What’s up with that?

I have a lot of beefs with the goings on in the world. 

But one in particular just baffles me. There are some very vocal people who oppose vaccines for spurious reasons. 

And as an aside: if there is a decision made to relax the rules around vaccines, then we will see a resurgence of communicable diseases that modern medicine has effectively eliminated. Measles? Polio? They'll make a comeback. 

Anyway, there's also something strange happening with these same people, who accept that drug companies advertise to them directly for drugs that cure things that somehow people decide they have - in spite of them having side effects like… death. 

And not only that.  People use these drugs in unintended ways. Ozempic, for example, was approved for one thing … but it has a side effect of sorts - that it causes weight loss. 

So people take it as a weight loss drug. Even though (a) that is not its indication and (b) when one stops taking the drug, the weight comes back. 

And these people don't even give THAT a second thought. They take it in spite of everything. 

Because it was marketed directly to them with an happy song, and they see a result. 

Maybe what vaccines need is a better PR campaign?