How To Deal With Anti-Masker/Anti-Vaxxers

 

It is not my place to engage in interminable debates with these idiots.  I'm just an ordinary shlub with no power and no authority.  But were I to be a member of the government of Canada I would deal with the matter differently.  Because as a member of the government I would be responsible for guiding the country through the pandemic, seeing to it that infections and deaths were kept to a minimum.  In order to do THAT I would have to deal with the 20-30% of the population that denies the reality of the pandemic and resists the social distancing, lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine mandates that are needed to try to bring the pandemic to an end.  This significant minority stands in the way of any successful pandemic response.

Obviously, our self-described "conservative" politicians (they are nothing of the kind, they are nihilistic radicals wedded to an insane ideology of kleptocracy) agree with the anti-reality crowd.  At the very least they pander to them.  Like the detestable former right-wing premier of Ontario (and now a wealthy blood-sucker of the province's elderly) Mike Harris's highschool drop-out education minister said: a crisis is a good cover for neo-liberal reforms.  Both of the prairie psychopaths, Jason "closet-case" Kenney and Scott "Burp! Oh shit! I've killed someone!" Moe are savagely attacking their provinces' public health care sectors.  Because they are shameless, inhuman thieves and scum.  Ontario's stupid, arrogant, lazy-assed, clod of a premier, Doug Ford, has just happily thrown-in the towel on dealing sensibly with COVID-19 and has announced the imminent abandonment of vaccine passports and mask mandates.  (It was pointed out at the beginning that Ford's vaccine passport system was a porous joke and that his setting and end-date for it only encouraged anti-vaccine idiots from getting vaccinated.)

Were I prime minister of Canada at the beginning of this crisis I would have implemented a hard lockdown.  This would have included the suspension of all mortgage and other bank loan payments.  There would have been a massive investment in testing, tracking and tracing.  There would have been a huge increase in the unproductive wealth of Canada's oligarchy.  And I would use the emergency powers of the federal government to takeover the pandemic response from any province that was being derelict in its duties and to hell with their hypocritical, self-serving shrieks of protest.

But, more importantly for this post, I would have had a special office created to deal directly with the conspiracy theories and the delusions and the ignorance of the population.  Instead of doing what liberal parties everywhere appear to have done: which is to ignore these millions of people and incoherently hope that they go away.

I would not censor what people say on social media.  I grow anxious every time I hear some liberal or left-of-center type person advocates censorship of social media.  As if nothing could ever go wrong from granting gigantic corporations like google and Facebook and neo-liberal governments to censor or de-platform people for promoting "falsehoods."

I would not censor people on social media but there would be a major social media outreach program of paid experts who would combat these stupid delusions on a full-time basis.  Why do I think there would be any point to this?  First of all: Ignoring these people and hoping they go away only allows them to fester in their conspiracy bubble.  And as we've just recently seen, that bubble eventually explodes into "freedom convoys" and blockades of the border.  Second of all: I do not believe that every single one of these anti-masker/anti-vaxxer people are hopeless.  Some people (and I've met them) are racialized minorities who do not trust the benevolence of government authority for good reason.  But the anti-masker/anti-vaccine conspiracy theory is so self-evidently stupid (How does wearing a mask allow the United Nations and Davos to take over the country?  If they want to microchip us all why are they denying access to vaccines to the "Less Developed Countries"?  Is China's vaccine part of the same "globalist" plot as is Phizer's and Moderna's?  Or Astra Zeneca?  How about the Cuban vaccine?  Or the Russian one?  Are they all in on it together?  What about the doctors with non-Covid patients who are having to cancel surgeries because of the flood of Covid patients?  Is there no hospital crisis?  And therefore these doctors are likewise part of the conspiracy?  The airlifting of lunkheads like Mark Friesen to an Ontario hospital was all performative theatre?  Is it every flu season that the CAF has to go into our long-term care facilities to help tend to the sick and the dying only to be exposed to the shameful conditions that those profiteering bloodsuckers impose on their clients?)  Go out and find all these anti-vaxxer/anti-masker folks who subsequently got COVID. Like the dipshit in Scarborough with the racist coffee brands who almost died from COVID.  That's another thing:  Anyone who doesn't have a medical exemption from being vaccinated goes to the back of the line when it comes to healthcare.  Triage baby!  There are lots of responsible people who already have a claim on those hospital resources.

If you chip away at them, day-in, day-out, and expose and humiliate their leaders, eventually, some of the followers will see the light and disassociate themselves from the movement.  I know from personal experience that a lot of these people are cowards.  Once you try to get them 

And, furthermore, there would be paid enforcers of mask mandates on public transit and in shopping malls and other public areas.  Put on the fucking mask or pay a fine.  Or get arrested. (There will be special buildings with the proper precautions to house these imbeciles.  All paid for by heavy taxes on our oligarchy.)

Obviously this requires getting the police onside.  Again, the virus is real.  The crowded hospitals are real.  The casualty figures are real.  The "long-COVID" cases are real.  Being arrogant bullies a lot of cops don't believe the pandemic is real.  (Like that state trooper in the USA who video'd his resignation from his police car over his refusal to get vaccinated and who subsequently died of COVID.)  The police MUST be forced to see the COVID-wards and to speak with the victims or their families.  Because we all saw what happened as the "freedom convoy" met up with the Ottawa police.

I was going to put some links into this piece but fuck it.

P.S. - Yesterday I was engaged in a debate with a gaggle of Biden-worshipping shit-libs over the Ukraine crisis.  Brainless group-thinking imbeciles.