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"Many of those asking questions" is using a weasel word: many. What is many? It allows hand wavy arguments. Pre covid, I knew about half a dozen anti vax "it c
by sethammons 2y ago
"Many of those asking questions" is using a weasel word: many. What is many? It allows hand wavy arguments.
Pre covid, I knew about half a dozen anti vax "it causes autism" people; esp my cousin/neighbors as they blame vaccines for their son's autism despite the information available. Post covid, I knew only a couple more similar people. I also know probably closer to 150 people who are/were "this is a new thing being too aggressively pushed" who otherwise take vaccines. Nearly 10x in my circles.
It is fallacious to group these two together. A common question was, "if I already caught it and developed immunity, why would I want to additionally vaccinate?" And people shut them down as nutcases. Nobody was asking that question in bad faith and even if they were it was a fair question. However, when you are told to shut up and take what we are telling you, it is a normal human reaction to be skeptical. People were actively pushed to the fringe as those were the only people willing to even entertain "these evil thought crimes of not blindly towing party lines."
- consteval 2y ago> What is many? It allows hand wavy arguments I don't know because I actually can't read minds. However anecdotally, most (almost all) the people I knew who didn't take the Jab did so because they listened to some alex jones type podcast with a quack talking about crazy conspiracies. This INCLUDES my family, so I am being generous with my descriptions. No I'm not misrepresenting them. > It is fallacious to group these two together. They are separate, but it is fallacious to claim they share no commonalities. The entire reason the Covid vaccine was under any skepticism is because the idea of vaccine skepticism had already broken the mainstream. It was, 25 years ago, accepted as a position people could have. Some of the people you describe here: > this is a new thing being too aggressively pushed Are now FULLY 100% anti-vax. Is that a coincidence? No, it's not, and you know that.