@finitelifeform If you want to know my, personal, feelings on the matter. I'm actually angry and disappointed. It was possible to eliminate this disease. We did it in New Zealand. China did it in Wuhan. Australia did it. It wasn't easy, we sacrificed. We sacrificed a month and a half of our lives to much stricter lockdowns than those that people in other countries chafe over. It was hard and it hurt, and it worked. The problem is that in other countries they weren't willing to make that sacrifice. Instead they put this disease on a slow burn. A lengthy, drawn out, politically dividing drain on the worlds resources. Because people weren't willing to sacrifice. I think our forebears would be extremely disappointed. Those that fought for our freedoms and were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice would be turning in their graves to see how little sacrifice people are willing to make now for the good of all.
So I'm angry. If people had made the sacrifice back then, all this whining about the vaccine wouldn't be necessary. They wouldn't make the sacrifice then and won't make it now, so people, like me, who covid would probably kill if I pick up the infection, have to pay the ultimate price for their entitled selfishness. Honestly, I sometimes wonder why I shouldn't just shoot those people in the head, after all, that's basically what they are doing to me right now. But I wouldn't, because I am better than them. I was willing to sacrifice, they weren't.
So when you talk of bringing people together and greater cohesiveness, just remember how I feel. People don't give a shit enough to care that their actions will probably kill me. I'm never going to be "together" with that.
I am with you. Thats why I asked. And I think everyone is asking the same question, even if its garbled in all the confusion, anger, bitterness etc. I think everybody means well yet they are forced to pick a side and to play a role, to essentially become judge and jury whilst also the defendent, while also the victim.
I dont want you to die and I am pretty sure no-one else does either. People dont want to hurt you either. They are guilty of wrong-think, not wrong-action. Like you, most people have had ZERO control over what has gone on. The blame has been shifted to the general public for the mess their governments have got onboard with. Everybody is being gaslighted into assuming the role of murderer and/or thought criminal. These people who are angry are angry because they have been made out to be murderers, criminals, dangers to society. All without a conviction, court hearing, crime being committed. Without any evidence. Please try to put yourself in their shoes. I know its hard.
Still though, what do you want from all this? Away from the politics and away from the darkness in the world. What do you want as an individual? Take everything away and imagine we all (whoever is present) met randomly on a mountain trek. We all have our own lives and soon will be returning to our own worlds. We shared this time together having been brought together through fate, law of attraction or whatever. What can people possibly do for you that is reasonable, fair and mutually beneficial? Asking people to sacrifice themselves isnt going to work. This isnt a sacrifice when its a war being waged with political agendas. It is self destruction and self harming and the eradication of integrity of the entire fabric of a persons being. It is a dysfunctional relationship based on domination and control with only side winning, and that is the side who wants the other to dissolve their own boundaries and to give away everything in order to make them happy. What does the other person get? It is clear they dont benefit. It is clear we are erring towards a divided society with the aim of everybody eventually being vaccinated and everybody living in an Orwellian dystopian nightmare, yourself included.
And I mean personally because again, this is personal, even if we have learned to stand behind the walls in our castle grounds.
What can people do? What do you want?
What can do we together to attempt to repair the damage done? And again, I mean on a personal level. Not speaking from the voice of the narrative. You as a person. We are all here and we want to know what we can do.
And again, we dont want you to die and we dont want to harm you. Nobody is trying to hurt you. I can see your perspective and I bet it must be frightening to wake up and fear this disease doing damage to you. I wouldnt know how to cope in that situation. But you are not alone, others are dying along side you only they are killing themselves, overdosing, running themselves into the ground and suffering severely. Many have died in this fight to protect people like you. Many millions. People made homeless, lost their jobs, lost their marriages, lost their homes, in debt, addicted to drugs, in domestically violent relationships, childrens educations ruined, children traumatized, a mental health crisis, economic crisis.
People ARE trying. That is evident. But trying isnt doing anything. This is going on and on for most people. They have done what they were asked. They had no choice. Their lives were stopped and forced into national lockdowns. Nobody avoided those.
Please think about the other side too. I say this with all respects due.
)I’m just mucking on that one, not building a Berlin wall.