Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

The same people who told you Brexit would never happen, Trump would never win, that when he did win it was because of Russian collusion, then because of racism, that you must follow lockdowns while they don’t, that masks don’t work and then that they do work, that protests…

…during lockdowns are a “health intervention”, that ransacking black communities in the name of fighting racism are “mostly peaceful”, that Jussie Smollett was a victim of a hate crime, that men are toxic, that there is an infinite number of genders, that COVID didn’t come…

…from a lab and then that it probably did, that closing borders is racist and then that it’s the most important thing to do, that the Hunter Biden story is Russian disinformation and then that it’s not, that they would not take Trump’s vaccine and then that you must take the…

…vaccine, that Governor Cuomo is a great COVID leader and then that he is a granny killer, that the number of COVID deaths is one thing and then another, that hospitals are filled with COVID patients and then that many of them caught COVID in hospital…

These same people are now telling you the vaccine is safe, you must take it and if you don’t you will be a second class citizen. Understand vaccine hesitancy now?

Plenty of people (right here on Twitter) who have nothing to do with mainstream institutions are also saying people should get the vaccine. Myself included.

I wrote this thread with you in mind. Your recent pro-vaccine commentary lacks any acknowledgement of the things I have detailed here and the compassion necessary for people to hear you. This is unfortunate as you could turn a lot of people around with a different approach.

Most of the issues in your thread have no bearing whatsoever on the efficacy and safety of a particular drug. I can't make people trust institutions. All I am saying is that people should look at the data.