It’s a good question frittermywig. Even after all this time I still find myself an outlier in my views about the events of the last few years, which have been largely accepted and memory-holed by so many other people around me.
There isn’t a day that passes that I don’t ponder what the hell happened in 2020. However, I am starting to accept that I may never work out what it was all about. There are other mysteries to me too, such as the one whose commemoration date was yesterday.
As for your question, it happened that three of my closest friends, independently of me, came to the same conclusion about rejecting the pharmaceutical interventions that our governments so considerately offered to us.
We’re very different people but the one thing I think we all had in common was that when the events of 2020 hit us we were all somewhat already at odds with the society we lived in and still processing various traumas from earlier parts of our lives. None of us felt particularly happy or fulfilled at that point when the global sniffles struck.
Those people I know who did seem happy with their lives were more willing to believe that the government was acting in their interests and some of them even seemed to think that lockdown etc. was a merry jape. I remember one friend telling me enthusiastically how he had gone to an quackcination centre at close of day to ask them if they had any spare shots so he could get his early!
So, in short, myself and my refusenik friends were all a bit unhappy and feeling stuck at the time, had all experienced some kind of unresolved trauma and – we are probably all a wee bit “difficult”, if truth be told.
One final data point that may be more related to your subjective mind hypothesis – I notice that several of the bloggers, podcasters etc who were already on my radar at the time – such as Gordon White in Australia and of course our esteemed host here - also placed themselves in the questioning camp early on.
Even though I had not met them in person, I had unknowingly and fortuitously assembled, some years prior to the event, a small group of thinkers who would help me feel I was not alone and enabled me to solidify my own suspicions that something was far from right with the whole covid business.
Re: Subjective minds
There isn’t a day that passes that I don’t ponder what the hell happened in 2020. However, I am starting to accept that I may never work out what it was all about. There are other mysteries to me too, such as the one whose commemoration date was yesterday.
As for your question, it happened that three of my closest friends, independently of me, came to the same conclusion about rejecting the pharmaceutical interventions that our governments so considerately offered to us.
We’re very different people but the one thing I think we all had in common was that when the events of 2020 hit us we were all somewhat already at odds with the society we lived in and still processing various traumas from earlier parts of our lives. None of us felt particularly happy or fulfilled at that point when the global sniffles struck.
Those people I know who did seem happy with their lives were more willing to believe that the government was acting in their interests and some of them even seemed to think that lockdown etc. was a merry jape. I remember one friend telling me enthusiastically how he had gone to an quackcination centre at close of day to ask them if they had any spare shots so he could get his early!
So, in short, myself and my refusenik friends were all a bit unhappy and feeling stuck at the time, had all experienced some kind of unresolved trauma and – we are probably all a wee bit “difficult”, if truth be told.
One final data point that may be more related to your subjective mind hypothesis – I notice that several of the bloggers, podcasters etc who were already on my radar at the time – such as Gordon White in Australia and of course our esteemed host here - also placed themselves in the questioning camp early on.
Even though I had not met them in person, I had unknowingly and fortuitously assembled, some years prior to the event, a small group of thinkers who would help me feel I was not alone and enabled me to solidify my own suspicions that something was far from right with the whole covid business.