Vaccination Conspiracy Hypotheses
A lot of people I know say they don’t want to take the vaccine yet, if ever. For some, the idea is to let others take it first, to make up for the truncated testing and approval process this new mRNA thingy went through. And, I suspect, on some level there’s a sour grapes dynamic playing out amongst those of us who won’t be offered the chance to take it till last anyway.
For many others though, they don’t plan to take it at all, as they fear that some powerful and malevolent forces are sneaking in, along with the inoculation, anything from poison to a mind control device.
The cost-benefit analysis for those of us who will be offered the vaccine last also skews toward preferring to wait to take it. I am youngish and healthy and don’t work at a hospital, so my chances of being exposed to the virus and having a particularly bad outcome if I am are quite low. Chancing the possible side effects, much less any sinister plots that might unfold, looks less desirable than letting everyone else get vaccinated, rendering the virus impotent. This is, I believe, at least a semi-reasonable position, and regardless, for the time being, any reasoning we the young and healthy do is moot.
The more conspiratorial hypothesis does strike a chord with part of my brain, if only the part that produces a smidge more dopamine than average. Would I put it past…
