I guess it’s time for you to hate me again
Let's begin, now hand me the pen
How should I begin it and where does it all end?
The world is just my medicine ball, you're all in
-Eminem, Medicine Ball
Back in early 2021, just as the vaccine rollout commenced, I noticed a few people I followed on social media were airing vaccine scepticism and sometimes straight up anti-vaxx falsehoods. At first, I thought maybe one or two people I knew might need to screw their heads on. I thought they were being post-ironic and making themselves look foolish for humorous effect, but after a few days on Facebook I realised these people were just idiots who either hadn’t rsearched the scientific info on vaccines or had, but just couldn’t understand it.
I thought maybe if they read up they’d come to their senses. I quickly realised these people weren’t ever going to change. They were lost causes, who couldn’t bear the idea that they were wrong.
I started to keep a list on Omininotes. I also started to cut off a lot of friends. Before long, I started to get a little hooked on keeping tabs on people: anti-vaxxers, Tories, Trumpster Republicans, Zionists, etc. etc.
Omninotes allows you to search words to see if you’ve written them anywhere, and they’ll show up in whichever note you’ve written. You can quickly tell if you’ve ever recorded anyone as being a Trump fan, for example. Back in June, a certain MMA fighter found himself in hospital for what at first seemed an undefined condition. Nobody seemed to be saying on X. The fighter’s name rang a bell. I did an Omninotes search. It turned out he was one of a few MMA athletes who’d been sharing anti-vaxx content over Instagram in early 2021. I reminded X of this.
Within seconds, my X notifications blew up. I was branded a limey piece of shit, a scumbag, and ‘the world’s biggest bitch.’ I’ve heard worse, to be fair. It turned out the guy had Staphylococcus aureus, a skin bacteria – not normally that troublesome but in some cases can be damaging. It also turned out he was in ICU.
I deleted the tweet and put my X to private, but by this time I was being bombarded with death threats and insults. I reported hundreds of people. Quite a few of their accounts were removed. They were spamming my Youtube account and my blog with shit comments about *checks notes* vaccinated dolphins.
It wasn’t a pleasant experience, but you try working in healthcare during a pandemic, dealing with hundreds of people screaming at you because you can’t put them through to their allocated professional because the professional’s caseload has more than quadrupled due to 14 years of Tory staff cuts. You try listening to people cry down the phone asking you ‘what do you expect me to do?’ The only answer you can give them is, ‘I am a Business Support Officer. I’m not allowed to advise you in any way. I can’t put you through to anyone. I take messages.’ Of course, they’ve been leaving messages every day for a week, and nobody got back to them.
That’s because before the Tory takeover in 2010, the professional’s caseload would have had perhaps 10 people on it. During the pandemic, they had maybe 100 duty cases on top of that. During that period, a lot of the clients I had were aged around 50-75. They were getting into that vulnerable age group.
They died in their droves. Every day, a son or daughter called reporting their parent’s death. We had to apologise, and again, send the message across.
Eventually, in early 2021, the COVID vaccine was released, and steadily, those cases and deaths and subsequent phone calls started to decline. In its place, however, was a new breed of idiot: someone who believes they have more understanding than the experts who operate in the field of virology: the anti-vaxxer. These range from health shop managers, MMA fighters (as mentioned), incapacity benefit claimants, Olympians, reality TV stars, rappers, porn stars, actors, strippers, house music producers, pop singers, authors, newscasters, televangelists, comedians, tennis players, politicians, DJs, CBD CEOs and protein brand managers.
Understand this: they were all wrong. Every one of them. And every dumb post that they uploaded strengthened a totally spurious narrative that there was something wrong with the idea of taking a vaccine.
Anyway, the science has been properly explained form the start. I’m not going to reiterate it. That one MMA tweet, though, absolutely ballooned my blog hits. My X account has a link to this blog. People were finding my site and royally abusing me over it, even giving me thinly veiled death threats. I deleted all the comments, but the page views are forever. There was a huge spike, from that moment, that lasted up until October.
It’s time to bring that spike back with some exposé tweeting. I’m not going to name random members of the public (of which I’ve recorded hundreds), but I will name anyone who’s in the public eye – whoever’s taken the decision to expose themselves on TV, like reality TV stars or suchlike. They’re getting outed on X.
I’ve got 1.7 million hits on the blog so far, and 488 thousand of those came in the last year. I’ve been running the blog since 2008. I’m going to stay active this month so that I have things to blog about, but for now, let’s bombard this awful X platform…
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