Posted on 03/12/2025 6:33:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The reaction to Covid showed Americans the system wasn’t going to save them. They were going to have to do it themselves.
When Donald Trump first sailed into the Oval Office, his detractors shrieked that his blunt rhetoric was dividing the country. His supporters pointed out that Trump wasn’t so much creating division as he was revealing divisions that had been growing in America for a long time.
The reaction to the novel Wuhan coronavirus did the country a similar service, by revealing a new fault line: two sets of rules, which were applied differently to Americans depending on their membership in certain political cliques. For the average American who assumed his political leaders still shared the belief that all men are created equal, it was a cruel betrayal.
Coronavirus lockdowns alerted Americans to an uncomfortable reality: the institutions to which they’d entrusted their liberties were no longer trustworthy. If the 2024 election is any indication, they got the message.
In the Covid times, hardworking people were deemed “nonessential” and lost their jobs while watching Tony Fauci’s net worth climb. They were banished from church while thousands gathered in the street to worship George Floyd. They watched their kids fall behind in school while Nancy Pelosi and Lori Lightfoot broke the rules to get their split ends trimmed. Their dying loved ones left this world alone, while Obama danced with Hollywood stars at his 60th birthday bash. To add further insult, those loved ones were denied proper funerals, while 10,000 people gathered to eulogize a drug-addicted criminal in a gold casket on television. Only some Americans were authorized to print their opinions online, while others were punished and censored.
The delusion that we were “all in this together” didn’t survive for long. A certain set of rules applied to the BLM protesters, the Democrat politicians, and the Hollywood elites, and another set of rules applied to everyone else. Americans started to realize they were being had.
When Covid vaccine mandates rolled out, the dichotomy was even clearer. For the vaccinated class, there were jobs, service academy appointments, college acceptances, and social acceptance. For the unvaccinated, there was talk of denying them entry to airplanes, restaurants, and stores, or even putting them into camps.
Once the double standard was exposed, it became visible everywhere. The Bidens got away with selling White House access because of their last name, while Trump was relentlessly prosecuted for made-up crimes because of his. Peaceful pro-life protesters were dragged to prison while abortion supporters got away with firebombing pregnancy clinics. Ukrainian oligarchs got billions while we watched the buying power of each paycheck shrink. Our government seemed more interested in caring for citizens of other countries who broke our laws than in looking after its own. Our president was more interested in apologizing for using the term “illegal” to describe Laken Riley’s murderer than he was in apologizing to Riley’s family for inviting her killer across the border. Our speech was muzzled as a “threat to democracy” while partisans gleefully dismantled our republic....SNIP
I believe about 1/3 of Americans did not get the MRNA shot? And about 1/4 more stopped after the first set.
Many who did comply were against it just trying to keep their job etc
I’m from the government and I’m here to knock the Bill of Rights out of you.
For too long, there was a widespread belief among Americans that somehow, the human condition had passed us by and that we were incapable, as a country, of wrongdoing.
If the net result of all of this is that we all walk with some humility in our step, it will be at least one positive takeaway.
All government agencies are now suspect. Like you, I once trusted the CDC and now see that it like everything in government is nothing but politics.
Trust the science they say, while refusing to admit men cannot be women...
I’d estimate that 80% of FReepers drank the Kool Aid. Those of us who admitted boycotting the clot shot were ostracized.
Yup. Asians wear masks because the air back home is so filthy.
They are dumb enough to think it’s hiding their faces.
Yet the sheeple complied
I did not take the jab either. There were far too many games being played and I decided that not getting the mRNA was the hill I would die on if necessary.
Bullshit on your musings.
There are a lot of lemmings on FR.
Since I had to get it for work I did some research on it and how long it would last. Particularly because I picked up a case of pericarditis whose symptoms started the week I got the vaccine.
It’s 9 years for the infected cells pumping out the spike proteins to die off. I’ve got 6 left. It seems my pericarditis symptoms are subsiding about the same rate. 3 years ago I had to go to the emergency room. Not today tho.
I am so sorry. I have nothing but sympathy for those suffering negative effects. Our leaders failed us, en masse.
Then name the “lemmings.” Slandering FReepers with that broad brush is not the way to go.
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