It’s pretty fucking close.
I get it. We are all disappointed that more people are not sticking together in refusing the jabs and telling those asking for a passport to fuck off. I am beyond sad. Our freedoms are being eroded because the fat Americans have fallen for this stupid idea that a document that has been undermined since the day it was signed would protect them. It’s as if they think the Constitution is a bullet proof vest. You can’t hide behind a piece of paper or a flag for protection.
The problem is, that document is only as good as the people, not the courts, not the politicians, not the votes, but the people who are willing to legitimize the words with direct action and direct consequences for violations. That document wasn’t about the government keeping itself in check. It’s about the people holding the government accountable. If people think it works some other way, they are flat blind and dumb. Look around!
So, yes, I get it. More people need to be holding the tyrants accountable and not capitulating. It is frustrating when people play Russian Roulette with a needle to keep a roof over their heads.
But telling them they weren’t “forced” to take the jab? What the fuck is that? What the fuck even is that?
You don’t know their situation.
I can tell you if they waited all this time to play Russian Roulette with a needle until it was mandatory to not only keep their job but to prevent them from being out of work anywhere in their entire state in their field of practice, they understand the potential risk just as much as those who refused. Don’t undermine these people’s decision by saying it wasn’t force. Just stop!
You don’t seem to realize how many of these people were already living hand to mouth, to feed their kids, to keep a roof over their heads, to keep the state from showing up and forcibly (you want to talk force?) removing their kids from them for not complying, for not keeping their kids financially secure in a home and then, the state eventually jacking their kids full of injections. If you don’t see that outcome, you are not edgy for belittling their choice. You’re 3 steps behind the curve.
Have some compassion.
I sat through one jackass today lecturing me on the virtues of dumpster diving to mitigate the risk of starvation as an alternative to vaccination. So that’s the plan? He went on to describe how he has successfully dumpster dived on a couple occasions, so others can, too.
What an asshole!
Where is the perspective here? 72,000 healthcare workers in NYC are out of work and their families possibly out of food shortly thereafter and all of them are expected to dumpster dive because you have? I have done a lot of low things in my day, but I don’t wish those experiences upon anyone else nor do I recommend them. I don’t. That sounds terribly sadistic. Honestly, it sounds like your miserable ass needs company- in a dumpster. How pathetic.
Again, why are we shaming people who when caught between a rock and a hard place chose the rock rather than the hard place? Shouldn’t the focus of shame and blame and whatnot be placed on the politicians and the employers making these absurd ultimatums?
And what do you suppose these employers and their supporters think when they see you suggesting that what they were doing was any less than forceful?
I’ll tell you what they think. They are patting themselves on the back and praising themselves because of your validation. They put 72,000 valiant healthcare workers out of jobs overnight, and your suggestion that it was merely a simple choice of the healthcare workers to decline (or not) is helping them to sleep better at night. You are pointing your wagging finger toward the wrong people.
So, please, spare everyone the virtue signaling. My husband walked away from his job over the mask mandate, not even on him, but on his clients. It was a very conscious decision we made. We believe it was right for us and others. We have been taken care of in one way or another ever since. However, we live with some pretty heavy uncertainty without a stable flow of income. We wonder every few months what we’ll do in another few months until some fortune turns our way again. I wish it was less terrifying and stressful. I feel no sense of virtue or moral superiority over people who have made a different choice. I realize some people are in far more difficult situations with less support systems around them than we have. All I have for people getting injected to keep the wolves at bay is prayers and compassion. For those who lost their jobs for not taking the needle, I have great praise and wish to help them in every way I can.
You want to stick it to the man? Offer to raise funds for your friends who feel they are being forced into getting a vaccine. Give them an alternative or at least a cushion to find another position.
This situation the world is in right now is fucked up. It has everything to do with ignorant assholes and zero to do with a virus. But, please, before you undermine, marginalize or in some way belittle someone’s decision to get a vaccine who only did so to keep food in their kids’ mouths, think about whom you are really upset with. Think about how your anger towards people being injected and the weird way you show it just distracts from the true enemy and lets those responsible for your contempt off the hook.
Let’s be the solution to these problems rather than creating more of a burden.