The problem is the mainstream news media. They have been working overtime to keep everybody afraid. Even the headlines are woefully vague and misleading. Today's, "Nearly all covid deaths in the US are now among the unvaccinated". The article isn't any clearer. Might as well say "Tetanus has tripled in the past year!" (3 to 9 cases). A while back my wife had the news on and I sat there for a while to see how much I could take. About 15 minutes in I stood up, threw my arms in the air like Homer Simpson and ran out of the room yelling, "Aaaah! We're all gonna die!!!" My kids loved it....

Thanks, blarman. I enjoyed the rational discussion and the sarcasm, especially "all communists hate gun ownership (and pop-tarts, too,) the godless swine". (about 11:00)

Fear of the unknown will work on most people and be very effective. Repeat something often enough and it becomes a reality.

I have a theory of why this craze caught fire. This generation and the one before it have never experienced a real epidemic. Our grandparents went through the Spanish flu and smallpox even. Certainly diphtheria was abounding. We've had multiple antibiotics for everything and suddenly 'what?' That's how the Dems pushed their program.