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I believe the truth is simply too overwhelming for many people to accept. It would require a 180 degree turn around, and few are brave enough to take that trip. It would be akin to tell a 16th Century peasant: "Hey, did you know the earth travels around the sun once a year? It also rotates every day, and there is no such thing as the sun coming up and setting. It's all just because the earth rotates!! How about that?" You would be met with anger and certainly, disbelief, no matter how much "proof" you could give them. It's like that. It requires a paradigm shift in thinking. Many cannot get there. There would be burnings at the stake!! But, we can recognize that paradigm shifts in thinking are what advances knowledge.

Another one: In 19th Century Vienna, there was a physician named Ignatz Semmelweis who was appalled at the great number of deaths of women from postpartum puerperal fever. He noted that the doctors might go directly from dissecting corpses in the morgue to the bed of a woman giving birth, without washing their hands. Semmelweis told them to wash their hands with a disinfecting chemical before touching a different patient.

The Viennese doctors were angry. He seemed to be inferring that THEY were harming their own patients! They pulled a Greta: "How dare you!". But, some did as he asked, and found the rates of postpartum deaths declined. Semmelweis was hated, and was hijacked to an insane asylum and died there, probably murdered, after a rather short time. Eventually, doctors accepted the need to use sterilization methods to protect patients, but it was a pretty long time before these actions were universally accepted. A paradigm shift!! This is what we need today to bring the vaccinated into the fold of reality. They are mentally 16th century peasants!

1 year ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

I believe the truth is simply too overwhelming for many people to accept. It would require a 180 degree turn around, and few are brave enough to take that trip. It would be akin to tell a 16th Century peasant: "Hey, did you know the earth travels around the sun once a year? It also rotates every day, and there is no such thing as the sun coming up and setting. It's all just because the earth rotates!! How about that?" You would be met with anger and certainly, disbelief, no matter how much "proof" you could give them. It's like that. It requires a paradigm shift in thinking. Many cannot get there. There would be burnings at the stake!! But, we can recognize that paradigm shifts in thinking are what advances knowledge.

Another one: In 19th Century Vienna, there was a physician named Ignatz Semmelweis who was appalled at the great number of deaths of women from postpartum puerperal fever. He noted that the doctors might go directly from dissecting corpses in the morgue to the bed of a woman giving birth, without washing his hands. Semmelweis told them to wash their hands with a disinfecting chemical before touching a different patient. The Viennese doctors were angry. He seemed to be inferring that THEY were harming their own patients! They pulled a Greta: "How dare you!". But, some did as he asked, and found the rates of postpartum deaths declined. Semmelweis was hated, and was taken to an insane asylum and died there, probably murdered, after a rather short time. Over time, doctors accepted the need to use sterilization methods to protect patients, but it was a pretty long time before these actions were universally accepted. A paradigm shift!! This is what we need today to bring the vaccinated into the fold of reality. They are 16th century peasants!

1 year ago
1 score
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I believe the truth is simply too overwhelming for many people to accept. It would require a 180 degree turn around, and few are brave enough to take that trip. It would be akin to tell a 16th Century peasant: "Hey, did you know the earth travels around the sun once a year? It also rotates every day, and there is no such thing as the sun coming up and setting. It's all just because the earth rotates!! How about that?" You would be met with anger and certainly, disbelief, no matter how much "proof" you could give them. It's like that. It requires a paradigm shift in thinking. Many cannot get there. There would be burnings at the stake!! But, we can recognize that paradigm shifts in thinking are what advances knowledge.

Another one: In 19th Century Vienna, there was a physician named Ignaz Semmelweis who was appalled at the great number of deaths of women from postpartum puerperal fever. He noted that the doctors might go directly from dissecting corpses in the morgue to the bed of a woman giving birth, without washing his hands. Semmelweis told them to wash their hands with a chemical before touching a different patient. The Viennese doctors were angry. He seemed to be inferring that THEY were harming their own patients! They pulled a Greta: "How dare you!". But, some did as he asked, and found the rates of postpartum deaths declined. Semmelweis was hated, and was taken to an insane asylum and died there after a rather short time. Over time, doctors accepted the need to use sterilization methods to protect patients, but it was a pretty long time before these actions were universally accepted. A paradigm shift!! This is what we need today to bring the vaccinated into the fold of reality.

1 year ago
1 score