Anyone else notice this?
Fairly unsubstantiated post, based on personal experience, and on what I am seeing elsewhere.
As a "not fully vaccinated" person, society is closing in, increasingly. I am barely allowed to participate in goings-on, anymore. My family shuns and shames me. My "friends" have essentially abandoned me. Shit is getting very, very real, now...
Mask mandates are ubiquitous, across 6 or 7 out of the Australian jurisdictions, including the one I am stuck in. Vaccine mandates, too. I'm not allowed to work. I essentially can't "go out". In another state, they want to make mandates apply in supermarkets, too, so you essentially won't be able to buy food...
"Social distancing" is also ubiquitously still in place. Businesses are closing EVERYWHERE, because they can't make money. Governments are constantly threatening "new lockdowns" and curfews, because, duhh, Omicron, means rising case numbers. It's genuinely scary to see where things are going...
Aside from not currently being in lockdown, we are currently the most restricted we have ever been. Ever. Especially if you are "unvaccinated", or, increasingly, unboosted...
Very soon, people like me won't even be able to enter a university campus, or even study online. Can't work, can't study. Logic...
And people ABSOLUTELY lap this up. Media coverage is UNIVERSALLY for more restrictions. Almost everyone I know, and encounter "IRL" is all for it. As is the entirety of local Reddit, aside from, obviously, the "critical" or "skeptical" subs. Worse than that, if you question ANY element of it, you are shamed, ostracised, demonized, treated worse than dirt. Why?
I know this isn't the case everywhere. Not in Red states. Not in Mexico, per se. Not in Japan. Not in parts of Eastern Europe, or Africa, or elsewhere. But it is, here. It IS, in NZ. It IS in Blue states. It IS in the UK, and in France, and in Germany, and in Austria, and in the Netherlands. Some of those places are even more extreme than where I am, despite less compliant populations, and lower vaxx rates...
When, and how does this end?? Next year will almost certainly be worse. In fact, for me personally, I 100% guarantee it will be.
When will people wake up? Will they ever?? What the fuck are we going to do?? How do we actually push back? I'm genuinely beginning to think that this WON'T end, because people simply do not want it to, so... Where do we go from here??
You tell me.
I'm in a red state, you're the one in Australia.
You're the one who has to tell yourself: "I don't want to die, but I refuse to live like this."
You tell me when you're ready to say that.
Ok, sure. What then? What can I do?
Go out on my own? Make a fuss? Get myself arrested? Great, how productive. Now I can't even fight back.
Build an online community? Try and "redpill" other people? Try to get other people to "wake up" IRL..?
I'm already doing that. I'm VERY actively involved in that movement, here. Could I do more? Sure. Is it ACTUALLY doing anything, or having any real effect? Fucking barely, clearly.
So what? I can't really fucking DO much, if my fellow citizens love all this, lap it up, and call for EVEN MORE restrictions on people like me.
I AM trying, but the momentum just... Doesn't seem to be there. People want this, and they are such a supermajority that I am realistically not sure what to do except get out, as soon as I can. Because what is there left, here?
Of course, without being doubly vaccinated, I cannot even leave the country, or cross state borders, so there's that, too...
Do you understand why the American government must tread on eggshells?
Because in this country there are a hundred million gun owners and only five million armed public servants.
You can gamble your life to make the government fear you, or you can fear your government. This is the choice the Founders made. This is the choice your ancestors refused to make.
That the price is higher today does not change the nature of it.
You can curse your ancestors all you want for being shortsighted and lazy but that does not change your situation.
An Afghani goat herder understands freedom more than you do. We occupied their country for twenty years and they drove us out.
I will say one thing, at least: It wasn't my ancestors, per se. I was two, when they bought back the guns, and banned most of them. Two.
So in fact, it was my parents' and grandparents' generations, if we want to count them as "ancestors", who voted for the government that did that...
There was no referendum. No "plebiscite". The government just went out and made it law, and people complied...
So... Sure. But there's plenty of other shit that I would more readily blame them for than just that.
Yes. And you ask us when it will end.
To which we ask you, when are you willing to storm the Bastille?
Americans understand this. Next week the Supreme Court WILL strike down the vaccine mandate. But we intuitively know what would happen if they did not. What would happen if ALL civil means of disagreeing with the policy were exhausted. That all would be left would be uncivil means, and people would start dying. And when a whole third of the country is saying "fuck no", it would get messy fast.
The only reason America isn't already torn apart in civil war is the belief that the system still works despite an incompetent executive and an absentee legislature.
Your parents and grandparents were sheep. Now you are being sheered.
Guess what would happen in the US if the gov't.just said, "Oh yeah, we signed it into law that you have to turn in your guns?"
The answer is, the people involved in trying to pull that kind of shit would be shot to death. And then revolution. So the US gov't ain't never gonna try that...
Getting arrested is fighting back.
One of the reasons why BLM idiots aren't arrested even in moderate areas is because these towns don't want to spend the money to jail them. There's too many of them. They can make an example of a few, but if it's not a red state they know more idiots will swarm in to 'protest' with firebombs.
Of course the first thing AU will do if you get jailed is to hold you down and jab you, but if you're more troubled by your country's rapid descent into fascism than the jab it's a price worth paying. Although with mandatory voting you're pretty much fucked, just a matter of time before your country falls to mob rule.
Well also those Soros-backed DAs told them to just release the rioters.