Next Year's Vaccine

Here's a question we can ask friends and family over the Easter holidays: Who's planning to take next year's vaccine? We're not talking about this year's vaccine, but the one they'll make for us next year. The virus is mutating. It belongs to the corona family. It changes from year to year. Everybody knows this, so it's a fair question to ask what people plan to do about it. Will they take two shots every year from now on?

The fun thing about this kind of troll stunt is that it's well within the Overton window. It's also a fair prediction that they'll have us line up for these shots every year, provided we put up with it. Questions like this will have people feel uncomfortable, and they will be searching in their minds for that other window. They may not say so right out, but many will feel desperate for the fresh air of liberty. Everybody will feel the stifling narrowness of allowed discourse.

Another angle to this is that it gives us a ready answer to anyone calling us regarding the vaccine. We can of course say that we'll pass, and that it's none of their business to ask why. However, that makes it easy for the bureaucrat to dismiss us as just another one of those crazy conspiracy theorists. That's not so easy to do if we reply that we'd rather wait for next year's shot.

Then, when they tell us that we should take this year's vaccine anyway, we can ask technical questions. Won't this year's vaccine interfere with next years version? Ask for documentation. Talk about herd immunity. There's no lack of things to talk about. I'll mention my mother. We can have a long talk where we blame the caller for having called too many people, making them ill, and too late, making the shots ineffective and meaningless. Tell the caller that we've been sitting indoors with our masks on for months because of the slow roll out. We haven't seen any friends or relatives for almost a year. We're depressed and suffering. Tell them also that we know too many people with adverse effects to be thrilled about taking it. And now with herd immunity kicking in, we've simply reverted to living freely. We've burned them, and it feels absolutely fantastic. We can suggest that the caller does the same. It's truly liberating. Our depression was gone just like that! But call us next year, a little earlier, and we'll take the shot. Why not? This year's version, on the other hand: it's too late and too much wrong with it. No point in taking it now that herd immunity has set in.

The point isn't to make coherent sense. Rather, it's about making a bunch of contradicting statements related to the propaganda we've been subjected to. The aim of this is to both waste the bureaucrat's time and make the bureaucrat uncomfortable. With a bit of luck, our incoherent ramblings enter their dreams, and they'll long for a bit of liberty themselves.

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