I was shouting from the highest mountaintops I could find, banging pots, blaring sirens to the best of my ability that it was all wrong in early March, 2020, to no avail. No matter how much research I shared, official protocols used by public health policymakers, their own official guidelines, voices they had at the ready right up until then, all of it was disregarded. I was called all kinds of disparaging names, my 'selfish freeDUM' meant I wanted people to die, dear friends who knew me, knew better joined the bandwagon of attackers.
But I shared away, kept sharing info as I discovered it. Not crazy YouTube videos of conspiratorial schemes, but high quality academic and governing materials. So many fights ensued until I shut down my social media account in January, 2021 as this government showed they could and would and were criminalizing free speech.
I'll often go back to my early 2020 comments and posts for research material and insights I shared then that are still timely, that disprove the "but we didn't know, were doing the best we could." No. No that's simply not true. That's a lie, they - public health officials, elected officials, media, doctors, lawyers, they all lie.
They either chose to ignore what was known and was readily available (moreso) to them as it was for me. Or they failed to think. And snapped obediently into line with the lies coming from those they stupidly trusted.
My social media had connections to hundreds of past and current elected officials, doctors, lawyers - even a prominent constitutional law civil rights lawyer known for taking high profile cases of civil liberty violations. 99% of them bought into the tyrannical restrictions on our rights. Even the prominent lawyer: "They won't mandate masks." "Nobody is being arrested for not wearing masks." "They won't mandate vaccines." "Nobody is being arrested or denied their civil liberties for not being vaccinated." "BLM protests are a valid reason to violate restrictions on gathering in groups, supersedes the restrictions...but protests against restrictions themselves don't and are therefore dangerous, and so the restrictions on them are not civil rights violations and necessary for public safety." An accomplished civil rights attorney with many victories at SCOTUS on high profile cases actually said these things on my social media.
I'm able to look back at my writings I exported and find it to be very accurate and predictive. It's withstood the test of time. If anything I underestimated how totalitarian it would become, how stacked a deck we are up against in the courts and culture. I believed while flawed, we were better protected from official harms.
No, too many 'friends' who've seen the error of their ways are just as susceptible to doing it all again. If not health then race, gender, war, politics, wherever a fissure in society can be used to divide many of these 'friends' will do it all over again. Fail to think, will just obey their opinion leaders.
We find allies where we can, the forces of totalitarianism aligned against us are powerful and having fewer of them shooting at us is helpful. But they aren't anyone I want to share a Foxhole with. And if ever in one with them I'll sleep with one eye open. Thanks for reminding others, not just 'letting it go.'
I was shouting from the highest mountaintops I could find, banging pots, blaring sirens to the best of my ability that it was all wrong in early March, 2020, to no avail. No matter how much research I shared, official protocols used by public health policymakers, their own official guidelines, voices they had at the ready right up until then, all of it was disregarded. I was called all kinds of disparaging names, my 'selfish freeDUM' meant I wanted people to die, dear friends who knew me, knew better joined the bandwagon of attackers.
But I shared away, kept sharing info as I discovered it. Not crazy YouTube videos of conspiratorial schemes, but high quality academic and governing materials. So many fights ensued until I shut down my social media account in January, 2021 as this government showed they could and would and were criminalizing free speech.
I'll often go back to my early 2020 comments and posts for research material and insights I shared then that are still timely, that disprove the "but we didn't know, were doing the best we could." No. No that's simply not true. That's a lie, they - public health officials, elected officials, media, doctors, lawyers, they all lie.
They either chose to ignore what was known and was readily available (moreso) to them as it was for me. Or they failed to think. And snapped obediently into line with the lies coming from those they stupidly trusted.
My social media had connections to hundreds of past and current elected officials, doctors, lawyers - even a prominent constitutional law civil rights lawyer known for taking high profile cases of civil liberty violations. 99% of them bought into the tyrannical restrictions on our rights. Even the prominent lawyer: "They won't mandate masks." "Nobody is being arrested for not wearing masks." "They won't mandate vaccines." "Nobody is being arrested or denied their civil liberties for not being vaccinated." "BLM protests are a valid reason to violate restrictions on gathering in groups, supersedes the restrictions...but protests against restrictions themselves don't and are therefore dangerous, and so the restrictions on them are not civil rights violations and necessary for public safety." An accomplished civil rights attorney with many victories at SCOTUS on high profile cases actually said these things on my social media.
I'm able to look back at my writings I exported and find it to be very accurate and predictive. It's withstood the test of time. If anything I underestimated how totalitarian it would become, how stacked a deck we are up against in the courts and culture. I believed while flawed, we were better protected from official harms.
No, too many 'friends' who've seen the error of their ways are just as susceptible to doing it all again. If not health then race, gender, war, politics, wherever a fissure in society can be used to divide many of these 'friends' will do it all over again. Fail to think, will just obey their opinion leaders.
We find allies where we can, the forces of totalitarianism aligned against us are powerful and having fewer of them shooting at us is helpful. But they aren't anyone I want to share a Foxhole with. And if ever in one with them I'll sleep with one eye open. Thanks for reminding others, not just 'letting it go.'
...and interesting art!
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Being UnVaccinated,
I Woke Up This Morning And Realized,
I Am Science.
Full Disclosure:
I’ve Never Been In A Fair Fight.
And I’m Not About To Let Up Now.
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