{"id":28919,"date":"2021-04-11T17:54:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T21:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28919"},"modified":"2021-04-11T20:29:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T00:29:50","slug":"the-rise-of-the-vaccine-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-rise-of-the-vaccine-selfie\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the vaccine selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before all this started, I used to travel a lot and enjoyed photographing the places I visited. I was both amused and irritated (yes, I can be both simultaneously) at travellers who suffered from the compulsion of inserting themselves between their camera and what was often a spectacular view. No matter how good looking or vain the person, the effect was always to diminish not enhance the scene. I believe this is known as a selfie<\/em>, the contemporary tribute to shameless narcissism.<\/p>\n

As I like to remind my grandchildren, things are not getting better, they are getting worse: to confirm it, we now have the vaccine selfie<\/a><\/em>. People are photographing themselves being injected with a COVID-19 vaccine. The preferred pose is to have the needle buried in a bare arm while the candidate smiles knowingly at the camera. What is this all about? Is it the next step in advanced virtue signalling? Is it a primitive superstition, an appeasement to pagan pandemic gods to convince them to pass over the vaccinated when the next variant sweeps the country? A type of masonic rite like rolling up your left trouser leg to welcome the initiate into the ranks of the immune?<\/p>\n

I have no idea, but here is a good example: a vaguely familiar grossly overweight fellow who cares so much about his health that he is being Pfizered so he can go unimpeded into McDonalds for another cheeseburger.<\/p>\n

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For those who think I have lost all sense of proportion, take a look at this: CNN is complaining that their competitors have failed to display their vaccine selfies.<\/p>\n

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