I don't know- maybe you live in a different society than me. But I do not know a single person who believes that things will go back to "normal." When there is open discussion of turning a group into second class citizens (again, my country- not necessarily yours) and the government are the ones leading the discussion, it is a little worrisome.
They are openly discussing the idea that you may not be allowed to grocery shop without a vaccine. I'm sorry- but that is a little concerning when the most powerful people in a country are talking of this. And the general citizen appears to be backing it. Another manager at my company was openly wanting the government to start throwing people into prison for not following mandates.
While your country is opening, mine is throwing a preacher into prison for not making his flock mask up or distance. Actual jail on the orders of an unelected doctor.* So yes. We may not be quite to the point of yellow stars. But when the virus comes roaring back, if you don't think that people are going to be looking for who to blame (and set their sights on the unvaxed who must identify themselves in public by wearing a mask) then I believe you may not be paying attention to human nature.
I think if you do not know anyone who believes things are going back to normal, it might be good to seek a few out to balance all that dooming purely for sanity's sake. We do live in different societies: Canada's vaxx rate is 4% whereas I live in a 50% area. Naturally the governments in those two places, who believe the route back to normalcy lies through mass vaccination, are going to be making very different noises.
I think most people who get it understand the risk of early adoption (probably not as good as promised, might make things worse) but balance that with potential personal and societal benefits. I just want to go to the beach. The vaccines are an educated guess based on a long history, and you are perfectly right to be skeptical about these ones. Everybody is guessing here. But the minute you take your skepticism beyond personal choice and start sharing your links and videos and whatever rumbles are to a like-minded audience you are venturing into advocacy, into politics, and like everything else, your personal health choices have been sucked into the maelstrom.
This is a little nest of suspicious anti-vaxxers, just look at Walks's poll he took. I was the only sheeple. I like how you guys say you are not anti-vaxxers -- because that is an embarrassing bunch of hypochondriac superkaren mommy-bloggers -- but then do exactly the same thing. If you really believe the doomer stuff, why not cheer us lemmings as we tumble headlong over the cliff?
The truth is you don't
really believe it -- I know -- you are just guessing like everyone else and seeking likeminded company to reinforce your tentative conclusions and huddle to await the apocalypse together. I just think it is funny, an apple cart I am compelled to try to upset.
On a side note, did you happen to catch that the worlds MOST VACCINATED nation of Seychelles is back in lock down? 62% of the citizens have two shots. 65% of the cases are those who have 0 or only 1 shot. Do you think that people are happy to be locked up again at home? Possibly they are looking for who is to blame? (not the 35% of fully vaccinated individuals who still have Covid.)
Yes, it has been covered extensively, Time, Newsweek, not exactly hidden -- it seems nobody knows for sure what is happening yet. However it kind of makes sense that, if the virus has mutated beyond the vaccine's reach like the flu sometimes does, this is what it would look like. Maybe they will rush another shot around the world, who knows? Meanwhile, I will go to the beach.
I just think it is hilarious that people were able to get, or not get, the old annual flu shot, the closest analogy we have to this vaccine, without hollering at each other about politics and doom. That is what sanity would look like.
Finally, realize that while you are teasing, I am enjoying the conversation as well. I don't think anybody is really mad- alternate points of view are good to see. I know that yellow stars is over the top- but it is to make a point. I assume that you don't really hold strongly to everything you have to say to make a point or tease and sometimes have to inflate things to make a point? Despite that, I believe the underlying point to be valid- and I really am a little concerned looking at our politicians and this massive power grab.
Whew, good to know! Yes I like provoking things, especially with the mask and vax connection which to people like me isn't a big deal -- last time I was halfway home from the store before I realized I still had mine on -- but I figured might make you guys crazy.
