Posted on 04/03/2022 6:16:14 AM PDT by DoodleBob
THE experience of the global COVID-19 pandemic raises a troubling question about the state of human society: Why would so many otherwise intelligent people refuse vaccines that can save their lives and help protect their friends and loved ones?
The answer lies to a large extent in shame, and in the ways government officials, scientists and community leaders should and shouldn’t deploy it.
No doubt, the products of science have brought great benefits to humankind. But in their pursuit of new achievements, its practitioners haven’t always comported themselves in ways that inspire universal trust...
...the drama around vaccines boils down as always to the reasoning of the scientific elite, who invoke the greater good and often shame the recalcitrant for not knowing better...If we look at the crisis as a matter of the community’s health and survival, the COVID vaccine seemed like an ideal opportunity to deploy healthy shame. Getting vaccinated kept people from dying. Refusing was a form of freeloading, leaving the work of building herd immunity to others. Those who didn’t take the trouble to get vaccinated, it could be argued, were lazy, selfish, and ignorant.
...Part of the problem comes from science itself...For many, science now represents only the values of the elite, who also benefit from turbocharged tech, pharma, and finance stocks. From the perspective of the aggrieved lower orders, the elite not only lay claim to the lion’s share of wealth but also see themselves as arbiters of truth.
...the vaccine push must come from people they trust, not distant authorities. Whether it’s African Americans in Detroit, Hasidic Jews in New York, or pandemic deniers at a California hot yoga studio, doubters are far more likely to heed those who can attest to their love and support for them — their families, friends, neighbors, congregations.
(Excerpt) Read more at bworldonline.com ...
The vaccine Gestapo could use a little friendly self-education.
“No doubt, the products of science have brought great benefits to humankind.”
THIS PREMISE IS FALSE.
Rather, “No doubt, SOME products of science have brought great benefits to humankind.”
Covid injections are Gene Therapy. If your medical history includes getting injected, YOU are GMO.
Because they are intelligent enough to know that it neither protects themselves or their loved ones. Anymore stupid questions?
You won’t shame me into being an ignorant sheep…
“Why would so many otherwise intelligent people refuse vaccines”
well, SOME intelligent people have intelligent doctors who advise them against ANY vaccination because they have chronic lyme disease that triggered a plethora of auto-immune diseases ... OTHER intelligent people have studied the published medical papers as the mRNA “vaccines” were developed and realized that these so-called “vaccines” were what used to be called experimental gene therapy, and that the entire human population was going to be experimented on with an experimental gene therapy that had undergone minimal, short-term testing, with normal testing of new vaccines suspended, and then the accelerated test results kept secret, plus seeing two healthy neighbors ending up in the hospital with pericarditis immediately after vaccination ...
and the vaxidiots can use some unfriendly shame.
The shamers could use a friendly stroke from that friendly M1A butt plate.
The Priest loved to ad lib and ramble on during fixed parts of the Mass..."In union with the whole Church we honor Mary, the ever-virgin mother of Jesus Christ our Lord and God. We honor Joseph, her husband, the apostles and martyrs Peter and Paul, Andrew, and all the saints...and Bob and Mary in the front here I was at their home last week they're such good people and there's Crystal oh she's had such a tough time since Fred passed away and we pray for Fred too he had such a great laugh and...". It was annoying but convenience outweighed our conscience.
Then Father Modernity "updated" the Nicene Creed..." Who for us men and for our salvation, came down from Heaven, and was Incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary and was made Man HUMAN;
I bolded the HUMAN because the Priest literally elevated his voice on that one word, week after week while the Congregation remained "attached" to the actual text, as if to say "I will break you trads." Which was odd, because it was a N.O. Mass with all the modern dimensions, e.g. No Jesus on the Cross, the Priest carrying a mic like David Lee Roth, the Tabernacle hidden somewhere, and so on.
Mrs DB and I ultimately left for a Church in a different town that didn't look at us like war criminals when the kids acted like kids. Last we heard Father Modernity sometimes cries during Mass.
Another TRANS????
"(Adapted from The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation, published this month by Crown, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright 2022 by Cathy O'Neil.)"
Fat-shamed O'Neill is no proponent of reducing shame. Rather she stokes it. Such social bravery. Such marketing. Such hypocrisy.
As to the website which printed this malarkey, BusinessWorld Online Corp. is registered in and operates out of Quezon City, in Manila, the Phillippines.
Source: https://www.whois.com/whois/bworldonline.com
The seemingly simple phrase -- vaccine-hestiant -- is a mirror tactic of the other Leftist-fascist language games. Climate denier. Systematic racist. White privilege. Spreader of disinformation. Toxic masculinity. Misgendering. And more.
Such language is not your friend.
As doodleBob himself testifies, "Reason is your friend."
How about those who had chi-com 19 and so were naturally 'vaccinated' probably were more resistant to another round of chi-com 19-20-21 etal?
How about those that examined the benefits vs the risk, did a cost/benefit analysis and made a cogent decision to not get a shot that was not a vaccination, but was just another version of an annual flu shot.
Every flu season we are railed to get a flu shot, some do, some don't but it is never called a flu vaccination.
Until chi-com 19, a vaccination was a permanent solution to a deadly disease e.g. polio, small pox etc. and one for LIFE was what made it a vaccination, not a regular, semi-annual trip for another 'so called' vaccination.
Oh wait, I'm not a biologist, but I know about XX and XY chromosomes and my wife is a woman and a mother, and no matter how much I might want to give birth, the best I can do, is provide the starter fuel, but I am so lazy and selfish and ignorant {it could be argued}.
Unvaxxed Hat, Unvaccinated Hat, Embroidered Flat Bill Cap
And having a t-shirt made:
I think it is meant to show how delusional some people are, and how reluctant they will be in admitting the truth. No matter the science and proof, these people will not change because they are ashamed of being so wrong, and so close their eyes to the evidence.
“...people refuse vaccines that can save their lives and help protect their friends and loved ones?”
This is the basis of shaming and never was true. The jab did not prevent the spread of the virus between vaccinated individuals. The unvaccinated were wrongly blamed. Not to mention that those who recovered from the virus developed natural immunity.
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Masks don’t prevent the spread either.
CATHY O’NEIL will be the judge of that.
Indeed, know thine enemy. Thanks for the background.
Hey Cathy, why did so many Liberal enclaves recently lift their vax mandates?
I thought every single unvaxxed person needed to be vaxxed, or else we’re gonna create endless dangerous variants, and we’re never ever gonna get back to normal?
I live in a big city which recently lifted its vax requirements for restaurants, concerts, sporting events. I’m not vaxxed and I never wear a mask. So go ask all the super left wing mayors and governors of blue States and blue cities why I no longer pose a danger to people? Could it have something to do with mid term elections coming up and abysmal poll numbers for Democrats?
If they broke this horrendous statement down into it's component propositions they would discover that every single one of them is either factually unsupported or demonstrably false.
And it starts with an ad hominem, a value judgement about otherwise intelligent people to beat the unwary over the head with. Come on, show us you are as intelligent as we know you are. Get on the bandwagon and prove you are a dumbs4it.
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