The pebble in my shoe today is this: The way that the mainstream media and the elite paint anyone with an opinion other that that of the mainstream, with a brush of backwardness, stupidity and flat-earth dumbness. I was watching last night, against my better instincts, the mainstream evening news on TV1/2/3, the bought and paid for, government funded and controlled national media in New Zealand. As part of the news-hour programs, they had this cheerful insert about the misconceptions and urban myths around the vaccine against COVID. They started off with a clip with an idiot-looking individual, complete with tinfoil cone shaped cap on his head and moronic frown on his face, doing somethin, not sure what. This was followed by a cheerful, playful conversation between a so called “journalist” and a so called “expert” - someone supposedly knowledgeable about vaccines.
The purpose of this was to show how ridiculous the myth is that the vaccine makes you “magnetic”. I have never heard of this myth, but the cheerful “expert” proceeded to lecture the public about the ingredients of the vaccine, showing how impossible it is that this could be true. She proceeded to explain and demonstrate how it was entirely possible to make a flat, coin-like magnet stick to your skin by applying a bit of saliva, or whatever. The duo cheerfully ended the clip in the same way you would an educational video to show toddlers that chameleons are actually harmless reptiles.
This made my blood boil. I could`t help but wonder if these pompous, pretentious and elitist arseholes have really considered how much more sensible it would be, also to their own cause, to have a real, serious conversation with someone knowledgeable, who had real, logical and valid concerns about the vaccine. How much more sense it would make to engage in an honest and open conversation to delay the concerns of those who point out the following:
The vaccine does NOT protect you from contracting the infection
The vaccine does NOT stop you from getting sick or ending up in hospital
The vaccine does NOT stop you from shedding virus and infecting others
The vaccine has an Adverse Effect Rate, multiples of any vaccine that has been approved and used over the last number of decades - this is verifiably true even taking into account that the AER is dramatically understated due to the low rate of reporting and the high burden of proof in order to have an adverse event registered as due to the vaccine
There is NO proof that a vaccine with such an abnormally high AER will not have any long term detrimental effects, although all logic dictates that it is more than likely.
I am a veterinarian. I comprehensively understand the way vaccines and immunity works. I have used vaccines in my profession for decades. I have been in charge of vaccination campaigns against numerous disease outbreaks that were successfully brought under control with vaccines. But I have logical concerns about this particular vaccine, based on scientific arguments and data that raise valid issues that need to be discussed openly. The fact that the media and government apparatchiks smother all debate and opinions not aligning with the mainstream narrative, raises my antennae. The way that it goes further than censorship - it proceeds to the kind of ridicule, stigmatization and demonization as described above - convinces me. There is something else going on here.
It is not about a serious disease pandemic. It is not about vaccines or shut-downs. It is about authoritarian government action and demonstrating the extent to which the populace will follow like sheep.