My how things have changed. My whole family is unvaccinated and the single time we got Covid was after we came home from a trip to Jamaica with our school age kids in January 2022. No, we didn’t get it traveling. Jamaica briefly had a “test-in/ test-out” policy - and smartly regardless of “vaccination” status. TWe left for Jamaica just as Omicron was hitting our area and had to pay $250/each to get tested in time to leave. The resort slowly emptied while we were there because people from the US couldn’t find places to get tested to test-in.
There was a loophole if you’d had the virus within 6 months. We found it a few places, but despite living normally we couldn’t catch it. We’d been bullied and harassed so much for not being vaccinated, and had so many tests we were tired of to participate in life. It was snowing here so the kids’ school was closed and, since they stayed in person the whole time, our kids private school had old fashion snow days (not remote learning). Some friends had Covid. We said f-it - and had a Covid party. We were fine. A slight cold.
We are who Biden hoped would die. We weren’t just spreading “mal-information,” like billions of unvaccinated folks around the world who got mild Covid, we were living “Malinformation.” It’s the only time any of us ever got Covid. We lived normally, traveled often from the start - first week of June 2020 we were in wide open Hilton Head SC. Our kids school started on time, in-person, and unmasked mid August 2020. Even at the time I remember thinking most developed countries in the world would have been a lot better off letting people see the truth and people to make their own choices.
Major respect for standing your ground in light of the relentless attacks and bullying you and your kids most have faced . I was late to the party and did get my first vax believing it would save us all . Proud to never get boosted but I respect those that came ahead of me on this :)
Good for you for waking up and realizing it wasn’t good. And thank you for the kind words. My husband and I aren’t easily bullied..... the hardest part was not as much the bullying but feeling crazy - I couldn’t believe how few people actually looked at the damn data for themselves. It was mostly bar charts and line graphs. It wasn’t complicated. I was, still am, shocked at the way such a totalitarian mindset swept the developed world. I certainly better understand how so many historical atrocities could happen, though I would have preferred they stayed in the pages of history books rather than watching it unfold in real time.
It helped I actually plotted the March 27th “model” against the NC dashboard to teach my then barely 6 and 8 year old line graphs. The “models” claimed “even with” the shutdown, which began April 1 but was widely known would be ordered by the gov that day, there would be 30,000-40,000 people hospitalized with Covid in NC on April 17. They dropped it to 8,000-10,000 by April 1st. These people were already supposedly infected. Around mid April the NYT also published an article claiming, based on cell phone data, we live in the least stay-home compliant county in the nation. On April 17, 2020, per the NC Covid dashboard, there were actually around 800 Covid people in our state hospitalized with Covid. In addition to line graphs, my kids got an unintended lesson in models often being crap, and the power of propaganda.
My kids go to an incredible school, that is also a private, conservative, Christian school. Very few kids there were vaccinated (same with staff). It opened on time in August 2020. Summer camps opened June 1 2020. We had lived pretty normally for a long time when the shots came along, and it seemed unnecessary at best for people our age and health. We couldn’t catch it.
My kids learned about personal agency too. Not just check for yourself, but kindly convey your thoughts when appropriate. My daughter broke her ankle at an out of town soccer tournament in spring 2022. She’s tough - played on it the rest of the tournament. When it was still swollen that Monday we took her to the local orthopedist (mom fail). They were still playing Covid. It had been a long time since any of us would wear a mask for any reason. We wore the fake ones through airport security a few times, but flat out refused beyond that (and nobody cared on the planes - of it they did we couldn’t tell because they were wearing 4 masks). Anyway, the orthopedist lady told her to put on a mask or wait in a separate room. My daughter asked why. The lady said “to keep people safe.” My daughter flashed her dimples, smiled, lowered her voice, and responded “With all due respect, I’m not a threat to these people - their fridge is.” We all nearly lost it laughing (well, one of the check-in people wasn’t amused, but it was funny). Our kids take after their parents. We are far from perfect parents, but hopefully we’ve taught them to make decisions for themselves.
My father-in-law called us and begged us to get the vax because of the "Pandemic of the Unvaccinated" news story. My husband said, "Dad, that's propaganda. The media is lying to you." His dad said, "I don't think the news lies to me. Why would they do that?"
He's 80 so my husband just let it go. Ugh! If you have made it that far without realizing you are being HAD, why bother at that point. He was already doubled boosted. So it was not like we could save him from that. He seems fine, but clearly asleep. :(
Many of us could tell similar stories from those benighted years. Trouble is, those years have only extended to the present and show no sign of changing course. It's 1984 and most of Philip Dick's paranoia live and on stage everyday everywhere.
Ah, the infamous “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated!”
My how things have changed. My whole family is unvaccinated and the single time we got Covid was after we came home from a trip to Jamaica with our school age kids in January 2022. No, we didn’t get it traveling. Jamaica briefly had a “test-in/ test-out” policy - and smartly regardless of “vaccination” status. TWe left for Jamaica just as Omicron was hitting our area and had to pay $250/each to get tested in time to leave. The resort slowly emptied while we were there because people from the US couldn’t find places to get tested to test-in.
There was a loophole if you’d had the virus within 6 months. We found it a few places, but despite living normally we couldn’t catch it. We’d been bullied and harassed so much for not being vaccinated, and had so many tests we were tired of to participate in life. It was snowing here so the kids’ school was closed and, since they stayed in person the whole time, our kids private school had old fashion snow days (not remote learning). Some friends had Covid. We said f-it - and had a Covid party. We were fine. A slight cold.
We are who Biden hoped would die. We weren’t just spreading “mal-information,” like billions of unvaccinated folks around the world who got mild Covid, we were living “Malinformation.” It’s the only time any of us ever got Covid. We lived normally, traveled often from the start - first week of June 2020 we were in wide open Hilton Head SC. Our kids school started on time, in-person, and unmasked mid August 2020. Even at the time I remember thinking most developed countries in the world would have been a lot better off letting people see the truth and people to make their own choices.
We, too, are who Biden (and the rest of them) hoped would die. (Some of us they actually killed.)
Never, never, NEVER forget.
Never, never, NEVER forgive.
Never.
Major respect for standing your ground in light of the relentless attacks and bullying you and your kids most have faced . I was late to the party and did get my first vax believing it would save us all . Proud to never get boosted but I respect those that came ahead of me on this :)
Good for you for waking up and realizing it wasn’t good. And thank you for the kind words. My husband and I aren’t easily bullied..... the hardest part was not as much the bullying but feeling crazy - I couldn’t believe how few people actually looked at the damn data for themselves. It was mostly bar charts and line graphs. It wasn’t complicated. I was, still am, shocked at the way such a totalitarian mindset swept the developed world. I certainly better understand how so many historical atrocities could happen, though I would have preferred they stayed in the pages of history books rather than watching it unfold in real time.
It helped I actually plotted the March 27th “model” against the NC dashboard to teach my then barely 6 and 8 year old line graphs. The “models” claimed “even with” the shutdown, which began April 1 but was widely known would be ordered by the gov that day, there would be 30,000-40,000 people hospitalized with Covid in NC on April 17. They dropped it to 8,000-10,000 by April 1st. These people were already supposedly infected. Around mid April the NYT also published an article claiming, based on cell phone data, we live in the least stay-home compliant county in the nation. On April 17, 2020, per the NC Covid dashboard, there were actually around 800 Covid people in our state hospitalized with Covid. In addition to line graphs, my kids got an unintended lesson in models often being crap, and the power of propaganda.
My kids go to an incredible school, that is also a private, conservative, Christian school. Very few kids there were vaccinated (same with staff). It opened on time in August 2020. Summer camps opened June 1 2020. We had lived pretty normally for a long time when the shots came along, and it seemed unnecessary at best for people our age and health. We couldn’t catch it.
My kids learned about personal agency too. Not just check for yourself, but kindly convey your thoughts when appropriate. My daughter broke her ankle at an out of town soccer tournament in spring 2022. She’s tough - played on it the rest of the tournament. When it was still swollen that Monday we took her to the local orthopedist (mom fail). They were still playing Covid. It had been a long time since any of us would wear a mask for any reason. We wore the fake ones through airport security a few times, but flat out refused beyond that (and nobody cared on the planes - of it they did we couldn’t tell because they were wearing 4 masks). Anyway, the orthopedist lady told her to put on a mask or wait in a separate room. My daughter asked why. The lady said “to keep people safe.” My daughter flashed her dimples, smiled, lowered her voice, and responded “With all due respect, I’m not a threat to these people - their fridge is.” We all nearly lost it laughing (well, one of the check-in people wasn’t amused, but it was funny). Our kids take after their parents. We are far from perfect parents, but hopefully we’ve taught them to make decisions for themselves.
Instilling accurate, reliable and sensitive BS instincts is an important part of parenting. Congratulations!
Oh no. You are perfect parents. Teach your children well, which you are quite obviously doing!
My father-in-law called us and begged us to get the vax because of the "Pandemic of the Unvaccinated" news story. My husband said, "Dad, that's propaganda. The media is lying to you." His dad said, "I don't think the news lies to me. Why would they do that?"
He's 80 so my husband just let it go. Ugh! If you have made it that far without realizing you are being HAD, why bother at that point. He was already doubled boosted. So it was not like we could save him from that. He seems fine, but clearly asleep. :(
Many of us could tell similar stories from those benighted years. Trouble is, those years have only extended to the present and show no sign of changing course. It's 1984 and most of Philip Dick's paranoia live and on stage everyday everywhere.
The pandemic of independent thought, haha.