Here’s the big 5 questions you need to keep pushing on normies.
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Who has benefited the most from the lockdowns?
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Has there been any scientific evidence that this was a natural virus?
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Has anyone taken actions against the proven bad faith actors in China who intentionally destroyed evidence of the virus origins?
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Has any research shown that masks are effective against water vapor?
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How many times has the government and media changed the narrative? Remember it was two weeks to flatten the spread a year ago.
I think the hardest part is getting them past their fear first. If they are still terrified of all this they aren't even close to the mode of questioning what all happened.
I know at least two people personally (not online) that have had their vaccines and are still terrified to do anything not absolutely essential. They are coworkers (I couldn't deal with friends that nuts) and I even tried to dance around the issue with one of them with things like "if all this stuff works, don't we eventually have to move on?" It kind of stunned them a bit and I didn't get a good answer, but it was clear that there was so much fear porn in their head that they weren't even close to moving on.
There's just too many people who's brains are totally destroyed by this and critical thinking like you propose is far beyond their capacity. I think every single post I've ever seen on normie social media with something like "when can masks and social distancing go away?" always is dominated with support for wearing masks forever or for a very long time.
The only two points I've even been able to get a "that's a good point" from any coworkers are:
During one conversation with my boss he was telling me some of his other subordinates were terrified to go into work because of this thing but is optimistic that things will "go back to normal". But when I asked him why he thinks everyone's suddenly going to stop being terrified of this thing -- especially now that they're telling people "vaccines don't mean we get to go back to normal" -- he didn't have an answer.
Beyond that most of my coworkers think the government should have welded people into their homes. I had to stop having any sort of non-professional conversations with them because I was losing all respect for them. Including a fair number of STEM PhDs I expected to have better critical thinking skills.
Something ive noticed is the most educated are also the easiest to indoctrinate. When all your knowledge comes from authority, it becomes your default position to never question it.
By contrast, ive worked various blue collar jobs throughout this scamdemic and most regular people do not give the slightest shit beyond just following rules to not rock the boat. Probably because they have to live outside, working, and can see the lies of no one getting sick for themselves.
"You are touched by darkness, Ambassador. I see it as a blemish that will grow with time. I could warn you of course, but you would not listen. I could kill you, but someone would take your place. So I do the only thing I can. I go."
-Babylon 5
There are places where this BS isn't entertained.
I'm not sure leaving a job over a couple crazy coworkers would be the smart thing to do at this point. It's not like these people have any say over me and aren't even on my projects. Just random coworkers. Neither are really the most competent employees of the bunch either. At the moment the most leftism I have to deal with at work is side comments, and overall my job has changed very little over the last year.
I'd have to do a total career change to get any better than I have now, and that would just set back everything else I've tried to build up for resiliency sake just from the pay cut alone.
Oh I'm not just leaving a job... or even just a career.
When my plan is fully completed I'll be a good hundred miles from the nearest Walmart.
They want everything to be delivered to you now, so now it's possible to live nowhere near humans while still not having to bother wildlife. I don't think ((they)) thought things through that well.
I kinda wish things were so easy when the ex and I were trying to buy a hay farm up north, but as it was, we were driving an hour and a half just to get groceries (and in winter, even that could be out of the question.) And no, we didn't kill anything, and I was quite angry when a cow-farming neighbour killed a moose that used to come around- he has cows, these idiots don't need moosemeat. And this was probably the goof who started the Mad Cow shutdown a year later, too, the fuckin' slob. Yes, this was the exact area it started, the cow was probably his, he had bad, gross habits.
That's why if I move into the country I'm not going to try to go up north. It sounds and looks really nice, but I'm from the south and if I'm going to get out of town I think I'd be more successful somewhere I can acclimate immediately. I've been looking at property, at the very least wouldn't mind getting my hands on a good piece of land I can use later.
They could have at least wistfully said "someday" and keep that carrot dangling.
You'll have better success teaching a dog how to read, than you will freeing the minds of the people who think this is Black Death II (which also came from Asia the first time, so ...)
100% serious on that. Not joking one little bit. And that's besides the fact that some of these ... humans ... actually want the mask bullshit to go one forever for some unimaginable reason.
It "went away" very conveniently.
I highly recommend saving points 2 and 3 for the "intermediate" or maybe even the "advanced" skeptic. You ask someone at the beginning stages of starting to not trust everything the news and government is saying "well who's to say China didn't create this thing in a lab?" and you're liable to snuff out that flame because that person isn't going to want to be lumped in with "crazy people".
China is the only country to actually grow its economy in 2020.
Women, huge corporates, governments.
No.
No.
No.
Many times.