It has been a long 2 years for most of us, in various ways, but mostly for the same cause. If you are like me, you have a broad education in both the sciences and humanities. And you have been watching a tyrannical take over of the world in slow motion. Not really in slow motion, of course, but it feels that way, as you offer warning after warning to people; they either ignore you, or you get belittled and called anything from a misogynist to an anti-vaxxer, to anti-science, to the catch-alls that are conspiracy theorists and far-right racists.

Yes, folks there is a strange far-right contagion that has claimed the likes of Bernie Sanders supporting Joe Rogan, hippie-leftie Russell Brand, classical liberal Bill Maher ... and little ole, poetic beatnik me. Don't get me started on what has happened to electric car building and formerly Democratic voting Elon Musk. Symptoms of the contagion include critical thinking and making up your own mind about what medications you will take; discovering foul forces are on the move and trying to do something about it.

One clever internet denizen said it feels like trying to save someone from a burning building while they repeatedly punch you in the face.

I'm a feminist, the kind that is fun at cocktail parties and gets along just find with men; I abhor racism, always have, traditionally vote left, and have spent decades both in and out of school studying science.

I am full of vaccines, the old school ones ... you know that actually prevent illness and transmission ... ones that offer favorable relative risk ratios ... if you don't know what that means, you probably should have done some research before bragging about 'following The Science'.

But no amount of personal research/ class time mattered because I am not an expert; in other words the letters PhD or MD do not appear after my name.

So I offered some PhD/MD opinions, because I'm not actually a conspiracy theorist or anti-science and went to scientists to supplement my learning; but I was told those experts aren't really experts but conspiracy theorists and far-right racists. The had caught the catch-all contagion. We know this because the expert/intern fact-checkers at Reuters and Associated Press told us so.

How did the fact-checkers check facts ... they called up the agencies/individuals accused of lying and asked them if they were lying. They said no. And of course, these people are EXPERTS; and so of course, we should take their word for it.

It's called following The Science.

Then the fact-checkers cash their cheques generously supplied by pharma-linked board members. It's just like controlling for confounders and bias.

Now, don't you dare try to fact-check the fact checkers. That is like wearing a mask you found on the street after a freedom rally ... wait, what masks ... you will definitely catch the far-right contagion that way.

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