• TheFunkyPickle@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    What does this have to do with being an antivaxer? Dumb grandma home remedies and antivaxer are not mutually exclusive forms of stupidity

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    She’s an idiot. When I have a fever I tie an onion to my belt, which is still the style.

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    The annoyingly stupid part is that for most fevers that don’t approach the “You need to go to the ER right now” point it’s actually best to simply let it run it’s course and not try to “break” it with drugs since a fever is your body’s own defense mechanism.

    But these antivaxxers will do this stupid shit, then go “see it works” and then try to apply it to everything else

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          Gotta love that metric-conversion decimal dust.

          100.4 F is 38 C which is the actual measurement.

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            In defense of Fahrenheit, the resolution for human relevant temperatures is higher. Theoretically ideal for medical settings.

            But not if you use whole number Celsius and just convert to Fahrenheit.

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              You are correct… kind of. It’s a weak defense because you can always use a decimal to get more precision, and thermometers are only so accurate in their measurements anyway.

              You can do about as well with increments of 0.5 degrees Celsius as you can with whole degrees Fahrenheit, and most medical thermometers are only accurate within about 0.1° – 0.3° C anyway.

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        Yeah, pretty much anything in the triple digits is “call the pediatrician” levels when dealing with babies. Babies’ immune response is more focused on accepting immunizations from breast milk, and it will basically try to integrate things that have been filtered through mom first. The default response isn’t straight to “kill it” but rather “study it so we can protect against it later.” So babies’ immune systems really aren’t prepared for a full blown infection, because it won’t jump to actually fighting the infection until it is already pretty bad. If their temp is in the triple digits, it’s usually a sign that they caught something that didn’t already get filtered through mom’s immune system.

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    For a second I thought that baby was boiling, but then I remembered Fahrenheit exists 😂

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    You really want to add some rosemary and sage to the sock as well so it’s a proper bouquet garni. Then braise in a slow oven until fork tender.

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    I feel bad for the kids. They don’t deserve to die at the hands of incompetent parents.

    One of the downsides of disrupting natural selection is that now we are keeping some people alive that probably should be taken by natural causes before they were able to replicate.

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    I’ve joked about onions in socks being a home remedy for stupid shit, but I never imagined that anyone would actually do it. I hope they didn’t get it from me.

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        Might not be. Even still, how much intelligence do you think they’ll gain by the time they are?

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          No one is arguing any different. Just pointing out the assertion that they are eligible to vote is in determinate.

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          you would be surprised how much folk ‘wisdom’ gets passed down through generations and continues to thrive. the thinking there being that natural is good because it can’t harm you (ignore mushrooms and beladonna, though). why take a pill produced in a lab somewhere, when you can just shove some onions in a sock?

          I suspect that this is just communication breakdown, from times when people used herbs for medicinal purposes (liquorice root, for example, acts as an antiinflammatory by inhibiting breakdown of cortisol, and willow bark contains salicylic acid, a rough version of aspirin - the latter being acetylsalicylic acid, a derivative of it). but I think even the old witch in the woods would disapprove of onions in socks.

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      Eligible doesn’t mean registered. A lot of these people are not big fans of things like government registries

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        A lot of these people do whatever their husbands tell them. Zero sense of self. They were raised to be obedient to their man and nothing more.

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    I don’t see how it’s funny. This kid is definitely not getting the treatment that they need in the future.