I started out as someone who was a true believer that vaccinations were one of the most important reasons for increasing lifespans. Which up until the current crisis remained to be true. Now unfortunately, we are witnessing a spectacular failure of the public trust which I have said from the time it started to be recognized will result in an inevitable resurgence in fully preventable disease and death.
My wife is a retired career nurse and department head at long term care facilities. As a long time Hazmat officer, I have had far more vaccinations than the general public with no serious complications even from some which were found to be problematic and discontinued.
Facilities where my wife worked would during bad flu seasons lose sometimes 20 or 30 residents a month. The flu vaccine had an obvious positive impact on this death rate, so I spent countless hours over the years working as a volunteer bus driver in my time off to help people get their flu vaccines and other vaccines. My wife and I even volunteered and were paid for work we did at the Life Care Center in Kirkland the long-term care facility to be hit with multiple fatalities from Covid in the United States. I was one of the first persons on this forum to make comments based on firsthand experience on Covid.
My wife and I were not in a big hurry to bother with the Covid vaccines ourselves because we had been exposed and infected early on. Common sense and lifelong experience told us that natural immunity was likely better than the protection one would receive from experimental “vaccines”. Still, like most we assumed that the “vaccines” were likely beneficial to the population in general.
But then we started witnessing firsthand people among our family, friends and associates suffering from what were described initially as rare injuries from the vaccines. Just in my own family, my mother became in invalid almost immediately, my father suffered from multiple blockages in his heart which nearly killed him. My brother, who was a long-time airline captain, extremely healthy with no history of heart problems was grounded by myocarditis. My cousin’s son who was 13 at the time and very active in sports had a debilitating stroke while on the playing field. A close friend and neighbor whose wife is a hospital administrator who was extremely active was diagnosed with cancer throughout his body and died weeks after getting “vaccinated”... and it goes on and on. We would have to have been blind not to have noticed a connection.
But to make matters worse the regulators whose responsibility it was to keep the public safe from this type of thing turned a blind eye for mostly political reasons. And instead of addressing legitimate concerns coercive policies began popping up everywhere. Medical professionals who tried to speak out were blacklisted and some lost their licenses. Firefighters, nurses, and even doctors we know lost their jobs after they had been caring for those sick with Covid because they refused the vaccines after seeing horrible injuries and also the results of defective treatment protocols which were killing patients.
Up until witnessing all of this firsthand I would not have believed this was possible in this country. And to top it off there was an obvious political bias and our news media and big tech companies have basically enforced a blackout on any source of information that contradicts the official narrative.
It is not surprising at this point that we have large numbers of people who continue to go along with the official narrative despite a mountain of evidence that keeps growing. Should we be mad at them when our own opinions started out with similar points of view and mostly hard firsthand experience turned our heads and enabled us to see truths that are still mostly hidden from the public at large.
This is a mess and crime against humanity created largely by those whose responsibility it was to keep us all safe. The perpetrators are doubling down to keep from facing any consequences using politics and other forms of malevolent influence to protect them. And we still have legions of those willing to go along even here on Free Republic because they stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that the wool has been pulled over their eyes. It is very, very sad.
But you've also neatly summarized my issue when you said "...we have large numbers of people who continue to go along with the official narrative despite a mountain of evidence that keeps growing."
It's that mountain of evidence you reference that I haven't seen and no one here seems to be able to cite it.
I don't doubt that your anecdotes about people you know are real, although I doubt any but the myocarditis were deemed by doctors to be a result of the vaccine.
More to the point, we've given over 650M shots in the US. If they're causing the kinds of problems you describe we should be seeing huge increases in heart blockages, strokes, cancers, etc., etc.
But I don't see that in the statistics.
Why do you think that is?