These people are either too dense to grasp that, or too intellectually dishonest due to politics to acknowledge it. Anyone who doesn’t march in lockstep with them on this issue must be an “anti-vaxxer”…. which is just another derogatory label designed to intimidate people into silence.
Every time I read threads like this, I’m thinking the corrupt PTSB and Big Pharma are probably laughing at all these useful idiots who do their work for them for free, like good little tv-watching, bootlicking zombies.
Let me see if I can recall just a few of the disinformation conspiracy theories circulating about the vaccine.
1. It's made by using aborted fetuses. Clearly, this one is directed at people who oppose abortion.
2. It causes sterility. I heard this one yesterday for the first time.
3. The vaccine is used as a way of inserting tracking devices into the bloodstream of people. This one is my personal favorite because it's so preposterous. Perhaps it's a nod to Star Trek and the concept of nanoprobes. But it does beg the following question: Why in God's name would anyone want to track you? After all, most people are just average nobodies who lead dull and uninteresting lives.
And through all of this we're supposed to be suspicious of people who advocate getting vaccinated? What piffle!
In all of this nonsense surrounding the vaccine, I don't think it has a damn thing to do with the vaccine itself. It's mostly about people who want to be the center of attention, and everyone knows that controversy attracts a LOT of attention even as the truth can be more than a little dull and boring when viewed in the cold light of day.
Take rock & roll as an example throughout the decades. Elvis the pelvis got a lot of press because of his gyrations as did The Beatles for their hair. The Rolling Stones got a lot of attention for their partying antics as did KISS for their makeup. And Motely Crue got more attention than they otherwise would have because Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson made sex tapes. The Who got more attention because they destroyed their instruments and trashed hotel rooms. There are plenty more like Madonna who had a song called "Like a Virgin" but acted more like a whore, especially when her $50 picture book, "Sex" was published in 1992.
How many people are walking around with lots of tattoos and purple hair simply because they want to be noticed while the rest of us go about our business and let our actions do the talking for us without the need to get a mohawk hair cut in order to be noticed?
Unlike the early days of TV and radio news when credibility was the coin of the realm which just so happened to exist before the number of cable TV stations exploded and the Internet gave virtually anyone a chance to make some kind of a splash, we now have a massive media platform where the competition is so fierce that people feel that they can only stand out if they jump on the controversy bandwagon like Art Bell used to do on the radio and Alex Jones did when he claimed that the 26 persons killed at Sandy Hook Elementary (including 20 children aged 5 and up) never happened and the parents interviewed on TV were simply "crisis actors."
Unfortunately, the general public is currently little more than virtual reality crash test dummies who are subjected to a constant barrage of nonsense dished out like ammo rounds from an Uzi. It's a cacophony of craziness superficially given credibility only because of a post on Facebook which is a result of little more than an unseen algorithm which feeds someone what appears to be news based on a person's previous reading, or perhaps it's a broadcast over the radio airwaves which seemingly has the tacit approval from the FCC because the station is licensed, so it must be true, right?
Is it any wonder then that millions of people believe elections are being stolen without any evidence to support such a contention?
I can't say what the numbers are and I won't bother to speculate about it, but it's likely that many, if not most, people just tune out all of this trite tripe the way you might ignore the sounds of cars if you live on a busy road as opposed to how you might react if you lived on a very quiet cul-de-sac where the sounds of a car and a car door would certainly get your attention late at night. Or perhaps people don't pay attention because they're too busy with work and raising kids to wade through the latest conspiracy theories on-line because the kids are hungry, and afterward you need to help them with their homework before bedtime.
In previous years, all of this would be considered no more important than the olden days when "white noise" was broadcast over a TV left on when the station went off the air. No chance of that now with 24 broadcasting on hundreds of stations.
Yeah, in years gone past, people with respiratory problems could count on the law and city ordinances and the licensing requirements for bars and restaurants to require smokers to go outside to smoke. After all, you can see the smoke and smell it too. The pandemic has changed all of that of course because unvaccinated and infected people can sit in a crowded room and expel virus unknowingly, and the rest of us can inhale it unknowingly as a result.
But these days, go ahead and ask someone to take common sense precautions to hopefully protect you and your family, not to mention all the people you don't know, and you'll never meet, and you just might find yourself on the receiving end of a verbal assault (or a real one) by someone who's been told that his freedoms are somehow being infringed upon by unseen forces.
I remember seeing a video over a year ago of a short stout man clearly over the age of 50 who wanted to enter a store like a Walmart despite the fact that he didn't have a face covering as the store (and a likely mandate at the time) required. He actually fought and pushed his way into the store and assaulted an employee in the process. Tell me what's rational about that kind of behavior? That man's behavior was a single example of a single event that is SO representational of millions of people whose irrationality and selfishness is actually preventing their oft stated goal of a "return to a normal life." That's what I call collective irrationality because all those people are actually preventing what it is they claim they want most of all.
How crazy is that?
