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How Could We Have Known?

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I watched a clip from Fauci’s recent congressional hearing where he admitted that COVID vaccines didn’t stop infection and transmission. It’s really funny because, as people who were around in early 2021 know, I was aware before the vaccines were made available that they will do neither. I knew it not because I’m a clairvoyant but because I read the papers where Pfizer very openly and clearly explained what the vaccine was supposed to do and how it was going to work. The mechanism of its functioning was not impossible for a reasonably educated person to understand. Yet people confused “trust science” with “trust whatever news channels on TV say about science” and refused to look.

The COVID-era experience of somebody who didn’t access the news and only learned about the virus and the vaccines from scientific papers was, consequently, enormously better. Obviously, most people aren’t capable of reading such papers, so they are easily confused.

And now Fauci himself is saying exactly what I did in January of 2021, and everybody goes, “well, of course, nobody could have known back then.”

Gosh, that was a stupid time.

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    methylethyl

    The alt-media was on top of it the whole time.

    I did not read the scientific papers, but I read people who were reading the scientific papers– I was in a constant search for more people writing articles that consisted, basically, of slogging through the endless reams of scientific papers and then summarizing them in plain English. There were a bunch of people doing it. Super helpful.

    But ultimately made the decision to avoid the shots because I’ve seen way too many nasty side effects from pharmaceuticals, and I don’t have that kind of blind faith in pharma that’d let me take a product that had just hit the market, and had bypassed the usual testing. If it’s been on the market less than ten years, it’s still on probation.

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      Clarissa

      I see no evidence that people learned anything, though. They are still reading the NYTimes that lied and pretended COVID was killing large numbers if children and tried to pass off Potter’s Field as an attempt to conceal COVID deaths. And so on. And they are still reading, nodding and believing every lie that’s being fed to them. The simple-minded childishness of this approach is actually quite stunning.

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        methylethyl

        My inlaws still get all their news from the TV. It’s so depressing.

        Even my parents are more media-aware than that. And it is 100% because they are religious and working-class, and they figured out MSM was hostile to them many years ago. For the older generation of comfortable white-collar liberals, they’ve never had any reason to question institutions that are marketed entirely to their demographic.

        I’m still mystified about the younger generations of lefties. They don’t have the excuse of not being tech-savvy. Alternative news sources *are* readily available to them, but they choose propaganda anyway. Why?

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          Avi

          “They don’t have the excuse of not being tech-savvy.“

          That the younger generations are tech-savvy is rather a myth. They know how to tinker with things, but they do not really know much more than that, unless they are techies, in which case they really do know their stuff.

          “Alternative news sources *are* readily available to them, but they choose propaganda anyway.“

          Yes, but they prefer it when other people do their thinking for them, it’s so much comfortable to have ready-made thought available to simple adopt and show off. It serves as proof that they are “on the right side of history” since nobody has ever told them – and they are too thick to see it for themselves – that history does not have any right or wrong sides. Fundamentally, they confuse virtue signalling with morality.

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          1. methylethyl Avatar
            methylethyl

            I sometimes wonder if it doesn’t come down to simple trust/distrust of authority.

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            methylethyl

            …but also wonder if it’s connected to drug use, licit and illicit.

            https://metatron.substack.com/p/deconstructing-society

            Another notable difference between my parents and my inlaws is that my parents are extremely skeptical of pharmaceuticals. If they don’t need it to stay alive, they’re not taking it. Inlaws are very trusting, not just of MSM and government authority but of modern medicine, and they are on *all* the drugs. antidepressants, ADD meds, cholesterol drugs (there are well documented neuropsychiatric effects from statins)… if it’s been popularly prescribed in the last 20 years, they’re probably on it.

            Not only are all those drugs very common, but it seems very likely they’re more commonly used by lefties– who are statistically more likely to be diagnosed with the conditions that lead to prescriptions of psychiatric medication… and also more likely to use recreational drugs like marijuana. It’s an open question whether mental illness is actually more common among lefties– but it’s more likely to be diagnosed and medicated on that side of the aisle, so… an educated guess says more of the left than the right are on drugs.

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              Clarissa

              Thankfully, my mother is also suspicious of pharmacology and has rejected every attempt by doctors to get her on anti-depressants after my father’s death. The concept of grief over a terrible event seems alien to the medical profession. A 47-year marriage isn’t enough of an explanation why a person is sad that her husband died. It will never stop making me angry.

              I looked at the drugs they tried to prescribe and it wasn’t even mild anti-depressants. It was the heaviest possible kind. For a 70yo lady who never took such a drug in her life. Beyond irresponsible, in my opinion.

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                methylethyl

                Oh, (expletive) yeah. I was offered antidepressants after my sister died. Basically said “(expletive) no! She’s my *sister* and I’m *supposed* to feel terrible.” That is the right, good, and the proper order of the universe. You will not take that away from me.

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                Clarissa

                At least, I wasn’t offered any meds when my son died. And hospital workers apologized for not being able to give us a death certificate because since he wasn’t born alive, he was officially not considered a person. But at least everybody repeated that it was unfair and they understood that.

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                Anonymous

                What do you consider mild and heavy anti-depressants?

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