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I am grateful for Dr. Makary. His voice was one I listened to during this ordeal. It will be years before we truly understand the harm caused by the draconian measures prescribed by Dr. Fauci. IMO the damage this one man has done is incalculable. I was 60 when this started. I don’t have any health issues, not overweight, no high blood pressure, not even high cholesterol, just some arthritis. I decided to wait before getting the vaccine. I was fearful of the rush to embrace it despite all the assurances. All I wanted was time to see how everything played out before I signed up for, what appeared to me to be, mass hysteria. I hadn’t anticipated the demonizing of anyone who thinks outside the box….a quality valued once upon a time. Our boob President Biden, with the assistance of big tech and MSM, painted a white strip down the backs of all of those who did. Just like Fauci and Collins did to the Great Barrington Declaration. If you read the Declaration you will understand how much sense it made. The price I paid, while not as high as losing my job or educational learning, was among family, friends, colleagues, and associations. I was banned from everything and whispered about because I was “one of those”. Many well intentioned people took me aside and “for my own good” lectured me on my choice and then scorned me, others just scorned me. I will not forget! I will never ever consider what comes out of the CDC or any of our other politicized institutions, which means just about all of them, to be anything I should put stock in. As for my friends and family who followed all this garbage, well, let’s say they’re on the bottom of my Christmas card list.

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ES's avatar

i hear you. Total dedication to the Covid shot narrative has fractured my relationship with my father, possibly forever. I didn't care if you want to take the shot. I just wanted to wait to see the side effects because I knew my survival from Covid, according to actual SCIENCE from Stanford, not Fauci, is 99.98%. But as the data rolled out, the horrifying anecdotes came rolling in, and I knew 5 people younger than 50 who all died of either heart attacks or strokes, I knew it wasn't for me (or anyone honestly). My CNN NYT loving father has called me a racist, conspiracy theorist, an anti-scientist (I'm a trained scientist in the earth sciences so that's laughable), all because his GODS (aka Fauci, Biden, and friends) have told him again and again that I'm evil because I didn't take the shot. I had covid a month ago. My 6 week old had covid too. I took IVM and was fine after 48 hours. My daughter, taking nothing but breastmilk, fine after 12 hours. My father still asked me if I was now going to take the shot now since Novavax was finally FDA approved!! Madness.

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So sad about your relationship with your father. Sadder that he still thinks the vax is a good idea. All this demonization of people just trying to do the right thing for themselves, and all the dramatic judgement, is the unfortunate product of a government determined to keep the masses asses. To the egomaniacal elites we are just a bunch of hamsters on wheels. I will never bend the knee.

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Sandy's avatar

The 1984esque recommendation to ostracize friends and family members were so awful I could hardly believe they came from fellow Americans.

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