I don't think I can offer much about the subjective herd mind in this case as over the years it's effect on me seems to have lessened.
As I think about my own experience with the pandemic the thing that struck me most was the speed of the introduction of the vax. I couldn't understand how they could have tested it thoroughly in so short a time. Then, even thought the media was talking about the streets full of dead people, it just wasn't visible to me. Where were all these dead people?
I also had witnessed injuries done to people by doctors in the name of "best practice" when the prescribed drugs were totally unnecessary.
By now I had been working on finding alternatives that I shared with my family and it was almost universally pooh-poohed as not "scientific" and of course the testing and been sufficient and on and on. In one conversation with my youngest sister she told me that her sense of dread and anxiety had been relieved by getting the vax. I had an epiphany moment where I realized that the vax was not a vaccine as I understood them, but an anti-anxiety drug and that those who took them did so because they wanted relief from their anxiety.
Perhaps one characteristic of those who didn't get the vax or go along with the heard is a willingness to bear their own anxiety for a bit before making a decision of what to do.
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branchandroot
Re: Subjective minds
Date: 2024-09-12 02:08 pm (UTC)As I think about my own experience with the pandemic the thing that struck me most was the speed of the introduction of the vax. I couldn't understand how they could have tested it thoroughly in so short a time. Then, even thought the media was talking about the streets full of dead people, it just wasn't visible to me. Where were all these dead people?
I also had witnessed injuries done to people by doctors in the name of "best practice" when the prescribed drugs were totally unnecessary.
By now I had been working on finding alternatives that I shared with my family and it was almost universally pooh-poohed as not "scientific" and of course the testing and been sufficient and on and on. In one conversation with my youngest sister she told me that her sense of dread and anxiety had been relieved by getting the vax. I had an epiphany moment where I realized that the vax was not a vaccine as I understood them, but an anti-anxiety drug and that those who took them did so because they wanted relief from their anxiety.
Perhaps one characteristic of those who didn't get the vax or go along with the heard is a willingness to bear their own anxiety for a bit before making a decision of what to do.