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Surgeon general warns misinformation an 'urgent threat' to public health:
The surgeon general on Thursday warned Americans about what he called the "urgent threat of health misinformation" amid the government's current push to boost stalling vaccination rates.
Dr. Vivek Murthy's advisory -- the first under the Biden administration -- addresses an epidemic of misinformation and disinformation, and its pernicious impact on public health -- specifically threatening the U.S. response to COVID-19. It frames misinformation as having hindered vaccination efforts, sown mistrust, caused people to reject public health measures, use unproven treatments, prolonged the pandemic and put lives at risk.
"Surgeon general advisories are reserved for urgent public health threats," Murthy said, highlighting his message in the White House briefing room Thursday. "And while those threats have often been related to what we eat, drink and smoke, today, we live in a world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation's health."
He continued, "While it often appears innocuous on social media apps on retail sites or search engines -- the truth is that misinformation takes away our freedom to make informed decisions about our health and the health of our loved ones. Simply put, health misinformation has cost us lives."
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Monday July 19 2021, @04:31PM (2 children)
you are aware, but you don't know or understand what gender is because you didn't learn them from birth, like I did, and you took 2 years of spanish in highschool, getting a C.
>language evolves
it does. a bunch of bored sjw hipsters redefining the meaning of a word for political reasons is as much evolution as calling a guy with boobs and inverted dickhole a woman, is not evolving. I never called it evolution. it is what it is.\
>understood among English speakers to be tightly bound to biological sex.
woman meaning "human female" was bound to biological sex. it was then decoupled from sex, and redefined as "acting/thinking feminine." some people disagree with redefining an english word to be politically correct.
>biological man presenting himself as a biological woman
and there is no such thing as a biological man and woman. there is only a biological male or female.
>men can have periods too
and no one, including the rednecks is disputing that. it just does not mean "males can have periods too."
>Transgender proponents use gender and sex interchangeably when it supports their strategy
and that's something you simply made up because it lets you be angry. no one does that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @04:44PM (1 child)
I think I'm done here. Insults and ad hominem seem to be your only argument.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Monday July 19 2021, @04:46PM
if you can't read you can't read. can't help ya, i'm not a jr high teacher.