So many bad memories. Being chased around by a weird guy in the grocery store for pulling my mask down for a second to breathe. He reported me to customer service but then continued to bully me in the store, so they had to escort me to my car. I cried the whole way home which pissed me off. (I don’t really cry but dammit he scared the crap out of me.) Being unvax’d in a half-vax’d family was (is) hard and heartbreaking. But the very worst thing was when Moderna killed my mom. She had a stroke two days after (in January 2021) and died alone in a long-term care home that barely let us see her. I am irreparably damaged, I think.
Damn those stories are harrowing. Why have so many people forsaken their humanity to act inhumanely? There are so many (previously) close ones that I barely recognise anymore.
Lowest point was Christmas time, looking forward to and planning the day around the family video call halfway around the world. Within minutes having drunk relatives making 'antivax' jibes at me. Then when the topic of travel came up and on myself at that time being unable to travel as the great unwashed, I was told, with a smirk,
"We have no sympathy."
Almost destroyed me. They've since apologized and we are talking again.
All the heartless beat-downs, the callousness and lack of empathy I've witnessed, experienced, and observed... It's given me a heightened sense of things, a greater awareness of everything, a higher level of consciousness, and ultimately lead to personal growth.
I'm a different man now. For the better.
Hope you and all your readers keep drawing strength from one another. The show must go on!
Beautifully written! I'm still trying to draw in from that inner strength. This may represent an opportunity to change things for the better but it's going to take awhile. Death has a long tail...
We happy few, we band of brothers and sisters. When the few stood against the many. History will remember the struggle and how we eventually prevailed! :-)
Mine goes back to 2020, and was a combination of two things, wake-up moments on two issues.
One was political, after the Jan 6 incident (disclaimer: I'm convinced it's a fraud staged incident to destroy Trump and his followers) - and I realized that I and a lot of my friends were now being painted as Domestic Terrorists and threats to "Democracy".
The other was a little later in the year - I'm unvaxxed and am staying that way, and don't patronize places that require masks - when the government and media posture hardened solidly behind Vaccines as the Only True Path to Salvation - and I realized I was being painted as selfish, dangerous plague-bearing vermin.
I really can't describe the horror of coming to terms with being painted as permanently outcast and undesirable. For some time that year it was like I couldn't think straight, trying to wrap my head around that.
I’m 100% with you on all counts, including the “insurrection” 🙄.( If that was an insurrection there isn’t harsh enough word for the “peaceful protests that took place all summer, for which there has been precious little punishment). We have friends who went to DC Jan. 6 who had a 16 year old get separated from them in the throng. He was arrested, imprisoned TWICE though he went through an open door, hurt NO one and the only
“weapon” he had was a knife on his belt, IN a holder. never removed, which many southern boys who hike and camp and fish possess. His parents have incurred $300,000 in debt. His prison time was deplorable —- as he was sent to one of the worst jails in DC, and he still has another trial to attend, in DC from GA. It’s been a nightmare to travel and defend him, which, along with lockdowns and school closures has also virtually stopped his siblings lives. His mom cries herself to sleep every night. This is a GOOD kid who made good grades, was active in sports and who never had a brush with the law. He 100% had zero intentions of harming anything or anyone that day.
January 6 was its own sad topping. I am not a big Trump fan but I think the election was stolen. The actions are out of the most despotic third world countries
They certainly are. It seems as though so many things I never thought possible are happening regularly. I sometimes have to remind myself that I know Who wins, in the end.
That's a horrible story. I have the same kind of reaction - I find it next to impossible to wrap my head around that kind of thing happening. It feels like being in a nightmare, but it's real life. I have a much stronger sense of the reality and depth of human evil after experiences like this.
I do, too! Especially knowing that Epps guy is walking free after they showed him telling everyone to be SURE to go INTO the capitol so many times, and come to find out, he’s a government PLANT. Make me
nearly as angry as CDC i’m-omg the vax to toddlers.
Being separated from my partner in the USA for 2 years and 4 months because Australia closed its borders and wouldn’t even let us leave. I still cannot travel to the USA as they require the vax.
I’m really hoping the USA ends their vax mandate soon. I just can’t believe they’re persisting with it when it doesn’t stop transmission. Let’s hope Biden goes away sooner rather than later. Hugs to you too
LPRs are exempt from vaccine shots for COVID. Tourists still require them which is ridiculous and Department of State has asked OPM to put COVID shot on the immigrant medical interview permanently (but there's a waiver for shots visa I-601).
My lowest point was June 28 when FDA voted almost unanimously to approve EUA for vaccines--allowing them to be reformulated in the future without any testing for safety or efficacy. I expected the vote to reflect scientific analysis of the data--it did not. That was the final nail in the coffin of dead government expectations.
have wondered how you and your kids were able to manage - it's horrible how you have been mistreated, amy! what happened to me was bad enough but what happened to one of my relatives is even worse. a connoisseur of the blues. trombone player. big rugged guy with the kind of quiet unassailable confidence that comes from being #1 on everybody's speed dial when they need to move something like a piano or a hammond organ. he won't be moving any pianos anymore: 2nd moderna shot put him in the hospital for the summer with myocarditis. now he can't climb a flight of stairs. wife is putting in one of those electric chairlifts for him. he's 30s, younger than me.
anybody know what the odds of survival from acute myocarditis are, over 10 years? 50%. want to know the odds i will have to bury this guy? flip a coin.
It's heartbreaking. There were a few jab injury stories posted on the twitter thread too often they spawned and became their own thread. Lives were ruined in so many ways and it looks like it was all a preplanned move to steer everybody towards the conjabs. Prayers for your friend...
Hearing my best friend cry over the phone when the hospital that eventually intubated his wife to death after 3 weeks of covid treatment protocol would not allow him to see her in person until minutes after her death, dressed in a full body suit standing next to his dead sweetheart.
So much. I got kicked out of the gym, attempted to go to events and got turned around at the door due to not having the vaccine passport, declining invitations to speak at conferences, trying to wrestle a mask onto my two-year old on a flight, realizing that old friends and family were quietly avoiding me, losing a family relationship…
One of the worst things is watching my long-term friend kill her own business because she’s too fearful of covid to continue. She complains how covid killed her income and now she’s really behind. She puts barrier up after barrier to keep from having any new customers. I only talk to her on Zoom. One day, I offered to give her some stuff that I had that she’d be interested in. She said that maybe, if there was a nice enough day and we could sit outside, and maybe, if I wore a mask and we distanced, and maybe - insert excuse here - and I realized I’ll probably never see my friend again.
When I woke up from a nightmare the last night I slept next to (my now ex) -a nightmare that was as simple as a bandaid on my arm. I had to assume her injections had been transfected to me, from that nightmare, and I could not sleep near her again. The ex-partner and her son continue to call me crazy for simply being online alot and trying to parse what is going on. I never did facebook and was never an online person before, but they do not see this. I fear the vaxxed and they do not understand why quite yet.
So many bad memories. Being chased around by a weird guy in the grocery store for pulling my mask down for a second to breathe. He reported me to customer service but then continued to bully me in the store, so they had to escort me to my car. I cried the whole way home which pissed me off. (I don’t really cry but dammit he scared the crap out of me.) Being unvax’d in a half-vax’d family was (is) hard and heartbreaking. But the very worst thing was when Moderna killed my mom. She had a stroke two days after (in January 2021) and died alone in a long-term care home that barely let us see her. I am irreparably damaged, I think.
Hugs...
Thanks, it has been hard on multiple fronts. 😢
Damn those stories are harrowing. Why have so many people forsaken their humanity to act inhumanely? There are so many (previously) close ones that I barely recognise anymore.
Lowest point was Christmas time, looking forward to and planning the day around the family video call halfway around the world. Within minutes having drunk relatives making 'antivax' jibes at me. Then when the topic of travel came up and on myself at that time being unable to travel as the great unwashed, I was told, with a smirk,
"We have no sympathy."
Almost destroyed me. They've since apologized and we are talking again.
All the heartless beat-downs, the callousness and lack of empathy I've witnessed, experienced, and observed... It's given me a heightened sense of things, a greater awareness of everything, a higher level of consciousness, and ultimately lead to personal growth.
I'm a different man now. For the better.
Hope you and all your readers keep drawing strength from one another. The show must go on!
Beautifully written! I'm still trying to draw in from that inner strength. This may represent an opportunity to change things for the better but it's going to take awhile. Death has a long tail...
We happy few, we band of brothers and sisters. When the few stood against the many. History will remember the struggle and how we eventually prevailed! :-)
So great that they apologized! For me, that would make all the difference in the world.
Realizing that no matter what I was doing in court on our federal case, we were already too late to save so many people.
That's precisely why their lives need not to be forgotten and lost in vain...
Mine goes back to 2020, and was a combination of two things, wake-up moments on two issues.
One was political, after the Jan 6 incident (disclaimer: I'm convinced it's a fraud staged incident to destroy Trump and his followers) - and I realized that I and a lot of my friends were now being painted as Domestic Terrorists and threats to "Democracy".
The other was a little later in the year - I'm unvaxxed and am staying that way, and don't patronize places that require masks - when the government and media posture hardened solidly behind Vaccines as the Only True Path to Salvation - and I realized I was being painted as selfish, dangerous plague-bearing vermin.
I really can't describe the horror of coming to terms with being painted as permanently outcast and undesirable. For some time that year it was like I couldn't think straight, trying to wrap my head around that.
It got horrific. Autistic two year olds were kicked off planes to cheers. I had never seen anything like it and sometimes can't make sense of it still
I’m 100% with you on all counts, including the “insurrection” 🙄.( If that was an insurrection there isn’t harsh enough word for the “peaceful protests that took place all summer, for which there has been precious little punishment). We have friends who went to DC Jan. 6 who had a 16 year old get separated from them in the throng. He was arrested, imprisoned TWICE though he went through an open door, hurt NO one and the only
“weapon” he had was a knife on his belt, IN a holder. never removed, which many southern boys who hike and camp and fish possess. His parents have incurred $300,000 in debt. His prison time was deplorable —- as he was sent to one of the worst jails in DC, and he still has another trial to attend, in DC from GA. It’s been a nightmare to travel and defend him, which, along with lockdowns and school closures has also virtually stopped his siblings lives. His mom cries herself to sleep every night. This is a GOOD kid who made good grades, was active in sports and who never had a brush with the law. He 100% had zero intentions of harming anything or anyone that day.
January 6 was its own sad topping. I am not a big Trump fan but I think the election was stolen. The actions are out of the most despotic third world countries
They certainly are. It seems as though so many things I never thought possible are happening regularly. I sometimes have to remind myself that I know Who wins, in the end.
A lot of people turned to God in this
That's a horrible story. I have the same kind of reaction - I find it next to impossible to wrap my head around that kind of thing happening. It feels like being in a nightmare, but it's real life. I have a much stronger sense of the reality and depth of human evil after experiences like this.
I do, too! Especially knowing that Epps guy is walking free after they showed him telling everyone to be SURE to go INTO the capitol so many times, and come to find out, he’s a government PLANT. Make me
nearly as angry as CDC i’m-omg the vax to toddlers.
Being separated from my partner in the USA for 2 years and 4 months because Australia closed its borders and wouldn’t even let us leave. I still cannot travel to the USA as they require the vax.
I'm in the same boat I was separated from my husband in Thailand for eight months and he has a vax mandate to come back to the USA...hugs...
I’m really hoping the USA ends their vax mandate soon. I just can’t believe they’re persisting with it when it doesn’t stop transmission. Let’s hope Biden goes away sooner rather than later. Hugs to you too
LPRs are exempt from vaccine shots for COVID. Tourists still require them which is ridiculous and Department of State has asked OPM to put COVID shot on the immigrant medical interview permanently (but there's a waiver for shots visa I-601).
If you're doing immigrant visa, there's I-601 waiver that can be used for vaccines (including COVID). Successfully used by immigrants.
Hopefully Covid will just be taken off the list soon
Thanks you so much for that information! I went around in circles on their website about medical things!
My lowest point was June 28 when FDA voted almost unanimously to approve EUA for vaccines--allowing them to be reformulated in the future without any testing for safety or efficacy. I expected the vote to reflect scientific analysis of the data--it did not. That was the final nail in the coffin of dead government expectations.
Banana republic
have wondered how you and your kids were able to manage - it's horrible how you have been mistreated, amy! what happened to me was bad enough but what happened to one of my relatives is even worse. a connoisseur of the blues. trombone player. big rugged guy with the kind of quiet unassailable confidence that comes from being #1 on everybody's speed dial when they need to move something like a piano or a hammond organ. he won't be moving any pianos anymore: 2nd moderna shot put him in the hospital for the summer with myocarditis. now he can't climb a flight of stairs. wife is putting in one of those electric chairlifts for him. he's 30s, younger than me.
anybody know what the odds of survival from acute myocarditis are, over 10 years? 50%. want to know the odds i will have to bury this guy? flip a coin.
It's heartbreaking. There were a few jab injury stories posted on the twitter thread too often they spawned and became their own thread. Lives were ruined in so many ways and it looks like it was all a preplanned move to steer everybody towards the conjabs. Prayers for your friend...
Hearing my best friend cry over the phone when the hospital that eventually intubated his wife to death after 3 weeks of covid treatment protocol would not allow him to see her in person until minutes after her death, dressed in a full body suit standing next to his dead sweetheart.
Hugs
Thank you.
So much. I got kicked out of the gym, attempted to go to events and got turned around at the door due to not having the vaccine passport, declining invitations to speak at conferences, trying to wrestle a mask onto my two-year old on a flight, realizing that old friends and family were quietly avoiding me, losing a family relationship…
One of the worst things is watching my long-term friend kill her own business because she’s too fearful of covid to continue. She complains how covid killed her income and now she’s really behind. She puts barrier up after barrier to keep from having any new customers. I only talk to her on Zoom. One day, I offered to give her some stuff that I had that she’d be interested in. She said that maybe, if there was a nice enough day and we could sit outside, and maybe, if I wore a mask and we distanced, and maybe - insert excuse here - and I realized I’ll probably never see my friend again.
When I woke up from a nightmare the last night I slept next to (my now ex) -a nightmare that was as simple as a bandaid on my arm. I had to assume her injections had been transfected to me, from that nightmare, and I could not sleep near her again. The ex-partner and her son continue to call me crazy for simply being online alot and trying to parse what is going on. I never did facebook and was never an online person before, but they do not see this. I fear the vaxxed and they do not understand why quite yet.