Bret continues to be able to explain his reasoning. Then I can take from that part of his beliefs without taking all of them. Because I see which ones are well reasoned and which ones are rather more presumptive. I don't fully agree with all his COVID related beliefs, but I agree with some of them wholeheartedly, like the fact that the shot could not possibly be considered safe. I think the level of proof required to get him to believe something about COVID is too low, and he has accepted things without great evidence, more on hunches and on what other people have told him.
My take on COVID has been:
* It was created in and escaped from a WIV lab among bioweapons research, funded and monitored by the US. I held this belief very early on.
* As a respitory virus it would become less and less severe over time, and my best strategy was to lock myself down until that happened.
* The vaccine was initially effective, but the virus quickly mutated away from it. And this was obviously not going to work because good virologists predicted exactly that - you cannot vaccinate into a pandemic.
* Vaccinating everybody to stop the spread was never going to work, even if they forced everyone to take it. So giving it to children was abusive and dumb.
* The vaccine has had more side effects than the medical community will admit ... but it is very hard to tell how many, and not every bad thing that happens is a vaccine injury. For example I got pulsatile tinnitus exactly 1 week BEFORE I took the vaccine. If it had happened 2 weeks later, I would surely be tempted to blame the vaccine. Science doesn't work that way though for good reasons.
* Big pharma companies spend a lot of time and money protecting themselves legally. And so you can't just trust them outright. But overall they are trying to provide safe and effective products.
Mike Dilger ☑️ /
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2025-05-30 23:56:45
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