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Just to point out, if and when a ‘real’ vaccine – not this experimental genetic potion that’s never before<\/strong> been authorized for use in humans<\/em>– passes the standard FDA approval regimen and is available, I’ll consider getting the shot. Until then, all this hypocritical and hyperbolic going on serves to confirm nothing more than the similar line about global warming: “When the elites start personally acting like it’s a real emergency, I’ll think about considering as such.”<\/p>\n

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\nThe establishment has squandered its credibility, which is why its demand that everyone take the shot is getting shriller and the attempts to force people more punitive. Imagine if they had been honest from the beginning. Imagine if they had been held accountable. But to do that, you have to imagine having a ruling class that doesn\u2019t suck. And that\u2019s more imagination than anyone can muster.<\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine If They Hadn\u2019t Lied to Us for the Last 18 Months<\/a><\/p>\n

Everybody wrap something around your face again even though they said you wouldn\u2019t need to if you got vaxxed! But they didn\u2019t lie \u2013 no, apparently a bunch of people \u2013 and not just those evil white nationalist-Christian-gun-Jesus-flag people \u2013 are refusing to get the vaccine, and the reason is that they are moral defectives somehow in thrall to Tucker Carlson\u2019s Svengali-like powers of persuasion. You see, the people who won\u2019t get it are stupid people who hate science because they refuse to trust the people who have spent the last year-and-a-half lying to them.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t blame those folks a bit.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s try a thought experiment. Let\u2019s imagine our ruling class was not as utterly corrupt, dishonest, incompetent and downright stupid as it manifestly is. I know that\u2019s hard, but go with me.<\/p>\n

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This weird new virus appears and starts spreading. Instead of leveraging it to take down Trump, the Democrats appear with the Republican president and GOP leadership to announce they are working together to solve the problem. Imagine that instead of shaming people, first about wearing masks, then about not wearing masks, then about not wearing two masks, then no masks, then masks again, they went with transparency.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not sure how much, if at all, masks work. We\u2019re running test trials to see and we\u2019ll tell you what we find as soon as we have the data. In the meantime, let\u2019s all wear them just in case.\u201d And then, when they ran the studies, they would tell us the answer.<\/p>\n

Have you seen any studies about masks? We get a lot of that fascist gnome and others telling us to wear masks (after initially telling us they were useless \u2013 remember that memory-holed narrative?) but where\u2019s the actual science?<\/p>\n

See, you have to believe the science, and believe them when they tell you what it is yet won\u2019t show you. Obey!<\/p>\n

But trust is earned, and these people act like it is their right to have our trust, that we owe them to take it on faith that whatever these people say is the Gospel. Except they are wrong all the time, and instead of owning up to it, they treat you like some sort of idiot for noticing. When you don\u2019t trust people who are perpetually wrong, that\u2019s not denying science. That\u00a0is\u00a0science \u2013 you are making observations, and drawing reasonable conclusions. In this case, the observation is that our establishment sucks, and that it can\u2019t be trusted.<\/p>\n

How far would a little humility gone? Very far. Imagine, and this will be hard, these masterminds getting up and saying, \u201cAmerica, we were wrong about something. We thought it was right, but we tested it and we found we were not right. Here is the data, and now that we have better information, we are changing our recommendation.\u201d<\/p>\n

What would we say? \u201cOh, okay. They were doing the best they can and being straight with us. People make mistakes. We need to learn from them. After all, it\u2019s been a century since the last pandemic so we have a lot of lessons to re-learn. Let\u2019s move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

But no. No, there\u2019s no humility. They make a mistake and they don\u2019t stand up and admit it. Instead, they just change the narrative and act as if the narrative du jour was always the narrative. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. But we\u2019re not blind or stupid for noticing.<\/p>\n

They tell us the vaccine is going to make us immune from COVID. Then it turns out you can still get it, just not as bad. Yet when people notice this 180-degree spin, the smart set shrieks like Donald Sutherland at the end of\u00a0Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just imagine if they had been honest and forthright. But that was not in the cards. The ruling caste\u2019s conceit is that we are idiots, unable and unworthy to make simple decisions for ourselves. We must be guided, nudged, or intimidated, if necessary, into making the right choice. And we do not deserve explanations, because the last thing our elite wants is accountability.<\/p>\n

Instead, they want unlimited power. Look at their arbitrary emergency rules and regulations. You could go to a strip club but not a church. Huh? And the courts, again, let us down initially by not enforcing the Constitution. It was an emergency, after all, and as we all know, in an emergency you need to rule by decree, say our betters. So, we got to watch idiots walking around in the sunshine with mouth thongs on while cops busted mommies for letting little Billy play on the slide. At no time did most of the establishment reconsider or change. No, it doubled down on failure. Yet we\u2019re supposed to trust it?<\/p>\n

And then there are the revelations about where it came from. They first blamed the innocent pangolin. But it looks like it was our elite\u2019s buddies the Chi Coms, except when people raised that notion earlier, they got banned by social media. Our establishment limited our ability to speak about something true. Think about that. And they want to do it again.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s where the vaccine hesitancy comes in. The smart set squanders its trust then is shocked to find that its trust has been squandered. People are seeing side effects from the vaccine. Those were always going to happen. But our elite is unwilling to level with people about them and let individuals manage their own risks. Instead, our garbage elite dismisses people with questions as \u201canti-vaxxers\u201d instead of engaging with them and earning their trust. See, we peasants are unworthy of engagement. How dare we seek to choose for ourselves? The nerve of us serfs!<\/p>\n

I got the vaccine. I also had the disease. I talked to conservative doctors I trusted about my unique situation and made my decision. You should do the same \u2013 you know your situation, and you should balance the risks. I don\u2019t tell other people what to do because it\u2019s not my business and I don\u2019t know their story. I\u2019ve had people get on me for mine, and they need to back off \u2013 they don\u2019t know my situation and it\u2019s none of their business. Similarly, theirs is none of mine.<\/p>\n

The establishment has squandered its credibility, which is why its demand that everyone take the shot is getting shriller and the attempts to force people more punitive. Imagine if they had been honest from the beginning. Imagine if they had been held accountable. But to do that, you have to imagine having a ruling class that doesn\u2019t suck. And that\u2019s more imagination than anyone can muster.<\/p>\n

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Just to point out, if and when a ‘real’ vaccine – not this experimental genetic potion that’s never before been authorized for use in humans– passes the standard FDA approval regimen and is available, I’ll consider getting the shot. Until then, all this hypocritical and hyperbolic going on serves to confirm nothing more than the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-o-the-day","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70374,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70373\/revisions\/70374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}