Also, having lived through all that, there's no way it was worth any of it - from being told that we couldn't even leave the country (nevermind getting back in), to people not being able to go to work across state borders (we have cities and towns that straddle them), to people who I know not being able to attend family funerals, to me not getting to see my grandfather in the nursing home before he died (as an unvaxxed plague rat, you see) - it was an evil, truly morally repugnant time, and all for a virus that spread like wildfire anyway, and yet had a mortality rate about as bad as the flu.
None of it was worth it. At all. And that includes their eventual, much-delayed "solution" to the borders.
And i say that as an "immunocompromised" person. I was shamed and almost physically attacked by extended family for my "vaccine stance", and I will never forgive them for that, let alone the grandfather thing. Never...
So yeah, I wouldn't be defending any of the actions that "our" government took, at this point.
Also, having lived through all that, there's no way it was worth any of it - from being told that we couldn't even leave the country (nevermind getting back in), to people not being able to go to work across state borders (we have cities and towns that straddle them), to people who I know not being able to attend family funerals, to me not getting to see my grandfather in the nursing home before he died (as an unvaxxed plague rat, you see) - it was an evil, truly morally repugnant time, and all for a virus that spread like wildfire anyway, and yet had a mortality rate about as bad as the flu.
None of it was worth it. At all. And that includes their eventual, much-delayed "solution" to the borders.
And i say that as an "immunocompromised" person. I was shamed and almost physically attacked by extended family for my "vaccine stance", and I will never forgive them for that, let alone the grandfather thing. Never...
So yeah, I wouldn't be defending any of the actions that "our" government took, at this point.
/endrant