I know this is probably a common occurrence for most of you, but we live in a very small town that has literally had 2 COVID cases (within one family) this entire time - and while some people are getting the jab, and lots of people mask up because the stores have made it mandatory, we just don’t see the same level of paranoia here that my family in California sees. A childhood friend emailed me today to wish us a Merry Christmas. We email several times during the year, and they were among the first to get jabbed back when the jab first came out. Her whole email was about their Christmas gatherings where she specifically mentioned who attendeed and was vaxxed and boosted, and yet they spent 5 hours on Christmas Eve traveling back and forth to a testing site so they could be sure they didn’t have COVID before attending a family gathering that consisted of their immediate family bubble WHO ARE ALL VAXXED! I cannot wrap my head around this mentality! Now that we have TV again (after 3 years without) I see what the MSM does - they keep COVID front and center with every newscast - opening with it and going back every 2nd or 3rd story throughout the entire broadcast. But my 97 yr old Mom watches the MSM news in liberal California twice a day and doesn’t buy into any of this! Neither do my sons, my granddaughter’s mother, or my siblings! How is it we are apparently immune to the propaganda but people I grew up with and have known for 60 years are completely brainwashed? It makes no sense to me that educated people believe COVID won’t get you if you take off your mask in a restaurant because it only exists 3’ above the floor - but if you stand up, you have to mask up. And if you go ride your bike down a deserted street, you must wear a mask because COVID will jump out from behind a bush and get you.
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It's a big question. The answer might tie into why we are here.
Some of us can control our emotions, some of us can think rationally under pressure, and some of us will only think what the herd thinks even if it requires complete hypocrisy.
We are all surprised that so few think like us. It's an eye opening set of circumstances. It is allowing us to learn about ourselves and humanity in a way few, if any, have ever had before.
I guess I'm not surprised how few of us there are. If you believe in natural selection then my theory is that only 5-10% of humans are introspective or intelligent because that's all we needed for advancements and inventions. Everyone else builds without thinking otherwise we all would have died on the savannahs, and we wouldn't get anything practical done nowadays either.
Bro you just described the movie Idiocracy
It's called "rising to your level of incompetence." I saw that a lot where I worked. :-P
Very wise observation. Thank you. Yes, you know how sometimes a person’s eyes will just glaze over and they check out if you’re trying to talk to them about something they don’t understand or aren’t interested in? Kids do that a lot. Maybe it’s a trained response - we tune out when things confuse us, and they have definitely seemed to deliberately try to confuse us throughout this ordeal. Today I hear the CDC has changed their “guidance” for quarantine to only 5 days, but then you MUST wear a mask everywhere - including inside your own home - for at least 5 more days! It’s deliberately deceptive and confusing and people get tired of trying to figure it out. There’s no fight left and that’s exactly what they’re aiming for.