Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 12:54pm
I take no issue with those that are leery of a jab from a new vaccine, I can understand their reservations.
I take issue with those who use this particular vaccine as a springboard to promote their own agenda and deliberately spread false and misleading information about vaccines in general.
(My favourite bit of nonsense though has to be that Bill Gates is going to use the vaccine to insert a nanochip in us all. The breadth and depth of the utter tinfoil-hatted craziness in that bit of complete nonsense is absolutely breathtaking)
Jenni, you are of course perfectly entitled to continue wearing a mask - and I am sure many people will. But at some point we have to work together to try and bring / show reassurance, and try restore some form of normality. It's too easy for people to become afraid, for the fear to take hold, become pervasive. Then "when things are better" slowly becomes an undefined and indeterminate time, used as a reason not to go out; and people continue to suffer. Not just small businesses, restaurants, cafes, bars because people are just too afraid to now step outside their isolation bubbles, but the mental health of people. If the fear continues to be reinforced, many more will feel a sense of hopelessness and the resultant depression may well lead to more unnecessary loss of life.
We MUST respect this virus, we must combat it, and take the right measures to combat it. But we must NOT let it control us, take over our lives, force us into living in fear. However you term it, whatever you choose to call the self-isolation, whatever colour you paint it, you. are. living. in. fear.
Not screaming, knee-shaking terror. But a fear that your leaving the house may infect someone else, that you may pick up something and unknowingly carry it elsewhere and a thousand other instances of excuses not to leave your house or go to a restaurant or for a walk or ..or ... or ....
If we all wait "until it is better", there will be nothing left to have waited for. And then we'll all complain that our favourite bars and restaurants and shops etc have closed down and it's all the governments fault.
But it won't be. It'll be our fault for not respecting the virus, but instead letting unreasoning fear control us.
This will not be a popular opinion, I know I am going to take fire for daring suggest we all stop letting fear control us. But before the keyboard warriors let loose their salvos, take time to read what I have written. I am not suggesting there is no pandemic, I am not suggesting the measures we are taking are a form of government control, I am not suggesting we breach curfew, go on marches and demonstrations, demand and end to restrictions etc. etc. All I am suggesting is that when curfew is lifted, when borders are opened, when we are once again allowed to move about, let us try and go about our daily lives as normally as possible within the framework of whatever restrictions still exist.
Respect the virus, take appropriate measures.
Don't let fear of it control you.