With headlines like this, it's no wonder that a large share of the population isn't interested in the vaccines. I wonder how many people in favour of vaccine passports now would still be in favour if maintaining that passport meant a booster shot every 4-6 months until death.
It's amazing just how much damage public health has done to its own reputation - not to mention the tremendous damage they've inflicted on the health and social well-being of entire communities.
We were told only weeks ago that vaccines were our way out, and now at the same time as we're being told to vaccinate or be ostracized, we're also being told the vaccines have stopped working.
"Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out."
David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech "This is Water" is more relevant now than ever. Here it is, abbreviated, in a short film.
"That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing."