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 :)
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.
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!