What I noticed right from the start was how totalitarian the COVID situation was, including the propaganda onslaught and the authoritarian messages that were embedded in that propaganda.
In March 2020, my local newspaper (The Age in Melbourne) was pushing the "collective rights" idea. They published an article that argued the individual had no right to say what their rights were, and that it should be left up to a higher authority to decide. The comment sections on the COVID articles were full of people displaying hatred and contempt for the idea of individual freedom. The small number of commenters raising concerns about the lockdowns violating human rights were shouted down. There was one comment that literally said that people complaining about the lockdowns should just shut up and do what the government told them to. I now see that this messaging was paving the way for vaccine mandates.
In April 2020, the Australian media all of a sudden started running hate propaganda against anti vaxxers. At this point I already knew that there had never been a successful vaccine against any corona virus, and I had seen articles stating that it could take years for one to be developed. So I began to wonder what was going on. I could see that the ground was being prepared for something.
In May 2020, the first articles calling for mandatory vaccination appeared. They were nasty and totalitarian, and I found them offensive. And again, if there was no vaccine in sight, why these articles?
In June 2020, after reading yet another article supporting mandatory vaccination, I made the decision that there was no way I would be taking any COVID Vax. My reasoning was this: if you have these authoritarians who say that the individual doesn't deserve to have any rights, and then they say you should be required to take injections whenever the government tells you to, then you should do anything you can NOT to take these injections.
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Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-19 03:34 am (UTC)In March 2020, my local newspaper (The Age in Melbourne) was pushing the "collective rights" idea. They published an article that argued the individual had no right to say what their rights were, and that it should be left up to a higher authority to decide. The comment sections on the COVID articles were full of people displaying hatred and contempt for the idea of individual freedom. The small number of commenters raising concerns about the lockdowns violating human rights were shouted down. There was one comment that literally said that people complaining about the lockdowns should just shut up and do what the government told them to. I now see that this messaging was paving the way for vaccine mandates.
In April 2020, the Australian media all of a sudden started running hate propaganda against anti vaxxers. At this point I already knew that there had never been a successful vaccine against any corona virus, and I had seen articles stating that it could take years for one to be developed. So I began to wonder what was going on. I could see that the ground was being prepared for something.
In May 2020, the first articles calling for mandatory vaccination appeared. They were nasty and totalitarian, and I found them offensive. And again, if there was no vaccine in sight, why these articles?
In June 2020, after reading yet another article supporting mandatory vaccination, I made the decision that there was no way I would be taking any COVID Vax. My reasoning was this: if you have these authoritarians who say that the individual doesn't deserve to have any rights, and then they say you should be required to take injections whenever the government tells you to, then you should do anything you can NOT to take these injections.
- RL