'Imagine that there is a vaccine that is so safe that you are forced to take it, for a disease that is so deadly that you first have to get tested to know if you are infected with it.'
It's been going around for a while but Oops! Wout Weghorst has to go through the dust after an Insta post.
https://www.vi.nl/nieuws/weghorst-door-het-stof-na-kritische-corona-posts-op-instagram
- You are often forced to do super safe things (helmets, health and safety, etc.).
- You are also often tested or checked for fatal conditions. Especially on deadly diseases, which must be detected pre-eminently early.
What is the problem here? That's the form.
"Forced vaccination" is a topic that deserves and receives attention. Forced vaccination is coming, for example if you want to go abroad, or to a theater. Just like now the schools are closed to make it impossible for young parents to work. That is "force", something different from "oblige". Mandatory vaccinations have so far been held off by almost everyone, with the exception of a few rabid idiots.
What makes that aphorism so strong is that it is an adequate description of what is happening at this moment. It is only formulated here in a more witty way by presenting it in contradictions. It seems strange to be forced into something that is safe and it seems just as strange that you die from a disease you don't even know you have. That is a playful approach to language so that different perspectives appear at the same time.
The figure of speech also has its own history by which we recognize satire.
The form of this meme is the left half of a two-part conditional construction like "If you..." + situation description + "then you should..", "Imagine that..." + situation description ""... then would...". In English: "When I ... then" etc.
So there should be a second paragraph behind it: "... then would...". That paragraph is now omitted. It is a figure of speech that is popular on social media, with the second part often being filled in by an image. But now there is no image either.
The nice thing about the complete absence of the second part is that as a reader you are more or less forced to finish the "if – then" construction. Then you 'revise' the first part, get it in your mind's eye and recognize something: in this case you discover that the situation presented as hypothetical is actually just a description of reality, but you didn't realize it because of the form.
The moment of that discovery is where humor arises. Or rather: where you can see humor, provided you have the right frame of mind. If you live in agony, then you have usually lost your laughter, then there is no room for other perspectives than your own escape route.
The fear campaigns have worked well
A public figure cannot afford to explain such a thing. People have been made too afraid of that by the government. If you laugh at someone's fear of death, it is not appreciated, you see that with religions too. That goes too deep. It's just better not to do that, whether those people are retarded or not. Those people only have their feelings as a compass. And their convictions, just like virologists.
Irrational behavior is characterized by an enormous R-value and an increased IFR.
