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The vaccines were so good at their job that the hospitals were full of unvaccinated people even after most people got vaccinated, and this astonishing feat of e

The vaccines were so good at their job that the hospitals were full of unvaccinated people even after most people got vaccinated, and this astonishing feat of efficacy persisted for quite some time. Normally I'm sympathetic to a bit of healthy cynicism, but when the official narrative is backed by extremely strong extremely public corroborating evidence, sorry, I'm not going to sacrifice the safety of myself and those I care about to indulge someone else's politically-driven blindness towards said evidence.

RIMR 2y ago
There is a disturbing trend on the right to reject literally anything a state org says as if it were some sort of brave rebellion against the system. The CDC says wear masks? Suddenly it becomes a "mind control" issue. The FDA recommends not drinking raw milk? Republican lawmakers are literally sickening themselves drinking bacteria-laden dairy products in front of their colleagues to "trigger the libs". The FDA issue emergency authorization to get a COVID vaccine to the public as quickly as possible during a pandemic, and suddenly Conservatives are claiming that COVID never killed anyone, it's the Vaccine that's killing people, even as the unvaccinated make up the lion's share of the casualties. If you dive deep enough into the antivaxxer movements (a deeply right-wing movement), you'll find people arguing that drinking industrial bleach (Miracle Mineral Cure) is the solution to every health issue that "they don't want you to know about", even as they are shitting out pieces of their intestines (Google "rope worms"). Of courset the government saying "don't drink bleach" makes them double down. I am all for a healthy distrust of the government or any other ruling authority, but it feels like roughly half the the U.S. population is so brain-broken that they have fully embraced contrarianism as a worldview.

RIMR 2y ago

There is a disturbing trend on the right to reject literally anything a state org says as if it were some sort of brave rebellion against the system. The CDC says wear masks? Suddenly it becomes a "mind control" issue. The FDA recommends not drinking raw milk? Republican lawmakers are literally sickening themselves drinking bacteria-laden dairy products in front of their colleagues to "trigger the libs". The FDA issue emergency authorization to get a COVID vaccine to the public as quickly as possible during a pandemic, and suddenly Conservatives are claiming that COVID never killed anyone, it's the Vaccine that's killing people, even as the unvaccinated make up the lion's share of the casualties. If you dive deep enough into the antivaxxer movements (a deeply right-wing movement), you'll find people arguing that drinking industrial bleach (Miracle Mineral Cure) is the solution to every health issue that "they don't want you to know about", even as they are shitting out pieces of their intestines (Google "rope worms"). Of courset the government saying "don't drink bleach" makes them double down. I am all for a healthy distrust of the government or any other ruling authority, but it feels like roughly half the the U.S. population is so brain-broken that they have fully embraced contrarianism as a worldview.