https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/08/ms-trans-amelia-hansford-op-ed/
"A few months ago, whilst queuing at the bank, I overheard an elderly woman
complain to a clerk that the COVID-19 vaccine had caused her hair to fall out.
I live in a relatively conservative, rural town, so overhearing conspiracy
theories isn’t unheard of. This particular woman’s tirade on how vaccinations
are the devil’s work, however, has since stuck with me, largely because, after
loudly expressing her less-than-evidential theory, she turned to the line of
disgruntled and bored adults seeking approval for her clearly false
proclamation.
Her hope that a queue of people who would love to be literally anywhere else at
that moment would suddenly jump to her rescue, punctuated through her strained
smile and wide, unblinking eyes, didn’t pay off.
She was met with silence and awkward glances as she made one last-ditch effort
to convince her unwilling audience that vaccines are poison that yellows your
teeth and alters your DNA, before shuffling out of the bank in bitter defeat.
Thankfully, we live in a reasonable society where the spurious opinions of a
misinformed conspiracy theorist are disregarded as the quackery they are –
except we don’t, because similar conspiracy theorists have just caused an
international retailer to grovel on its hands and knees for forgiveness."
Via Janet Logan.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
