Thread by @StewartalsopIII

I still can't get over the psychedelic nature of living in an era of mass delusion. Realizing that my friends and family are just as open to propaganda and misinformation as the tea-party style republicans they berated for years on end. All it took was coordinated propaganda

If you think it isn't coordinated propaganda please go see the tapes of the undercover veritas journalist who caught CNN red-handed pushing fear as the main story over and over again, as did every national news outlet including previously untouchables like the Economist and NPR.

Here is something that if you deny, I'm sorry to break it to you, but you are fully swept up in propaganda:

If you recover from an infectious respiratory disease like Coronavirus or the Flu, your body, through the adaptive immune system builds immunity that is better than Vax.

The audacity to think, on a national level, that vaccination is superior to actually getting the virus is propaganda.

I won't of course subscribe motive to this move, but to say that it is anything but propaganda is false. We have dealt with infectious viruses for a LONG TIME.

Go do yourself a favor and research what happened in the far worse pandemics of 1957 and 1968 where the mortality rate was far below the average of 72 in our current one. If you were 40 years old you were at risk for that one. Here you are only at risk if you are elderly/obese

Yet because this virus got politicized through "orange man bad" we can't really talk about any of the above.

Pandemics even the way worse variety like 1918, 1957, and 1968 usually end after about 15-18 months. They all became endemic. This one will become endemic.

Yet the intransigent politically motivated Zoom elite will not have it. They are so lost in propaganda that they think this virus will be here forever and that everyone must get vaccinated as a national security measure. There are no other problems besides COVID, to this group.

Yet the very interventions we took, interventions that were never considered in the far worse pandemics of 1918, 1957 and 1968, have shoved 150 million people back into extreme poverty. Missed cancer screenings will likely eclipse the misleading Covid deaths for years to come

Then look at Tuberculosis in the developing world, also will eclipse COVID.

Not to mention the suicide rates in the developed world, the people put right back into the hellscape of addiction, and the F-ing CHILDREN. 100's of millions of children denied a normal childhood.