I'm 60+ years old, retired, spent almost 20 years working at the health department in IT, so I'm not a medical professional but had to attend all the first responder trainings after 9/11. Being an IT type I'm curious about a lot of things and paid attention to my training no matter what it was. In the 2000's we had a couple of true pandemics that no one gave a shit about. We didn't even wear masks at the health department at the HIV clinic, a human pox we didn't have a handle on yet.
Fast forward to today. My wife of almost 40 years, who (I think) has been voting conservative all this time, is shrieking (not exaggerating) at me for refusing to get the "vaccine". And every other conservative I know has gotten in line to get it. The stupid part is, if YOU have been vaccinated, and you believe it's effective, then why the hell should you care if I've had the shot or not? I can't make her understand this.
I didn't see this kind of hysteria with HIV, and we thought that might kill us all. Something has gone terribly askew on the treadle.
To be honest I’m somewhat glad COVID has woken people up on the vaccine fanatics. My wife and I were avoiding them for our kids and had to keep it quiet out of fear from people attacking us. The idea that somehow my child is a walking contagion while perfectly healthy because they haven’t received a vaccine is asinine. And if they work so well, and you and yours have them, then there is no need to be frightened of those that don’t or if contracting the disease. The pro vaccine marketing campaign has been going for years and the brainwashing is deep seeded with millions. They don’t even ask questions, look at the ingredients, or question whether they are healthy for their child as an individual. Meanwhile they’ll scrutinize the cereal box at the store for bad ingredients but the intravenous chemicals? Nah, labcoat man on the tv said it’s fine...