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Originally Posted by photon
Add in the fact that many people that fall into this category are going to talk and find each other and be vocal it's not hard to see why some arrive at conclusions that aren't supported by the data.
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Agree with everything else added to the comment, but this especially. It’s fairly unsurprising that the same people who thought they were above the mainstream, didn’t trust the government, didn’t trust the vaccine, etc etc are now inflating vaccine injury numbers, saying COVID was overblown, claiming the government lied to us, etc etc.
Even looking at these threads lately, the people most active in it are primarily the people described above, all agreeing with each other and sharing anecdotes made virtually impossible by factual information and the real statistics we know about COVID and the vaccines, and as good as it is for guys like opendoor to provide corrections (how he’s still going I have no idea) you can tell it really isn’t about facts for some people, it’s about maintaining the belief that they were right and the world (and the government specifically) did them wrong.
It’s just strange seeming them tell stories where you can tell exactly what’s made up about it. You see the general truth of the story (friend got ______ condition) and then you see their reasoning fall apart as they look to use their friends and family as tools to justify their beliefs, or seek to blame others for what has happened to them personally. Life isn’t so easy.