But I think "the public" are not idiots, and can make up their own minds.
The ones in hospital after eating horse dewormer?
This is the end result of our current 'strategy' and probably one of the best examples of why it's not working.
It's the equivalent of a church telling teens not to have sex, not providing them with condoms because abstinence is the only way, and then looking around and wondering why the fuck your rates of teen pregnancy are through the roof.
(And my analogy isn't alluding to giving human ivermectin out like condoms lol).
The church doing the telling: works on the people who believe, has the opposite effect on the people who mistrust it.
Telling them not to: works on the people who do what they're told, has the opposite effect on people who want to. The people who see all their friends doing it, and aren't they fine?
This is the way: works for some, makes others ask questions. Why? Says who? What proof? Why can't I ask questions? Why is my friend saying her coil prevents pregnancy?
Not providing condoms: only works if nobody knows they exist. And people do know they exist because they can probably use the internet better than you.
And the result for the people those things don't work on is to either A) do it anyway, risks be damned or B) get more and more curious, suspicious, hungry for answers.
This has been the entire strategy throughout the pandemic.
The ones injecting bleach and eating horse dewormer at the exact opposite extreme from the ones using curdled milk in their tea because it's not essential and dettoling their apples, or the ones desperate to inject their healthy four year olds with unapproved vaccines because they're convinced they're going to die but also because it makes a great virtue signalling opportunity.
Neither people are engaging their brains by most people's standards.
The vast, vast majority of the population are somewhere in the middle of that.
But this all seems inevitable to me. Ramp the entire population up to hysterical levels of fear so they comply with rules and then wonder why people are refusing to leave the house on one end, injecting themselves with horse paste on the other. Calling for unvaccinated to be held down and injected, or refused medical attention, or slaughtered (I'm not kidding) versus picnicking in front of bars in France and destroying photos of the leader.
Blanket fear and policies and narratives and tru-science is causing this.
Have you seen the vids from china with people falling to the ground in the fakest way possible? The 'doctors' on national news talking about being swamped and overrun but accidentally bursting out laughing (because they're actors, not doctors). The sensationalised headlines about new Omega Kappa Deadly Spready Delta + Steroids + Bubonic Plague variants?
= "If you have sex you will DIE!!!" When we can all see / hear / know of people having sex and not dying...
It makes the entire thing feel fishy. All of it. To the point that people are so suspicious of everything, they listen to people who are saying things are fishy too. And sometimes they're valid and sometimes they're not, but my point is - the more fishy you make something the more people are going to look towards people who validate, or put their finger on why.
You do understand that some opinions are dangerous?
Opinions are just opinions. Surely it's actions that are dangerous?
And even if we agree that opinions can be dangerous... that needs a whole lot more context than you are giving it.
The first opinion that rubbing two sticks together causes fire was undoubtedly dangerous. For the person who was about to get burned all the way through to the women accused of witchcraft to our great-great grandchildren who'll be left an depleted planet.
Who has the authority to say that opinion should have been censored?