The nudge units employing classic PsyOp methods. No jab, no job. The QR code society with everyone’s vaccination status bio-digitally recorded, better to identify, track and harass the unclean. Papers please!

The corporate media campaigns, led by the Murdoch press but no less enthusiastically embraced by the Channel Nine-2GB-Fairfax-ABC industrial complex.

HEAVY-HANDED

The third parties – that is, doctors and their heavy-handed administrative bodies – who all but refuse ever to provide medical exemptions to those who cannot take the jab.

The sneering at the unvaccinated by the likes of Jacinda Ardern and Daniel Andrews, whose delight in having created a new class of second-class citizen would once have been termed brazen, but now they know it won’t hurt them politically.

They suspect the punters mostly agree with them. They wear disdain for what they define as anti-vaxxers as a badge of honour.

The very phrase “vaccine hesistancy” is an attempt – and an inaccurate one, for most refuseniks are anything but hesitant – to create a “phenomenon” to be studied, critiqued and pitied. It is “a thing”. Let’s attack it. Let’s other it. Let’s create a new category of “enemy of the State”.

Or better still, “enemy of the community”. If they are Aboriginal, well, simply send in the Army to drag them away and lock them up! (For their own good, just like the soon-to-be-taxed Greek over 60s who won’t take the shot, at 100 euros a month; it is “for protection”).

All this is despite the compelling evidence that the vaccines, always a political silver bullet rather than a defensible public health strategy, have proven to have been an epic fail everywhere they have been imposed on gullible, supine populations.

The Facebook vaxx selfies (“vaxxies”) tell this story. According to three worthy marketing professors writing (inevitably) at The Conversation: “Vaccine selfies may seem trivial, but they show people doing their civic duty — and probably encourage others too.”

“Doing their civic duty”. Thereby hangs a subliminal, or perhaps a not so subliminal, message.

MISERABLE

The endless pro-vaxx advertisements (propaganda), paid for by you and me, in which happy families are pirouetting around the Christmas dinner table or boarding bulging planes, are meant to remind people of what the Queensland President of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) recently told us: “Life will be miserable without being vaccinated. You won’t be able to hide.”

Miserable and lonely. The AMA, clearly in awe of Big Pharma, and possibly in its pay, now represents only around 20 per cent of doctors, according to Matt Wong of Discernable. They still pack a useful propaganda punch, though.

There is a second form of pro-vaxx virtue signalling, just as insidious, even though, (perhaps because), it is administered by those who claim to be friends of the vaccine refuseniks.

This is the line trotted out by those who are (correctly) appalled by vaccine mandates, aka medical apartheid and the two-tier society, who believe that what is being done is an affront to civil democracy.

But I still need to mention either that I myself am double-jabbed. Or, I believe that vaccine dissidents are “foolish” and “misguided”. Or both.

The latest examples come from two stars of the anti-lockdown movement, Douglas Murray (writing in London’s The Telegraph newspaper) and Steve Waterson (writing in The Australian).

It is not a matter of “they should know better”, for I think they genuinely believe the unvaccinated to be, respectively, misguided and foolish. They are wrong, and dangerous. And, by-the-by, what an absurd generalisation.

Often casual pro-vaxxism is accompanied by the false claim that it is only a “tiny” minority that are unvaccinated.

Waterson, indeed, falls into this trap. I have demonstrated that the real, adult level of vaccination in Australia is a little over 70 per cent.

The numbers seen daily here are inflated, deliberately one would think, by including children (mostly 16 and up, sometimes younger). The unvaccinated adult population is by no means “tiny”.

Lies, damned lies & COVID statistics

I am afraid that no one is really that interested in whether journalists have been vaccinated or not. Or if readers are interested in this, they shouldn’t be. Who, really, gives a rat’s?

More importantly, whether or not they believe the unvaccinated to be stupid is of zero interest in the debate over vaccine mandates. No, it is mere virtue signalling.

They are indulging in that favourite pastime of certain types of conservative journalist who wish to suck up to their ideological opponents, or show they can unmoor on occasions from their assumed ideological bent, or demonstrate their muscular journalistic rigour.

No, showing that they can abuse those who are different in their thinking to them is simply to descend to the type of ad hominem argument that they normally would demean.

This amounts to casual discrimination against the unvaxxed.

As with casual racism, the victim always notices, and notes, the occurrence of casual anti-anti-vaxxism.

The trick of the gaslighter, the hostage-taker and the spouse abuser is to keep the pressure on, and up.

Never to let the victim forget who the boss is. To spring a nasty surprise just when the victim feels safe.

RACISM

Casual racism often gets a bad press, and it is true that it is wheeled out at will to score ideological points by many who aren’t really victims of anything.

But it is real. Likewise, casual pro-vaxxism and its embedded ideology of virus containment at all costs.

If the likes of Murray and Waterson believe that vaccines are the smart thing for an individual with “informed consent” to submit to, well, prove it.

Don’t just casually assert it, to signal virtue to the in-crowd, the smart types who read The Telegraph and The Australian.

The patently obvious comeback is to ask a question of them – is it misguided, or foolish, to refuse to submit to a therapeutic that is:

• Experimental (yes it is; it is the biggest medical experiment in world history);
• Unapproved (save for an emergency that does not exist, what with over 99 per cent of those who get COVID recovering fully);
• Dangerous (do the research; the evidence, though covered up by many with mal-intent, is plentiful, alarming and not hard to find);
• Unnecessary for most people (for the healthy, the COVID vaccine is merely a placebo, since many don’t even get sick and, as noted, all but a tiny minority get better, and are protected then by natural immunity); and
• Useless (at doing the thing that vaccines are meant to do, that is, stop infections from spreading; otherwise, the vaccine is merely another COVID treatment that may, for a short time, and for some people, prevent serious symptoms);
• Inferior as a prophylactic to the natural immunity of the healthy and the recovered; and
• Likely to make transmission of the virus’s now multiplying variants far worse (there is ample medical scientific evidence emerging on this, including in peer reviewed literature).

What is the position of the casual pro-vaxxer in relation to the coming of endless boosters, I wonder?

Will they believe that the almost 99 per cent of Australians (at the time of writing) now technically unvaccinated, that is, not “boostered”, are foolish and misguided?

Why do they think that governments have indemnified Big Pharma and anyone else associated with administering the jab from being sued in the event of an adverse reaction or worse?

How do they explain the fact that the most vaccinated countries in the world, like Gibraltar and Iceland are, respectively, cancelling Christmas and not letting Israelis into the country?

What about the fact that the sadly successful attempts by Big Pharma to pillory effective treatments for COVID were the result of an attempt by these vaccine manufacturers to get emergency use approval? (They can only get this if they can establish there is no alternate medical treatment.)

CASUAL

Does not the casual pro-vaxxer smell a rodent in all this? (Real journalists like Alex Berenson, author of Pandemia, published November 30, 2021, do). And perhaps realise that the unvaxxed-and-not-at-risk might not be so stupid after all, but, rather, be making informed, sober, sensible risk assessments, or, indeed, be acting out of principle?

Like, we do not like the idea of profiting medically from the deaths of the unborn – for something that is, for us, not necessary. That losing our jobs is not something we do “foolishly” or “as the result of being “misguided”.

What an insult it is for these men and women of principle to be gently mocked by the people of vaccine virtue. By those who should know better. Much better.

Calling people misguided or foolish keeps them firmly as the untermenschen, to be mocked or pitied. It adds to the pile-on.

Given that (I suspect) most of those who get vaccinated do so because they are fearful, or because they want to be “free” or because they have been bullied and lied to,  perhaps we need to re-define the opposites of foolish and misguided not as “smart” but rather as “selfish” or “strategic” rather than “smart”. Perhaps “selfishly strategic”.

If we are in the business of attributing assumed characteristics to people on the basis of their vaccination status, perhaps the unvaccinated, in contradistinction to the selfishly strategic, might more accurately be termed “without guile”, a character trait ascribed to the disciple Nathanael by Christ Himself. And not stupid.

No, the heroically vaccinated with their vaxxies on Facebook couldn’t abide that.

So many complex questions are merely batted away through casual pro-vaxxism.

PASSPORTS

While the welcome efforts of those who attack vaccine mandates and vaccine passports should never be dismissed or taken lightly by the unvaxxed, the urge not to be ever, ever associated in a reader’s mind with anti-vaxxers (as defined by the virtuous) is pernicious, since it simply leads to more and greater discrimination.

Nor will they be thanked by the uber-virtuous for their own put-downs of the refuseniks and dissidents.