Not weird at all. Pretty much every iteration of social media, mainstream media and current culture is designed to stop people banding together in any form of resistance. What do you think the IDpol stuff is, the constant culture wars, the huge attack in any form of national pride is? it’s all to put people into tiny tribes so they won’t band together. An educated, armed and cohesive population is the single biggest threat to tyranny there is.
Otterly! 

We missed you. Frankly, we were worried you'd been outed or something. You were always one of the most informative posters in this thread. It's good to have you back.
Or am I becoming a conspiracy theorist? I know we all agree that, for whatever reason, the push to vaccinate has been blown WAY out of proportion.
I alternate with a few different options but for me the
most likely (but nothing more than that) is the Perfect Storm hypothesis. This is essentially that there is no single conspiratorial reason for the madness but that there are colliding factors that multiply each other:
- Big Pharma companies like J&J, Pfizer and Moderna are making tens of billions on this. If they can push it into a scenario where their vaccines are doled out to entire and healthy populations annually or twice yearly, they basically have a tax on life. The leadership of these companies is entirely morally capable of doing that for the sake of profit. And they have horrifying amounts of influence.
- Big statists in the EU and other countries regard introducing some sort of digital passport for domestic use as a good thing. The EU has published plans for introducing a vaccine passport and oddly enough their timelines pretty much follow what we've seen and come to an end in 2022. The State never turns down more control nor misses an opportunity to take it. If they can use this to make everyone have a "Mark of the Beast" required for normal life, they will.
- Those in power cannot admit to a mistake on this scale. I mean that literally and without qualifiers. There is no circumstance in which state leaders and high level politicians will admit that massive lockdowns and billions given to Pharmacy companies was a mistake. I want to repeat that so it is absolutely clear and there's no mistaking it for hyperbole. They are not under any circumstances able to admit to a mistake of this size. This means that the vaccines must work. It doesn't matter if they don't, it doesn't matter if the middling protection they offer wears off in three months, it doesn't matter if they kill two people for every three they save. The vaccines must work because if life goes back to normal without it then our political leaders have destroyed economies, cost lives, wrecked children's education - out of an overreaction. I'm going to state this a third time because people will mentally add their own qualifiers to my statement and I don't want that. Literally anything that allows them to not admit an error of this size will be used if they have to including spending billions of our money year after year for the rest of our lives, if they have to. They will see you in prison for life rather than admit an error.
- It destroys small businesses and private ownership transferring power and wealth to big companies and massive companies. Amazon has done very well out of the pandemic. So have companies like Blackrock. These companies are also possessed of a lot of political and media influence. It's naive to imagine that the leadership of companies like this isn't aware of how the situation benefits them nor were unaware how it would before all this began.
- It was a lab leak and high level government officials have known this all along. This was the spark that kicked off the initial panic. Now whether or not the leak was deliberate or not, who knows? But they've known all along it was a leak and the spectre of some global bioweapon on the loose spooked them enough (not without reason) to react the way they did. But once they reacted that way, the above reasons all kicked in and the perfect storm happened.
It may also be that there is deliberate information warfare by hostile powers (e.g. China) to stoke the over-reaction by the West. So far as I can see, China locked down hard and visibly at the start - enough to make Western leaders go "oh shit!" and then declared it over in China and carried on with life as usual there. Yes, they have the sinovaccine but notably having provided information on the spike protein to the West to enable a rapid vaccine development based on that, their own vaccine is just a useless solution of dead copies of the virus. It does fuck all to protect you but it also has a pretty low-risk of actually hurting you. And it's relatively cheap as well. So if it keeps the narrative going and China actively wants Western rivals to cripple themselves over this economically (and maybe health-wise), you could pretty much call giving that vaccine to its citizens a bargain. Who knows on that one but there's means, motive and opportunity.
Anyway, that's the Perfect Storm explanation, more or less. The
alternative to the Perfect Storm explanation, would be that there's something the leaders know about Covid-19 that we don't. Maybe it causes cumulative neurological damage from the spike protein getting into the brain. Maybe it harms fertility. Maybe it makes you grow a second head. I favour the Perfect Storm scenario but the idea that they're hiding how bad it really is from us is semi-plausible. I think we'd know if it were the case and the information wouldn't just be on weird Q-style information channels but from more reputable alarm-sounders. There was something along these lines a couple of weeks ago but to me, the Perfect Storm explanation remains the most likely. I mean, everything in there is more or less stuff we've seen and stuff we know. But... the other is at least possible. I think we'd see China behaving differently if that were the case, though.
Is the US a nanny state now?
Not for as long as the population remains armed.
recently, a electricity blackout in "Flanders Expo" happened (in Belgium) and 20.000 to 25.000 vaccines who were stocked in the freezers had to be investigated if they were still usable. The "FAGG" declared them ok for use. They said it was not sabotage.
Scenario A: "Someone fucked up with not having any measures in place to deal with a blackout and cost us €430,000. Now someone in power must lose their job."
Scenario B: "It's okay, the vaccines are fine."
Of course they're going to declare the vaccines still usable. And who knows, maybe they are?
^Not too happy about the booster shots because old people in the family had bad reactions to Pfizer as is.
I wouldn't want a booster shot. If the spike protein is in itself harmful, then repeated shots are going to lead to cumulative damage. Presumably they can't be forced to have it (yet).