Healthy Brainwash: Vaccines save lives!

'Vaccines Save Lives!'

It was the second time I heard the phrase in about 3 minutes. It wasn't coming from anyone real, thank God, but from the television. Now, I don't normally watch TV, but I caught this at someone else's house – a commercial advertising vaccines.
I think it played for 3 or four times in the time I was there, which couldn't have been more than 90 minutes. That's about once, every thirty minutes. Sounds a bit much, doesn't it?
I thought so, too.

Image - Responsible parents, healthy children. Vaccines Save Lives.

I had heard about these commercials, but since I don't watch TV, I hadn't been exposed to them. The first time, it took me a bit unaware, but the second time around, I payed attention to what the woman in the commercial was saying.
It was the usual propaganda – that this or that disease can be prevented IF you vaccinate your child, that some vaccines are free for newborn children and you SHOULD get them. Well, actually no one said you should vaccinate your child, I believe the exact words were vaccinate your child now.

I wanted to attach a video of that commercial here, but it seems I couldn't find it. However, I did find another pro-vaccine commercial, also shown here, in Romania. It stars Victor Rebengiuc, one of the oldest, most well respected actors of our country and his speech sounds something like this:

All the wars in the last century took almost 200 million lives. That's nothing. The pox, convulsive poliomyelitis, tetanus and measles have taken 600 million lives.
But vaccines have DEFEATED all these deadly diseases. And increasingly more lives will be saved IF we vaccinate ourselves.
Vaccines save lives.

Here's the video, if you're curious:

You'll notice that the whole thing is set in an imposing university library, which shows intelligence, authority. You're much likely to dismiss a statement if it's made by someone on the street or in a coffee shop, then you are if it's made in a university, a big library like the one above.
As I said, the man himself carries some weight in popular culture, so naturally, his opinion is well-respected.
The ad also shows videos of various wars – death, tragedy – which are equated with not vaccinating your child. That's the message it sends to the subconscious of the viewer, that opposing vaccines is bad and evil, just as wars were.
After all, you're not going to argue against that, are you?

I'm not writing this post to explain how vaccines are bad. Well, there are oh so many vaccine-related diseases and deaths, of course, but I'm not here to talk about that. Something that particularly bothers me about these commercials is that they are used to brainwash the masses.
And I mean everyone – old people, adults, even little children. Because everyone is exposed to the TV.

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And if I heard that vaccines save lives 3 times in 90 minutes, how many times do people who actually watch TV hear it? I mean, if you spend three hours in front of the television every night, that means 6 of these commercials a night, so they hear this commercial roughly 40 times a week.
Now, I wonder...how many listenings does it take for the idea to become ingrained in your brain? I bet it's not all that many. Because that's how brainwashing works – you're told something and it doesn't matter if you agree or not, you may very well disagree in the beginning. Then you hear the idea a second time, and a third and a fifth and so on. By the tenth time hearing the same thing – vaccines save lives – you won't be as opposed to the idea, because your brain will have gotten used to it.

Ideas grow on you.

And that's something that bothers me. There is the on-going debate (throughout the world, not just here, of course) of pro-vaxxers and anti-vaxxers. Now, that's acceptable, because everyone is entitled to an opinion, even if I consider your opinion to be wrong, I still think you're entitled to have it.
But with this commercial, it's different. Because it doesn't matter if you even care about the debate. Let's face it, there are loads of ignorant people out there, many who are ignoring this whole debate altogether. But they are probably watching television. So, the words vaccines save lives are slowly making their way into these people's brains.

Age of misinformation

Lying is what the mainstream does, we all know that. I was just watching another commercial, from the same campaign, in which a Romanian blogger spoke about why she vaccinated her babies.

I vaccinated them because I'm afraid of diseases. [...] There are vaccinated children who are healthy and there are unvaccinated children who are healthy. The problem is when there is an outbreak of one of the diseases for which we have a vaccine.

This is what she said. Now, if you look at that, you see it's so little information, so little knowledge of things in her head. Diseases – dangerous. Outbreak – dangerous. And these days, there's an outbreak for pretty much everything. There's always one of them happening, isn't there?
And they're all over the news – outbreak of measles or swine flu in X town. And there are so many deaths attributed to these outbreaks. You only have to watch the evening news a couple of times to get the reasoning of this woman.
But I don't think it should be that way. I think you should do a bit more research, as a parent, before putting strange chemicals into your child, even if there's the slightest possibility those chemicals are unsafe.
Do you really want to risk that?

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And these commercials – the Vaccines Save Lives initiative – come on as if they were somehow part of the debate about vaccines, but they're not. Because a debate requires rational arguments, facts. Simply saying vaccines are good doesn't work. Just like saying vaccines are bad doesn't work.
It's not part of the debate because the whole point of these ads is to eliminate the debate. After all, there's no need for it. We all know that vaccines save lives, because the lady on the TV told us they do. It's the same voice that does other commercials, that says that X cough medicine cures coughs and Z pills stop diarrhea. Why would the voice lie to us?

I know, it sounds absurd. I wouldn't fall for that. But you would...and it's not the average TV viewer's fault, it's the way the brain works. If you push an idea hard enough and far enough, you can convince anyone.

It's how manipulation works. It's how indoctrination works.

And then, I thought that this is so unfair, because they shouldn't manipulate us. But since when have the state and the state-controlled MSM acted in our best interest? When did the MSM tell the truth?

So no, it's what you can expect from the mainstream. Which makes it our duty to seek out information, to fill our heads. To educate ourselves. It's our only hope.