It has become painfully obvious that those who got vaccinated are in denial regarding the high percentage of complications and deaths. They trot out talking points and stats from sources that they wouldn’t believe under other circumstances. They insult and deride people who were skeptical of the jab and now must justify that they made the right decision.
Worse, they have to justify that convincing people to get the jab was the right decision.
I see parallels to the abortion debate. As science progresses we discover that the unborn feel pain, hear sounds and otherwise react to their environment at a much earlier point than we ever thought. Abortion is clearly ending a life. That means that, in effect, those those that have had abortions are murderers and those that supported abortion are accessories to murder. Since people cannot accept that reality, they will fight tooth and nail against the truth.
Same thing with the jab. The concept that they may be in peril, that their family members may be in peril, that they have encouraged people to put themselves in harms way, is psychologically unacceptable so they lash out. They need our compassion and understanding.
I have not been vaccinated. I have never encouraged anyone to get vaccinated, nor even hinted they should. I have no reason to be “in denial”. I *am* firmly anti-mandate. I believe there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the vaccines. But that does not mean I have to swallow every garbage “article” by the likes of Root or Kirsch.
A lot of what gets posted here are clickbait scaremongering blog posts from dodgy sites with claims of preposterous things in the vaccines (itty bitty razor blades, teensy weensy mechanical octopuses, wiggly parasites, magnetic nabobots that enable mind control by Bill Gates via 5G, even snake venom), claims they give you HIV/AIDS, instant metastatic breast cancer, malaria, monkeypox, etc. and “articles” using the word “horrifying” and “shocking” at least five times each claiming ridiculous things using bad math and claiming articles published in medical journals say things they do not say at all.
Apparently, Wayne Root will parrot any old nutty thing for clicks and listeners, maybe even just for giggles. Get a load of these stupid and easily disproved claims he made not long ago:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4080412/posts?page=202#202
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4080412/posts?page=325#325
The elevated risk for myocarditis, especially in young males, is real. (The smallpox vaccines administered to our military back around 2003 sadly also carried elevated risk for myocarditis.) Slightly elevated risk for Shingles outbreak may well be real. It’s true we don’t know whether there may be long-term side effects, etc.
All these unfounded claims obscure the real concerns. Cry wolf too many times ...
They also hurt the anti-mandate cause. We need truth and facts and proof on our side in this fight, not easily disproved claims that will be laughed out of court and the public square.
Speaking of being “in denial”, those who have staked their reputations on bogus claims have reason for being in denial, too. Let’s not go there. I’m not accusing you of being in denial. Such accusations and arguments lead nowhere good or productive. Just slugfests and catfights and flame wars. There’s enough of that already on FR lately.