Collage of Compliance: Where are They Now?

Tracking Jabbed Friends and Family Featured in the Series

In 2022 while facing an unprecedented wave of discrimination and adversity due to both my anti mask and anti vax status, I decided to put together vignettes of many friends and family who I knew, or admittedly in one case just suspected strongly, had taken the Covid jabs. They had to be people who I had known in real life interactions in the past (with the rather bizarre and remarkable exception of my brother). Most were long time friends, who I hopefully will see again.

I did this for a few reasons. For one thing I didn’t want media propaganda, Chatbots, or anything fake influencing results. For another it obviously gave me a control group with a floor set on the number. I hadn’t written on the series since last October, when I did my first followup (with links embedded to all of my previous posts).

Some went in willingly and eagerly for the jabs. Some turned virtue signaler about it, but usually not as viciously as was portrayed in the media. Others had to be compelled in, and my cousin made clear that she was dragged in kicking and screaming. Time in Las Vegas, time in California, time in Thailand and my working class roots in Ohio all combined to give me a portrait across political spectrums. I know die hard liberals, die hard Trump supporters, and a bunch of people who just wanted to be left alone.

As the bodies continue to pile up where are they now? On the plus side all seem to be alive, in contrast to the doom porn that it can be easy to drag us down with. There is a big unsolved mystery regarding one of the worst virtue signalers, however, and some caveats to report.

BFF 1 seems as good as ever. She was, as a travelling employee across hospital systems, one of the first in line to receive the jabs. She did so dutifully without question and if she had ill health results as a consequence she didn’t post about them publicly. She’s found a new man in the last year and is talking marriage. I see no change in her appearance or demeanor. Perhaps she got saline.

BFF 2 did a bit of virtue signaling, then walked it back. She is still as liberal as ever but definitely moved the focus of her posts way past Covid disasters. It’s like an unmentionable thing with my US liberal friends. I had a long and rather interesting conversation with her several months ago online. It had nothing to do with Covid vaccines. As a fellow creative though, I wanted her input regarding potentially writing a historical novel series based on my own family history. I had recently discovered that my 11th or 12th great grandfather and family namesake was the captain of the first ship that brought African slaves to the Americas in 1562, or at least if the common last name and Ancestry DNA results are to be believed.

I wanted feedback on this potential future project from BFF 2, who is African American. And no, I’m sorry, but I do not consider it woke to ask for the perspective she had about this matter. We had an interesting and very lengthy chat session and I got a lot of good feedback.

BFF 2 looked very aged for awhile after the Covid jabs and did complain of some health problems, mostly things she felt had to do with menopause. Then she seemed to rebound based on pictures, but in looking at her most recent photos it just seems she looks so different to how she appeared prior to the Covid disaster. She also has implied that her son has a low grade form of autism. I do not know if the boy, a teenager, took the Covid jabs specifically, but I suspect that he did. I know he took all the other required vaccines as he had some adverse events which I tied to those, but she brushed off the connection at the time.

BFF 3 seems to be okay. A close friend of hers died suddenly last year, who had one of those got my Covid vaccine profile pictures. She seems a bit more thoughtful and I’m noticing relatively few posts of her with her husband lately. She doesn’t seem happy with her job at Delta. I should message her because she looks like she’s holding some stuff in.

Following up on the four Thai men who proudly flaunted their vaccine cards, one moved away and one hasn’t been seen since. Mr. Nathan seems the same as ever we were drinking at the local shop a few weeks ago. Kuhn Chef seemed the most vaccine injured, but his Parkinson’s like tics have largely gone away. He still complains of pain and said he cannot work any hard job with long hours. He attributes that to getting old (he’s in his 50’s).

Mom is worried about the quintuple jabbed roommate Paul again. She says he often seems to have this brain fog and forgets what day it is or what he was doing in a given room. He also drops things due to some idiopathic neuropathy and as Mom says is very unsteady especially if he bends over. I’m sure he’s seeing his regular rotation of doctors as before and has the shelf full of pill bottles as before also. His health seems to be progressively declining by the sound of it.

Scotty in Las Vegas seems the same as before, except he sounds practically antivaxxer. “I am not getting no more Covid vaccines! My Dad said no more! My Mom said no more! The doctor said no more!” For a man with significant learning disabilities he’s caught on quicker than most. Pride cometh before a fall. His former girlfriend also had a stroke and is now in assisted living and Mom is taking care of her old dog, and his mother has been in and out of the hospital with many problems.

I haven’t talked to my cousin recently, but she is still posting memes. My brothers likewise seem okay from an outside looking in perspective. Brother Chris met my Mom at Easter and my brother Andy said they went out and had a blast in Las Vegas. I’d love to meet them both.

The mystery is surrounding the actress, who was one of the worst virtue signalers throughout this. Last year I refriend requested her, she accepted it for a minute then unfriended me again. I was worried about Baby Boo Boo, who based on everything I knew of her, would have been getting Covid jabbed at three years old last summer after they were approved.

I decided to check on her and discovered that she has wiped all of her social media pages. All of them. I knew she’d moved back to California. Then I decided to check on her sister’s page, who still lived (I thought) in Toledo.

Her sister is still online, but the last post from her was in December of 2022 over six months ago. She claims she has moved to California also and has a picture of her staying somewhere claimed to be Malibu with a swimming pool overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

My first marathon was Malibu’s inaugural one. I know the area the picture is almost certainly from there. I also know the prices. Whether the actress’s sister was at a hotel or a high end beach house the going rate would have been astronomical on the place. Heck the actress struggled for years as a waitress trying to break into acting. Their Mom had a house for decades in Toledo only one block from where my brother still stays. A $40,000 Ohio house doesn’t usually buy you a $5 million Malibu penthouse on trade in. It seemed odd.

I checked the actress’s sister’s friends list. None of them are people I really know well enough to message directly, and as most were just high school classmates I doubt know about the family matters anyways. I did have one mutual friend who last I checked was living in Bangkok who I knew that the actress was in communication with. His profile likewise seems to have gone dark around December of 2022. The guy has an I just got my Covid Booster as his profile picture, and a Ukraine Flag as his background picture.

It’s a real mystery, but I am hoping that they are all well. Getting off social media is not a bad thing!

So how are your friends and family doing? Do any of the worst virtue signalers seem to be withdrawing from social media? How are you doing yourself, for that matter?

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