Rule 514
February 28, 2025
I recently read a book called The Rules for Life Omnibus, written by Kitty Flanagan, an Australian writer and comedian. She’s funny and I can give it a two-thumbs-up. A highly recommended read.
One of her “rules,” however, kind of hit a raw nerve. Specifically, Rule 514:
Don’t trust “facts” about vaccines that you find on Facebook
Of all the demographics, Gen X has fallen the hardest for Facebook and it shows. Once we were the cool, “we invented Nirvana and the Big Day Out” generation; now we’re the vax-hesitant, “I don’t trust the science because I read something alarmist on Facebook” generation. Scientists and medical researchers do all the heavy lifting and experimenting so we don’t have to. It seems the only mistake they make is publishing their findings in peer-reviewed journals rather than posting them on Facebook. Time to give real science a few more likes.
Oh boy.
Well, for starters, I only wish we were the “I don’t trust the science” generation. Too many like poor Kitty fell for the psyop hook, line and sinker. Like a good little puppy dog, she obediently went along with the “rules” and mocked those who saw through it all as a fraud. To this day, many like her still can’t fathom the possibility that they’ve been duped.
Instead, she trusted the science. And nothing says “trust the science” like a blanket immunity from liability and a preemptive presidential pardon for the biggest champion of this “science.” The only “heavy lifting” that’s been done since the start of the war is from coroners hauling bodies off to the morgue. Bodies of friends and family. By now, we all know personally know victims. That’s because you, my friends, have been the subjects of all that “experimenting.”
But we need to give “real science” a few more likes, she says. On a platform whose founder and chief executive has openly admitted to colluding with the government to suppress the truth and silence dissenters.
She must think people like me have a few screws loose, but I’m proud to have been part of the “something smells and I’m going to think for myself” generation.
Sadly, for people like her, this is a “rule” that isn’t aging particularly well.
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