- Joined
- Jan 31, 2022
Like I said, a child's understanding. If they had any familiarity with microbiology/virology they'd have known to expect the vaccine to be outdated and ineffective within a year as new variants emerged, literally exactly how the flu works.At the same time, the best quality science has a retrospective quality. I got coof two weeks after my booster, and gave it to the whole fam. I strongly suspect that the vaccine does not stop Omicron just based on that, and the fact that many other people I know had the same experience. True believers tell me, "show me a study." As if they aren't aware that a study won't be available for months later, and I need to make decisions about my life in the present.
They don't understand even now that the onus is on them to demonstrate that the vaccine _is_ effective and not the other way around. Fundamentally in science we assume that everything we introduce does nothing until shown otherwise, it's called a null hypothesis and it's crucial.
Crossing into MATI territory; don't even get me started on their infantile appeals to authority/majority in spite of the fact that good science explicitly flies in the face of consensus, and aims to be as contrarian as possible so that we can push our envelope of understanding further and further. I cannot help but think about the sci-fi trope of introducing advanced technology to primitive species, and them immediately self-destructing in nuclear war because they lack the understanding and philosophical bent necessary to utilise modern tech/science properly. These fucks would've been among the first to take their Thalidomide back in the day (if any of them actually were women capable of bearing children), and I bet they'd have been onboard for using meth as a weightloss pill too. Ree.