We have a couple of different problems today interrupting attempts to think critically.
One of them is the hyper-partisanship cited in the article which is illustrated by Harris campaigning against “Trump shots”, which then turned into shots advocated by the Biden administration, because the same pandemic was happening and they had the same shots to combat it with.
Another is the amount of conspiracy theories being disseminated by both foreign adversaries trying to undermine the effectiveness of Western shots, as well as the anti-vax movement led in part by radical environmentalist RFK, Jr.
Neither hyper-partisanship or conspiracy theories are helpful.
Hyper-partisanship is a group-thinky disease, I swear.
Conspiracy theories otoh are an adaptation to an environment where there is a lack of transparency. There are many lacks of transparancy in our world today. Some are well-meaning, others are not. One of the well-meaning ones is quashing information about adverse reactions to the vaccines. Like it or not, we do need to plow on and try to make informed decisions regardless of the BS in the public discourse today.
I got the shots, but you had better believe that I tried to find out everything I could about what a bad reaction would look like. If Tucker was trying to inform and not persuade he was doing a good thing. If he was jumping on the bandwagon he was doing a bad thing. Good article.
Absolutely. It is foolish to put something in your body without having done so.