Post by Harry Fisher, reporting on a 2020 Yale Study. Excerpt:
[R]esearchers at Yale decided to find out what kind of psychological manipulation worked best to get people to take the COVID shot. They didn’t study medicine, they studied obedience.
The researchers split people into groups and bombarded them with different emotional triggers. One message told people to think of vaccination as a “moral duty to protect others.” Another said that refusing the shot wasn’t brave but “reckless.” Others used guilt and shame, “How would you feel if you got someone sick?” or “Imagine how embarrassed you’ll be if you spread the virus because you refused.”
Then they measured which message made people cave fastest. Which one made them not only say, “Yes, I’ll get the vaccine,” but also, “I’ll pressure my friends to do it too.”
The results were exactly what you’d expect, the messages that made people feel guilty, ashamed, or afraid of being judged were the most “successful.” The study admits that those messages stirred people to persuade others and to judge anyone who declined as ignorant or selfish. In other words, they found the recipe for social coercion, and called it “science.”
This research wasn’t about understanding, it was about control. It created the tone that dominated those years, the moral superiority of the compliant and the public humiliation of the skeptical. What we lived through wasn’t spontaneous mass hysteria. It was engineered with precision, it was tested, measured, and rolled out.
We were never “informed.” We were handled.
The 1918 flu pandemic was extremely deadly, infecting about one-third of the world’s population and causing an estimated 50 million deaths globally. It killed more people than World War I and had a particularly high mortality rate among healthy young adults, a group typically less affected by the flu. (https://www.paho.org/en/who-we-are/history-paho/purple-death-great-flu-1918)
Thought experiment: You could go back in time with a vaccination that would have save most, but probably not all, of the lives that were lost, not to mention the acute and chronic injuries. The vaccines went through modern-day testing, and were deemed very safe, but couldn’t guarantee absolutely nobody would suffer injury from it. But overall, it was nothing compared with the “Spanish Flu.” But many people weren’t taking the vaccine. What would you do? I genuinely curious.
I have serious doubts about whether most modern vaccines have been properly tested. See Aaron Siri’s book, Vaccines, Amen!. If they were properly tested for both efficacy and adverse events and if the vaccines were healing/saving significantly more people than they hurt or killed, then yes, use them.