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The COVID emergency is finally over. So, how did the pandemic change you? | Readers’ essays
NJ.com ^ | May 11, 2023 | Guest Columnist

Posted on 05/12/2023 5:24:22 AM PDT by DoodleBob

...Here’s a sample of some of the most interesting essays, which have been edited for clarity and length:

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People fly off the handle so fast now, always ready to argue or fight. In the past when two people would have an argument or a physical altercation, people might have tried to step in and try to calm everyone down. Now everybody just reaches for their phone to make sure they can post it.

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The following Wednesday, I taught my last class at Rutger...For me, there is no such thing as a “post-COVID” world. I continue to “mask up” when I stick my nose outside. Basically, if I need to wear shoes, I need a mask, because I have no desire to drown in my own blood.

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But most disturbing for me was the division between the vaccinated vs. the unvaccinated. I was told I was trying to kill my family members because I was not vaccinated. I was alienated from loved ones as if I had leprosy...COVID created a complicated time with tons of information, good and bad, opinions, skepticism, and scientific debates. Science and politics collided, voices were stifled and censorship was normalized.

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The COVID pandemic had a profound impact on me. It taught me not to trust — not to trust my government, not to trust the CDC, not to trust FDA, not to trust WHO, and not to trust the people who should have been guiding us and telling us the truth.

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My wife and I were both fully vaccinated and received all the recommended boosters. I thought we were doing everything right to survive until my wife began having balance issues. We finally went to the hospital and a cat scan revealed a brain tumor.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 1984; china; chinavirus; control; covid; covid1984; covidpassport; covidscreening; cvid; fascism; fauci; psyops
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1 posted on 05/12/2023 5:24:23 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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I’m still seeing a lot of morons walking around with masks on, which tells me they are willing to wear them for the rest of their lives.


2 posted on 05/12/2023 5:26:21 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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CoupFlu made possible The Steal.

The scamdemic and the vaxxes killed and injured God knows how many Americans.

Exposed the existence of Deep State.

We learned a lot from CoupFlu.


3 posted on 05/12/2023 5:26:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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Aggression has increased. We’ve seen this with incident data from LEO and schools.


4 posted on 05/12/2023 5:28:56 AM PDT by Nifty
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It made me realize how many people are utter sheep. It made me realize how much the church has drifted to government control.

It made be completely distrust the entire medical establishment.

It showed how much the deep state hates Americans who actually believe in liberty.


5 posted on 05/12/2023 5:29:35 AM PDT by cyclotic
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To: Old Yeller

I’m on a plane waiting to take off. Three retards including a flight attendant trying hard to breathe.


6 posted on 05/12/2023 5:30:43 AM PDT by cyclotic
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I’m on a plane waiting to take off. Three retards including a flight attendant trying hard to breathe.


7 posted on 05/12/2023 5:30:45 AM PDT by cyclotic
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I’m 79. I now have my groceries delivered. A blessing in disguise. Also, my Town has a driver service to get me to Doctor’s appts, the bank...even my hairdresser. These two things make my life so much easier.


8 posted on 05/12/2023 5:31:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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I developed an irregular heartbeat (afib). Might have come from the COVID I caught, or from the vaccine (2 shots).


9 posted on 05/12/2023 5:31:39 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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“We now know human beings are evil.”


10 posted on 05/12/2023 5:32:03 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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[People fly off the handle so fast now, always ready to argue or fight.]

True dat.


11 posted on 05/12/2023 5:32:24 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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I have moved from a position of believing that most politicians are misinformed, to believing that most are trying to deceive me.


12 posted on 05/12/2023 5:34:59 AM PDT by Ingtar
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My business was devastated, I lost hundreds of thousands, I had to sell a house, and it ushered in the most corrupt and destructive president in history. And it managed to make me hate our government and the bureaucrats even more than I already did.


13 posted on 05/12/2023 5:35:07 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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I see on the news that they are now allowing homosexuals to donate blood.

I don't know which is more dangerous - the possibility of getting HIV-tainted blood from a queer donor, or mRNA-tainted blood from a VAX enthusiast.

Prolly best to just stay away from needing blood, if at all possible.

14 posted on 05/12/2023 5:36:04 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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I’m aware of just how much the corrupt abhor sanity, intellect, and reason.


15 posted on 05/12/2023 5:37:14 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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I continue to “mask up” when I stick my nose outside.

I feel so sorry for these people, living in so much fear.

16 posted on 05/12/2023 5:38:19 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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The Invasion of our borders is having far more affect on my lifestyle than Covid ever did!!!! Third worlders being bused all over our nation now and with them disease, crime, and totally unpredictability since they bring third world behavior with them.
17 posted on 05/12/2023 5:38:52 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: mewzilla

The most important thing we learned:

That if we were really wanted what Deep State is doing, Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections, would it?


18 posted on 05/12/2023 5:40:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Organic Panic

I don’t hate our government, just the people who are running it...


19 posted on 05/12/2023 5:42:32 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Changed>>>>>> Now we have tens of millions of Government workers who now work from home. Meaning, they work two hours per day, Monday-Friday. Giving them plenty of time for child care, for a leisurely take out lunch, for getting on their Pelotons for exercise. Taking naps. Drinking beer. Watching TV and movies.

I am talking Federal, state, county “workers” The biggest rip off ever.


20 posted on 05/12/2023 5:43:02 AM PDT by dennisw
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