You say fear, I say denial. Maybe it's both, or maybe they are just different branches of the same tree for the purposes of this exercise. I suppose fear is what keeps them in denial.
In any case, what I see are people desperately trying to convince themselves that they weren't wrong because accepting that they were carries with it a boatload of less than flattering, and legitimately scary, implications.
So when they bitch at you for saying "yeah it was probably the vax", it's more about the fact that you are fucking up their carefully crafted bubble of psychological self-protection than anything else.
It's not that they really care about so-called "misinformation" or even the health of other humans..it's clear that if they truly did, there would be a natural intellectual curiosity as to what is actually happening, why are all these athletes and celebrities "suddenly dying", etc..but no, all that self-congratulatory, self-administered tongue bathing is just virtual signaling bullshit to make them feel better about being lied to and lying to themselves. It's part Stockholm syndrome and part groupthink dynamic. It's easier to adhere to groupthink, no matter how incorrect it is, if you have an unending supply of confirmation bias (which they do currently), and the group has some sort of tribal commonality that they can all share. It's like a membership card or badge that says "I'm an official member of a group" and it offers the same dopamine supply as social media "likes", sex, and drugs. In this case (as with many others), that commonality is the mantra that "we're all good people with good intentions, so therefore we can't really be wrong about anything ever", regardless of how many times or how hard they're slapped in the face with a contradictory reality...that is, until it's YOUR turn to "die suddenly"...
So, people live in denial all the time about a variety of things. This is nothing new. I think that the tougher the implications, the more difficult to break out of that self-defeating cycle. If you bury your head in the sand and don't look at a problem for what it actually is, there is the belief (albeit a false belief) that you will never have to actually deal with that problem. Addicts do this. "I'm not an alcoholic, I can quit anytime" and shit like that. Meanwhile, they can't keep a job, a mate, a friendship.. pretty soon they get arrested.. that may or may not be enough to end the denial. Then you get three DUI's and now you're going to spend some real time in jail.. that usually wakes them up, but now they're in jail..
In this case, the penalty for self-delusion is much more severe than jail time: death. Therefore, the desire to maintain the delusion is that much more intense. Because think about what happens if you've had 20 shots in the last two years, you're having weird body aches and chest pains, etc., and then you decide to face your denial? I can see why it would be scary. Suddenly, you're having to ask yourself if there's anything you can do to reverse the damage you've caused to your body, and then of course the uncertainty of never really knowing if or when you will be the next one to "die suddenly". So for most people, it's just easier psychologically to remain in denial. Logically, it doesn't make sense obviously. It would be better to actually deal with the problem in hopes that you can defeat possible death. But then there's also the shame associated with not only admitting that you were wrong, but that you were suckered into believing a pack of lies, and for many, that you treated other people very badly (and maybe even wished some of them death) simply because they had the wherewithal to think critically when you didn't.
So there's also likely no way for these people to face the denial without being made to feel like a total piece of shit, even if that feeling comes exclusively from the inside.
To that point, we should be soft, yet firm, in our assertions with those on the other side of the issue. At least, if you want them to live. Most of us probably have people we care about who are on the other side of the issue. I know I do. And while it's frustrating to hear them tacitly admit certain things but never outright apologize to me as time goes on, at the end of the day I just really want them to wake up and to live. I'm preaching to myself here as much as I'm preaching to you all. My point is that if there's something I can do to soften the blow someone might feel in facing their denial on this issue, I should do it. They are already probably going to feel shitty enough without any additional shit talk from me. But again, this only applies to certain people. As we all know, there are some who are true believers no matter what, and nothing short of death is going to get them out of this.
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