By: Gašper Blažič
I have been following the covid-19 vaccination debates for quite some time and I have a growing feeling that many people have lost their sanity in these debates. Which may not even be unusual given that we live in a society where there is a lot of information and they also contradict each other, and the average internet user then no longer knows who to trust. And he just trusts the one who works most convincingly.
Unfortunately, persuasiveness is not a guarantee of truth – let us remember the famous debates about the so-called chemtrails. These are the lines in the sky left behind by large passenger planes, but someone explained that NATO sends some chemicals into the air to “create” the weather (including severe storms, hail, tornadoes, floods). …). In this way, the USA supposedly disciplines disobedient European countries from time to time, and in this way the West of Germany has recently got the short end of the stick. Do you believe that the floods were really started by NATO? Maybe if you find an avid publicist who will be able to argue convincingly enough that this is indeed the case. Just like you will find convincing explanations today that there is a planet Nibiru that is already very dangerously close to Earth, which means that the end of the world should already be very close, but NASA is hiding this from us. Aha, oops, the collision of the Earth with Nibiru should have happened a long time ago…
Unfortunately, the debate over vaccination against covid-19 has also fallen to that level. Lots of pseudoscience, and much more intolerance of dissenters. Many Slovene Catholics now believe that the current government is just a branch of evil globalists and wants to force us into vaccination in a purely communist way, so that as many Slovenes as possible will die. And the defence against that? Awareness that there is poison in the vaccine – and chips, nanoparticles and I do not know what else. And of course, go to the website of the Slovenian Doctors’ Initiative, where the legendary Ivan Gale will also explain to you what evil authority we have and what kind of repression is being waged against us, poor citizens. And when we wake up completely fascinated by such scientific explanations and realise that in the meantime the “democrats” from the ranks of the Levica party have taken power, it will be too late, of course. And all this pseudoscience about vaccines that we read and hear about is going exactly in that direction…
Already Einstein realised that the universe and stupidity know no bounds.
Gašper Blažič is a journalist for Demokracija, a daily editor on the website demokracija.si and v. d. editor of the web portals Blagovest.si and Molitev.si.