Missing Context

It's as if the world is splitting into two realities. One in which evil is everywhere and in plain sight, and another where there's nothing out of the ordinary going on, except for the fact that we have to make concessions for the new normal.

My wife's cousin posted about her second shot on Facebook today. "Finally got my freedom back," she announced happily, something I've heard other people also say, including my parents in Norway.

So it appears that people are taking the vaccine, not because of its health benefits, but because of their freedom. If that doesn't set off alarm bells, then nothing will.

But there's also a growing awareness of the evil lurking just below the surface. One of my wife's friends, who was about to give in under pressure from her parents a few weeks back, noted in a conversation this morning that the hospitals are fuller of people now than they were a year ago. Yet, the plague was at its most intense back then. No-one was vaccinated. Now, with half the population vaccinated, and the plague pretty much gone, hospitals are suddenly brimming with people.

Facebook, which has sided heavily with the corporate initiative to vaccinate, is nevertheless a battleground. Politically correct drones post freely; their posts allowed to contain any number of falsehoods. The sceptics, on the other hand, are more into sarcasm and subversive commenting. Anything openly negative is immediately marked with some warning sticker by Facebook's team of fact checkers. Anything ambiguous is tagged with a helpful link to vaccine resources. But, in doing this, Facebook is in fact providing support to the sceptics.

When a cousin of mine posted a list of potentially lethal side-effects, Facebook slammed a sticker on it, pointing out that the information was "missing context". Their fact checkers had been on the case, and found it misleading.

This was subsequently picked up by a politically correct friend of my cousin, who criticised him for spreading falsehoods. However, this was not what the fact checkers had concluded, and I couldn't resist pointing this out. If the fact checkers had found the information to be false, they would have marked it as false. But they didn't. The sticker mentioned context only. We can therefore conclude that the post was checked and found to be factually correct. The only misleading part, if any, was context.

Following this, there was some bickering back and forth. I ended up giving him my condolences for having taken the jab. I expected him to return with something similar. But he didn't. Instead of a proud claim to be vaccinated, he claimed to be unvaccinated, with no intention to take the jab. His only concern was to fight misinformation on Facebook.

So it appears that even pro-vaccination people are getting nervous. There's a budding reluctance to admit that they have taken the vaccine. The flawed logic of the official narrative is making more and more people suspicious, including the ones who've taken the vaccine.

Frank discussions among friends tend to home in on the inherent flaws in the narrative. Nothing makes any sense. Yet just about everybody follow the rules dutifully anyway. Many are even getting themselves injected despite knowing deep down that there's something sinister going on. The only conclusion that can be drawn from this is that rationality sits firmly on the side of sceptics. To take the vaccine is irrational, and that's why people like my cousin's friend are starting to deny the fact that they've taken the shot.

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