Those weirdos on the street aren't your actual government institutions.

This is 1984 territory, without hyperbole. They are rewriting what you see so that you will always have been at war with Eurasia.

This is the real stuff this admin is doing. Using the public health apparatus to discredit and dismantle one of the most successful medical projects in human history is real stuff.

> Do you feel the need to respond to those weirdos in the street yelling about how god hates fags and the end of days or whatever?

There's a huge difference between the seriousness of "the official disease control of the US government" saying some nonsense and "random citizens yelling in the street" doing so.

> Is anything gained by acknowledging them at all?

Is there anything gained by ignoring them?

I'm sure it won't seem very performative to the kids who aren't vaccinated and get sick, or autistic folks who don't appreciate the correlation.

> plenty of real stuff this admin is doing to respond to

I'm sure we can respond to at least 2 things.

Because it normalises dangerous bullshit and that should be a line in the sand for any responsible human. You can’t dismiss it because it’s part of a much wider pattern that is fuelling the justification of other dangerous bullshit we used to suppress in the pursuit of harmony.