Can't We All Just Get Along?

Can't we all just get along?

Since joining Substack I have subscribed for free to many interesting viewpoints. Almost everyone I subscribe to is anti Covid narrative in some way. Some are more anti lockdown, some more ant-covid jabs, some take deeper dives into the big financial world implications of the Great Reset. Some of these substacks are very large, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, like Alex Berenson and Robert Malone (I'll get back to that feud in a minute). Some are like me, with maybe a handful or a few dozen subscribers and only a free subscription model. I put my efforts into reading what I can from various points of view, and I comment when and where I can. The smaller ones usually respond back as I do. 

Yet despite the very clear united front that the Covid narrative is in many ways fraudulent, I see huge variations. I see some (especially financial market types) who still think the Covid vax is a good thing, just maybe not for everybody and still there are arguments that some jabs are better than others. On the other end of the spectrum I read folks who think that everyone who got vaccinated at all is likely to be dead in the next few years. I know some that wax on about lab leak theories, while others insist that there is no such thing as a virus as it is currently defined. Yet another will go into a deep country by country dive of every single variant of concern, compiling a book of statistics and explanations. That guy is pretty likely to close his ears and say LaLaLa I can't hear you to the guy who says that viruses don't exist.

I have one guy who thinks the Covid response represents hubris, groupthink and utter stupidity from our world leaders. Another is sure it represents Satanically malevolent intentions and that God is coming soon to intervene. Yet another does deep dives into the nature of nihilism, neo-Malthusianism and population reduction in the minds of elites. 

Some are sure Covid is just the flu. Others are equally sure it almost killed them and was different than anything they ever experienced. A third group swear interventions like Ivermectin, HCQ, monoclonal antibodies and vitamins help. The fourth group that believes the vaccine kept their Covid from being worse is not on my Substack. I gave up on those people awhile back. 

Some ignore masks as a necessary evil to get through their day, or even believe it's the compassionate thing to do for the sake of others. Some shout them down as cowards.

And some have their own personal axes to grind. A feud erupted between Alex Berenson and Dr. Robert Malone. To me they agree on the narrative is BS to a strong degree. Berenson questioned Malone's credentials on being the inventor of MRNA and questioned ivermectin. Malone responded, and Berenson doubled down. I think Malone has done a much better job. I suspect Berenson might have been pressured. Or perhaps he's simply being human?

Of all the things lost in the last few decades I think agreeing to disagree has been the most potent and destructive. People could argue about presidential candidates when I was young and they'd still have a beer together on Friday night. Everyone saw each other as human, with their own biases and flaws known to others around them, but which did not degrade the quality or the character of their human flaws.

Now I see NPCs. What do you all think?