When Will idiots Stop...
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Buying unregistered and (in most cases) illegal and fake health & beauty products from an advert they have seen on FB/Instagram/Tiktok ??
Watched the 'Tonight' prog last night with people buying the anti chubster pens via a social media account, of course when it was tested it was found to contain none of the drugs that are found in genuine pens, of course said idiots rely on the NHS to sort them out if/when they become seriously ill from injecting themselves with who knows what!
The news earlier this evening and another set of idiots are buying 'fake tan nasal spray' apparently a couple of squirts up the hooter a day will darken your skin
Lady they had on the news said she bought it through a social media account and used it just before going on holiday to Tenerife, became ill while out there and needed urgent medicaal treatment, I wonder if her travel insurance covered the costs? (if any cover was in place)
Obviously the main factor for buying is the cost but I guess the idiots have never heard the saying 'if it seems to good to be true...'
Watched the 'Tonight' prog last night with people buying the anti chubster pens via a social media account, of course when it was tested it was found to contain none of the drugs that are found in genuine pens, of course said idiots rely on the NHS to sort them out if/when they become seriously ill from injecting themselves with who knows what!
The news earlier this evening and another set of idiots are buying 'fake tan nasal spray' apparently a couple of squirts up the hooter a day will darken your skin
Lady they had on the news said she bought it through a social media account and used it just before going on holiday to Tenerife, became ill while out there and needed urgent medicaal treatment, I wonder if her travel insurance covered the costs? (if any cover was in place)
Obviously the main factor for buying is the cost but I guess the idiots have never heard the saying 'if it seems to good to be true...'
As part of my NHS voluntary work I monitor healthcare gizmos and gadgets that are advertised on-line, specifically Facebook. I'm forever reporting bogus adverts but they're never removed.
There are often hundreds of comments recommending fake cures and treatments, every one of them generated by bots and the products frequently have 'NHS' approval with testimonials from doctors and specialists - all false.
They're usually targeted at the most vulnerable: diabetics, arthritics and particularly the elderly. It's disgraceful that they're allowed to continue, but they do.
Not everyone has the ability to recognise these products as scams and become victims, week in, week out. To coin a PH phrase, "It really grinds my gears."
There are often hundreds of comments recommending fake cures and treatments, every one of them generated by bots and the products frequently have 'NHS' approval with testimonials from doctors and specialists - all false.
They're usually targeted at the most vulnerable: diabetics, arthritics and particularly the elderly. It's disgraceful that they're allowed to continue, but they do.
Not everyone has the ability to recognise these products as scams and become victims, week in, week out. To coin a PH phrase, "It really grinds my gears."
The outrage is misplaced. Individuals have been ingesting harmful substances for decades - alcohol, nicotine, synthetic additives, pharmaceuticals for conditions they don’t have. Obesity is statistically normalised. Laziness is reframed as self-care. Dependence is called lifestyle.
But a woman using an unregulated nasal spray becomes a headline?
The issue isn’t counterfeit health products. It’s systemic tolerance for mediocrity. A willingness to substitute discipline with convenience. To outsource responsibility. It’s market behavior - unintelligent, but rational within the parameters they’ve been given.
But a woman using an unregulated nasal spray becomes a headline?
The issue isn’t counterfeit health products. It’s systemic tolerance for mediocrity. A willingness to substitute discipline with convenience. To outsource responsibility. It’s market behavior - unintelligent, but rational within the parameters they’ve been given.
Never. The state wants dependence and obedience and endless consumption. So the public are basically trained not to think at all. They pretty much assume that if you can legally buy it, it will have been tested and proven to be safe and effective. That's not true, obviously, but it suits those ruthlessly selling anything they can persuade the public to buy. Whether it's a real anti chubster pen, or a fake one. A real cure for cancer, or a fake one. etc, etc
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