I will certainly read the article as I know I am not the same person I was in 2019...and not for the better.
I’m always looking for like-minded people and last night at a party I thought I found one. A big pro-Trump guy who moved from Long Island, NY to Gatlinburg, TN. I was telling him about my experience of C-19 in Brooklyn. I described the insane looks I received from total strangers if I went outside without a mask as “something out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
He switched gears immediately and said “I know someone who was a hospital nurse during that and she said it was horrible. So many people died.”
I came away thinking I was seriously misunderstood. But then again, I may have misunderstood his point. Yes. People died. but did my mask make a difference? Did I have to be treated like a leper or worse?
I don’t think you were misunderstood. It sounds like classic deflection by your new acquaintance. When they have guilt for things they believed, said and did during that time, they often talk about all the people who died of “covid”. We here know many were actually killed by hospital protocols/doctors/nurses and could have been saved with a variety of alternative treatments. But pulling the “death card” has a way of both silencing the other side and assuaging their own guilt. Some of them would say that if one less person caught covid and died because of your mask then, yes, it was worth treating you like a leper to force you/me to put one on.
I’m not saying your Long Island acquaintance is one of those people, but he didn’t rise to the occasion and admit that people who believe in the most basic human freedom of all - bodily autonomy - had an absolute right to it, even during that challenging time. Most of my friends are New Yorkers because of my leisure activities, and they’re a different bunch. Many are conservative, especially outside the NYC area, but the big city dweller’s version of conservatism may be very different than a Tennessean’s version. To me, it seems softer and squishier because of the influence from the hardcore liberals that populate and influence the area.
I am glad you find the article validating. I am sorry I did not post it months ago when I was going through my self exile phase from posting.
I had been thinking about the article and knew the author wrote a book from which the article was excerpted, but I could not remember her name. But I decided this afternoon to go on Brownstone and click on every female author name in alphabetical order until I found her.
I’m getting to the point where getting and reading her book might be in order. The thing is, I have almost a shelfful of Covid books I haven’t had a chance to get to. I am still so busy with estate stuff, getting ride of stuff, refurbishing what I can myself, etc. It is slow going. I don’t have the mojo I had while my aunt was alive. There’s no one to ooh and agh over a the room I painted. S.O. either is not impressed or is trapped in his own depression.
Anyway, with Trump being safely sworn in and how many dramatic moves he has been able to make in such a short period of time and the inevitable momentum he will gain once enough of his people move into their offices in senior positions in the various agencies, things are only going to heat up more as whistleblowers figure out who to whistle to.
I am sure there is a significant minority of pissed off government workers who are itching to spill the beans on what they know. Not an insignificant number want to do so because they were mandated or pressured into getting the jab or know for a fact the jab caused problems in loved ones.
I feel as if we are on one of those rollercoasters that has a corkscrew in the beginning of its last third, preceded by its biggest drop that then goes into a hairpin curve before the corkscrew. I think we have just gone down the 2nd steepest drop that you climb up to right out of the station.
Things are happening fast. I don’t feel prepared. I don’t know that I can have a lot of sympathy for the people who are about to find out what Covid and the jab were really all about. My sympathy is all used up on the people who were forced to get the jab because they were/are kids, in some sort of custodial situation, such as a group home for mentally disabled adults, or were going to lose their jobs and didn’t have the sort of job they’d be able to replace easily and couldn’t afford the income cut. There are other hardship situations, I’m sure.
While I think that perhaps the unjabbed and the force-jabbed can come together in time with the 50% who eagerly took at least the first round of jabs and fight against our common enemies, I fear that society is irrevocably split into three groups. Those who were force-jabbed will look upon the unjabbed with, for lack of a better word, envy. They will probably look upon the willing jabbed with even more scorn than the unjabbed do.
Wait until the blood wars heat up. I am talking about the scramble to get stores of unjabbed blood on hand for tranfusion.
Interesting times ahead.