As we all know, there are endless ways to "play" with all these statistics and come to any conclusion. That's what both sides do all the time. Personally, I simply refuse to have anybody, be it from the mainstream or alternative media, gaslight me into believing something that clearly contradicts what I'm seeing. And what I'm seeing is that among the hundreds of people I know who took the vaccine, I cannot say for sure that anybody died, or had serious side effects. One person died and it might have something to do with the vaccine, or it may have played a role, but that is all I can say and I won't blame it on the vax until I have more proof. There are many who had mild side effects, and many who had somewhat more concerning side effects, but nothing serious or life-threatening. So while that may be not representative, it is enough to know for a fact that there is no "vax death pandemic".
And I also heard lots of stories from people I know about Covid infections. Some had very serious issues (like neurological, chronic stuff developing after Covid). Many had a somewhat bad time. And many of course had very mild or no symptoms at all. Of course, you can try to explain it all away, but we can always do that. The point is: neither Covid nor the vax is a "mass killer" or "plague" or "emergency" in the reality where I live. When you simply forget about all the medical hysteria and hyperbole on all fronts for a moment, and just switch off your TV and Twitter, all that's left is a world government terrorizing, bullying and enslaving the people with their tyrannical measures and psychological games. And maybe that's the whole point, no?
Because people are so focused on the vax we perhaps miss the larger tragedy here. And that is the endless seemingly small stories of absolute misery. Like what Joe shared about this guy on facebook whose family is ripped apart. Like the millions of old people rotting away (and dying) lonely. Like those who can't visit their loved ones in hospitals. Like all those families where the kids have to stay home upsetting the whole family. Like all those endless tragedies within families, among friends, at work. Like unemployment, destroyed existences, destroyed dreams. The psychological mayhem caused by the Big Bully. All of these things compromise the immune system and kill people, both short-term and long-term.
So do we want to contribute to the fear, paranoia and division?
A little story - the other day we were invited for dinner with a few people we didn't know. When Covid came up - very late - turns out that one was unvaxed but didn't really want to talk about all that. One was a Covid-fearer who didn't even want to shake hands. And one was vaxed but thought this whole thing is a bit of a scam. She said "look, the vaxed can have serious Covid too, so what's the point? And also I heard that the hospitals mislabel patients as Covid patients to earn more money." Then the Covid-fearer said "Oh, really? Yeah, who knows about all those numbers, nobody I guess." Said the Covid skeptic: "Who knows indeed?" And that was that. Didn't play any role whatsoever for this evening.
This is ALSO part of reality - people just being decent and living their lives, refusing to play along with the divisiveness and button-pushing. But you would never guess if you consume the mainstream media or the alternative media all day. And declaring the vax-apocalypse certainly doesn't help.
So therefore, as Joe made clear earlier, we should BALANCE hysterical claims, no matter from which side, to gain a realistic picture of what's going on and to avid getting sucked into a two-front-narrative war where the truth is the first causality. To regain our psychological health and independence. To remain in a healthy position from which to act in these crazy times that will only get more crazy.
