Well, with vicious emotions and arguments like, Do you want to be a grandma killer? It was hard not to fall in line. What was so hard about that was how perfectly it sat in the middle of what is right and wrong, what is and isn’t common sense, what is the best for those around you.
When you are accused of not caring about other people, or of being a murderer, it’s hard to stand your ground.
I remember when I gave in to getting vaccinated. As a teacher, it was really hard to withstand the precious of other teachers, the expectations of parents, and even to look into the eyes of students who were totally afraid of the unvaccinated. I gave in using the “I’ll do it and make the sacrifice if it means my kids don’t have to do it” logic. Which was stupid, but fortunately, I never let my kids get the shots.
This is the trap that has been set for us, pitting us against each other. Making us comply because if we don't we're seen as harming others. Great fodder for tyranny, which is, I fear, what we are being conditioned for. Most of the people I know did it all then, and would do it all again.
Whenever I complained that I was being discriminated against because of a lifestyle choice I had made regarding medical treatments, they always said
Maddening! That sentiment only made me even more determined not to do so.
Thank you for not vaccinating your children. Did they have trouble because of that? When I think of what we did to our children, I am especially disturbed.
No. Fortunately, they were just at or under the age where they started recommending it, and for whatever reason, they didn’t make it mandatory for US citizens to be vaccinated when returning to the U.S. so everything worked out just fine. I was dead set about not having them vaccinated, but I didn’t have to draw any lines or be confrontational either.
Now it’s all blown over and nobody knows who has or hasn’t been vaccinated. Crazy, isn’t it?
Absolutely bonkers. I would not say it has all blown over though. I know a young mother who won't allow her own mother to visit her children unless the grandmother has had the most recent booster. The grandmother has now had eight or more shots. It should come as no suprise by now that the mother also has covid, at at least feels sick and has tested positive, right now. The poor woman has been non stop sick with covid, or RSV. Never the flu, oh no it's never the same disease we've all had multiple times over our lifetimes and recovered from. No, this is the big bad covid. She is walking around her home with a mask on so she doesn't infect her husband, and is very angry at him for not wearing a mask himself. She's a highly intelligent woman.
All that nonsense could come back with one press release.
It sounds like things aren’t so bad in Japan, but that could also just be my limited view of the situation.