Why You’re a Brainwashed Little Sheep, According to Anti-Vaxxers and Covidiots
Rugged individualism is killing us — and them.
Everyone I know has a story like this now:
A friend of theirs didn’t take the coronavirus seriously. They laughed at masks and vaccines. They scoffed at variants. They called us sheep. They said they weren’t going to live in fear. They wound up in the hospital.
They wound up dead.
Their favorite thing to do is call us brainwashed, and that points to the bottom of it. They possess a deep sense of anti-establishment angst, along with a need to feel superior to everyone else. They’ve bought so much stock in rugged individualism, they can’t tell the difference between communism and cooperation anymore. Anything that even hints at a shared purpose or common goal gives them mental hives.
Anti-vaxxer propaganda appeals to that hidden desire some of us have to be the underdog and fight the system. That’s the narrative that makes them feel special. This problem calls for a flank approach. We have to shut them down online, and we need to make their lives more difficult.
The next time you come across an anti-vaxxer, you don’t have to debate them all day. You don’t have to ignore them either.
