The increasingly desperate ploys are all in play, and if you’re not paying attention you might just fall for them
Kit Knightly – Off Guardian March 4, 2021
he vaccine rollout is in full flow now, the daily tickers have had “people vaccinated” added to their red counters, and the improbably large number grows more improbably large every day.
The sale of the century is very much on. The powers that be want every single person to be vaccinated, and they’re pulling out all the stops to make sure it happens.
Here are the five main ways the establishment is trying to manufacture your consent.
1. Bribery
It’s being reported that everyone getting vaccinated is the only way to get “back to normal”.
Don’t you want to go to the pub again? Or the gym? Or see granny? Or hug people?
Well, just take the shot. Take the shot and all this lockdown and social distancing economic collapse and mounting poverty, it will all just go away.
It’s a common refrain, one which rather clashes with “new normal” we’ve been hearing about for a over year.
In fact, it looks like “back to normal” may come with a qualifying asterisk. For example embattled New York governor Andrew Cuomo has said vaccines will help the state “get back to normal*”…
…where “normal” involves an “Excelsior Pass”.
You don’t need me to explain the complexities of this technique. It’s simple coercion. “Do as we say, and you’ll get a treat.”
Important to remember: “Getting back to normal” is a lie. As much as people repeat the mantra in soundbites and social media posts, the “experts” are clearer – many have said we will NEVER be going back to normal, and others have said we need to maintain anti-Covid measures until at least 2022. The “vaccine” itself does not even claim to limit transmission, even those vaccinated are still being ordered to follow the restrictions.
2. Celebrity Endorsements
One of the oldest and most widely used marketing gimmicks. Partly because it works, but mostly because it’s cheap and easy: Simply find a bunch of tools and put them to work.
The NHS was not shy about this approach, claiming they were planning to enlist “sensible celebrities” who are “known and loved” to combat anti-vax sentiment.
For example, Patrick Stewart:
How do we say thank you to the health workers and scientists for their sacrifice and service? Receive the vaccine as soon as one can to lessen their load and keep wearing a mask to protect fellow citizens. In my 80th year, I am grateful and hopeful for better days ahead. pic.twitter.com/emGDlnYL2E
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) January 22, 2021
Or Elton John and Michael Caine:
Or even Her Majesty:
‘It was very quick. It didn’t hurt at all.’
The Queen shares her experience of getting the #COVIDVaccine with England’s NHS Vaccine Deployment Lead Dr @Emily_JR_Lawson, and encourages those who might be hesitant to get theirs when invited. ? @RoyalFamily pic.twitter.com/MsR7uqSmK2
— NHS England and NHS Improvement (@NHSEngland) February 25, 2021
Important to remember: Celebrities – especially actors and TV personalities – are simply paid to repeat lines. Even if their intentions are correct, there’s no reason to assume any of them have any understanding of what they’re talking about. And none of these people has anything to lose should you or a loved one suffer any harm from taking an untested vaccine.
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3. Forced “scarcity”
For weeks now we’ve been seeing headlines about “dwindling stock” of vaccines. How people in Europe are desperate for doses or some states are being prioritised over others. It goes on and on and on.
Everyone who has ever been inside a store knows this trick. “While stocks last”, “limited time offer”, or a thousand other variants designed to create the idea that if you don’t acquire product X right now, you will miss your chance.
A corollary of this is fake exclusivity, the way credit card companies tell absolutely everyone they call that they “qualified for our exclusive introductory rate”.
By creating the idea that the vaccine is hard to come by, they also create the idea that anyone who gets their hands on a dose is fortunate, or somehow a de facto member of some special club.
Important to remember: It’s all total nonsense. They are not in any danger of “running out” of vaccines. And even if they are, scarcity is a marketing ploy, not an argument.
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4. Fake “popularity”
You can’t underestimate the idea of peer pressure when it comes to marketing, one of the oldest tricks in the book is culturing popularity through the idea that popularity already exists. It’s why people buy likes and views on youtube and concerts have seat fillers.
And it’s why Matt Hancock was reported to have said this:
Incredible take up: Matt Hancock says 94% of Britons have taken a coronavirus vaccine or will do so when offered.
— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) March 1, 2021
Is this true? No source is cited, so it’s hard to say. It could be entirely made up, a lot of statistics are. Even if the figure is technically real, it’s likely just from some opinion poll. And, as Yes Minister has taught us, polls are totally meaningless.
To quote (ironically enough) Peter Hitchens:
Opinion polls are a device for influencing public opinion, not a device for measuring it.”
The UK is reporting that 1/3rd of the population has already had at least one dose of vaccine, a number which seems very high (it equates to roughly 250,000 vaccinations per day since the first shot was given on December 8th), this follows early reports that vaccine uptake was “better than expected”.
Even if that’s the case – and the past year has proven there’s never any reason to trust government figures – Hancock’s “94%” seems very unlikely to have any bearing on reality, given the number of reports of low uptake – especially in poorer regions, amongst ethnic minorities, and NHS workers.
Important to remember: An opinion poll is no measure of reality, popularity is no measure of quality, and it is in the establishment’s interest to make all dissenters feel they are in a tiny minority.
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5. “Resistance is useless”
This is an interesting one. There’s been a lot of talk about Vaccine Passports recently, and perhaps they will become a thing, but the vast majority of the public discourse is spreading the idea they are “inevitable”.
Now, the idea of inevitability is a powerful tool. You can encourage it as a way of preparing the ground for a policy role out, sure, but you can also use it to engender feelings of defeat in your opposition and thus gain their consent without force.
You can see this defeatist language taking hold in some hitherto staunch Covid sceptics.
Peter Hitchens recently announced he was being vaccinated, claiming he was defeated and vaccine passports were inevitable:
I get the strong sense that any sort of travel, and plenty of other things, will be impossible if I don’t have the necessary vaccine certificate.
Just today, Lord Sumption essentially caved on the same exact issue in the very similar language:
Lord Sumption Capitulating to Vaccine Passports. pic.twitter.com/oL4jkjYNFy
— WE GOT A PROBLEM (@problem_we) March 4, 2021
Desmond Swayne MP, another longtime Lockdown sceptic, also capitulated today:
I’ve just had my jab: make sure you can get yours, so that we can all get back to normal life pic.twitter.com/m0ChCRpkTX
— Desmond Swayne (@DesmondSwayne) March 4, 2021
“Get vaccinated now, because you’ll probably have to eventually” is the message, and it’s not hard to see the utility of it.
From a purely logistical point of view, making people think there are going to be vaccine passports is much, much easier (and cheaper) than actually introducing them.
As a follower said to us on twitter:
I believe it is the next level of the psyop- make people believe they are the minority when in fact the opposite is likely true but because the mind is beaten and manipulated more just ‘tag’ along for the ride
— S.G Truth (@patriotic1966) March 4, 2021
Will they eventually issue Vaccine Passports? Maybe.
Maybe all these tricks will fail and they’ll be forced to use less carrot and more stick. But it seems equally possible that – for now at least – they’re being dangled over people to encourage defeatism in those of us who are resisting, and thereby increase vaccine up take.
Important to remember: vaccine passports will only ever become “inevitable” once the vast majority of people have had the vaccine. If enough people refuse to take part, the program will never work.
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So, there’s the breakdown of all the broad marketing categories being used to sell this vaccine. But what’s the final takeaway?
Honestly, not an un-positive one I would say. Because what all these strategies have in common is the increasingly hysterical air of desperation.
If vaccine take-up was really at 94%, there’d be no need to sell the vaccine so much. If they were really running out of vaccines, the papers wouldn’t be advertising it, they’d be telling people not to panic.
They’ve publicly turned several notable anti-lockdown voices for this campaign, these are key cards they have played all at once. That’s a desperate move.
In short, there’s good reason to think the resistance to the “new normal” is a lot more widespread than the establishment ever expected it to be.
You don’t put the Queen on a zoom call when you’re winning the argument.
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Yesterday RT ran a story about the dismal vaccine uptake amongst French doctors and nurses. As a result, the French regime are considering making vaccination a legal requirement for medical workers. Good luck with that,
Here in the UK, medical workers are not on any vaccination priority list. I wonder why that is? lol
When Matt HanDcock says 99% uptake, he’s referring to the number of sheeple who turn up at vaccination centers and actually have the needle. That 1% is probably error, allergies & pregnancy.
I’ve had 6 requests to get the vaccine & I’ve ignored every single one of them.
Before they rolled out the vaccine they censored media comments about who wouldn’t take it and why. That’s why some people keep saying 99% of the sheeple want the vaccine but some of us have always thought it far fewer. People just aren’t that dumb in such huge numbers. They think for themselves and all censorship does is limit information, it doesn’t change a critical mind and it often reinforces the doubt.
Shameless liars don’t own up they lie harder but there’s a natural fault in censorship they can’t overcome: truth would prove they’re not lying while more lies prove that they are.
Well…. what can we do???
Nothing!!!
Let them take it. ALL I ask is that they leave me alone. I was taught about innoculations at school in the 1970s. This lot including the doctors appear to confuse innoculations with antibiotics. There’s a gulf between the two.
Elton John? OK, I get that, but Michael Caine? Oh, not Michael Caine!! The former icons are dropping like flies. At a point in time where we have more information at our fingertips than ever in history before, people still believe the bullshit. My own brother got his first jab last week. When he asked me about getting this crap, I told him they can get stuffed. He said “Well, good luck with that”.
It’s the sheer ignorant arrogance of the uninformed which gets me. Even if you quietly explain the facts, which you can back up, they’ll look at you with a blank expression. As Shakespeare said “Hell is empty. All the devils are here.”
I refused vaccines at junior school for two reasons–the daftest lads were the ones who were showing off the mark of their pre-vaccine and all the animals in the world for millions of years never saw a doctor or vaccine.
Mark Borah,
“Well…. what can we do???
Nothing!!!
Let them take it. ALL I ask is that they leave me alone.”
Yes, well….
You see, this is how they’ll play it:
Those who are unemployed will be told that they have to take the vaccine as it will now become compulsory, in order to receive universal credit/Job Seeker’s allowance. If they refuse? They don’t get their benefits, including housing.
So that’s the unemployed taken care of.
And what of the employed?
Well, they won’t be able to work, use public transport, go into shops and walk the streets unless they have a vaccine passport.
And what happens if they refuse? Well, none of the above becomes possible. And you end up unemployed, having to accept mandatory vaccinations or no benefits.
They’re forcing EVERYONE into the corner.
Will people resist?
Think about those morons who believe there is a deadly virus? Think about those morons who believed the government/doctors when they were told a loved one died of covid? Think about how they’re going to feel about people like you and me who refuse to have a vaccine passport and take the vaccine?
My brother in law’s taken it, along with his family, my mother, her friends…the list goes on. I went to pick up some stuff with him at a shop. I refused to go in as they had a mandatory mask wearing rule. I haven’t and won’t wear a mask. When he got in he laughed with the assistant. She just said “he should just wear a mask for crying out loud. I can’t see why he doesn’t. It’s just a mask.”
This is the mentality of people.
They’re not going to leave you alone Mark. They’re going to keep forcing everyone into the corner until they’ve all taken the vaccine, because they want them all dead. They know that the more people who don’t take the vaccine, the more problems they have in the future from them. By taking the vaccine, it ensures murdering a hell of a lot of people and those who remain, will have illnesses along with being sterile.
Sorry for pissing on your cornflakes, but that’s just me. I just tell it as it is. Unless you have your own house, in the middle of nowhere, can hide and stay off the grid, they may leave you alone, but if you live in a city, village, town, they’ll keep coming after you until you take it. They’ll no doubt switch off your electric, gas, water etc to continue forcing you too.
All I’m going to say is it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse.
I have a simple response to the question about the vaccine ?
I’m not vaccinated & don’t want ? But I “Identify” as being vaccinated ?
There is a 6th one today From Not so Whitty and Valance. Apparently their will be more deaths from |Flu this coming winter and it will be ”Those that have NOT been vaccinated”………………But then they add or ”Those that the vaccine DOESN’T WORK on………Talk about muddying the waters and diverting the blame
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https://www.foxnews.com/health/alabamas-covid-19-vaccination-efforts-ranked-last-us-cdc
In Tallapoosa and Marion counties, where teachers were offered an early chance at extra vaccine supply, only about 50% of school employees took up the offer, State Superintendent Eric Mackey said, according to AL.com.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/02/large-numbers-of-health-care-and-frontline-workers-are-refusing-covid-19-vaccine/
Large Numbers Of Health Care And Frontline Workers Are Refusing Covid-19 Vaccine
Despite the Covid-19 death count in the United States rapidly accelerating, a startlingly high percentage of health care professionals and frontline workers throughout the country—who have been prioritized as early receipts of the coronavirus vaccine—are reportedly hesitant or outright refusing to take it, despite clear scientific evidence that the vaccines are safe and effective.
Earlier this week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he was “troubled” by the relatively low numbers of nursing home workers who have elected to take the vaccine, with DeWine stating that approximately 60% of nursing home staff declined the shot.
Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of critical care at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, told NPR in December more than half of the nurses in his unit informed him they would not get the vaccine.
Roughly 55 percent of surveyed New York Fire Department firefighters said they would not get the coronavirus vaccine, the Firefighters Association president said last month.
The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that hospital and public officials in Riverside, Calif., have been forced to figure out how best to allocate unused doses after an estimated 50% of frontline workers in the county refused the vaccine.
Fewer than half of the hospital workers at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, Calif., were willing to be vaccinated, and around 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers have reportedly declined an opportunity to take the vaccine.
Dr. Nikhila Juvvadi, the chief clinical officer at Chicago’s Loretto Hospital, said that a survey was administered in December, and 40% of the hospital staff said they would not get vaccinated.
I have always found it a little difficult to comprehend how people such as Hitchens , Sumption or someone like Swayne could in any way possible be against the ruling elite . They are nothing more than controlled opposition, some allowed to reveal more than others but always capitulating as is their brief. Confusing, misleading and giving false hope to many. I hope the masses will see the transparency in these people but unfortunately i don’t think they will . Far to much indoctrination in the population .
God how do we know what is real, we can no longer tell d truth from a lie or fake, God help us