decided to sue the manufacturers ?
Ah but I forget, they pressured the US government to pass actual laws that mean we lowly citizens can not sue vaccine manufacturers ! Imagine that!