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Diego's avatar

I'm long time subscriber to the New York Times (and progressive voter). I posted a comment on a Covid article that just said the vaccines don't stop transmission or stop people from contracting the coronavirus. I went back to the article later and the comment was deleted.

Popular US media outlets have been 100 percent silent on deaths caused by vaccines. Even New Zealand has covered a recent death from the Pfizer vaccine in their news, for Pete's sake. But our media has a code of silence.

It's crystal clear that American media outlets are working in tandem with the government and the drug manufacturers to disseminate their misinformation.

1984, indeed.

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All the way back to the summer when it was becoming clear that vaccines didn't stop transmission, I was coming to the conclusion that mandates - public and private - were vindictive performance art and I'm certain of it at this point.

Earlier this fall, I strained some relationships with some long term friends - all of whom are in blue locales - who clung to the mandate concept and could not explain the logic beyond, "It's a real vaccine" and "It's just the right thing to do." Their reasoning was entirely vindictive once it was clear that vaccines did nothing to protect other people. It was all, "Well we did it so now these bad people also should have to do it."

This woman's twitter thread is very similar to my friends. She is clinging as tightly as she can to there being SOME benefit from the clot shots, so her twitter thread is an attempt to be reassured that she's still a good person. The last guy who responded to her has no idea what he's talking about, but they've all been reduced to bullshit rationalizations at this point, so it's all he has. But America is slowly being red pilled for sure.

Rather than argue with my friends perpetually and ruin our friendship completely, I decided a few months ago to show them a little grace and just dropped the subject and quit talking about it. They will eventually see the truth, if they haven't already.

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