#covidiots

If you’re unvaccinated, you resisted a propaganda machine fueled by over 100 billion dollars.

In a time when compliance was the norm, you stood your ground. You questioned, you thought for yourself and you refused to be swayed by relentless pressure and rhetoric. That kind of conviction is rare — nearly extinct.

Feels like as far as the general public is concerned, the three stages of pandemics are:

1) why is everyone panicking it's not a big deal. It's just these few cases we don't have to actually do anything

2) oh no everything is terrible why didn't someone fix this sooner but I'm not gonna wear a mask (in this case, stop drinking raw milk/stop feeding my pets raw meat) though

3) well I survived (because other people took it seriously and walled up around me) so it was never that bad and I don't have to take anything like this seriously ever again

Dude. DUDE. There is ZERO FUCKING GUARANTEE you will reach stage 3. It is not inevitable. The problem with oral history is always that the people who had the worst time can't tell us about it. I am begging you to Google "survivor bias".

I dunno maybe it's the history degree. People wanna go back to normal because the last epidemic sucked? Yeah so did Londoners in the 1830s facing waves of cholera, influenza and typhoid. Nobody in history has ever gone "oh boy, a new disease! It's been a while and I'm feeling refreshed enough to give this the attention it deserves!" We're not special. We don't have notes from our mums. We don't get to sit this one out just because we're still tired from the last one.