@Scott_MacBlegh @arzachel the parents will still support the vaxx after burying their son.

@DrRyanSkelton @arzachel That's been one of the harder things to cope with. The NPC meme. It's not some abstract thing about "no internal monologue", but the bottomless, hellish stupidity that is increasingly on display.

I try to remind myself that this isn't historically exceptional and that humanity has always been subject to insane bloodlettings born of superstition. But the technology is unprecedented. This sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen anymore. At least not in the west, lol.

A certain painter remarked on the strength and influence of the media of his day, a century ago, which spewed poison just as now. He said that "only a fool would blame its victims." I have to think the same consideration is orders of magnitude more apropos now, given how starkly that influence has grown.

I still lack clarity about what I would even wish for these people.

@Scott_MacBlegh And that's natural myocarditis.