Having left the UK I miss the ability to refuse being muzzled by simply saying 'I AM EXEMPT' - no one is allowed to challenge you on this, not even the police.
I wonder do I know of your friend who was in Peace Corps Ghana. I still have my yellow WHO card with a long list of jabs from my own "service" there from 2004-06. Unlike your friend, I look back on that with horror. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never. And probably a lot of the illnesses that we poor volunteers suffered that were blamed on malaria and other tropical acclimation diseases was rather our ill effects from multiple rounds of injections
Our family used to get together a couple of times a year for reunions -- that stopped because a couple of us siblings are not Vax'd.
When everyone was wearing masks, I wore a garlic bulb around my neck, and told people, as a scientist, I could assure them a garlic bulb was every bit as effective as a mask.
I live in the wilderness. A 3 mile drive down a dirt and gravel road gets me to a 2 lane blacktop. If I go right, I go into a liberal Democrat small city with a large University -- everyone is vax'd and wouldn't let you into their shops w/o a mask. If instead I turn left, I go into a small rural Republican town where no one wore a mask and a sign on the door of one cafe said "We love seeing your face".
I could go on and on -- but this MSM Hyped-Hysteria CoVid-1984 Mass-Psychosis Fear- Pandemic sure has separated people ... I'm most amazed at my scientific colleagues at Universities ... I think the Universities are Purveyors of Narratives rather than Centers of Critical Thinking .... Maybe it was always that way and I never noticed it.
Best to avoid the shedding, anyway, is what I tell myself. Oh, the gall, to discriminate against the vaxxed, but now it's a defendable stance, scientifically. There is no time limit on this as far as I know. We simply don't know exactly HOW dangerous they are to the unvaxxed.
I'm been scratching my head from around late 2020 as to why the majority of my friends and colleagues are/were pro-narrative. Listening to Mattias Desmet did help as that did explain why those I know of an anxious disposition fell completely for the narrative (and are upset with me for challenging it) but I am still scratching as I struggle to understand those who may not be true-believers but still holding onto the narrative even as it's crumbling away. The most common response I get now with my (still) pro-narrative friends is: "you cannot convince me".
My colleagues work as analysts so I wonder how the heck you guys are not spotting all the cracks and lies in what the authorities & MSM are saying and doing.
Those friends who fell for the narrative out of fear I can to some extent understand their position; it's those who claim not to be afraid but yet still support the narrative - these ones are the mystery. Could it just be due to cognitive dissonance? Sunk cost fallacy? That they feel they've invested so much, given up so much that it's too painful to acknowledge they've been fooled?
It's not always the case but I do find that among my friends those with more of liberal leaning (but clearly not libertarian!) were more supportive of narrative and covid measures. So as a left-leaning liberal I found it bonkers that my heroes now are on the right of the political spectrum - folks like a handful of Tory MPs, Florian Philippot, Ron DeSantis, Rand Paul, etc.
I do wonder if having grown up in Thailand and seen how the state manipulates (often without subtlety) public perception, I developed a nose for sniffing out the bullshit that is the covid narrative and the creeping of totalitarianism.
Having left the UK I miss the ability to refuse being muzzled by simply saying 'I AM EXEMPT' - no one is allowed to challenge you on this, not even the police.
I wonder do I know of your friend who was in Peace Corps Ghana. I still have my yellow WHO card with a long list of jabs from my own "service" there from 2004-06. Unlike your friend, I look back on that with horror. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never. And probably a lot of the illnesses that we poor volunteers suffered that were blamed on malaria and other tropical acclimation diseases was rather our ill effects from multiple rounds of injections
The govt isnt trying to kill you but the people behind covid are. Share this with your BFFs.
https://rumble.com/v10mnew-live-world-premiere-watch-the-water.html
Our family used to get together a couple of times a year for reunions -- that stopped because a couple of us siblings are not Vax'd.
When everyone was wearing masks, I wore a garlic bulb around my neck, and told people, as a scientist, I could assure them a garlic bulb was every bit as effective as a mask.
I live in the wilderness. A 3 mile drive down a dirt and gravel road gets me to a 2 lane blacktop. If I go right, I go into a liberal Democrat small city with a large University -- everyone is vax'd and wouldn't let you into their shops w/o a mask. If instead I turn left, I go into a small rural Republican town where no one wore a mask and a sign on the door of one cafe said "We love seeing your face".
I could go on and on -- but this MSM Hyped-Hysteria CoVid-1984 Mass-Psychosis Fear- Pandemic sure has separated people ... I'm most amazed at my scientific colleagues at Universities ... I think the Universities are Purveyors of Narratives rather than Centers of Critical Thinking .... Maybe it was always that way and I never noticed it.
Best to avoid the shedding, anyway, is what I tell myself. Oh, the gall, to discriminate against the vaxxed, but now it's a defendable stance, scientifically. There is no time limit on this as far as I know. We simply don't know exactly HOW dangerous they are to the unvaxxed.
I'm been scratching my head from around late 2020 as to why the majority of my friends and colleagues are/were pro-narrative. Listening to Mattias Desmet did help as that did explain why those I know of an anxious disposition fell completely for the narrative (and are upset with me for challenging it) but I am still scratching as I struggle to understand those who may not be true-believers but still holding onto the narrative even as it's crumbling away. The most common response I get now with my (still) pro-narrative friends is: "you cannot convince me".
My colleagues work as analysts so I wonder how the heck you guys are not spotting all the cracks and lies in what the authorities & MSM are saying and doing.
Those friends who fell for the narrative out of fear I can to some extent understand their position; it's those who claim not to be afraid but yet still support the narrative - these ones are the mystery. Could it just be due to cognitive dissonance? Sunk cost fallacy? That they feel they've invested so much, given up so much that it's too painful to acknowledge they've been fooled?
It's not always the case but I do find that among my friends those with more of liberal leaning (but clearly not libertarian!) were more supportive of narrative and covid measures. So as a left-leaning liberal I found it bonkers that my heroes now are on the right of the political spectrum - folks like a handful of Tory MPs, Florian Philippot, Ron DeSantis, Rand Paul, etc.
I do wonder if having grown up in Thailand and seen how the state manipulates (often without subtlety) public perception, I developed a nose for sniffing out the bullshit that is the covid narrative and the creeping of totalitarianism.