I agree. My sense is the government has silently taken this stance and that hospitals aren't at risk of collapse like they were a year or more ago. I also get

I agree. My sense is the government has silently taken this stance and that hospitals aren't at risk of collapse like they were a year or more ago. I also get the feeling the vaccinated have given up on the unvaccinated too just based on how rarely I now see posts on social media. It's like a tacit acceptance that if people are going to choose to die, so be it. I actually wonder if this not caring is what will actually defuse this particular anti-vaxx movement. Or it'll just be the next vaccine and the Covid vaccine issues will be completely forgotten. I mean when was the last time you heard about vaccines causing autism? what's interesting here is the underlying psychology that makes people susceptible to manipulation by thinking they're in the know on some Big Lie. This seems to be nothing new however and I can't help but think of this quote from Goebbels of all people [1]: > “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” [1]: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-...