Ok. Wake up. Get mad. Get mad at me. I can handle it.
But for the love of God, smell the coffee. Today’s brew has the aroma of military-grade psyops, deliberate economic destruction, asymmetrical warfare, and a finish of totalitarian oppression.
Sadly, many of my friends and acquaintances who see themselves as independent thinkers and intellectually curious still react poorly when I question the Covid orthodoxy. They happily swallow unfalsifiable assertions and hold onto their beliefs with a religious fervor as if the nonstop propaganda they've been fed for 2 years is infallible doctrine. Unfortunately, many people don't realize they're vulnerable to the sway of the crowd and won't easily give up the faulty narrative.
I would love to see the normies wake up and get mad....but half of them don't even realize they have been LIED TO. They cannot understand what comes out of Fauci's and Wollensky's mouths. Really, I am about to create a translator for bureacratese
Let's give it one more month before marching with pitchforks and torches. I'm thinking Feb 22. 2/22/22, a Tuesday. To end our two year free trial of totalitarianism.
Example: If the vaccine stops transmission, why is it not stopping transmission?
The believers/NPC's will always answer with the preprogrammed response, "but, but it reduces severity", which case I follow up with another question, if it does not stop transmission why force others to take it?
At this point they will respond "but but all of the antivaxers will overwhelm the hospitals!", which case you have to ask "is that happening?" Of course you also have to ask, do you think its smart to fire hospital staff when you are being overwhelmed?
The justification for the jab so often is that it lessens severity of the disease and death.
How do we know that? The very definition of "vaccinated" has been changed, not only in the dictionary, but as time marches on the number of shots a person has taken changes their "vaccinated" status.
So, how do we know that the shots mitigate severity and death?
Local news featured some parents and children protesting in front of the Austin TX capitol, and a mother said her daughter showed "courage" for demanding to be protected from what is now a mild cold. Makes me want to throw an old-style paper dictionary at her.
Are people waking up, though? I just had a conversation last night with 2 dear friends who remain absolutely bamboozled. They are thoroughly convinced that we are still “in the middle of a pandemic”, that NPIs work, vaccine-resistant variants are the fault of the unvaccinated cultivating them in their own bodies, and that all of the everything is the fault of People Not Taking It Seriously.
These are people who are intelligent, skeptical and libertarianish by nature, and who up until 2 years ago, I would have trusted with my life. Now I’m sad for them, and I’m angry that they are consigning all the rest of us to permanent inanity when if they would just open their eyes and do 30 mins of research this could be over.
Well, they're certainly madder than ever. The Facebook fights have reached a new level of viciousness and personal attacks. American ignorance of anything beyond its borders (and for some people those are state borders, not even spanning the continent) is not helping; it's not even reaching them that England et al. are rolling back mandates. Doubling down, ramping up.
I guess I am lucky, but no one in my small circle of friends has challenged me about the vaccines, in a town with over 90% compliance. In fact they are now regretting their decisions, since all have either had side effects (including a 12yo now with “sports asthma”), or have recently contracted covid anyway.
The only time I was confronted was by a SNF patient last September, when he found out I was leaving due to the vax mandates. He demanded to know how I could expose all those vulnerable patients, didn’t I know I was putting them all at risk, etc etc. I let him know that I had read the studies, and that the prophylaxis that I was taking was far more effective than these vaccines that were waning every day. By the time we finished discussing the side effects he had experienced, and the flip-flopping narrative, he said, “I want to go with you.”
This week over 300 colleges in the US have booster mandate deadlines for their students. Hundreds of thousands of young people will be coerced into taking a shot they do not need and that carries risks of bad outcomes. If you are a stakeholder and don't want this to become the norm at colleges, join our movement. NoCollegeMandates.com will direct you toward our group on Telegram and other resources. Help save our young people. And thank you, el gato malo for being a hero cat.
I had imagined writing a dystopian sci-fi novel where the majority, maimed and chronically diseased from the “cure” to a disease that wasn’t, takes out their anger on the healthy minority who refused.
Wouldn’t it be refreshing for these geniuses to come out and say we goofed. We thought masks would help but they’re useless. We thought social distancing would help but it was useless. We thought flatten the curve would stop the spread but it just widened the base and extended a flu season. We thought the vaccines would be be a silver bullet but the cure is worse than the disease. We aren’t complete idiots but we know it seems that way. We didn’t mean to lie to you but once we were in this hole we couldn’t figure out how to stop digging.
Ok. Wake up. Get mad. Get mad at me. I can handle it.
But for the love of God, smell the coffee. Today’s brew has the aroma of military-grade psyops, deliberate economic destruction, asymmetrical warfare, and a finish of totalitarian oppression.
Sadly, many of my friends and acquaintances who see themselves as independent thinkers and intellectually curious still react poorly when I question the Covid orthodoxy. They happily swallow unfalsifiable assertions and hold onto their beliefs with a religious fervor as if the nonstop propaganda they've been fed for 2 years is infallible doctrine. Unfortunately, many people don't realize they're vulnerable to the sway of the crowd and won't easily give up the faulty narrative.
I would love to see the normies wake up and get mad....but half of them don't even realize they have been LIED TO. They cannot understand what comes out of Fauci's and Wollensky's mouths. Really, I am about to create a translator for bureacratese
Let's give it one more month before marching with pitchforks and torches. I'm thinking Feb 22. 2/22/22, a Tuesday. To end our two year free trial of totalitarianism.
I have found that I always use questions.
Example: If the vaccine stops transmission, why is it not stopping transmission?
The believers/NPC's will always answer with the preprogrammed response, "but, but it reduces severity", which case I follow up with another question, if it does not stop transmission why force others to take it?
At this point they will respond "but but all of the antivaxers will overwhelm the hospitals!", which case you have to ask "is that happening?" Of course you also have to ask, do you think its smart to fire hospital staff when you are being overwhelmed?
Just walk them down the road
The justification for the jab so often is that it lessens severity of the disease and death.
How do we know that? The very definition of "vaccinated" has been changed, not only in the dictionary, but as time marches on the number of shots a person has taken changes their "vaccinated" status.
So, how do we know that the shots mitigate severity and death?
Local news featured some parents and children protesting in front of the Austin TX capitol, and a mother said her daughter showed "courage" for demanding to be protected from what is now a mild cold. Makes me want to throw an old-style paper dictionary at her.
My husband has a great spiel about the cloth/ surgical masks.
Husband: You know right that that cloth mask you have on your face doesn’t work?
It’s like you have been wearing nothing on your face for 2 years.
Girl at physical therapy desk:
I did hear that, but I was just sick you don’t want what I had.
Husband: Again you know that mask is like wearing nothing.
It doesn’t nothing to stop the spread of an airborne respiratory virus.
PT girl: Oh well the placebo effect. 😳
Husband: I think you look silly.
Are people waking up, though? I just had a conversation last night with 2 dear friends who remain absolutely bamboozled. They are thoroughly convinced that we are still “in the middle of a pandemic”, that NPIs work, vaccine-resistant variants are the fault of the unvaccinated cultivating them in their own bodies, and that all of the everything is the fault of People Not Taking It Seriously.
These are people who are intelligent, skeptical and libertarianish by nature, and who up until 2 years ago, I would have trusted with my life. Now I’m sad for them, and I’m angry that they are consigning all the rest of us to permanent inanity when if they would just open their eyes and do 30 mins of research this could be over.
They can go fuck themselves.
Any conversation with a cultist had better begin with the phrase "I was wrong" or "I'm sorry," or we have nothing whatsoever to discuss.
Well, they're certainly madder than ever. The Facebook fights have reached a new level of viciousness and personal attacks. American ignorance of anything beyond its borders (and for some people those are state borders, not even spanning the continent) is not helping; it's not even reaching them that England et al. are rolling back mandates. Doubling down, ramping up.
I guess I am lucky, but no one in my small circle of friends has challenged me about the vaccines, in a town with over 90% compliance. In fact they are now regretting their decisions, since all have either had side effects (including a 12yo now with “sports asthma”), or have recently contracted covid anyway.
The only time I was confronted was by a SNF patient last September, when he found out I was leaving due to the vax mandates. He demanded to know how I could expose all those vulnerable patients, didn’t I know I was putting them all at risk, etc etc. I let him know that I had read the studies, and that the prophylaxis that I was taking was far more effective than these vaccines that were waning every day. By the time we finished discussing the side effects he had experienced, and the flip-flopping narrative, he said, “I want to go with you.”
I don’t care who’s mad at me. For the sake of my kids and the future, I can handle that. But I can’t handle stubborn, prideful idiocy.
This week over 300 colleges in the US have booster mandate deadlines for their students. Hundreds of thousands of young people will be coerced into taking a shot they do not need and that carries risks of bad outcomes. If you are a stakeholder and don't want this to become the norm at colleges, join our movement. NoCollegeMandates.com will direct you toward our group on Telegram and other resources. Help save our young people. And thank you, el gato malo for being a hero cat.
I had imagined writing a dystopian sci-fi novel where the majority, maimed and chronically diseased from the “cure” to a disease that wasn’t, takes out their anger on the healthy minority who refused.
Looks like I won’t have to.
Wouldn’t it be refreshing for these geniuses to come out and say we goofed. We thought masks would help but they’re useless. We thought social distancing would help but it was useless. We thought flatten the curve would stop the spread but it just widened the base and extended a flu season. We thought the vaccines would be be a silver bullet but the cure is worse than the disease. We aren’t complete idiots but we know it seems that way. We didn’t mean to lie to you but once we were in this hole we couldn’t figure out how to stop digging.
It's stunning how many people still believe the vaccine prevents infection and transmission.