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Oh Keith: if we we're afraid of anything we'd be wearing 3 masks, latex or nitrile gloves, face shield, those surgical shoe coverings, and carrying a ruler to insure an exact 6' distance between us and the nearest human being. I'm skeptical of the jab, not scared of it. I AM scared of psychopathic humans who'd like nothing more than to hold me down and force something into my body.

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Hell yeah Iā€™m afraid of a taking a novel nonreversible drug with no long term testing and off the charts short term side effects. How is that something to be denigrated?

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Here's what I tweeted in response: You spiker idiot. If it so good why do you need 3 shots and me to do the same? You are the one who is afraid otherwise you wouldn't be intentionally converting your cells to produce a known cytotoxin. Enjoy your heart and vascular damage you spiker idiot.

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Oh, yeah. I was gonna join the Russian roulette club, but I was AFRAID.

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Keith is such a disappointment. All this goes to show me that people love fascism and authoritarians as long as they agree with the political party that propels them.

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We are entering the final phase of the Romans 1 curseā€¦

ā€¦given over to a Debased, reprobate mind, unable to think

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Meanwhile, I just saw a very witty comment somewhere: If the vaccine were mosquito repellant, it would be glue.

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Wow. Very impressive. Iā€™m not afraid, so I am going to run out on Monday and get the jab. Good job, Keith. Impeccable convincing logic!!! /sarc

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Keith Olbermann spewing hate and bile while looking like a 50-year old lumpy hausfrau someone put in a cheap suit?

Stop the presses.

YOU and YOURS are the hateful, screaming coward zombies and we will live to make you PAY. Enjoy your overlong 15 minutes, you piece of shit.

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How much did Pfizer's PR department pay him to say that?

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How is it that so few people, not to mention so few organizations readily imposing them, seem unwilling to challenge WHY there is such an obsession with vaccines and mandates? Can one of you smart scientist fellas out there explain in simple terms exactly what public good is expected to be accomplished by vaccine mandates, other than, um, forcing everyone to get a vaccine? With every passing day it seems more and more clear that these vaccines donā€™t solve the problem they purported to solve. What public health or societal benefit is proposed to be achieved by mass mandates? Why arenā€™t people demanding an answer to that question while corporations and hospitals and schools and airlines and vital governmental agencies are mandating vaccines for all and in the process inflicting massive harm on people? Near as I can tell, vaccinated people still become infected. They also still transmit infection to others. Even the mandate enforcers grudgingly acknowledge those facts. Sure, some small subset of vaccinated people may possibly suffer less severe outcomes if they become infected, but how does requiring everyone else to be vaccinated benefit them? Evidence seems mounting that whatever benefit may accrue to that subset is fleeting any may not provide any real gain at all, especially when factoring in the near term and longer term harms. Besides, arenā€™t therapeutics the medically preferred option for dealing with just these circumstances? Come to think of it, if they donā€™t prevent infection nor transmission, arenā€™t therapeutics what the ā€œvaccinesā€ really are? Again, what is the logic behind requiring everyone to get vaccinated if they donā€™t prevent you from becoming infected or from infecting others and provide no material benefit to the vast majority of those subjected to them? Imposing a therapeutic on everyone, forcing them to bear known and unknown side effects when more than 99% are not at risk seems, well, questionable at best for the policyā€™s stated purpose, assuming there is a stated purpose beyond simply injecting everyone. ā€œLook, Mom, weā€™ve gotten everyone to wear their tin foil hats. Now what happens?ā€

Forcing those who question or object to such senseless policy mandates to lose their jobs, their livelihoods, their education, their ability to travel freely, dine in restaurants, attend sporting events and concerts, etc. while severely damaging our healthcare system, our education system, our military readiness, our police and fire departments, and more, seems the very definition of Machiavellian insanity. How is a vaccine mandate meaningfully different from mandating chemo treatment for everyone just in case some few may get cancer? Donā€™t we limit treatment to only the ill and leave the other 99%+ alone? Requiring mass treatment of those who donā€™t need it and donā€™t benefit from it doesnā€™t change the outcomes for those needing treatment.

Itā€™s as though everyone was invited to join the Mickey Mouse Club. They got to wear Mickey Mouse ears and were promised treats and games and all sorts of fun. Then, they were told everyone HAD to join because it would be so much fun, and you all MUST wear the ears - ALWAYS. Then, it turned out there were no treats. No games. No fun or even any club at all. The ears are too big or too small for most. They are too heavy or too flimsy. They were made in China using materials perhaps toxic to many. A few ears may fit, but still you got no treats or fun. And donā€™t dare remove those ears. You MUST wear the ears ALWAYS! No matter that there are no games and no fun or treats as promised. No matter that the ears are silly and unnecessary or even painful and perhaps harmful to many. You will all wear the ears because we SAID you all must wear ears even without a club or treats or fun.

Sounds a little too Jim Jones-esque for my taste, but then again, I never was much for kool-aid. It must be an acquired taste. ā€œTrust me, the kool-aid is delicious once you get used to it.ā€

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#8. Social disapproval: "Social disapproval from oneā€™s community can play an important role in preventing 'anti-social' behaviour or discouraging failure to enact pro-social behaviour"

Appendix B: APEASE evaluation grid: (2)Use media to increase sense of personal threat, (3)Use media to increase sense of responsibility to others (8)Consider use of social disapproval for failure to comply

From SAGE document "Options for increasing adherence to social distancing measures" 22nd March 2020

#2. "Improve feelings" The second step the WEF recommend public health officials implement involves propaganda and harassment using direct phone calls, discussions, and social media apps to get family and friends vaccinated

From "World Economic Forum Releases Guide on How to Coerce and Manipulate Public into Getting the Covid-19 Vaccine" titled: "3 tactics to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy"

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I don't know Olbermann (nor do I wish to), but I will agree with just one of his claims. In fact, we are "afraid" -- of coercion to vaccinate everybody with medications that are innovative and largely of an untested nature, and with unproven (and evidently less than promised) safety and efficacy. Never in our lives, perhaps not in our history, did people face loss of employment, or refusal to be hired, to attend a school, or even go into restaurants and countless other everyday activities, solely because we chose to not try a questionable medicine. Why the insistence that the young, even small children, be vaccinated with what can be reasonably called an experimental product? Why are we forcing millions of people, who are statistically at very low risk of the disease, to potentially fall victim to sudden death, severe illness, or other short and long term effects?

By all means, call us any disparaging names you like. But please don't take away our civil liberties just because we don't want to get on the vaxx train. Most of us will take our chances with a virus that -- in all probability -- poses us very little risk. If we take the vaxxes, we get -- at best -- temporary protection but at a cost of serious injury or death. Early reports put the risks of the vaxxes at many multiples of traditional vaccines. The unvaxxed are no threat to the vaxxed. Your trying to force us to join the club shows that there is a deeper, unsavory agenda in play.

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Same reason I am ā€œscaredā€ to not drive while drunkā€¦ Do not want to take unnecessary risk! What a weird argument he is making. If the vaccine was actually effective his argument would be completely differentā€¦ They have absolutely nothing to stand on.

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To my mind the most terrified are the ones blaiming everything on the unvaccinated.

Mass psychosis anyone?

https://youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M

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Keith is a classic malignant narcissist and psychopath.

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