When the coronavirus pandemic first strick the world, some commented that at least it would make antivaxxers shut up, because the scary world of lockdowns, restrictions and ever-climbing death toll was a demo version of a world without vaccines. Unfortunately, the prediction was too optimistic. Good vaccines were developed and tested in record time, but antivaxxers launched a massive attack against them. Conspiracy theorists concocted narratives that vaccines were meant to track their recipients, some minorities imagined that the immunization campaign was a plot to make them sterile, and right-wingers, instead of celebrating the vaccines as the achievement of Western civilization they are, embraced the "freedom" to stay unvaccinated, and turned it into a cause celebre.
As in previous cases of mass psychosis sweeping societies, the current one is most blatantly manifested in some individuals with underlying mental illness. Below, I am copying from an Oct. 6 Baltimore Sun report:
"Maryland man allegedly fatally shot his pharmacist brother for ‘killing people’ with the COVID vaccine, court records show
Jessica Anderson
A Cumberland man allegedly killed his brother and sister-in-law in their Ellicott City home last week because his brother, a pharmacist, administered COVID-19 vaccines, according to charging documents filed Wednesday in a Howard County court.
Jeffrey Burnham told his mother he had to confront his older brother, Brian Robinette, because he was poisoning people by administering the COVID-19 vaccine, telling his mother, “Brian knows something,” according to the new charging documents filed against Burnham.
Burnham is being held without bond in Allegany County, where he is charged with stabbing Rebecca Reynolds, 83, to death inside her Cumberland home on Sept. 29. Police said he took her car and fled to Ellicott City, where a day later he killed Robinette, 58, and his wife Kelly Sue Robinette, 57. He faces first and second-degree murder charges in the couples’ deaths...
According to the charging documents filed against Burnham related to the Howard County murders, Burnham told another unnamed person that his brother was “killing people with the COVID shot.”
Burnham’s mother Evelyn Burnham previously expressed concerns about her younger son’s mental health...
Evelyn Burnham called police again Sept. 30, concerned about her son’s talk of “Becky’s car,” referring to Reynolds, a friend of hers since childhood. Police have said Burnham stole Reynolds’ Lincoln and drove to Ellicott City.
Reynolds was found dead inside her home with a deep laceration across her throat and a pillow over her face...The Robinettes were found fatally shot in an upstairs bedroom in their home on Kerger Road..."
