I don't blame YouTube as much as I blame the people who have captured the authority over this topic.
The problem isn't vaccines. The problem is we have people on crusades thinking that they can create some idyllic utopia, if only they can force people into compliance. All the while ignoring the fact that their authoritarian actions create their own dystopian consequences. They have captured the system by making it easier to shut down any dissenters than to question the authority their demands.
The fact is that some viruses respond well to vaccines. Either they don't mutate fast enough to avoid the immunity or they don't mutate in ways that negate the immunity. Most people have grown up in a post vaccine world. They have not seen the birth defects from Rubella, the people crippled by Polio or the scars on the survivors of Small Pox, to name a few.
It is a tough call. Any medical intervention has risks. We have to collectively agree that the risks are worth the benefits.
What is happening is that these people leading the push against "misinformation" want to bypass the agreement part of the evaluation of risks vs. benefits. Some of it is motivated by good intentions, some by condescending paternalism, and some by the monetary benefits of the production of the vaccines.
Regardless of their motivations, their actions go against the whole basis of a democratic society. The Spanish Flu in 1918 killed an estimated 21 million people. As bad as that is, it pales in comparison to the number of people killed by authoritarianism.
Those screenshots are literally insane.🤦♀️
I don't blame YouTube as much as I blame the people who have captured the authority over this topic.
The problem isn't vaccines. The problem is we have people on crusades thinking that they can create some idyllic utopia, if only they can force people into compliance. All the while ignoring the fact that their authoritarian actions create their own dystopian consequences. They have captured the system by making it easier to shut down any dissenters than to question the authority their demands.
The fact is that some viruses respond well to vaccines. Either they don't mutate fast enough to avoid the immunity or they don't mutate in ways that negate the immunity. Most people have grown up in a post vaccine world. They have not seen the birth defects from Rubella, the people crippled by Polio or the scars on the survivors of Small Pox, to name a few.
It is a tough call. Any medical intervention has risks. We have to collectively agree that the risks are worth the benefits.
What is happening is that these people leading the push against "misinformation" want to bypass the agreement part of the evaluation of risks vs. benefits. Some of it is motivated by good intentions, some by condescending paternalism, and some by the monetary benefits of the production of the vaccines.
Regardless of their motivations, their actions go against the whole basis of a democratic society. The Spanish Flu in 1918 killed an estimated 21 million people. As bad as that is, it pales in comparison to the number of people killed by authoritarianism.