Struck up a conversation with a guy while we were waiting at the baggage claim. He mentioned that his son was a Chicago firefighter, so I asked if he was going to be fired for the jab. He said no, His son took it. He took it. He didn't understand why anyone wouldn't take it. I said its a weird new technology. He said we all took the polio vaccine and it worked. I said, “But they've found covid in animals, its not ever going away. It ‘came from a bat’, right? So unless they vaccinate all the bats...”
I was able to then transition the conversation back to firefighting and how my son loves firetrucks. I think this might be the best way to let the red pill sink in. Drop it quick and jump back out before they get too defensive and emotionally tied to their position.
I'm not sure how this is an effective red pill. If I were a believer in the vaccine and someone told me they've found COVID in animals so it's not going away, I'd just think, "Well, good thing I'm vaccinated then." I'd also think that a person suggesting we'd have to vaccinate all the bats to eradicate COVID might have a rather quirky approach to the problem rather than an enlightened one.
I think a better red pill would be more along the lines of how the experimental vaccines are killing and seriously injuring many thousands of perfectly healthy people for a disease with a 99.97% recovery rate for most people, and how the government and media are hiding and demonizing successful treatments that would likely boost that figure even closer to 100%.
The process isn’t persuasion. The process is about introducing a idea in someone’s mind. Op introduced a reasonable idea and rather than stick around and argue until he came across as biased or pushy he walked away. That idea that was introduced will be there next tIme the media or another person tells them everyone must be vaccinated to be safe.
Yes, I understand what he was doing. I admire the OP for trying to drop red pills and spread the word. But, the conversation as described in the original post, didn't seem like it would make a pro-vaxxer start to question the official narrative or even plant a seed that would lead in that direction. I think it would just reinforce the establishment narrative that anti-vaxxers have some odd thoughts, in this case that they oppose vaccines, but think we have to vaccinate bats.
The mainstream idea that I was trying to attack was that if it came from a bat, vaccinating all the people wont make it go away. Even if all people are vaccinated AND covid for a moment in time didn't exist in humans, the next time someone encounters a bat, the next wave will start. So getting vaccinated wont make it go away, no matter how many people get the jab.