Not at all, I was a longtime victim of it.
I used to be heavily Liberal, believed everything the HuffPo said, believed every bit of nonsense the Left would generate about GW Bush. Bought every book by every Left leaning pundit, the whole nonsense.
I thought that guy was the Devil incarnate. Posted in Left Wing forums, and boy did we let him have it. Crazy, crazy stuff.
And then Obama got elected. And GW was nothing but class about it. Welcomed him into the White House, took care of him and made sure he was ready to go day one. And I started LISTENING to him, how compassionate he was and how funny he could be.
I was wrong, full stop. I didn’t agree with a LOT of what he did, but that didn’t make him a bad person. I was the bad person.
I stopped going to those sites, I stopped listening to far Left pundits and I came here, 13 years ago, to challenge myself to listen to the other side, to consider other points of view, and to try and do so respectfully. I am a better person for it, I think, and I have made friends here that are longer lasting and more significant on both sides of the aisle than I ever made previously.
For the past 18 months I have tried my hardest to present facts to people here, people I care about, and a lot seems to fall on deaf ears. I get talk about how I am an “authoritarian” or that by wanting folks to be safe and past this virus I am acting like a German in WWII or a pre-Civil War slave owner.
I have a background in Cardiology and emerging viral diseases. I have extensive experience in community health and communicable diseases. I am not doing anything other than trying to help folks stay safe, because I care.
So no, I am not immune to misinformation, no one is. All I ask is that folks realize that there is a LOT of bad information out there and we have to sort through this to get to the goal all of us wish, to have this pandemic over.
Vaccinations are that path, I 100 percent believe that with all of my heart.