The Covidiots and Twins

 During my past few years, I have encountered - sometimes on the internet and sometimes in real life - people who don't believe in COVID vaccines. These are called the "covidiots". They think the whole virus and the wave of panic regarding the millions of deaths resulting from the pandemic are a hoax, some political "conspiracy" created by the powers at me. It baffles me that some people actually purport to believe this. I say purport, because I think a lot of times, with crazy believes, people are just bullshit artists, experts at lying to themselves or others. Because no sane or rational person could think that what they saw on the news and through talking to people was all a hoax. In any case, they fail to understand or are ignorant of, the science behind vaccines. Releasing a small amount of a virus into the body so that your immune system can produce the necessary tools (it could be "antibodies", I need to research this ) in order to successfully build up immunity, is a logical and intuitive concept if one simply opens their mind.

Ignoring science is the same reason I don't like people who are overly into politics. Trump (and in general, conservatives) base their campaigns and views on some sort of "moral" human superiority whereas the left tends to ground their leadership campaigns in terms of the science of governing people (looking at a myriad of issues including economics, statistics, biology, and global patterns to name a few). Perhaps in the end the right values money over everything else. In any case, I don't really want to think about this.

I mention "twins" in the title because I wanted to reflect a little bit about this. I have heard people say, "I was born alone, I will die alone". This can be true, but in the case of twins - I believe it is not. The special connection between twins is probably more than a folk tale. Twins are together since conception, and build up together in the womb. So, I believe, they are more social.

When twins are separated, I think they experience more angst than solitary birth individuals do. Parents raising twins need to understand that the twins need to be together, perhaps for life, perhaps until they naturally separate into their own lives with their own partners. In any case, as my theory goes, twins are hyper-social people.