re: The COVID pandemic was the dumbest thing I’ve ever experienced.

quote:

---

I dont understand stuff like this. How is taking percautions against something so deadly a bad thing? Not saying you even had to believe any of it. But trying to make people feel bad or wrong for doing their best to stop it by taking caution just seems wrong

---

Mandating a vaccine that didn’t really work at all in preventing covid so people could keep their job was unforgivable to me

The media never talked about the virus mutating. We were always a step behind each variant with each vaccine and booster that came out bc it was obsolete soon after thanks to the mutation

Biden flat out lied and said you won’t get Covid if you get the jab

Then they gaslit and said oh we didn’t make anyone get the jab against their will . Except you would be fired if you didn’t get the vaccine. The vaccine that worked so well you still got covid anyway and had to mask up around others who were also vaxxed .

I get it. People were sick. It sucked. People are always sick. We don’t stop everything in the world and change the way we live our lives because of it.

Ridiculous

My whole family had covid and came out fine. But I won't dismiss it as just another flu. I've been in the hospital a lot lately. And a lot of my nurses had family members die from it.

quote:

---

The thing that I would like you to ponder is the Chinese should have been trying to down play the severity if it indeed was an accidental leak.

---

They did play it down ... until they couldn't.

Following the inevitable exposure, China's effort was to scare their own folks indoors, and to show the world how wonderful they were in addressing the pandemic, compared to the west.

quote:

---

How is taking percautions against something so deadly a bad thing?
Not saying you even had to believe any of it.
But trying to make people feel bad or wrong for doing their best to stop it by taking caution just seems wrong

---

My theory is that they didn't have a complete understanding of the virus - I remember a thread on here with the title "People are dropping dead in the streets in Wuhan" - people were scared shitless and the initial CDC/NIH guidelines were broadly based best practices for limiting exposure/spread of any respiratory virus. Somewhere between the start and crest, though, CDC/NIH failed to convy/explain that fact and started acting miffed that anyone would question them.

At the same time, both sides turned the whole damn thing into a political squabble, which ended all chances for reason and sanity. When there was a statewide mask mandate, for example, one of my crazy neighbors was going into stores to deliberately violate the mandate so that she could record the encounter with the store employees, where she berated them as sheeple, oppressors, and idiots, and then got kicked out of the store, all so she could post the video of it all to Facebook, acting like she was Mel Gibson in Braveheart or something, so she could bask in the adulation of her little echo chamber of assholes. It makes these people feel special.

Had a well-attended service for her in May of 2020. Nary a mask in the place.

Flew all around the country in August, bought a 911 in Colorado, drove it back with my daughter. (She's better in the corners than me)

You can be weak, or you can be strong.


You decide.

quote:

---

My favorite part about Covid was that it was somehow not able to be spread at the BLM rallies in the summer of 2020.

---

Biden was a real POS for letting that happen.

quote:

---

Mandating a vaccine that didn’t really work at all in preventing covid so people could keep their job was unforgivable to me

---

Just think of it as a "fork in the road."

quote:

---

The media never talked about the virus mutating.

---

That has to be typo because they discussed mutations incessantly, particularly after the vaccine came out.

quote:

---

Biden flat out lied and said you won’t get Covid if you get the jab

---

I don't remember that, but it sounds like something he'd say.

quote:

---

Except you would be fired if you didn’t get the vaccine.

---

That was pretty much confined to the military, wasn't it?

quote:

---

My favorite part about Covid was that it was somehow not able to be spread at the BLM rallies in the summer of 2020

---

Once I saw Democrat leaders out in the crowd holding hands and saying this is bigger than any safety hazard and saw Traneisha and Maliqua twerking in the middle of these rallies, I knew right then and there covid was all bs and refused to wear a mask or go with anything they mandated.

quote:

---

I don't remember that, but it sounds like something he'd say.

---

It’s true and he berated the unvaxxed multiple times and said they were the cause of the virus not dying. Which was also 100% a lie.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-46a270ce0f681caa7e4143e2ae9a0211

quote:

---

That was pretty much confined to the military, wasn't it?

---

Nope, any private jobs connected to the gov or received federal funds were forced. Had a few friends that worked for Shell and they were told point blank take it or be fired. Biden and the rest of the democrats pushed it hard on the private sector. Starve or get the jab, but hey they didn’t force you to take it.