I wasn't happy about it, but I was prepared to give Jimmy Dore the benefit of the doubt. In this post you can read how I had some sympathy for some of Dore's contrarian position on COVID vaccines. But it's become a flood of deranged stupidity and I've unsubscribed from his YouTube channel and have (for the most part) stopped watching him.
This video by "Shaun" outlines Dore's insanity:
Now, I don't agree with everything "Shaun" says. (He's done brilliant videos about "The Bell Curve" and the racist rally at Charlottesville though.) But, like Shaun, I think Dore has entered grifter territory. I think he senses that right-wing anti-vaxxers are a loyal, gullible fanbase who are quick to open their wallets and purses to anyone who tells them what they want to hear. I was always nauseated with the Trump shit-eaters in Dore's comments section with their ignorance, hypocrisy, racism. As I've said before, these assholes were so sexually gratified from Dore's evisceration of Democratic perfidy that they ignored his stances on immigration and the welfare state which are the polar opposite of theirs.
But in the comments section of "Shaun's" Dore video, there's all these people saying that Dore is and has always been a useless, stupid asshole. And these people disgust me. These people are probably apologists for the Democratic Party or practice some other form of revolting idiocy. Jimmy Dore was right about "Russiagate." He's right about the uselessness of the Democrats. He's right about Palestine. He's right about Syria. I watched enough of his material to know he was at one time a valuable person to have on our side. I know enough to recognize that it's a damned tragedy what's happened to him. I thought I had an alternative to pompous stammerers like Sam Seder, arrogant narcissists like Jeffrey St. Clair, and self-defeating hysterical essays from people like Paul Street who has convinced himself that the 70 million US-Americans who voted for Trump are all fascists and it's a waste of time to try speaking to them. (As I said elsewhere, I think Paul Street's revolutionary strategy is to keep writing his embittered essays for his thousands of readers, until he dies, having impacted virtually nothing.)
In the case of this pandemic, which is real, so all you COVID-deniers and anti-VAXXERS can shove your delusions about your superior intellects and commitment to freedom and science up your asses sideways, the stakes are too high to tolerate drivel like Dore's anti-vaxx tirades.
Un-fuck you Jimmy Dore. Your arrogance, delusion and/or dishonesty are going to get people killed.
==========================================================================
UPDATE: Dore has produced a video in response to his critics. Here it is:
A couple of thoughts: How many of the loathsome right-wing people in the comments section have glided easily from denying that the pandemic even existed to agreeing that everyone is going to get COVID eventually?
Dore shows himself saying, multiple times that vulnerable people should get vaxxed. But he has to know that posting video after video with huge banner headlines about the dangers and the lies about vaccines and the heroism and "science" of people who refuse to get vaccinated is only going to discourage people from getting vaccinated. He appears to be directly responding to the section of Shaun's video where Shaun accuses him of misrepresenting an article about a COVID wave in Singapore. Dore admits he was wrong and blames it on a producer who has since been fired. If you watch that section of Dore's video you have to ask yourself whether that producer was only giving Jimmy what he thought he wanted to hear.
Dore insists that it's entirely a personal decision whether to get vaccinated or not. That there are no public consequences when someone chooses not to get vaccinated. In so doing, Dore ignores the fact that the people who require hospitalization are the un-vaxxed. And that therefore these people are putting continued pressure on the healthcare system.
Listen; Starting from the premise that the pandemic is real (and I've already written about my personal experience of this reality for any of the morons who might show up here and arrogantly tell me that I have to open my eyes to the truth about the Davos/UN "Great Re-set" conspiracy to blah, blah, blah) let's discuss things from that perspective. The pandemic is real and all the fucking losers who protested against masks (that they impair your breathing and cause you to panic/that they "don't work" which means that doctors performing surgeries have been wasting their time for at least a century by wearing them), against social distancing and lockdowns (showing that they don't understand what a virus is) and who are clearly anti-vaxxers (of all sorts) ... It has been vastly the case that it is these assholes who have been spreading the virus, getting sick from the virus and overwhelming our emergency rooms, and where these idiots congregate in large enough numbers so as to encourage politicians to pander to them (such as Alberta and Saskatchewan) it is those places that have suffered the most from COVID-19.
Dore has a point (he's had a few points over the past several months which I have always acknowledged) that since it's a fact that the vaccine doesn't prevent one from becoming infected from the virus (as opposed to the measles and polio vaccines) that harsh mandates and vaccine passports are useless because one can get infected from a vaxxed person as easily as from an un-vaxxed person. But, again, the vast majority of people deciding not to get vaxxed are stupid assholes and their fears of the vaccines are generally delusional. Get the damned vaccine.
[Edited to add: At the time I wrote this post I really did think that vaxxed people were still as contagious as un-vaxxed people. I've since learned that this is not the case: But vaccinated people clear the virus faster, with lower levels of virus overall, and have less time with very high levels of virus present.
Therefore, vaccinated people are, on average, likely to be less contagious.]
No comments:
Post a Comment