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“It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves”

-the terminator

I could feel my dread go as I heard that lines over the years, as a young teen? Of course we will we always have, we endure. As a middle aged adult? I'm not so sure we aren't going to shove ourselves back to the cave man era and not enough people will listen to anyone with survival knowledge for the species to survive.

Then I think about how many species that must have and will happen to in this vast universe, so we'll probably be an average result heh in the grand scheme of things that is.

In Appalachia, it was unlikely to not know someone on a vent or dead from Covid, yet...

i mean unless you were like 10, chances are everyone was aware of fdr

If it's propaganda to make people believe the truth, is it bad?

You know your local news network has a TikTok right? There’s nothing wrong with news from social media. The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.

I had a thought along the same lines. I was thinking we should coin the term "immunition," and tell people it was a way to arm your immune system to defend itself. It's not even all that misleading.

I can find no fault in this whatsoever. Nothing else seems to get through to them, not even death.

And how those same people are cheering about Captain Brainworm's intentions to discontinue the polio vaccine.

Behold the power of mass lead poisoning. We truly live in the most stupid timeline.

I used to think one of the biggest reasons there’s so many antivaxx people is that, because they’re so effective, people no longer have the fear of seeing their children in an iron lung, struggling to breathe.

Yes, I think that's absolutely right. The antivaxxers are people who didn't experience what it was like before vaccines.

Then Covid respirators happened and antivaxx fucks somehow got worse

I think part of it is that the effects of Covid were hidden from the public. The hospitals didn't let anyone in to see the rows of beds with people on respirators, so the public didn't see that on the news. They showed the refrigerated trucks but not the bodies in the trucks. So in the "pics or it didn't happen" timeline we're in, people didn't believe it was that bad. Even the aftereffects of long covid are barely recognized or mentioned. The whole thing has been bizarre.

In olden times, everyone saw the dead bodies openly carried off on carts, or saw piles of them buried in mass graves. Their relatives died right there in front of them, not hidden away in a hospital where they themselves weren't allowed to enter. Before, everyone directly experienced the crisis and suffering it caused. This time, the ugly reality was hidden from most of us other than the direct caregivers.

Side note: during the Vietnam war, reporters and camera crews were there and it was all shown on TV, the bodies, the wounded, the chaos. But the powers that be learned lessons from the horrified reaction of the public: do not show your failures on TV; keep your population in the dark. And we never saw our war casualties on TV again. Cameras were there, but we were shown nothing but scripted "reality TV", if anything at all.

They followed the same script with Covid. This is supposed to be the information age but we're more in the dark than ever. Real information is either not provided or is buried in misinformation. Remember the Florida whistleblower who leaked how the State was skewing their covid statistics and was quickly arrested and smeared?

Most people on this planet are idiots.

It's also why Trump is president-elect currently. People are stupid and are forgetting just how bad things can be.

Choked up? Like a rando strangled you?

I bet the wave of stupid correlates to the popularity of yellow journalism or the prevalence of its practices.