That’s an amazing parallel to what’s happening now and I’m alarmed that so few seem to see the bigger picture clearly. This isn’t about masks at all. Thank you for sharing that powerful story.
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I’ve been trying to find the interview itself so I could share, but it has been eluding me for years.
I’d love to read it if you do find it. Refusing to get on the trains would have forced the Nazis to begin to kill the Jews on the streets of their cities and bring their agenda into the open, instead of committing their crimes behind fences and walls. Killing the Jews on the streets or in their homes wouldn’t have allowed their neighbours to pretend they didn’t know what was happening and the killings may have stopped sooner.
By agreeing to the incremental restrictions now, those who mean us harm in the long term now have the mechanism in place to commit their crimes in public - all under the guise of public safety. How foolish we have been. I pray that the shots are not harmful to those who’ve taken them or that their effects can be reversed later. I’m choosing to be shot in the street rather than agreeably get on any part of the train.