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That was my first interaction with you. I just wanted to point out how it was financially forced for many people. Being here, I suspect you, like I, had a choice. It's really bending reality to say everyone had that choice in any sort of equal capacity. Again, you should really look into this more. Your experience, clearly, does not match the reality of many others.


Applologies, didn't pay enough attention to the username.


Don't ignore the rest. To save you effort, I'm a totally new person. Don't just apologize. You didn't acknowledge completely valid points.

Your misrepresentation deserves attention as well. Weasel arguments like this are so annoying to observe.

'Be the whole bitch.' I want you to realize you were on shit ground to begin with. The wrong person getting your ire is a distraction.

You went off on the slightest bit of hyperbole. The claim wasn't wrong, people were forced by the government and their employers to comply.

If you didn't want to suddenly risk your life being turned over, you had to participate in a grand social experiment. Individual risk assessment be damned.

Every reader deserves an apology for you, and now, me.

I'll close with an anecdote, why I care so much. I'm the un-monitored control group. I had absolutely no risk to the disease. Young, able bodied, living/working remotely in the woods for years.

Yet, to maintain employment and frankly, my standard of living, I had to endure additional risk. Because someone else has risk? How did this help?


I can't edit now, but to add/clarify... When I say no risk - I really mean it. I have receipts. I was a shut-in before it was cool. I participate in society only as much as I have to - employment, bills, voting, whatever.

To be direct: I don't generally go out and do things. I sleep, work, and pay. Complete subsistence.

My frustration comes from the imposition when I've already moved myself so far away, in every sense.

To be sporting I contracted it/recovered before the vaccine. As you can probably tell, I'm not worried about my own outcome. It wasn't that bad.

I could've handled the immaculate infection received in isolation. Without that, and being pulled back into society for the jab, I couldn't have infected anyone.

The point is plenty of us couldn't opt out, when really, we could - with the powers that be having the slightest bit of grace, tact, or whatever.

That's the problem. It was ham-fisted. That's politics. Once objectified, reason went out the window. End of.

An excellent case for the road to hell being paved with good intentions. This isn't singular; others and myself have all told 'nitwit005' similar stories.




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