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Rikard's avatar

I wish I could express surprise and shock about this, but... Thalidomide.

0 prison sentences to researchers, owners, marketers or state control functionaires. Zip zero zilch.

Bill for all those born disabled? Tax payers.

I think most normal humans feel that the scale of something matters, so that the bigger and grander the error, crime, whatever is the consequences follow suit, but it doesn't: it's generally the opposite.

Sell methanol as ethanol and cause one death? 10+ years in prison.

Sell an experimental gene-modifying therapy causing millions of deaths? You're a hero.

Attila, Genghis Khan and Stalin really nailed down the nature of power and those who seek to wield it.

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The BarefootHealer's avatar

I've spent 2+ years grieving for all those people around the world, and ones very close to my heart, that made a decision (with or without knowledge) based on trust in institutions with such deathly, and never before seen, serious consequences. Trust, the most fragile yet powerful emotion. Frankly, i would be very interested to analyse how many who said no to the shots, also have had challenging experiences or traumas in their life, vs those who said yes. Unfortunately she is one of millions and in the coming years billions. I don't mean that callously, it's just I've grieved ahead of time, so there is a distancing. I am so sorry for her suffering and her childs loss of their mother, because of a intolerable dispicable farce. In the long run, I'll be thankful for grieving from the start, as I know I will keep functioning when most of the world begins to wail with the loss and grief.

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