re: Biggest red flag at the outset of the pandemic that made you doubt the official narrative?

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to be fair, weren’t most of those people masked up and outdoors?

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No.

And then the same people saying it wouldn’t spread at BLM protests were clamoring to have anyone who protested anything else or performed an outdoor mass arrested.

The fact that you would even post a response to that stupidity that starts with “to be fair…” is the least surprising thing I’ve read on here in a long time.

When protests were ok, but church gatherings were getting those people arrested, I knew it was all a sham.

There was one day in May 2021 where Fauci suggested that one mask wasn’t enough, and people needed to wear two masks. And then, literally the next day, the CDC declared that vaccinated people didn’t have to wear masks after all, which caused states, localities, and businesses to all lift mask mandates that very day. In a span of one day, we went from being told to double mask to being told we didn’t need to wear masks anymore.

And there also was the constantly changing narrative of the vaccine’s effectiveness, from 95% effective against infection to the vaccine will keep you out of the hospital to the vaccine will keep you out of the ICU to the vaccine will keep you from dying to the current narrative where they have to hide those studies that seemingly show the vaccine to actually increase likelihood of infection.

All in all, it’s been such a clown show.

Gyms had to stay closed

But every fast food joint had lines wrapped around the building and blocking streets

And the clown mayor of NYC was giving away fast food as a reward for getting jabs

All while older and extremely obese people were the main people having issues with COVID

Let’s not forget the evil fricks that helped perpetuate the Covid lie by not letting spouses/kids see their dying relatives.

I respect whatever fear or anxiety people may have had, especially based on how the pandemic was perpetuated in the media, everyone's there own person and entitled to act however they see fit but I HATED what it represented for our society as a working force as someone raised to be a hard worker by a vet, so here goes re: the OP:

For me, it hit me when employees, truthfully or not, realized they could even leverage the threat of covid that they had or even if they thought they were exposed to because they understood that was an automatic work excuse, they didn't have to test positive they just had to claim to have been in contact with someone who did and if they claimed to have a symptom, true or not, and if they were afraid of additional exposure we had to respect that and it was difficult to require timelines and DRs notes at that time because it only took a comment of "my niece tested positive and I have a cough this morning and i hung out with her 4 days ago" to qualify for a potential "risk."

I honestly, at that point in my career, thought that a power had been given to the workforce that they'd never relinquish. It was tougher for me based on what it represented about the deviation from the "work hard" mentality that I was raised on. I'm discouraged, not simply because of that limited effect I can speak about, I also know people that lost loved ones and that's no joke, but I think the underlying consequence is what it's done to our society as a whole, that's the long lasting impact that will show up for generations to come. There are people that sat at home during covid, had children while not working, and will likely never be a contributing member of society, those are now the role models in some places.

That's just my .02

Oh, and the fact that flue deaths proportionately declined as Covid deaths went up.

And there were no net gains in mortality rates during that time period.

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No you fricking moron.

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what BLM protest (or anything really) happened indoors that summer?

And the Venn diagram of hardcore maskers and BLM protesters was basically a circle