Nirav Shah, M.D., J.D., principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The New York Times children 6 months and older should get the COVID-19 vaccine this fall, adding, “Do you want to see your grandpa … [and] grandma? Are you really sure you’re not going to give COVID to them?”
This anti-science vax ‘reasoning’ is based on what I call default tautologies or default linguistic tautologies or default language bundles. These tautologies are all but hard-wired assumptions about reality and language that are being obscenely misused in these vax ‘arguments.’ Default psycholinguistic bundles can also be entirely unique to persons. As such they comprise the stuff of the Buddhist ‘small self’ which we are counseled not to cling to. Clinging or attachment in Buddhism means clinging to these tautological bundles of self or of the culture around us or entities within that culture such as the NYT or CDC. Delusion in Buddhism means clinging to error, wrong views, wrong thoughts, wrong speech. One good thing about covid anti-science is it helped many people see how pervasive and pernicious delusion is, how it arises in the self as well as in culture. How it is used by powerful groups to trick people into wars, bad health decisions, etc. ABN
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