re: Dilbert Man, Clott Adams, having some vaccine regrets now

A silver lining form the COVID mess is I worked form home for 2 years straight and now I'm on a hybrid office/home work schedule which I love.

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We were all fooled to one degree or another.

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No, we weren't all fooled. Not even remotely true.

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We were all fooled to one degree or another.

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No "we" weren't. The gross overreaction to this pandemic was evident from day one. This wasn't the first respiratory virus to spread world-wide from Asia. Far from it. Not even the first this century.

But it WAS the first in a society where social media is ubiquitous, vapid corporate and cultural virtue signaling is celebrated, any degree of reasonable skepticism to the mainstream narrative is forcefully ridiculed, and corporations/media are unabashedly hyper-partisan. It was the first pandemic in any our lifetimes where society began looking for the illness under every rock...thus making the prevalence of such seem unprecedently high. That's not to say Covid-19 wasn't very much real. It was/is. It's that the societal overreaction to such was devoid of logic and anyone who was willing to consider what effects the reaction could have later down the line was able to see early on how horribly irrational such reaction would be.

Now you see more and more people express regrets, justifying it by saying "we just didn't know." There is a bit of truth to that. Largely because the information provide to the public was almost completely one-sided and had zero tolerance for discussion of contrary viewpoints. Even objectively contrary viewpoints. But most who are now having these regrets simply didn't "want to know" because that would require a modicum of critical thinking and reasonable skepticism beyond unquestionably accepting what the man/woman on TV, the mayor/governor's podium, Congress, etc told you. At the time, virtually everyone with a "public voice" denigrated you as insane for questioning the mainstream viewpoint.

They presented propaganda on a massive scale

including local doctors on youtube and every category of health "professional" to attack resistance to these deadly shots

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We were all fooled to one degree or another

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Not me. I never bought into any of that bullshite and I never got the shot

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We were all fooled to one degree or another.

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Wrong. A lot of us saw through the bullshite from the beginning.

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I got the vaccine so everyone would just shut the frick up and let me live my life, and I now regret it.

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How is forcing you to do something letting you live your life?



DJT 2024

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We were all fooled to one degree or another.

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I believe there is a healthy catalog of posters on this forum you can find who were never fooled

"We were all fooled to one degree or another"

No, we all weren't.

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We were all fooled to one degree or another.

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Not me. Didn’t trust the shot. Never wanted the shot. Didn’t let myself be bullied or harassed into getting the shot. Asked people to just respect my convictions and I’d respect theirs. Still haven’t gotten it. Not gonna get it.

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Posted by OMLandshark ? ? on 10/11/22 at 10:28 am to indianswim

We were all fooled to one degree or another. If he was for vaccine passports and mandates, then frick him, but he just fell for the lie here. I got the vaccine so everyone would just shut the frick up and let me live my life, and I now regret it. My parents were pissed at me for a couple of months for refusing to get boosted, but we all got it in the end and it wasn’t that fricking bad.

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Yea, no we were not all fooled. Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking ability could see what was happening and if they had a backbone refuse.
My company let us know that we would be let go if we didn't submit. About a quarter of told them no, and they recanted. Multiple six figure jobs we were ready to let go because we used a little grey matter instead of letting the government and peer pressure decide our fate.