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Interesting article. I've been distrustful of government and large organizations for probably most of my life. I also have a background in microbiology and up until recently was teaching AP Biology, so I had to keep up a bit with molecular and cell biology.

When I first heard the rumblings of a weird virus in China, I started reading here and other places. We have long used zinc in our household against winter viruses and Vitamin D3 and light against winter depression. It was a small step to add some more supplements, and I laid in a good supply for me and hubs. I did my best with our adult sons and extended family. We followed the science - as practiced by outspoken clinicians like Dr Zelenko, Dr Malone, and doctors at Eastern Virginia Medical school, who risked their reputations to save lives. Hubs and I both took reasonable precautions without going paranoid in the early days of the virus. We both caught it before shots were available (Feb-March of 2020 and 2021). Having developed natural immunity, which hasn't failed us in our entire lives, we didn't feel the need of shots. We didn't trust the speed and lack of transparency of what was transpiring, let alone the actors who were pushing shots.

Being retired, we didn't have workplace mandates, but we have missed out on some activities and have been shunned by some groups. That's life. My mother is nearly 97 and she didn't trust them either. She's recovering from what is probably an omicron variant - tired but fine, and now with enhanced natural immunity. We are independent thinkers by nature and don't trust 'consensus', as it seldom exists in any community. My family experienced the oppression of life under the communists in Eastern Europe, and my parents fled to start over again. I think I'm immunized for life against group think, pushy bureaucrats and virtue-signaling neighbors. Our older son took two mandated shots, but having worked the pandemic in an ER as a tech, he has worked things out pretty well and declared it all BS. We're still waiting on his brother, who is under the sway of academia and his liberal friends.