I can’t get this out of my head:
Three years ago, Novak Djokovic refused to save his own life. Threatened by a deadly virus, he refused the lifesaving vaccines. And now you see the terrifying result. Djokovic is so obviously crippled by Covid-19, a disease he unnecessarily chose to face unprotected, that he’s….well, one of the most shockingly fit human beings on the planet, an absolute beast of a professional athlete who dominates a remarkably difficult one-on-one sport so completely that no one else in the game comes close to consistently playing at his level. I don’t follow tennis closely enough to be sure about any of that, so I Googled — to get the commissariat-approved answer — and found this statement: “Djokovic has been ranked No. 1 for a record total of 409 weeks in a record 13 different years.” NOW DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T GET VACCINATED!?!?!?!?
But what I can’t get over, the thing that just keeps churning in my mind, is that some jackass watched Djokovic play a match, in person, saw how completely he dominated, saw how absurdly healthy and fit he is, and then — at match point, at the end — shouted at him to get vaccinated, like he was rebuking someone for an appalling failure. Why won’t you protect your health, you stupid…most powerful and dominant professional athlete in the world.
Djokovic responded by drilling the very next serve for an ace to win the match, slamming it across the court so brutally hard that his much younger opponent couldn’t even get his racket on it and had to just watch it go by.
But the person in the crowd: To do that, to shout that thing at that person at that moment, requires a total immunity to information. You have to have a mind that can’t notice physical reality in any way, no matter how obvious it becomes. I guess you have to be the Novak Djokovic of stupidity, the best in the world at the game of making your own head fit inside your ass.
So, yes: Vaccines induce immunity. To information. In case you’re looking for a way to protect yourself from that.
Now, consider the case of this recent report at CBS News from a journalist who has a science PhD:
Screenshot of a sample anti-science fringe view described in the story:
“…the baseless rumour that COVID vaccines make people more prone to infection.” The date on this CBS News story (via KFF Health News) is January 18, 2024. The date on this peer-reviewed article in a medical journal is May 17, 2023:
Total immunity to information. We have people who cannot be knocked off their course by mere reality. With very little effort, you can name other examples. It’s becoming the water we swim in, the defining feature of the prevailing culture. It’s a slow and steady march toward death, in a state of willful, deliberate, cultivated blindness. And it merits relentless contempt.
"Journalist" Mike Dickson was one of the loudest voices condemning Novak for not getting jabbed. Dickson "died suddenly" a few days ago at the ripe old age of 59. Novak sent condolences to his family, another example of why he is the GOAT.
I had a civil phone conversation with my only sibling yesterday on her birthday. First such exchange in over two years. She has no vax regret. She did it from a sense of community and still resents those non-vaxxers, like me, who put their individual needs above their duty to society. She has never heard of Andrew Brigden, the high all-cause mortality rates worldwide, Profs Denis Rancourt and Byram Bridle. She’s convinced the Ottawa trucker movement was a largely violent right wing, US-sponsored attempt to overthrow the Canadian govt. as opposed to the very Canadian, spontaneous expression of people’s need for freedom that it actually was. And my sister is smart and politically minded. So the problem isn’t lack of intellect. I think instead it is a quality I see in so many former friends, a lack of curiosity, a fear of pursuing truth, a comfort with orthodoxy and the tidy lie that our failed institutions are generally in need only of a few tweaks to restore order.