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??
Yeah as you said, it’s not the case where I live. People here are very skeptical of the vax and the government.
Oh that’s easy. People are not Christian for the most part anymore, but they still crave meaning and morality in their life, and this is their pale substitute.
They worship the state, the TV, “science”, and feel morally superior to people like you who dare to question “god”.
Yes you’ve stumbled upon the hard truth there. It won’t end until people make it end by not participating. There is light in the tunnel because people experiencing lockdowns even while they “did everything right” are annoyed, since they only took the shots to go back to normal and that is clearly not happening.
Also many people do not want to keep taking booster after booster, and now they see that two shots isn’t enough.
This will end within a year, at least in the states. If I was in Australia, I’d seek out like minded locals. Form a Telegram group. Support one another and offer advice and assistance.
From my outsider perspective, it doesn’t seem like Aussies are too bothered by government giving them a reach around. It will only end there when they get embarrassed because it’s already over in America and they’re still doing it.