Posted on 05/30/2022 4:48:08 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
The battlefield is still warm, following Canada’s war on the unvaccinated. The mandates have let up, and both sides stumble back into something that looks like the old normal — except that there is a fresh and present injury done to the people we tried to break. And no one wants to talk about it.
Only weeks ago, it was the admitted goal of our own leaders to make life unlivable for the unvaccinated. And as a deputized collective, we force-multiplied that pain, taking the fight into our families, friendships, and workplaces. Today, we face the hard truth that none of it was justified — and, in doing that, uncover a precious lesson.
It was a quick slide from righteousness to cruelty, and however much we might blame our leaders for the push, we’re accountable for stepping into the trap despite better judgement.
We knew that waning immunity put vast numbers of the fully vaccinated on par with the shrinking minority of unvaccinated, yet we marked them for special persecution. We said they hadn’t “done the right thing” by turning their bodies over to state care — even though we knew that principled opposition to such a thing is priceless in any circumstance. And we truly let ourselves believe that going into another ineffectual lockdown would be their fault, not the fault of toxic policy.
And so it was by the wilful ignorance of science, civics, and politics that we squeezed the unvaccinated to the degree that we did.
We invented a new rubric for the good citizen and — failing to be one ourselves — took pleasure in scapegoating anyone who didn’t measure up. After months of engineered lockdowns, having someone to blame and to burn simply felt good.
So we cannot hold our heads high, as if believing we had logic, love, or truth on our side while we viciously wished death upon the unvaccinated. The best we can do is sit in the awareness of our rabid inhumanity for having cast so many aside.
Most of us who pilloried the noncompliant did it because it seemed like certain victory, like the unvaccinated would never make it through unbroken. Indeed, the promised new normal looked unbeatable, so we sided with it and made punching bags out of the holdouts.
But betting against them has been a scathing embarrassment for many of us who’ve now learned that the mandates only had the power we gave them. It was not through quiet compliance that we avoided endless domination by pharmaceutical companies and medical checkpoints at every doorway. It was thanks to the people we tried to tear down.
So for those of us not among the hopeless few that pray for the return of mandates, we might find some inner gratitude for the unvaccinated. We took the bait by hating them, but their perseverance bought us the time to see we were wrong.
It seems right now like the mandates will return, but this time there’s hope that more of us will see them for what they are: a rising authoritarianism that has no concern for our wellbeing. If there’s an enemy, it’s the confidence game of state power and the transparent attempt to tear us apart. Heeding that looks like our best shot at redemption.
The unvaccinated don’t shed spike proteins.
I may forgive but I damsure not going to forget…..
Thanks for posting this. As one who didn’t participate in the experiment, I’m going to find this interesting.
Proud pureblood here. She’s welcome. And we’ll need the help of people like her, who get it, to push back on the mandate Nazis.
It seems right now like the mandates will return….
FECK OFF for that.
What we learned from hating the unvaccinated.
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We really don’t care what you learned. We really don’t care that you hated us.
But learn this: here are over 500 adverse reactions you are now going to have to live (and die) with because you listened to the lies and propaganda of Big Pharma and FedGov.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4067230/posts
The citizens of Nazi Germany were repentant when they were forced to clean up the death camps.
It is not a matter if the mandates will return, we know they will.
The key question is whether compliance will return. Based on anecdotal observation lately, I’m pretty sure it will.
It sure is a good essay. Great post.
The psycho-social damage (?) will unfold for decades.. or who knows? Every area. Kids were being messed up to begin with.. now the dial is turned to 11. It’s incredible, unfathomable, beyond comprehension.
What the heck is going to happen when they grow up? Humanity and civilization are over the edge of the darkest pit ever.
What have we learned from it?
That the so decried, terrible Japanese internment could happen again any time with leftists in charge.
Nice to see someone gets it. Don’t be so gullible next time.
Zackly right.
That you have a core of evil inside you.
So do we all.
If you are ready to repent and control that impulse then good for you. You have reclaimed a bit of your soul.
But... by your fruits we shall know you.
Next time compliance will be brutally coerced.
-PJ
I know a woman who has a daughter who is around age 30. The daughter was very athletic. Got the COVID vaccine (the whole family is terrified of COVID). The daughter got severe blood clots in her lungs. Her days of any physical exertion now seem to be over. She’s not a cripple, but her lungs are shot and don’t seem to be getting better. But she recently got a booster. She now has severe uterine bleeding from more clots. They haven’t determined if a hysterectomy will be needed, but it might be. And, by the way, this daughter, and her husband, now have COVID. Her vaccinated brother also had it recently.
The woman I know of, of course, is very upset about these multiple medical problems. And, of course, she is extremely reluctant to leave her house or associate with anyone who has not be vaccinated. The unvaccinated are “dirty” and should not be allowed out in public. She supports mandatory jabs for all.
It’s madness.
It’s easy to say you’ve learned a lesson.
It’s another thing to pass the test.
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