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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
For sure there are people who are consciously or unconsciously contributing to misinformation. There are also people share genuine experiences. The toxic politicization of what are fundamentally just health issues feeds into both the anti-vaxxer conspiracists spreading misinformation but also feeds into people who are actually suffering being put in a position of entering a political #### storm and being accused of being a liar just by sharing their genuine personal experience. It's a pretty lame situation overall, resulting from the politicization of it.
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It is too bad that genuine sharing of information gets mixed with politicized nonsense. It still makes the usefulness of the data zero. We have far better ways to collate data than sift through social media.
This has been true long before COVID. Look through social media for nonsense about statin drugs. Studies over and over prove their usefulness in extending life and improving health overall, but you'll see endless rants about cancer and joint deterioration which simply aren't true