Totally agree. And he frames it in terms that our emotion (knee-jerk distrust of big government) just happened to be right and his intellectual analysis was wrong. Stopped clock being right twice a day and all that. He just can't admit he was wrong, is not as smart as he thinks he is, and made a foolish mistake.
Totally agree. And he frames it in terms that our emotion (knee-jerk distrust of big government) just happened to be right and his intellectual analysis was wrong. Stopped clock being right twice a day and all that. He just can't admit he was wrong, is not as smart as he thinks he is, and made a foolish mistake.
Yes I have a knee-jerk distrust of big government, and an even bigger one of Pharma. However, those emotions led me to "wait and see" and while doing so dig deeply into the history of mRNA therapy, lipid nanoparticles, the spike protein itself, "leaky" vaccines, and immune evasion. During that I found many people with ten times the intellectual heft of Scott Adams. After reading all this I independently concluded the risk outweighed the benefits.
My work had a mandate which was one of the reasons I did dig into it so deeply as I was considering taking the shot. After looking into deeply I decided I would not take it under any circumstances and told my work to pound sand (I was given a religious exemption ultimately).
I doubt my story is unique. As much as self-proclaimed intellectuals (and often atheists) like Scott Adams like to think of us as knuckle-dragging morons, some of us actually think things through and dig deeper. Most of us rejected the shot on personal autonomy grounds, concern regarding the mRNA technology, and our own personal covid risk assessment. This despite our supposed leader (Donald Trump) telling us to take it. It was a reasoned decision that is being strongly vindicated.
Edit: Adding to this that in the course of looking into this I also found the vax was developed using fetal stem cells derived from abortion (used in testing it) despite the FDA trying to hide that fact.
No amnesty - not with his drivel. Scott Adams has not gone anywhere near far enough. He's in self-preservation mode, not contrition mode. Not repentance mode. If the analogy were war, you'd put the sword to him.
Among those of us who appreciated Scott in 2015 and were earliest on the Trump train (in fact embraced T's in-your-face pugilism vs sociopaths), some of us are mentally flexible enough to have gotten off the Trump train as it flew off the tracks and he BETRAYED his most loyal supporters, deserted them, and went psychotic promoting the clot shot. Trump derangement syndrome shifted to those who won't see reality and defend his madness and disloyalty and his lousy WEF family. His day is done and a new day has dawned with DeSantis, who has a colossal enough task before his without Trump's off the rails nonsense.
If you must employ Trump because you have only clever sociopaths to choose among for political grunt work, put Trump in charge building the wall and rebuilding American infrastructure. That's his calling, nothing else now. Narrow and defined.
Good grief! Another Trump obsessed loser. All roads lead to ‘whack a mole’ the figment of Trump that resides 24/7 rent free right in their little minds.
Generally, I agree with you on most of your posts. But when you call someone a loser for not having the same opinion as you, it makes me sad there are a lot of reasons to like trump and a lot of reasons not to like trump, but if someone has a legit reason for not liking Trump. I would definitely not call them a loser, especially in Jeff’s blog. I would say we have a lot in common those of us on here.
Exactly. I dug incredibly deep into this topic -- yes, because I have a well-earned distrust of big gov’t and big pharma -- but more so because I have a high need to discover the TRUTH. Regardless of how difficult it may make my and my family’s lives.
I also thought that a wait and see approach made the most sense for me. I’m young and healthy and I didn’t particularly want to take a new drug when I probably didn’t need it. However, the week the vaccine became available to me I got covid. I thank God for it. Weird to be thanking the Lord for sickness - never done that before! But anyway, we all got it. That gave me cover to put it off. A few months and lots of reading later, I was absolutely convinced that I would never take that vaccine. Had I not gotten covid, I probably would have been talked into it eventually.
Spot on!! It’s because we are skeptical that we decided to dig deeper and do the research to see if our initial thoughts were correct and backed up by facts and data. The skepticism only fueled the search for information, and once we found the information, THAT sealed the decision. The skepticism caused me to wait and see rather than just blindly jump in and get jabbed. Wait and see meant wait for more data, more experiences, more information. Not just wait to stick it to Big Government and Big Pharma (though that was a nice side benefit I admit 😆). That’s what he’s not seeing, or not admitting.
I actually think he still doesn't really see it. His remarks were dripping with condescension and snarky hostility. He looked angry. How many times did he say "You won, anti-vaxxers won, you won, you won? He seemed overly obsessed with that point. For him it was about winning and losing, not about important revelations he had experienced.
Yes! I recently read that ! What liars! They knew that the RC church and other religious people would not take it if the truth was exposed! Lies! Evil! Crime against humanity.
Totally agree. And he frames it in terms that our emotion (knee-jerk distrust of big government) just happened to be right and his intellectual analysis was wrong. Stopped clock being right twice a day and all that. He just can't admit he was wrong, is not as smart as he thinks he is, and made a foolish mistake.
Yes I have a knee-jerk distrust of big government, and an even bigger one of Pharma. However, those emotions led me to "wait and see" and while doing so dig deeply into the history of mRNA therapy, lipid nanoparticles, the spike protein itself, "leaky" vaccines, and immune evasion. During that I found many people with ten times the intellectual heft of Scott Adams. After reading all this I independently concluded the risk outweighed the benefits.
My work had a mandate which was one of the reasons I did dig into it so deeply as I was considering taking the shot. After looking into deeply I decided I would not take it under any circumstances and told my work to pound sand (I was given a religious exemption ultimately).
I doubt my story is unique. As much as self-proclaimed intellectuals (and often atheists) like Scott Adams like to think of us as knuckle-dragging morons, some of us actually think things through and dig deeper. Most of us rejected the shot on personal autonomy grounds, concern regarding the mRNA technology, and our own personal covid risk assessment. This despite our supposed leader (Donald Trump) telling us to take it. It was a reasoned decision that is being strongly vindicated.
Edit: Adding to this that in the course of looking into this I also found the vax was developed using fetal stem cells derived from abortion (used in testing it) despite the FDA trying to hide that fact.
No amnesty - not with his drivel. Scott Adams has not gone anywhere near far enough. He's in self-preservation mode, not contrition mode. Not repentance mode. If the analogy were war, you'd put the sword to him.
Among those of us who appreciated Scott in 2015 and were earliest on the Trump train (in fact embraced T's in-your-face pugilism vs sociopaths), some of us are mentally flexible enough to have gotten off the Trump train as it flew off the tracks and he BETRAYED his most loyal supporters, deserted them, and went psychotic promoting the clot shot. Trump derangement syndrome shifted to those who won't see reality and defend his madness and disloyalty and his lousy WEF family. His day is done and a new day has dawned with DeSantis, who has a colossal enough task before his without Trump's off the rails nonsense.
If you must employ Trump because you have only clever sociopaths to choose among for political grunt work, put Trump in charge building the wall and rebuilding American infrastructure. That's his calling, nothing else now. Narrow and defined.
I agree that Scott Adams is not in contrition or repentance mode. It shows in his attitude.
Good grief! Another Trump obsessed loser. All roads lead to ‘whack a mole’ the figment of Trump that resides 24/7 rent free right in their little minds.
Generally, I agree with you on most of your posts. But when you call someone a loser for not having the same opinion as you, it makes me sad there are a lot of reasons to like trump and a lot of reasons not to like trump, but if someone has a legit reason for not liking Trump. I would definitely not call them a loser, especially in Jeff’s blog. I would say we have a lot in common those of us on here.
Exactly. I dug incredibly deep into this topic -- yes, because I have a well-earned distrust of big gov’t and big pharma -- but more so because I have a high need to discover the TRUTH. Regardless of how difficult it may make my and my family’s lives.
Heuristics? No. STATISTICS.
I also thought that a wait and see approach made the most sense for me. I’m young and healthy and I didn’t particularly want to take a new drug when I probably didn’t need it. However, the week the vaccine became available to me I got covid. I thank God for it. Weird to be thanking the Lord for sickness - never done that before! But anyway, we all got it. That gave me cover to put it off. A few months and lots of reading later, I was absolutely convinced that I would never take that vaccine. Had I not gotten covid, I probably would have been talked into it eventually.
Spot on!! It’s because we are skeptical that we decided to dig deeper and do the research to see if our initial thoughts were correct and backed up by facts and data. The skepticism only fueled the search for information, and once we found the information, THAT sealed the decision. The skepticism caused me to wait and see rather than just blindly jump in and get jabbed. Wait and see meant wait for more data, more experiences, more information. Not just wait to stick it to Big Government and Big Pharma (though that was a nice side benefit I admit 😆). That’s what he’s not seeing, or not admitting.
I actually think he still doesn't really see it. His remarks were dripping with condescension and snarky hostility. He looked angry. How many times did he say "You won, anti-vaxxers won, you won, you won? He seemed overly obsessed with that point. For him it was about winning and losing, not about important revelations he had experienced.
Yes you’re probably right!
Yes! I recently read that ! What liars! They knew that the RC church and other religious people would not take it if the truth was exposed! Lies! Evil! Crime against humanity.