....and nothing can stop it.
At dinner last week, we were seated next to a prominent Judge. She was talking about how she had been double vaxxed and very upset about the stories of people just like her getting Covid. 'What is it all for?', she lamented. Dropping a smattering of vulgarities you could hear her frustration building. She said 'no way' was she getting the booster and she will not be wearing a mask, either. She even said 'the whole thing is beginning to look like bullshit.'
It was glorious. She is a big fish in Brevard County, FL.
Thats what i love about the internets. You can slow things down, replay frame by frame, look at different angles, etc.
On a typical news broadcast, they spray so much BS at you that you really can’t process it in real time, so, as you mention, people go into a mental state of suspended disbelief.
For a while, i would take notes on NPR news, and fact-check NPR, and after a while it became clear that NPR is 100% bullshit