The whole premise of vaccinating into a pandemic of a respiratory virus was wrong. It was bound to lead to mutations with perpetuation of the disease, not to mention vaccine injury at an unprecedented rate. The trouble is no one has paid a price and I doubt anyone will.
The whole premise of vaccinating into a pandemic of a respiratory virus was wrong. It was bound to lead to mutations with perpetuation of the disease, not to mention vaccine injury at an unprecedented rate. The trouble is no one has paid a price and I doubt anyone will.
"The whole premise of vaccinating into a pandemic of a respiratory virus was wrong."
Didn't make a skerrick of difference!
Right, wrong - who cares? As soon as you threaten the people, "Your deltoids, or your jobs!" they'll all duly comply. They'll freak-out when they consider defaulting on on their new car financing, or their mortgage on their new fancy house.
It's just not the way people think and behave at all, but imagine if all those schleps paused, looked around at each other, and then yelled back, "None of us are complying, you can stick your injections in your eyeballs, and no-one's turning up to mop your damn floors!" well, that would have been it. They can threaten to fire and follow-through on firing one person who won't comply, but they can't fire everyone if no one complies. Would there have been enough people besides the COVIDiot true-believers to service all the pumps and keyboards and spades to do all the work necessary to keep the city operating? I doubt it.
But this is all conjectural. What's done is done, and now our fates - even those of us that stood our ground and resisted - are sealed, and our downfall has been guaranteed by our own communities, family, and (former-)friends who complied and signed the death warrants the government issued on us.
Sadly, too many receive their daily dose of propaganda to have any ability to think for themselves, let alone ascend the painful Mt. Ideological Dissident.
Inability to distinguish between propaganda and information (which is morally neutral) is, as you correctly identify, a disastrous failure. But it may be even worse than this.
The political-socioeconomic system in operation has successfully and thoroughly inculcated the consumerist body politic with the belief and expectation of increasing standards of living and increased convenience as the reward for compliance. This is especially true in Australia where the standard of living is eye-wateringly high. The general standard of living was catapulted upward during the 1980s and 1990s, when it seemed that something as banal as the proliferation of glamorous new utes became symbolic of the Australian public being sold tacky baubles in exchange for support in the furtherance of stronger communities and promotion of community values, high-quality education, manufacturing and industry and plentiful and meaningful work prospects and careers for our children. The Howard government stands prominently in my recollection of this programme of short-changing the Australian public with ever more and flashier trashy consumer goods, but in reality, this had already begun before Howard, and continues to this day.
In this way, the prospect of having the supply line to all this consumerism and convenience cut was dangled in front of everyone, and the threat of reducing or losing these things (they had to get the jab or they'd lose their 'freedom' to travel to Bali) entirely ensured compliance with the mandates.
This is why we never were free while we've lived under it and allowed this system to persist.
Ely, I'm sorry. My tone and response was harsh and if it appeared to disparage your excellent point. It was not my intention at all, and yet it seems to me that it appears so. I completely agree with your point:
"The whole premise of vaccinating into a pandemic of a respiratory virus was wrong. "
This is such a valuable and undeniable fact. It was considered to be the most sound and sane knowledge - at least it was before COVID-19. But what we saw during COVID-19 was that the authorities and the experts don't give a damn about sound, sane practices, and neither do people when their lifestyles are threatened.
The whole premise of vaccinating into a pandemic of a respiratory virus was wrong. It was bound to lead to mutations with perpetuation of the disease, not to mention vaccine injury at an unprecedented rate. The trouble is no one has paid a price and I doubt anyone will.
"The whole premise of vaccinating into a pandemic of a respiratory virus was wrong."
Didn't make a skerrick of difference!
Right, wrong - who cares? As soon as you threaten the people, "Your deltoids, or your jobs!" they'll all duly comply. They'll freak-out when they consider defaulting on on their new car financing, or their mortgage on their new fancy house.
It's just not the way people think and behave at all, but imagine if all those schleps paused, looked around at each other, and then yelled back, "None of us are complying, you can stick your injections in your eyeballs, and no-one's turning up to mop your damn floors!" well, that would have been it. They can threaten to fire and follow-through on firing one person who won't comply, but they can't fire everyone if no one complies. Would there have been enough people besides the COVIDiot true-believers to service all the pumps and keyboards and spades to do all the work necessary to keep the city operating? I doubt it.
But this is all conjectural. What's done is done, and now our fates - even those of us that stood our ground and resisted - are sealed, and our downfall has been guaranteed by our own communities, family, and (former-)friends who complied and signed the death warrants the government issued on us.
Sadly, too many receive their daily dose of propaganda to have any ability to think for themselves, let alone ascend the painful Mt. Ideological Dissident.
Inability to distinguish between propaganda and information (which is morally neutral) is, as you correctly identify, a disastrous failure. But it may be even worse than this.
The political-socioeconomic system in operation has successfully and thoroughly inculcated the consumerist body politic with the belief and expectation of increasing standards of living and increased convenience as the reward for compliance. This is especially true in Australia where the standard of living is eye-wateringly high. The general standard of living was catapulted upward during the 1980s and 1990s, when it seemed that something as banal as the proliferation of glamorous new utes became symbolic of the Australian public being sold tacky baubles in exchange for support in the furtherance of stronger communities and promotion of community values, high-quality education, manufacturing and industry and plentiful and meaningful work prospects and careers for our children. The Howard government stands prominently in my recollection of this programme of short-changing the Australian public with ever more and flashier trashy consumer goods, but in reality, this had already begun before Howard, and continues to this day.
In this way, the prospect of having the supply line to all this consumerism and convenience cut was dangled in front of everyone, and the threat of reducing or losing these things (they had to get the jab or they'd lose their 'freedom' to travel to Bali) entirely ensured compliance with the mandates.
This is why we never were free while we've lived under it and allowed this system to persist.
Ely, I'm sorry. My tone and response was harsh and if it appeared to disparage your excellent point. It was not my intention at all, and yet it seems to me that it appears so. I completely agree with your point:
"The whole premise of vaccinating into a pandemic of a respiratory virus was wrong. "
This is such a valuable and undeniable fact. It was considered to be the most sound and sane knowledge - at least it was before COVID-19. But what we saw during COVID-19 was that the authorities and the experts don't give a damn about sound, sane practices, and neither do people when their lifestyles are threatened.
I should have said this instead.
No need to apologize.