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It's always tough to find good material on Sundays but this article is an exception. A touching description of not very bright parents who are Covidiots -- apparently scared of people who wisely chose to not get a Covid vaccine. That would be people like me, and the wife -- our decision made in December 2020. A vaccine developed in 9 months with only two months of safety testing? They must be kidding. We now know it is the least safe vaccine in history, by far, and effectiveness is short term. No effectiveness against Omicron or Omicron variants.
Total US deaths in 2021 with the vaccine were higher than in 2020 with no vaccine. Deaths with Covid were much higher in 2021. The worst vaccine in history. Yet there are many people living under a rock still claiming the Covid vaccine is safe and effective. Their "reasons": We got the vaccine, didn't die from it, and didn't get Covid. They are mental midgets.
Ye Editor
Source:
https://brownstone.org/articles/ive-lost-my-parents-to-covid-brainwashing/
... "This story is about loss, but not in the traditional sense.
I recently lost both of my parents.
They’re still alive, mind you, but I have lost them.
It’s almost like some older folks who lose their memory when dementia creeps in, but it’s more sudden, like when a new pimple pops up.
My parents have been divorced for over 45 years, so that’s not the loss to which I refer.
My newest loss of my parents has to do with vaccination.
They are Baby Boomers.
And, from what I can gather, the Polio vaccine was a major player in both of their lives during those formative years.
They were brought up to believe – just like every other child their age – that the vaccine was the be-all, end-all solution to Polio.
It ended up being a solution that, as my parents would both separately say, “saved many lives.”
This peculiar tribute to a drug in a needle bred complete believers.
They were evangelistic to the Polio vaccine through and through.
It literally runs through many of our veins.
My mom touted that in school, she and her peers were being asked to be part of the solution.
They were helping humankind by trying to solve this Polio problem.
Never had I heard any of these yesteryear stories from either parent until Covid.
Now, while I can talk on the phone, through email, text, and any other creative and ever-reliant tech means possible to both of my parents, I cannot see them again face-to-face.
This realization prompted a feeling of great loss inside me.
Neither of my parents uttered those words, but I know that is what they feel.
They are devout vaxxers who try to push me and my family into getting any and all, regardless of need or risk.
When we don’t comply, I feel they are intentionally punishing me by hinting that they can never see me, my husband, or their grandchildren again.
It is clear my mom is enveloped in fear.
She is still terrified that this virus is going to kill her and everyone she loves…though it has been around for well over two years and in her eyes, everything except our freedoms appear to be intact… as long as you get the shot..
My dad?
Over Trump’s presidency, my dad was sucked up in that media tornado that is still spinning murky substances somewhere over Kansas.
He wholeheartedly agrees with everything said from every news source he considers reputable.
He has been part of the bullying tribe, a gang of well-meaning older people who have been led astray and don’t realize it, constantly blurting, “You should really get the vaccine.
Everyone I know is doing it.” I’m not sure they ever will see the bigger picture, namely that it could be right for some but not all.
The ironic thing is that these older bullies led astray are the same ones who used to march for peace in the 1960s and 1970s.
They are the same cohort who stood for saving the whales, blocking forests from being chopped, and singing peace songs to avoid destroying it all. Well, it’s all destroyed now.
Out with the old mindset (freedom) and in with the new (media).
I have lost my parents.
They believe the rhetoric, the lies, and no matter what research I show them, what reminders I share from their past lives when they were true hippies who marched for no nukes and used critical thinking to solve problems, they are caught in the foggy tornado with a frequent, giant sprinkle of media-fused fear.
And now I see this country as split, but not down political lines anymore; that is just a facade.
There is a distinct divide between those caught up in the revolving stories of war and disease through tech addiction and those who are – or have become – truth seekers, science followers, and truly critical thinkers."
Ivy Schmidt is an educational leader who savors life, love, and the pursuit of happiness
