I haven’t seen anything like this around these parts. A vaccinated Australian has written an Op-Ed in which they thank the unvaccinated. For what? “[T]heir perseverance and courage bought us the time to see we were wrong.”
The unvaccinated are the heroes of the last two years as they allowed us all to have a control group in the great experiment and highlight the shortcoming of the Covid vaccines. The unvaccinated carry many battle scars and injuries as they are the people we tried to mentally break, yet no one wants to talk about what we did to them and what they forced “The Science“ to unveil. We knew that the waning immunity of the fully vaccinated had the same risk profile as others within society as the minority of the unvaccinated, yet we marked them for special persecution. You see we said they had not “done the right thing for the greater good” by handing their bodies and medical autonomy over to the State.
It’s quite the mea culpa, actually, complete with plenty of finger-pointing at “leaders” who “ admitted the goal was to make life almost unlivable for the unvaccinated, which was multiplied many times by the collective mob, with the fight taken into workplaces, friendships, and family gatherings.”
Remember, this was Australia. We wrote at least a few pieces on what we thought we knew was happening there. None of it was pleasant. Most of what was happening was fascist. So, this letter puts some of that in focus.
We took pleasure in scapegoating the unvaccinated because after months of engineered lockdowns by political leaders blinded by power, having someone to blame and to burn at the stake felt good. We believed we had logic, love, and truth on our side so it was easy to wish death upon the unvaccinated. Those of us who ridiculed and mocked the non-compliant did it because we were embarrassed by their courage and principles and didn’t think the unvaccinated would make it through unbroken and we turned the holdouts into punching bags.
I’m sure there are places in America where these descriptions carry more weight, but we hear echoes of our experience in those words. But one mea culpa does not a cultural shift, make. “The mobs, the mask Nazis, and the vaccine disciples” are still here, yearning to return us to full-blown, pandemic-lockdown protocols because they “worked.”
No, not to prevent the spread, keep people out of hospitals, or save lives. They were incapable of doing those things. By “worked,” I mean the mass social engineering of the people. And I know you knew that too. That’s what this became, and the unvaccinated, those who refused to bow to the mask nazis of the COVID Karens, were or are all that stood between liberty and public health marshall law.
The opinion author notes near his closing, “We should all try and find some inner gratitude for the unvaccinated as we took the bait by hating them because their perseverance and courage bought us the time to see we were wrong.”
Not everyone has seen that, and far too many refuse. We still have much work to do but I promise we intend to do it.
