Cognitive Dissonance
the first step towards understanding the truth
I think that people are misinterpreting this NYT piece that is circulating. It sounds to me like the author (doctor) is struggling with cognitive dissonance, and that's why the essay is so muddy. She struggles with the knowledge that she was a scapegoater of 'the unvaccinated', and she understands that in general this is wrong, while still referring to people as 'the unvaccinated'. She struggles with her own lack of empathy, because she sees herself as a compassionate person who get swept up in what she thinks in fear, when in fact it was contempt.
The othering of people she mentions (us vs them) is more like 'us vs it'. It is in the dehumanization of individuals that you see them as having little human value, and this is the type of psychopathology which on a mass scale, leads to the perpetration of crimes against humanity. It is individuals who melt into the groupthink, such as this doctor, who under those circumstances are capable of things that they would never do in ordinary circumstances.
She's almost there. When the idea becomes less abstract and intellectualized, and when she is actually able to feel that she lost a part of her own humanity while seeing 'them' as 'its', she will become fully conscious and aware.
That is the beauty of the idea of the scapegoating mechanism, as explained by Rene Girard. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Truth, and the only kind of truth is the truth we understand in our own minds and souls, will stop the scapegoating of 'the unvaccinated', or any future group that she wonders if she will blame.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/opinion/the-next-pandemic-blame.html
Indeed! This is a cognitive dissonance festival. Dr. Sabine Hazan demonstrates that the bad Covid outcomes are generally in people with dysbiosis in their intestinal flora. In other words co-morbidities. Also the mRNA shots directly destroy bifidobacteria cultures in our gut, so they cause dysbiosis. Living here in NYC, our Mayor is running for Cognitive Dissonance Chairperson. At the time of the start of his term, it was already evident that the ronashots were doing more harm than good, nevertheless he had his vax-mandates. This means the city was carpet-bombing the immune systems (gut flora = microbiome = immune system) of the population. Then, once the mandates were over, he turned to promote the whole foods, plant-based diet, which would promote a healthy intestinal flora. The gist of it is that it remains unclear how fast the gut flora can recover post vaccination. In short, NYC is now the capital of destruction if health, by a mayor who would like to claim that this is his priority.