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LSWCHP's avatar

I retired early after 30 years employment when the CEO sent around an all staff email in late 2021 saying he was going to mandate the Vax for all staff. Unlike me, most people went along and got jabbed like sheep.

I had lunch with one of my ex-colleagues recently, and in a hushed whisper with a wide-eyed expression she told me that she thought the vaccines had hurt some people, and were causing others to catch cancer and other diseases. This, from someone who had been an enthusiastic pusher of the vaccine and booster scam.

Having had my mother recently die from a bizarre turbo-cancer, and my niece crippled by heart disease post vax, and several other ex-colleagues drop dead out of the blue, all I could think was "Well no shit, Sherlock".

There must be hundreds of millions of people like her experiencing profound cognitive dissonance over this massive turnaround in the narrative.

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James M.'s avatar

It's a bit of a pickle: it's unattractive and not terribly productive to say 'I told you so' (which I can't say anyway, since I harbored no doubts about the vaccines at first) BUT people need to understand that their decisions and their enthusiastic embrace of vicious, group morality was incredibly damaging. Without recognition and remorse we're due for some kind of repeat, sooner rather than later.

We should start with a general recognition that you can't offload ethical responsibility to the group or the IR board or the corporate hierarchy. You can't claim that you THOUGHT it was correct, and that's why you treated dissenters like shit and happily bullied people. Anytime one finds oneself punishing dissenters or cracking down on inconvenient expression the danger zone is not far.

In that film 'Kingdom of Heaven' there's a quote that I enjoy:

Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power... when you stand before God, you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thus" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that.

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