The [COVID-19] pandemic didn't convert people to the right, so much as it revealed the reactionary and even fascistic leaning of so many people who insisted they offer 'natural' alternatives to 'medicalized' health care…much of the anti-vaccine rhetoric was centered on the notion that 'fit' people don't 'need' vaccines, because their exercise and diet routines were medicine enough. This built on years, even decades of 'wellness' rhetoric that is openly hostile to the idea that health is a communal concern, instead framing good health as a status symbol signaling one's superiority to the hoi polloi…a lot of self-proclaimed advocates of 'wellness' saw health as strictly an individual concern, often to the point of employing genocidal rhetoric implying the pandemic was cleansing the human race of the less worthy. Despite surface rhetoric decrying 'Big Pharma,' the alt-medicine industry is, if anything, a bigger fan of predatory capitalism. The whole world is awash in scammy supplements and overpriced, ineffective diet plans, none of which is subject to the regulation or research requirements that hem in, however imperfectly, the pharmaceutical industry.
'RFK Jr's tour with Jordan Peterson: ' "Make America Healthy Again" shows why "alt medicine" went MAGA ' [Salon, 26 September 2024]
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