Evangelical atheist Sam Harris is no stranger to controversy, but his recent foray into a bizarre Covid dystopia has ignited a firestorm of ridicule on the digital realm, formerly known as Twitter. Harris, suffering from what many are calling a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), concocted an outlandish scenario that left netizens scratching their heads and rolling their eyes.
In this surreal narrative, Harris envisions a Covid-ridden world where the virus boasts a chilling 75% mortality rate and vaccines are touted as infallible shields.
“You make it a much more obviously effective vaccine that really does block transmission, so like a sterilizing vaccine,” he theorized, referring to Covid-19. “You make it a much more dangerous virus. You make it a virus that’s actually preferentially killing kids, rather than old people.”
Then he went full berserk: “So now we’re in an environment where you’re deciding not to get vaccinated is putting my kids at risk. Do you get to make that choice? You might say, ‘Oh yes, I should be able to make that choice about my body,’ but dial up the deadliness of the pathogen, give us something like airborne Ebola that incubates for a month, you don’t know you have it and you walk around spreading it, and it’s got a 75% mortality rate and it’s mostly killing kids, no one gets to make that choice anymore. Literally, the cops come in and vaccinate you.”
His intent? Justifying totalitarianism and perhaps proving that Joe Biden’s democratic contender, Robert Kennedy Jr., is utterly stupid. Harris’s ‘imaginative’ masterpiece paints a picture of a Western society where the virus morphs into a nightmarish menace capable of wiping out millions in an instant. It’s a realm where scientists and politicians assume the roles of unerring priests in the temple of secular totalitarianism.
Verified denizens of anti-Woke billionaire Elon Musk’s X platform didn’t hold back their disdain for Harris’s peculiar creation.
A verified user, Dave Smith, took a sarcastic dig at the fantasy, tweeting, “Imagine if everything was completely different, then things would be different. Imagine if covid had a 100% death rate and the vaccine was perfectly safe. RFK looks pretty stupid now.”
Independent and centrist podcaster Tim Pool joined the fray, chuckling at Harris’s flights of fancy. “You made up a fake scenario in your own mind and then criticize RFK Jr. for saying something in your own mind. Dude is losing it,” he quipped.
Adding to the chorus, verified user Toby Rogers coined the term ‘The Sam Harris Fallacy,’ which involves concocting an alternate reality with reversed facts to bolster one’s policy preferences. The verdict? A hilarious take on Harris’s penchant for weaving elaborate fantasies while arguing on a skewed foundation of false information.
But let’s not forget the root of the matter – Harris’s audacious ‘imagining’ isn’t merely a harmless thought experiment. It exposes his utter disregard for accuracy and, dare we say, an attempt to manipulate public perception. Despite Harris’s pretense, the truth remains steadfast: Covid boasts a much lower mortality rate than his imaginings suggest – studies indicate a range of 2% to 4%. It’s clear that Harris’s goal might be to mislead the masses rather than inform them accurately.
Equally perplexing is Harris’s willingness to dance around the fringes of reality to promote his point. He envisions a world where law enforcement officers burst into homes to enforce vaccinations and silence dissenting voices. This blend of fantasy and reality strikes a chord of dissonance that exposes Harris’s tactics for what they are – a distorted manipulation of facts to advance a skewed narrative.
The Daily Netizen 