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"This is how to protect others and be a good person" fallacy. (and the inverse, "people not complying are putting others at risk") (that said, there's something to the fact that we're all connected and contagious diseases are contagious. But what they were saying was protective was not. If anything, people who were sick thought they were…
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"This is how to protect others and be a good person" fallacy. (and the inverse, "people not complying are putting others at risk")
(that said, there's something to the fact that we're all connected and contagious diseases are contagious. But what they were saying was protective was not. If anything, people who were sick thought they were protecting others by wearing useless face diapers. And plenty of masked people cough all over public transit.
"Humans are suddenly not mammals" - brilliant.
"Went to a good school." What a twisted way to see things. The best schools are the worst, these years (And the years before for some), made quite clear.
And (for my cousin A, who probably will never see this) - "I only listen to virologists." (Meanwhile, believing what wikipedia and incompetent journalists say about Dr Byram Bridle, and not comprehending that fact checkers and Washington Post "journalists" are not virologists.
And the one he said with almost every email - some version of "people who believe what you do about the vaccine also don't believe in climate change and think the election was stolen." It's an obvious deflection from the vaccine conversation, and at first I thought it was completely off base, because I was sure about climate change and didn't believe the election was stolen, (but a tiny part of me wondered, especially as I saw how many lies the media told on covid).
As time went on I see there actually is a connection (altho it's still a fallacy to not listen to credible doctors on the vaccine / covid treatments conversation). Many of the same people who smell the bullshit all thru the covid narrative also smell bullshit in the doomsday climate models, the blind #FollowTheScience, and how climate is being used to usher in digital dystopia. One can see those things and still hold that maybe massive industrial activity from humans had some negative effects on the atmosphere, but maybe doesn't trust the powers that (shouldn't) be to interpret that and provide solutions.
And why wouldn't psychopaths desperate to hold onto control, and brainwashed enablers who laugh at horse paste and dance with vax-scenes, why wouldn't they lie about elections also? I've seen enough about the election thing to make me not trust at all that these elections were fair, even tho I don't have time to go deep enough to verify exactly what happened.
( https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/?sort=search&search=election )
And of course there's the - 99% of doctors and scientists agree (yeah when the others are censored.)