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Roc Findlay's avatar

G'day NZD, Apparently Pfizer is now selling a pill that treats skepticism.

But I'm not buying it.👍🇦🇺😀

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Mara's avatar

I had similar thoughts early on about the reliance on "The Vaccine" as the Answer, especially after I discovered that there had never been a successful vaccine developed against a coronavirus. At that point I was still not a complete anti-vaxxer, but I was aware that developing a truly safe and effective vaccine was not quite the done deal that they were making it out to be.

So that in itself was a trigger for my BS detector.

The confusing and illogical nature of all the lockdown rules also set off a warning signal. (For example, in our first lockdown in late March here in Australia, Scomo initially put hairdressers in the "non-essential" list, but after getting an earful from his wife, he came back next day and said that hairdressers were allowed, but only for a 30 minute appointment.)

But the complacency of people now, with legislation being put into place in every country to stifle free speech as disinformation and to give governments more emergency powers, is a bit discouraging. I would have thought that people would be more aware of government lies and gaslighting after the past 3 years - but no, it is too much of a stretch outside the comfort zone to believe that our governments might be not working in our interests (to put it mildly).

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