Originally Posted by
Bushwhacker
I guess we'll just have to disagree on this one double b.
If nothing in the past 2 years strikes you as tyrannical, I'm not sure what would?
My observation is not without evidence, it's a simple fact that most people do what they're told. Look up the Milgram experiment, the Stanford prison experiment and other such examples. There are several hidden camera videos of people doing things like sitting uncomfortably close to others in public spaces, and only 1 out of 10 people actually say something or reclaim their space...most others simply accommodate. The social science on this is pretty clear. With our covid situation, most people thought they were doing the right thing and that things would get back to normal if they simply complied. Now after 2 shots, they are shocked, disappointed and frustrated to find out they are in the same place. Many of these people (talk radio call-ins, random conversations in public, family members, friends, prominent public figures, members on this forum, etc.) have said they don't plan to take the booster out of principle. This misplaced anger and resentment also causes many of these people to continue blaming the unvaccinated / unmasked.
The solution? Either say "enough is enough" or continue complying with a 3rd, 4th shot and further restrictions that we all know are useless, while trying desperately to justify that to yourself in the face of emerging data that continues to refute everything. Which path do you choose?
Also, my pointing out that people have been manipulated is less a critique of those people and more of a critique of those who lied and manipulated them. It's predatory and subversive behaviour that deserves to be called out in defense of those people it harmed.
I am not 'hyping' my sacrifices or positioning myself as some sort of hero to be praised. I am correctly pointing out what most unvaccinated (and to a large degree those opposed to the mandates, regardless of their vax status) endure in response to your question, which had a tone of dismissive cynicism. Just a few days ago I flicked on am640 in the truck for a quick minute, and Dr. Gorfinkel, one of their 'experts' was going on about bogus #'s and how "this is still very much a pandemic of the unvaccinated!"
The unvaccinated / unmasked skeptics have been continually and incorrectly blamed for our situation.