I didn't get married to have someone who agrees with me and my respect for my wife is built on alot more than her albeit misguided opinion on a vaccine.
I think this is right. It was also sold by a government for which free choice and individualism is a religion. This means it was sold based on personal benefits rather than collective need. And, of course, the problem with selling something in this way is that an individual may exercise their free choice to decide the personal benefits are not worth it. The younger the individual, the more their personal cost/benefit analysis skews in favour of costs.
I wouldn't mind going on a romantic round-the-world cruise with a flat-earther, see their reaction when we end up at the same port at the end of the cruise (instead of falling off the edge of the world into the airless oblivion of deep space's endless night)
you'll have just been going round the perimeter in a large circle you people know nothing
Interesting article, ta. That's certainly true of my experience of cults, and it's an interesting parallel to fraud victims.
That's a good comparison I reckon, as people who refuse the vaccine aren't just endangering their own lives, but those around them also (both in the specific sense that being vaccinated reduces chances of infection and transmission, decreases viral load; and in the more abstract sense of - the more people who get vaccinated the closer we get to 'herd immunity').
Yes, I thought the analysis of the psychology behind it was sound. Do cult 'deprogrammers' employ former cult members as the only ones who the subject will listen to?
Having met a nice con man in the past I can see this.
Yes, but for their knowledge of the cult rather than as the only ones they'll listen to. Once they've left they're even worse - apostates, backsliders, suppressive people - and cult member will have been specifically warned about them.
That's one of the difficulties with tackling anti-vaxxers, as there's no one leader of the 'movement'. Could try slagging off David Icke or Piers Corbyn and the person you're debating with might well say, oh I agree, Icke's a lunatic and Corbyn a hustler, but I don't get my info from them...
I'm so glad that the world has better people than me in it. If I was left in charge I'd probably be making stuffed toys with them40-odd years ago, it would have very likely gone towards Interferon production. Back then, foreskins were the preferred source of the fibroblast cells needed to fuel the lines that produced it. So hopefully it did do some good. MS research and treatment is one area that particularly benefited from foreskin-derived Interferon.
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There was a camp of them on Shepherds Bush Green some time ago, who stayed there for a week or two before being kicked out by the cops (in the normal charming friendly way the Met have) and the Green was fenced off for ages to stop them coming back. It's open again now and I wouldn't be surprised if it has developed some sort of significance and becomes a meeting point in future. Just what I need
