My neighbor is the Principal at a large high school, and he likes to remind me of how tough it is earning his Ph.D., to which I go along by being impressed. Last month, that same guy survived a bout with covid and told me that it would have been worse, but he had two vaccinations and a booster shot, which was why it was mild symptoms. Not, "I had two vaccinations and a booster - wore my mask at school and caught it anyway." This person is showing a classic case of Cognitive Dissonance from a high-ranking person in academia. He knows the truth somewhere on a subconscious level, but that doesn't fit the narrative in his world, so he assigns a different meaning to the evidence to avoid seeing it for what it is. Masks and vaccinations don't work (aka, money into big pharma's pockets).
