I don't think I saw that many of them in the pictures.
The other half I still think of as "New Agers" (but that's my age)--all natural, ayurvedic woo-hounds into sage burning and nice aromas as therapy. I'm damned sure I didn't see many of those in the pictures.
The foolishness that a person must be immune since they had something suspiciously like the flu in February ... or January ... or December ... or even in f--king November or October ... That's not unheard of here. I find it harder to tolerate foolishness from "my kind" than from outsiders, to be honest.
Animals used to be more widespread in vaccine production (not just testing). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46705953_Three_Rs_achievements_in_vaccinology, for instance. Horses were used for some things (here's an example: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/scientists-find-way-make-diphtheria-treatment-without-injecting-horses-toxin ) Pigs used to be used for some vaccines, but that was decades ago.
Years ago they'd from time to time have pictures of people injecting viral cultures into eggs for flu vaccine production. It meant that people allergic to egg albumin had a difficult time with the flu vaccine.
Notice the "cell line" bit in the "Three Rs" article. Where do you think the cell lines come from?
Thing is, once something's in print it can be quoted, fairly uncritically. Esp. if it suits the narrative and it's how people think things are done. Then it's really hard for people to question what they know is obviously true. I mean, they know, why double check? (I once had a pastor tell me that rennet was in no way related to any animal. Duh. Traditionally it's from sheep or calve stomachs, but most animal rennet these days is cow or pig. There's vegetable rennet, but that's labeled "vegetable" ... As opposed to what, mineral rennet? )
I keep kosher, at least in a crude sort of way (I like some Pakistani dishes with yoghurt and beef, so the milk and meat prohibition, not something I fret over). I checked into a hospital once, emaciated from an illness. Told the nice admissions people no pork; told the nurse no pork. Had a nice old pork chop on top of the dinner they gave me. I ate the fruit. Next morning, pork sausage and sausage grease on everything. I ate the fruit. A nice psychologist showed up to ask if I was anorexic; I said I kept kosher, told them I kept kosher, and asked why they kept pushing pork at me. He made sure nobody pushed pork at me. Then the MD put me on a heparin drip. Most US heparin is made in China, from pig. The *doctor* didn't where heparin came from.
I'd give the idiot a score of maybe 50% right. "Cell lines", yup. Pig, not any more.
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