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??
The site has been having difficulties loading, for me, for days, but tonight it went down for hours… Cloudflare said “Internal Server Error”, but even earlier in the day I was getting 500 Errors…
NNN seemed to go down as well…
Timing is super, super suss.
Or was that on my end?? Seems unlikely, given both my phone AND both computer browsers I use couldn’t load it, and had the same error…
I ask because I’ve just been “diagnosed” with a chronic illness (YMMV. Second opinions, yay! 🙄), and I am not kidding when I say that the public healthcare system where I am IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER MY LIFE…
Monthly treatments, for the rest of my life (not gonna happen), blood tests every month, MRIs every 3 months, specialist appointments every 4-6, “compulsory” flu and coof injections, etc, etc, etc…
Some of that I may put up with (if it helps). Some I will not.
But I just wonder… Can they actually force me?? This isn’t America, I know (it’s Aus. Aus is fucked.), but… Surely it’s my choice, right, unless they can prove I’m “not of sound mind”..? Surely..?!?
More scared of losing my freedoms than the fucking disease, tbh. By a long shot…
Things are absolutely off the rails, here. The camps they’re building. The fact that you literally cannot apply for a job, now, without “the vaxx”. The fact that the few “celebrities” and famous people who held out have now been coerced, for fear of losing their jobs (Sam Frost, David Reynolds, the Carlton AFL player, etc), the fact that restrictions ARE GETTING MORE EXTREME, for the unvaccinated, as more people get “jabbed”.
The talk of boosters, and how THEY will be mandated next. The ever-changing media narrative, and the gaslighting, such as “it was always meant to be this way”, particularly on state funded sources. The fact that the very worst conspiracy theories about all this, HAVE ALMOST ALL BEEN PROVEN TO BE TRUE. The demonization, the violent rhetoric, the threats to prevent us from travelling interstate (INCLUDING TO OUR HOMES), or to literally remove our healthcare. It is, on the whole, absolutely fucking terrifying…
It’s seriously getting to the point where I don’t think this society can survive, like this. They’ll either kill those of us that resist, or we’ll have to fight back, by all means necessary. It’s fucking insane.
Even LockdownSkepticismAU on Preddit is turning, as I’ve said before… They’re beginning to become weirdly resigned to it, and weirdly aggressive towards anyone who dares suggest that resistance is absolutely necessary. Or, at least, some posts there have become that.
But it’s not just online. At my doctor, I get insulted for not being “double jabbed”. At the hospital, they sneer and mock me. Even when I was LITERALLY GOING FOR MY FIRST DOSE, they mocked and verbally abused me for “taking so long”…
Go to cafés, sometimes they’ll be ranting about “plague rats”. Go to visit family in the nursing home, they’lol tell you how they plan to lock you out, and mandate boosters. Even my psycho abusive parents have started turning the screws now…
What the fuck is going on??
I hate to seek reassurance, like this, but seriously, it’s… Beginning to feel like I’m in a cult, and I’m one of very, very few I can see who is actually even QUESTIONING this shit, let alone actually calling it out…
I’m not sure I can go on like this.
If my Uni mandates vaccination, even for online classes,that may very well be it, for me, I think…
Or if I literally can’t even travel interstate, or go to the hospital, or visit my grandfather in the nursing home. Those are red lines. If those get crossed..? I’m not quite sure what I’ll do, but I fucking won’t stand for it, I’ll say that much…
Can’t live like that. Not in the long term. Masks and check-ins (plus “social distancing”, capacity limits and STILL many, many closed/shuttered businesses) are bad enough. 😞
