The following comment from Paso Robles is generating discussion. With his permission, I am reprinting it here below the fold to give it more exposure. As someone commented below, “Now, that’s a COMMENT!” It is long, but well worth your ten minutes of read time.
Paso was responding to a comment I left yesterday morning, which you can read here if you are inclined. In it, I suggested that since there is no virus, the coming vaccine can be one of two things, harmless or harmful. I felt there were advantages to a harmless vaccine, a saline solution like our former presidents will be administered live on TV. It reinforces the idea that there is a virus, and that viruses exist and are dangerous. It reinforces the idea that the public needs a nanny state to protect us. It reinforces the idea that vaccines work. It reinforces germ theory, already so deeply embedded in the public mind that it may be a century before it is fully discredited.
I don’t need to go on about harmful potions. We all have heard or expressed some fear of malevolent intent.
What bugs me is a comment that followed Paso’s, … “Nice to see POM promoting the vaccine as probably just saline, is that an attempt to increase to take up from people who question things?” I am not promoting! I am not attempting to persuade anyone, nor is Paso. We are just fleshing this out. Anyway, if you know how to read and reason, you don’t need advice from the likes of me. I am trying to decide what I want to do. If this pandemic is merely using a virus to achieve other goals, mentioned in my comment linked above, then the virus and the vaccine are less troublesome. To me. Just to me. You’re on your own.
