{"id":28681,"date":"2020-12-08T13:55:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28681"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:58:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:58:02","slug":"the-covid-conformity-cult-is-coming-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-covid-conformity-cult-is-coming-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The COVID conformity cult is coming for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who doubt that we are in the grip of a pseudo-religious COVID cult, take a look at this video of the first people in the UK to receive the Pfizer vaccine. I\u2019ve no wish to make fun of them, they seem like a lovely couple: what I find interesting is, just like the newly water baptised, the newly Pfizer baptised are positively aglow with evangelical fervour in support of their new-found faith.<\/p>\n<p>[fvplayer id=&#8221;14&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Rather than being presented with a new Bible, they sport a \u201cI\u2019ve had my COVID Vaccination\u201d badge as they exhort others to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>To clarify one thing: I am not an anti-vaccination knuckle-dragger \u2013 my father worked at the NHS and, because of that, as a teenager I was one of the first to be vaccinated against a new outbreak of smallpox in 1962. My arm swelled up like a balloon and I was in bed for days. But I didn&#8217;t catch smallpox<\/p>\n<p>Remember: Science will win; in Pfizer we trust.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28684\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/In-science-we-trust.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/In-science-we-trust.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/In-science-we-trust-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/In-science-we-trust-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who doubt that we are in the grip of a pseudo-religious COVID cult, take a look at this video of the first people in the UK to receive the Pfizer vaccine. I\u2019ve no wish to make fun of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-covid-conformity-cult-is-coming-for-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2647],"tags":[2655],"class_list":["post-28681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19-2","tag-pfizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}