This morning I made a list of a dozen colleagues who have had to take months off from work for health or mental issues or “burn out.” There’s a lot more people who just fade out and disappear, some return apologetically saying they had health/mental issues, others still gone. None of them I’d put in the Covid and vax fanatic camp or the anti-vac fanatic camp. They just don’t really talk Covid and I’m assuming they vaxxed when they were told too because that is what most did.
So I’d imagine the pressure is getting to them. They are watching the vax fail and people around them get diagnosed with all kinds of things and people die more frequently. But thanks to The Narrative (tm) they can’t talk about what they see or feel with anyone, not even their doctor or their therapist, because they were in on it too. They also don’t want to be seen as one of those crazy anti-vax people.
It’s been astounding to watch over the fall. The lack of honest conversations is such a tell. People can’t even say “wow this whole Covid thing has been nuts” in the PMC world. They just don’t talk about it. Then next thing they are needing to take an extended break.
It was so hard being unvaxxed last year but I did it for moral reasons and I found all of you for support. These normal people have nothing. Two crazy fringes shrieking at them and a government and public health establishment offering nothing but more vaccines and masks.
Idk what my role is in this - just keep observing or offer some kind of help to them. Last year they were for vax mandates (it’s for the common good!) so it’s a spiritual struggle for me.
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Date: 2022-12-07 10:18 am (UTC)So I’d imagine the pressure is getting to them. They are watching the vax fail and people around them get diagnosed with all kinds of things and people die more frequently. But thanks to The Narrative (tm) they can’t talk about what they see or feel with anyone, not even their doctor or their therapist, because they were in on it too. They also don’t want to be seen as one of those crazy anti-vax people.
It’s been astounding to watch over the fall. The lack of honest conversations is such a tell. People can’t even say “wow this whole Covid thing has been nuts” in the PMC world. They just don’t talk about it. Then next thing they are needing to take an extended break.
It was so hard being unvaxxed last year but I did it for moral reasons and I found all of you for support. These normal people have nothing. Two crazy fringes shrieking at them and a government and public health establishment offering nothing but more vaccines and masks.
Idk what my role is in this - just keep observing or offer some kind of help to them. Last year they were for vax mandates (it’s for the common good!) so it’s a spiritual struggle for me.