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Fiestynca's avatar

I knew from the beginning that masks were next to useless, that pieces of plastic between us were useless, that 6 feet was useless. I fell for the two week isolation and the vaccine for me, as I have cancer. But as the hammer kept falling and the hysteria abounded I dug in my heels. What little faith I had in our government and it’s agencies is gone, perhaps to never be recovered. My anger hit its zenith when had to sit outside a closed window to talk to my father-in-law who had Alzheimer’s and couldn’t even find us through the glass. Then he went into the hospital where we could not visit him. They strapped him to the bed as he was confused about why he was there and alone and wanted to leave. Three days later he was dead and then, then they all us in to be with his dead body. I literally shook with the intensity of my anger with those that kept him alone and afraid in his last days-then “allowed” us in when it was too late. The absolute inhumanity and arbitrary rules was the last straw. To hell with all of them.

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VRand's avatar

I’ve long distrusted the government, but the scare propaganda was so thorough and intense that I initially fell for the “two weeks to flatten the curve” nonsense. But the day after they refused to lift the lockdown, I felt in my bones this was a ruse and this would not go away. I began to realize that I was living through a time in history the likes of which I had only read about, such as in Weimar, Germany in the 1920’s, or the medieval witch-burning hysteria in Europe. I had been under the mistaken illusion that such societal madness was a thing of the past and that our modern communication systems would stop us from replicating such awful mistakes. Instead, it was the rapid communication through the internet that helped speed up the lies, propaganda, and insane fear that affected so many.

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