I was pretty worried at the outset because of the videos from China of people collapsing in the street. During the first month I avoided most contact with people and as the disease spread across the world, waited to see if the world was really ending.
Turned out it wasn't. There was no mass death in countries without China's total information control and as the media fearmongering ramped up the holes in the story became more apparent. By June 2020 I was ignoring most of the control measures and tiptoeing around the madness when I had to.
Then they said a vaccine was coming out. From the get-go it sounded like a dodgy idea because all prior attempts at coronavirus vaccines had killed the animals they were tested on. Then they explained that it was actually a gene therapy shot that would alter your cells so as to make them produce a pathogen. I decided to sit it out for at least six months and see what happened to the people who took it. No point in volunteering to be a guinea pig, right?
Then came the heavy-handed coercion, the collective insanity of governments and media, and a steady stream of reports of mysterious illnesses and deaths, so many that the governments couldn't even do a proper job of covering them up. The decision made itself: never in a million years would I get the shot.
I never heard the voices people talk about and I had the great fortune of working jobs that didn't ask for private medical information. To me it felt like a simple 101-level test of critical thinking. Now the governments and the media are trying to push it all down the memory hole, but I have a feeling that, as they used to say, they may be done with Covid but Covid isn't done with them.
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branchandroot
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-21 07:31 am (UTC)Turned out it wasn't. There was no mass death in countries without China's total information control and as the media fearmongering ramped up the holes in the story became more apparent. By June 2020 I was ignoring most of the control measures and tiptoeing around the madness when I had to.
Then they said a vaccine was coming out. From the get-go it sounded like a dodgy idea because all prior attempts at coronavirus vaccines had killed the animals they were tested on. Then they explained that it was actually a gene therapy shot that would alter your cells so as to make them produce a pathogen. I decided to sit it out for at least six months and see what happened to the people who took it. No point in volunteering to be a guinea pig, right?
Then came the heavy-handed coercion, the collective insanity of governments and media, and a steady stream of reports of mysterious illnesses and deaths, so many that the governments couldn't even do a proper job of covering them up. The decision made itself: never in a million years would I get the shot.
I never heard the voices people talk about and I had the great fortune of working jobs that didn't ask for private medical information. To me it felt like a simple 101-level test of critical thinking. Now the governments and the media are trying to push it all down the memory hole, but I have a feeling that, as they used to say, they may be done with Covid but Covid isn't done with them.