The whole issue comes down to a question of trust, really. Do you trust the government? If so, after all we’ve seen over the past year—at all levels, local, state, and federal—may I ask WHY?!?
Let’s assume for a minute, that the vaccination campaign is led by people who genuinely want to end the current crisis and restore the country to “normal”. Let’s also assume, that they believe that mass vaccination is the best way to achieve that objective by preventing the spread of the virus and, thus, reducing the death toll. Is that sufficient justification for silencing vaccine critics and conducting a nation-wide brainwashing operation aimed at controlling public opinion?
No, it’s not. People need to hear both sides of the story, in fact, that’s the only way they can make an informed decision about how they wish to proceed. The media has no right to commandeer the airwaves and control whatever people hear and see. And they have no right to deliberately exclude the medical professionals and other experts whose views conflict with the official narrative. The only way that people can offer their informed consent for vaccination, is if they’re able to weigh the risks and benefits for themselves. But that’s only possible if they have access to many diverse sources of information which, at present, they don’t. Increasingly, the only message that most people hear is the one that is provided by the government in collaboration with industry honchos and other elites. Traditionally, this type of state media is called “propaganda” which is a term that certainly applies here.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how this has affected the debate on vaccines, namely, there isn’t one. The skeptics have been dismissed as antivaxx loonies while an entirely new regime of experimental vaccines is being praised as a “miracle drug”. At the same time, the government –which has aligned itself with the industry it’s supposed to regulate– is doing everything in its power to pressure people into getting vaccinated. What we’re seeing is the most extravagant Madison Avenue “product launch” in America’s 245-year history, and it’s coming at us full-throttle from all sides. It’s virtually impossible to turn on the TV or radio without being deluged by one emotive vignette after the other all of which are aimed at promoting vaccination. How does this respect the right of the individual to make his own informed decision free from government coercion?
It doesn’t. This is flagrant indoctrination and yet no one talks about it. It’s shocking. Have you noticed how the critics of the mRNA vaccines have been prevented from expressing their views in the media? Have you noticed how the doctors, scientists, virologists, epidemiologists and public health experts have all been blocked from appearing on the cable news channels or excluded from the nation’s leading newspapers? Have you noticed how these critics been attacked on social media, censored on FaceBook and removed from Twitter? Have you noticed the lengths to which the media has gone to eliminate any challenge to the “official narrative” and to denounce, ridicule or blacklist anyone who dares to offer a conflicting opinion?
Why? Why is the media preventing these experts from articulating their reservations to the American people directly?
This is very scary stuff. Agents of the state now identify critics of the Covid vaccine as their mortal enemies. How did we get here? And how did we get to the point where the government is targeting people who don’t agree with them? This is way beyond Orwell. We have entered some creepy alternate universe.
It’s way worse than that; if you give any serious thought at all to it, it’s nothing short of terrifying. Scary as it is, this one’s a must-read for sure.
The nice thing is that there are still those indomitable souls out there who hew to one of the most hallowed of American traditions: finding the workaround in defiance of overbearing authority. Aesop provides the skinny over at BCE’s place, with link.
FWIW, state of WY has a pdf where you can print all the official blank ‘Rona cards you want:
https://health.wyo.gov/2020-covid-19-shot-card-2b/
And a quick search on Google images reveals a treasure trove of lot numbers and actual stickers, stamps, and signatures, for the Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J vaccines, for anyone who might want that sort of thing.
Just saying.
Thanks for that, my friend. A most helpful information dump, I’d say.
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Sorry, stopped reading after the first sentence. Assuming positive motives for the left? No, just no. Starting a discussion with ‘Let’s assume the moon is made out of green cheese’ tells me I don’t need to waste my time.
“Assuming positive motives for the left?”
Today’s funny.
At least express that as a hypothetical that is also highly in doubt, but an assumption useful for this discussion.
That’s how I have seen things presented and that’s at least honest.
He does bring up a good point. Even for those people who DO believe the Left is honest in their goal to help people, this should give them pause. It’s a message directed at the fence sitters, the mushy, squishy middle that always believes the best.
My conclusion from all this would then end by asking the mushy, squishy fence sitters why they start with the premise that the Left wants to help US in the first place. Only someone who meant us HARM would be behaving like this.
YW.
I posted the info on my site yesterday too, to make sure it gets out to a wider audience than just BCE’s Comment readers. Especially with The Usual Suspects starting the drumbeat for mandatory universal vaxxing.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=241875
The truth.
A very good synopsis and one I will be sending other people.
One quibble. Age is a determining factor because most deaths occurred clustered around 80. Age + Comorbidities (as a result of obesity or other lifestyle choices as he noted) is the key.
A younger fat person has a better chance of surviving simply because years of not taking care of themselves has not accumulated at 50 than say, 80. Same with 30 vs 50. The likelihood of someone dying at age 30 vs age 80 certainly was higher for the higher aged person.
So I would restate things as thus: Two people of the same age have different risk factors based upon their general state of health and obesity was a prime factor in that difference in the same age groups.
Agreed on that.
And I forgot to give a tip of the hat to where I found it:
https://www.dailypundit.com/2021/03/29/litany-of-lies/
Actually I thought that was the very point of the novels 1984 and Animal Farm.
Animal Farm shows us how we get there and 1984 showed us what it’s like after they achieved it and how they treat dissent at that point.