WE certainly are, but as the past several years have proven...there are a surprizing amount of people out there who are easily misled, and then are so intent on spreading misinformation themselves that they are willing to alienate themselves from their loved ones and greater society as a whole in their quest to spread "the truth."
It's become scary out there, and sadly...much of it seems manufactured.
By banning misinformation, will those same people gain awareness of their stupidity?
They will simply swap out their fake messiah for another fake messiah.
The important aspect is _why_ you believe what you believe, not _that_ you believe something that is labeled as "the correct thing to think". Believing something correct for the wrong reasons means you aren't believing in the right thing, you just happened upon it. Next time, you might be wrong.
I see the same kind of spread of misinformation by those arguing for the vaccine, for example.
The narrative of "you aren't vaccinated, you kill people" has led people to get the vaccine for the sake of others, and believing that the primary purpose of the vaccine is, against all logic, that a vaccine primarily protects
others and not
yourself.
Stats in Israel and the UK show quite well how the vaccine does not protect you from
getting and transmitting covid. It "merely" reduces strength of symptoms and leads to a speedier recovery. It makes sense. A vaccine isn't a force field around your body, making it impossible for the virus to exist within you. Your body just gets better at eradicating it.
A small thought experiment: which person is more dangerous to their communities:
a) The unvaccinated, lockdown-measure-following person that shies away from going out with their friends, doesn't attend parties, wears their mask even when not required, disinfects their hands regularly and avoid touching surfaces that people frequently touch, or
b) The vaccinated person that believes they are safe, for both themselves and others around them, partying every second weekend, meeting up with people regularly ("we are all vaccinated, no problem"), choosing not to wear the mask when not required, and not having second thoughts about touching public doorknobs?
(For clarity's sake, I'm well aware that anti vaxxers aren't the people described under a)
I'm pretty sure the answer isn't as one-sided as some vaccinated people that buy into the narrative will have you believe. The vaccinated will have a lower chance of transmitting it by virtue of their bodies being better at fighting it, but does that make up for the difference in behavior between a and b? Who knows. The point is that this is something a lot of those "GET VACCINATED OR YOU ARE A MURDERER" people have never considered. And when we put these people in charge, even if they happen to be correct in that the vaccine is safe and does help, their reasons for believing so are not founded in anything tangible, reasonable, scientific. They just subscribe to their fake god they call science. They have no idea of science, however.
That is the problem with all of it...
