Posted on 07/29/2021 3:43:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Everybody wrap something around your face again even though they said you wouldn’t need to if you got vaxxed! But they didn’t lie – no, apparently a bunch of people – and not just those evil white nationalist-Christian-gun-Jesus-flag people – are refusing to get the vaccine, and the reason is that they are moral defectives somehow in thrall to Tucker Carlson’s Svengali-like powers of persuasion. You see, the people who won’t get it are stupid people who hate science because they refuse to trust the people who have spent the last year-and-a-half lying to them.
I don’t blame those folks a bit.
Let’s try a thought experiment. Let’s imagine our ruling class was not as utterly corrupt, dishonest, incompetent and downright stupid as it manifestly is. I know that’s hard, but go with me.
This weird new virus appears and starts spreading. Instead of leveraging it to take down Trump, the Democrats appear with the Republican president and GOP leadership to announce they are working together to solve the problem. Imagine that instead of shaming people, first about wearing masks, then about not wearing masks, then about not wearing two masks, then no masks, then masks again, they went with transparency.
“We are not sure how much, if at all, masks work. We’re running test trials to see and we’ll tell you what we find as soon as we have the data. In the meantime, let’s all wear them just in case.” And then, when they ran the studies, they would tell us the answer.
Have you seen any studies about masks? We get a lot of that fascist gnome and others telling us to wear masks (after initially telling us they were useless – remember that memory-holed narrative?) but where’s the actual science?
See, you have to believe the science, and believe them when they tell you what it is yet won’t show you. Obey!
But trust is earned, and these people act like it is their right to have our trust, that we owe them to take it on faith that whatever these people say is the Gospel. Except they are wrong all the time, and instead of owning up to it, they treat you like some sort of idiot for noticing. When you don’t trust people who are perpetually wrong, that’s not denying science. That is science – you are making observations, and drawing reasonable conclusions. In this case, the observation is that our establishment sucks, and that it can’t be trusted.
How far would a little humility gone? Very far. Imagine, and this will be hard, these masterminds getting up and saying, “America, we were wrong about something. We thought it was right, but we tested it and we found we were not right. Here is the data, and now that we have better information, we are changing our recommendation.”
What would we say? “Oh, okay. They were doing the best they can and being straight with us. People make mistakes. We need to learn from them. After all, it’s been a century since the last pandemic so we have a lot of lessons to re-learn. Let’s move forward.”
But no. No, there’s no humility. They make a mistake and they don’t stand up and admit it. Instead, they just change the narrative and act as if the narrative du jour was always the narrative. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. But we’re not blind or stupid for noticing.
They tell us the vaccine is going to make us immune from COVID. Then it turns out you can still get it, just not as bad. Yet when people notice this 180-degree spin, the smart set shrieks like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Just imagine if they had been honest and forthright. But that was not in the cards. The ruling caste’s conceit is that we are idiots, unable and unworthy to make simple decisions for ourselves. We must be guided, nudged, or intimidated, if necessary, into making the right choice. And we do not deserve explanations, because the last thing our elite wants is accountability.
Instead, they want unlimited power. Look at their arbitrary emergency rules and regulations. You could go to a strip club but not a church. Huh? And the courts, again, let us down initially by not enforcing the Constitution. It was an emergency, after all, and as we all know, in an emergency you need to rule by decree, say our betters. So, we got to watch idiots walking around in the sunshine with mouth thongs on while cops busted mommies for letting little Billy play on the slide. At no time did most of the establishment reconsider or change. No, it doubled down on failure. Yet we’re supposed to trust it?
And then there are the revelations about where it came from. They first blamed the innocent pangolin. But it looks like it was our elite’s buddies the Chi Coms, except when people raised that notion earlier, they got banned by social media. Our establishment limited our ability to speak about something true. Think about that. And they want to do it again.
And that’s where the vaccine hesitancy comes in. The smart set squanders its trust then is shocked to find that its trust has been squandered. People are seeing side effects from the vaccine. Those were always going to happen. But our elite is unwilling to level with people about them and let individuals manage their own risks. Instead, our garbage elite dismisses people with questions as “anti-vaxxers” instead of engaging with them and earning their trust. See, we peasants are unworthy of engagement. How dare we seek to choose for ourselves? The nerve of us serfs!
I got the vaccine. I also had the disease. I talked to conservative doctors I trusted about my unique situation and made my decision. You should do the same – you know your situation, and you should balance the risks. I don’t tell other people what to do because it’s not my business and I don’t know their story. I’ve had people get on me for mine, and they need to back off – they don’t know my situation and it’s none of their business. Similarly, theirs is none of mine.
The establishment has squandered its credibility, which is why its demand that everyone take the shot is getting shriller and the attempts to force people more punitive. Imagine if they had been honest from the beginning. Imagine if they had been held accountable. But to do that, you have to imagine having a ruling class that doesn’t suck. And that’s more imagination than anyone can muster.
Add in the suppression by the establishment of the use of Ivermectin-based treatments for Covid-19(84), and the distrust created by that, and Kurt has well-summarized where I am at on all this.
I got full blown COVID 19 back in Feb of 2020. Was sick for one day and nagging cough for ten days.
Recently, I also acquired the Delta variant COVID. Was sick with runny nose and headache for 12 hours.
I HAVE NOT GOTTEN THE VACCINE and do not intend to. As you can see, my body is able to fight off the virus.
The vaccine will not prevent you from getting the virus. It is useless and comes with risk.
Two weeks to flatten the curve.
The epitome of the idiocy surrounding this disease is a Dr here who was pushing the vax early on with the claim that it would keep you from transmitting the disease. Not even the manufacturer was making that claim..and now we know that medical professional was completely wrong
I agree with the author. Each individual needs to assess their own risk. But it would be helpful if the medical community would not make prouncements that turn out to be false.
The vaccine will kill some people. It will cause long term effects in some people. It will help many people.
You have to roll the dice and make your decision.
I have no doubt there will turn out to be some long term side effect from thus mrna vax...but you could also end up with long haul covid if you dont get the vax.
CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
“Have you seen any studies about masks? “
The only credible paper that I’ve read on the subject was a meta-study of other research. It’s conclusion was “why not; couldn’t hurt much.” I’ve asked other people, including mask-shaming MDs, to direct me to something more definitive, but so far, no one has obliged. So what’s the basis for their mask-shaming? Science? Or “Science”?
If you know of such research, feel free to post it.
It is amazing to see such a wide variety of responses to Covid. You should feel pretty safe from any mutation that takes place...
It will be interesting to see if a man made biological weapon can mutate to try to take you out.
Brownian motion.
Reducing the viral load.
“I’ve had people get on me for mine (vaccine), and they need to back off”
They definitely need to back off. Shedding vaxed people are more dangerous than the WuFlu.
I think we’re at 11 days now...
Love the visual there.
Ah. “Science”. A qualitative, non-empirical plausibility argument. Its equally plausible counterpart would be the chain-link fence analogy. I suppose I should decide which suits me better emotionally, and go with that, screaming at the top of my lungs.
3M masks have all been certified by OSHA so I imagine studies were done on any mask they sell. The N95 masks were certified for dust and particles pre 2020 but now they say they’re ok for a virus but I doubt there’s a study to back that up.
Health care workers ran out of any masks they would normally use so N95 were made ok to use because there were still a lot of those in supply chains.
All standards and norms go out the window an ‘emergency’. From voting to who can gather in groups to what businesses can be open to long term studies on vaccines.
Even the definition of mask has gone out the window. A bandana is suddenly a mask. Some pieces of cloth of random material sewn together by who knows who and sold on etsy are masks now. A tiny surgical mask over a full beard is acceptable masking now.
It’s not just COVID.
They lied about the election.
About Jab 6.
About funding frankenviruses intended to be used to decimate Americans.
About Hunter Biden.
About electric vehicles
About CRT.
About the riots destroying cities across the nation.
About global warming.
Same here and similar duration, but also had a cough for two days the second time.
They've lied about everything. How anybody can make the metaphysical leap of faith that "Well, they lied except for the jab. It's safe and totally works. They're telling the truth on that." is a mystery to me. Stockholm syndrome?
Or you could just go to the 3m website and look what their engineers say about brownian motion ...and why their masks are actually better at catching smaller particles than what they are rated for
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