I am the eldest of 5 siblings, raised in a science-focused home. My dad was a marine scientist, and we were all encouraged to question and to think for ourselves.
No lack of intelligence there... but I am the only one of my family who didn't get jabbed. (Not counting my son, who was also raised to thin…
I am the eldest of 5 siblings, raised in a science-focused home. My dad was a marine scientist, and we were all encouraged to question and to think for ourselves.
No lack of intelligence there... but I am the only one of my family who didn't get jabbed. (Not counting my son, who was also raised to think for himself...)
My sister went through a quite thoughtful and rigorous consideration process - and I respect that she didn't just accept it because she was told it was "safe and effective".
But the propaganda was relentless, and extremely well researched (unlike the actual stuff in the vials!)
And then she came to realise she had been misled - and was equally thoughtful and considered about changing tack.
In those early days, there was no actual information available about the harm.
(Of course, no actual information about safety either... )
My 3 brothers - all engineers, so no background in the biological or medical sciences - all accepted everything in the mainstream narrative about covid, the jabs, the lockdowns, and so on.
My dad never accepted anything at face value - after he died in 2011, my sister found a folder containing his notes about climate change research. But I suspect he would have accepted all the covid BS, including the shots. He came from a generation which accepted that vaccination was a modern medical miracle, saving us from nasty stuff like polio (a real scare for parents back in the 50s when we were born). And in his declining years, he became a bit over-ready to clutch at a medical solution to all the ills of old age.
I don't think we should underestimate the effect of fear... fear of illness.
It is quite primeval, maybe ancestral memory, and even the most intelligent and rational of us can fall prey to these primeval fears... and the superstitious thinking that they lead to.
Thinking that a mask will protect you from getting sick is not really any different from believing that a special rock, or a bunch of herbs, or your lucky socks, will protect you from bad luck and evil in general.
The lockdowns worked... hey, we didn't die!
Here in Australia, we had hardly any covid, especially in the states that kept their borders closed the most assiduously and quarantined everyone coming in...
Sure, we made up for it later. But it would have been so much worse if we hadn't... (fill in the blank: locked down, got vaccinated, closed our borders, masked up...)
It's hard to argue with that sort of thinking. Especially when you have grown up believing that the government is working for us and generally looking out for us, and the media reinforce that with the information they put out into the public domain.
I was the only one of my siblings who studied the biological sciences (physiology and psychology). And I had some really great teachers, who encouraged critical thinking. Was that the reason I was able to see through the propaganda?
Sure, it helped... but I think it was more my innate scepticism, and my unwillingness to believe the government and the public officials and all their "experts" with their smarmy lies and condescension.
Intelligence can too often be cordoned off... and we all have blind spots.
The people I know who resisted the propaganda all had a basic level of intelligence, of course - but more, it was their willingness and ability to look at the facts.
And the facts were pretty clear - though you did have to dig a bit.
I was never an anti-vaxxer before 2021 - though I was quite sceptical about the hype and sheer number of vaccines that had escalated into our world.
Still, it was pretty clear that there was no way they could truthfully claim that these covid "vaccines" were either safe or effective. And it was novel technology.
To me, it was very straightforward... and the more they pushed, the more sceptical I became.
But balance that risk against the fear of getting sick with this scary virus... to deal with that, you had to dig a bit more, to see that covid was not anywhere near as lethal as it was initially suggested. And that there were indeed some truly effective treatments.
When I saw the way they were banning HCQ, I saw the writing on the wall for ivermectin as well, and I decided to stock up on some of the horse paste before it too became unavailable. Plus some zinc, some Vitamin D, some hydrogen peroxide and iodine and a nebuliser... By the time I did get covid, I was prepared and ready and I took action and when I got hit with a day of severe weakness, I was able to deal with it.
So I think that having this knowledge - and now the experience as well - has served to make me even more resistant to the scare propaganda. And for the next time too (and there will be a next time, I have no doubt).
But for those who have not explored the treatment options... I can see how the scariness might knock out the rational functions, and lead you to hope that the medical "experts" know what they are doing and will be able to cure you.
This is one of my frequent musings...
I am the eldest of 5 siblings, raised in a science-focused home. My dad was a marine scientist, and we were all encouraged to question and to think for ourselves.
No lack of intelligence there... but I am the only one of my family who didn't get jabbed. (Not counting my son, who was also raised to think for himself...)
My sister went through a quite thoughtful and rigorous consideration process - and I respect that she didn't just accept it because she was told it was "safe and effective".
But the propaganda was relentless, and extremely well researched (unlike the actual stuff in the vials!)
And then she came to realise she had been misled - and was equally thoughtful and considered about changing tack.
In those early days, there was no actual information available about the harm.
(Of course, no actual information about safety either... )
My 3 brothers - all engineers, so no background in the biological or medical sciences - all accepted everything in the mainstream narrative about covid, the jabs, the lockdowns, and so on.
My dad never accepted anything at face value - after he died in 2011, my sister found a folder containing his notes about climate change research. But I suspect he would have accepted all the covid BS, including the shots. He came from a generation which accepted that vaccination was a modern medical miracle, saving us from nasty stuff like polio (a real scare for parents back in the 50s when we were born). And in his declining years, he became a bit over-ready to clutch at a medical solution to all the ills of old age.
I don't think we should underestimate the effect of fear... fear of illness.
It is quite primeval, maybe ancestral memory, and even the most intelligent and rational of us can fall prey to these primeval fears... and the superstitious thinking that they lead to.
Thinking that a mask will protect you from getting sick is not really any different from believing that a special rock, or a bunch of herbs, or your lucky socks, will protect you from bad luck and evil in general.
The lockdowns worked... hey, we didn't die!
Here in Australia, we had hardly any covid, especially in the states that kept their borders closed the most assiduously and quarantined everyone coming in...
Sure, we made up for it later. But it would have been so much worse if we hadn't... (fill in the blank: locked down, got vaccinated, closed our borders, masked up...)
It's hard to argue with that sort of thinking. Especially when you have grown up believing that the government is working for us and generally looking out for us, and the media reinforce that with the information they put out into the public domain.
I was the only one of my siblings who studied the biological sciences (physiology and psychology). And I had some really great teachers, who encouraged critical thinking. Was that the reason I was able to see through the propaganda?
Sure, it helped... but I think it was more my innate scepticism, and my unwillingness to believe the government and the public officials and all their "experts" with their smarmy lies and condescension.
Intelligence can too often be cordoned off... and we all have blind spots.
The people I know who resisted the propaganda all had a basic level of intelligence, of course - but more, it was their willingness and ability to look at the facts.
And the facts were pretty clear - though you did have to dig a bit.
I was never an anti-vaxxer before 2021 - though I was quite sceptical about the hype and sheer number of vaccines that had escalated into our world.
Still, it was pretty clear that there was no way they could truthfully claim that these covid "vaccines" were either safe or effective. And it was novel technology.
To me, it was very straightforward... and the more they pushed, the more sceptical I became.
But balance that risk against the fear of getting sick with this scary virus... to deal with that, you had to dig a bit more, to see that covid was not anywhere near as lethal as it was initially suggested. And that there were indeed some truly effective treatments.
When I saw the way they were banning HCQ, I saw the writing on the wall for ivermectin as well, and I decided to stock up on some of the horse paste before it too became unavailable. Plus some zinc, some Vitamin D, some hydrogen peroxide and iodine and a nebuliser... By the time I did get covid, I was prepared and ready and I took action and when I got hit with a day of severe weakness, I was able to deal with it.
So I think that having this knowledge - and now the experience as well - has served to make me even more resistant to the scare propaganda. And for the next time too (and there will be a next time, I have no doubt).
But for those who have not explored the treatment options... I can see how the scariness might knock out the rational functions, and lead you to hope that the medical "experts" know what they are doing and will be able to cure you.