Vaccines

This thought is kind of related to your thread but l analyse everything minutely and found it odd / troubling that a experimental ‘vaccine’ was and has been given to a vast percentage of our population ? I may however be over analysing things relating to this very troubling pandemic period that we have all unfortunately had to go through over the last two years.

That is a very unpopular way to think Don.

I also wondered after being told for 50 or so years that you can't vaccinate against a corona virus because it mutates too fast, just how I should believe that they had managed to perform that miracle in a few months.

Exactly what I was questioning

You have said what I have been unable to articulate about all this pandemic situation in a number of wonderfully concise and well summarised  paragraphs ... thankyou.

I was fortunate to learn critical thinking at Uni many years ago (probably my greatest life skill). I’m glad l am not the only one with this outlook as at one point l thought l was going bonkers! 

Sorry to have taken the original forum post on a tangent and thanks to all for your very informed replies

Three posts in and no-one has stepped up to shut this down yet!

Yes, I am very annoyed about how most people have treated me when I've asked the obvious questions and tried to discuss the actual SCIENCE, as opposed to what some talking head was babbling about on the idiot box, in the papers and across the internet. 

Old friends, who have had plenty of experience of me displaying cognitive prowess, suddenly stated calling me names. ("Moron" was perhaps the most inappropriate, although "selfish" was pretty far from the mark too IMHO. THEY started looking up conspiracy theories (many of which were completely wide of the truth, as happens when a broad range of people with different brains start trying to think their way out of an evil situation and saying this was where I was getting fake news from that was "warping my mind".

Of course I had skimmed over most of what they were suddenly discovering when I was looking for answers and the truth of the matter when I asked myself that particular question, but the whole point about critical thinking is that you have trained yourself (or received training as a child if you are lucky)  not to take on every new idea without questioning it, (such as "we can now magically protect you against corona viruses, when we could not previously via this new technology that we will call a "vaccine" even though it works completely differently (and it turns out very poorly) compared to what you previously knew as a vaccine. 

Now fools on the internet "having a go", is par for the course, but when your FAMILY and FRIENDS turn against you over an issue unexpectedly, then you have to shut up, take stock, and figure out what has gone wrong and try to deal with it. 

But as I've been told by sundry people in my life including an NHS psychologist and a street magician (probably for the usual reason, casually explaining how their trickery is done, not because I had an pre-existing opinion, but because I'm actually analysing and processing their information using my previous knowledge in real time, and it's throwing up awkward questions)

Now, I don't do this deliberately to annoy, but I just cannot ignore the anomalies that illuminate the lies as easily as most can, just to have an "easy life". 

Three posts in and no-one has stepped up to shut this down yet!

Yes, I am very annoyed about how most people have treated me when I've asked the obvious questions and tried to discuss the actual SCIENCE, as opposed to what some talking head was babbling about on the idiot box, in the papers and across the internet. 

Old friends, who have had plenty of experience of me displaying cognitive prowess, suddenly stated calling me names. ("Moron" was perhaps the most inappropriate, although "selfish" was pretty far from the mark too IMHO. THEY started looking up conspiracy theories (many of which were completely wide of the truth, as happens when a broad range of people with different brains start trying to think their way out of an evil situation and saying this was where I was getting fake news from that was "warping my mind".

Of course I had skimmed over most of what they were suddenly discovering when I was looking for answers and the truth of the matter when I asked myself that particular question, but the whole point about critical thinking is that you have trained yourself (or received training as a child if you are lucky)  not to take on every new idea without questioning it, (such as "we can now magically protect you against corona viruses, when we could not previously via this new technology that we will call a "vaccine" even though it works completely differently (and it turns out very poorly) compared to what you previously knew as a vaccine. 

Now fools on the internet "having a go", is par for the course, but when your FAMILY and FRIENDS turn against you over an issue unexpectedly, then you have to shut up, take stock, and figure out what has gone wrong and try to deal with it. 

But as I've been told by sundry people in my life including an NHS psychologist and a street magician (probably for the usual reason, casually explaining how their trickery is done, not because I had an pre-existing opinion, but because I'm actually analysing and processing their information using my previous knowledge in real time, and it's throwing up awkward questions)

Now, I don't do this deliberately to annoy, but I just cannot ignore the anomalies that illuminate the lies as easily as most can, just to have an "easy life". 

You have said what I have been unable to articulate about all this pandemic situation in a number of wonderfully concise and well summarised  paragraphs ... thankyou.

I was fortunate to learn critical thinking at Uni many years ago (probably my greatest life skill). I’m glad l am not the only one with this outlook as at one point l thought l was going bonkers! 

Sorry to have taken the original forum post on a tangent and thanks to all for your very informed replies