Guest Post by Alex Berenson
Most people are happy to have Covid behind them. They aren’t getting more jabs, but they would rather believe they did the right thing than worry they didn’t.
Imagine two ways of thinking about the last three years.
ALICE (SCENARIO A):
I did my part to stop a dangerous virus! I stayed home for almost a year to slow its spread. It stunk, but I made it work. I didn’t want anyone to get sick because of me.
When scientists invented a vaccine for the virus, I took it when it was my turn. It wasn’t perfect – I had some nasty side effects. Plus I had to have a mammogram rescheduled, and then I got the virus anyway, and then I got it again after I took a booster. Annoying. And a friend of a friend got shingles after his second shot. The doctors weren’t sure, but the timing was weird. Anyway, I don’t think I’m going to take more boosters.
But the same people who told me to take the shot say it kept me from getting really sick, and that’s good enough for me. We’re back to normal, and I did my part, and that’s what counts. Now if only we could do something about gas prices.
BARBARA (SCENARIO B):
Wish I hadn’t been so scared. I didn’t know anyone who got really sick from Covid, much less died, except for my uncle, who was in a nursing home and like 84 and wasn’t doing well anyway. But every time I turned on the TV, those death counters creeped me out.
Which is why I was so excited for the vaccine. 95 percent immunity. Yes! I even yelled at my best friend when she said the second shot messed up her periods. Joke was on me, it messed up mine too. And my lymph nodes got so swollen that I couldn’t have my mammogram for three months. Then I got Covid anyway! And then I got the booster, and I got Covid again. The best advice my dad ever gave me, fool me once, shame on you…
I should never have listened, I should have remembered the way I had such a hard time getting off my antidepressant. You cannot trust these drug companies. I’m an idiot. I’m definitely never getting another shot, luckily everything’s back to normal so I don’t have to. Only now instead of being worried about Covid, I’m kinda worried about the vaccines. Also, how come the government pushed them so hard? Ugh. I don’t want to think about this more but I feel like I have to.
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The facts in scenarios A and B are the same. But Alice and Barbara’s attitudes are entirely different.
Alice sees herself as an altruist, if not a quiet hero. She accepted personal discomfort for the sake of the people around her. She did the right thing. And though the vaccines didn’t seem to work – after all, she got Covid twice – people who know a lot more about science than she does say they did. Who is she to argue? She won’t be taking more shots, but she doesn’t particularly care either way. Who does?
Barbara does.
She remembers the hype from the fall of 2020, the 95 percent immunity. Now she finds herself questioning not just the vaccines, but everything about Covid and the response to it, from the first lockdowns to the mandates.
She doesn’t feel like a hero. She feels like a fool. Worse, she’s still scared – only now she feels like she can’t trust the public health authorities she believed three years ago.
Obviously, the first scenario is far more psychologically comfortable than the second. And Alice is far happier with her choices than Barbara – even though they made the same choices and had the same outcomes.
People aren’t dumb. But they are very skilled at finding ways to make themselves feel better and justify their decisions – especially when those decisions, like being injected with mRNA, are irreversible.
I’ve thought a lot about this recently, as this fall’s booster campaign has sputtered. Most people have rejected the idea of more mRNA. They’ve have had Covid after getting the shots, showing them firsthand that the vaccines don’t work particularly well, or they’ve had unpleasant (and sometimes serious) side effects, or both.
Yet most people are not pushing back on the new campaigns or complaining about the way the authorities and media now pretend that they never claimed the vaccines would prevent Covid. They are content simply to ignore the pressure. They haven’t entirely forgotten – many people are even more cynical about drug companies and health bureaucracies than they were in 2020 – but they’ve moved on.
And as long as the vaccines don’t have provably terrible side effects going forward, they are unlikely to look back.
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People aren’t dumb.
Wishful thinking.
Delusional thinking.
how many people fell for the fear porn and lined up to enrich pharma to the tune of billions for a damaging product that failed to work as advertized and actually harmed folks…..i watched educated intelectuals in a state of utter anxiety over the 24 hour news cycles… i screamed to turn off rachel madcow and the talking heads employed by the same agency who brought us cancer thanks to the plot to kill castro..the population was always a target and only the smart ones avoid the pitfalls and live… the morons walk headlong into their demise..
i personally have estranged from these folks as not to witness their deaths first hand after repeted warnings.
Writes the guy who is trying to convince himself, and others here, that staying in the US is the correct decision.
People aren’t dumb, they are shit for brain fucking retarded; that’s why they are known as ‘ignorant’…they need to be aware of something fire before they consciously choose to ignore it.
*first* typo
Its interesting.
Have a few very close friends.
In sync on almost every other aspect of socio-political awareness.
But when sick, “the vax did its job, and kept me from getting worse, & out of the hospital.”
Gullible to the manipulative narrative. Will never believe they were lied to.
I see similar mindsets with the reactions to the LGBTQ+ narrative push. Ignore the grooming & cultural rot influence upon kids, in the name of virtue signaling tolerance of the delusional, depraved lifestyles a very small minority of people are advancing.
Recruitment. Frequent messaging. Progressive changes, supposedly advancing society into greater enlightenment.
Succeeding, due to lack of pushback.
On both Coronahoax, and
the child sexualization patterns.
The end result?
I have a much smaller circle of friends.
The Divide and Conquer tactics are somewhat effective.
They were never your “friends” in the first place.
The whole “it kept me from getting it worse” thing is so stupid. Tell people you can’t prove a negative and they actually have to think about it.
Both were ignorant, people who were not, didn’t get it because they knew that viruses don’t exist, a viral pandemic then must be a hoax, a big lie. I wish A would read it, instead of having a glory now you have MAC, you radiate in the bluetooth range, making sensitive people and pets sick around you. Congratulation.
True- ignorance aside, all those who took it still failed an aptitude test.
1) The pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer’s history of criminal liability/Moderna never had a product on market).
2) Needed EUA… previous animal studies (not so good).
3) Masks- we have an entire history of study on this subject (enough said).
4) All governments in lock-step mandating an emergency use proprietary product…
5) I could go on and on and on…
The actual problem is people have been conditioned to be perpetual children. Everything from “investment advisers”- your “doctor.. dentist.. physio.. etc.” How many people who were told they needed glasses are given an explanation of how the cornea works and their options.. it doesn’t happen. People are TOLD in every walk of life what to do, and accept it- more so they actively seek it out so that they don’t have to be responsible for anything in their lives. I have no idea how this can now be fixed.. it’s too far gone at this point.
I agree even I see how indoctrinated I and my family are and we can see more than most, yet we are conditioned to think as children with religious/atheistic, or countless other blinders on. Liberty and independence are the only politics and religion that matters. It scares me how much we have been poisoned and devolved from what we could and should’ve been, through tyrannical slavery sciences, and isms. Authority worship, elitism, and statism are a desease. So is the inability to free ones self and be self sufficient.
A machine that can’t be fixed, can be switched off, unplugged, or broken. They won’t let anyone switch it off or unplug, so plan C it is. It can’t be fixed. I hope I am wrong. I don’t see it. Every day is just dred, and anger knowing what is coming to America and what already has been. Maybe the pieces can be put back together when it’s all over, maybe into something better?
Assuming the spike protein factories eventually do enough damage kill, at some point the numbers might finally so large they cannot hide them. Of course I’m sure they will have “released” something new to take the fall.
“My vaccine only works if you’ve had yours too, my mask only works if you wear one too”. It seems as if 70% of the population has been lobotomized. And, against the authors’ point, many people ARE dumb. Unfortunately for many the first provably terrible side effect from the jab is their demise. These individuals, and those who drank the Koolaid and trusted “the science”, will never learn or admit the truth, even with the mountains of hard data in front of them.
Mainstream Media are their gods. Sean and Rachel care about them and would never keep anything from them nor tell them something harmful. And don’t forget all the celebrities, who are clearly geniuses, urging them to do the right thing like they did. You’re a good friend? What the heck do you know? And don’t quote that idiot Alex Jones to me.
Just put the COVID fray into the box with all the other unpunished state crimes.
We are a peculiar variety of animal, if evolution is to be believed. We almost instantly forget that which WAS there but now IS gone. Emptiness is our blindest blind spot. This is why revolutionaries tear down statues, among other things.
What is gone is the idea that institutions are honest interlocutors with the society that built them and pays for their upkeep. All institutions, government, education, medical, industrial, large religious, entertainment, all institutions.
In our burgeoning socialist utopia of next Tuesday NAKED SELF INTEREST RULES ALL.
Your sophisticated article addressing the reason there will be no reckoning over the deliberate injury, maiming and murder of individuals using the COVID shots does not address the underlying issue. The premise is subtle, well written and completely irrelevant to the facts at hand.
There will be no reckoning over this ongoing democide because the overlords choose that there be none. The war is only beginning and there is no time for niceties such as ‘justice’ for these initial casualties in the contest. Though frightened, the overlords clearly are still in near complete control of the situation, witness the continued, renewed push to get the poison in more arms.
The sheep 🐑 mentality is more dangerous than the criminals in Government
I find my self questioning everything about America, life, God, or lack there of , after Corona/ Covid-19. Too many rah rah America types that aren’t rah rah about freedom or independence. Just rah rah about doing as they’re told and punishing those that don’t.