It may not feel like winning but you don't have a five year (or more) sword of Damocles over your head and better, you were granted a religious exemption.
Do you know how many lost so much more in even attempting not to surrender themselves and becoming a Big Pharma lab rat? Many people lost everything.
It may not feel like winning but you don't have a five year (or more) sword of Damocles over your head and better, you were granted a religious exemption.
Do you know how many lost so much more in even attempting not to surrender themselves and becoming a Big Pharma lab rat? Many people lost everything.
Yeah - just don't like the idea that we were given that "choice" in the first place. It should have just been a "I don't want this" decision from each person instead of "now I have to find a way to opt out of this or lose my job" decision. And I feel for our military and medical community who don't even get the option to decline without losing their jobs. I just don't understand - and sadly do know a couple of nurses who've been jabbed as part of the job. no ill effects yet, but it's early. I can only hope they didn't get the worst of the batches - or maybe got the "special" ones reserved for those who should stay. :(
I don't know your age, Peter--but IF you are MY age (over 70) I watched the original "Twilight Zone" avidly. Rod Serling ran an episode about "the elite" governing people killing off most of the world with their nuclear weaponry while THEY got to take a rocket to a far off planet where they could RULE THE NEW WORLD. But the rocket didn't last long enough for them to get out of the "earth's gravitational pull" so they just kept CIRCLING THE DESTROYED PLANET EARTH in their "rocket room"--until they died off too!! PROFOUND STUFF came out of Mr. Rod Serling...he was truly a FREEDOM THINKER!!
Wasn't a huge Twilight Zone fan. Those hit _way_ too close to home (which was the point). I do remember a Stargate SG1 episode where there was some alternate world/future/something and a "friendly" race was offering a cure to all of humanity's illnesses. And it worked. The hidden part was that it also resulted in making humanity largely sterile so they would have a massive population drop and then be a subject of the new ruling class.
I seem to remember several sci-fi shows with that "cure for everything that ends up worse than the disease" type plot. _Way_ back when there was a series of sci-fi short stories about people who were put in cryogenic sleep until their problem would be resolved. One person wanted money - and woke up to being a zillionaire in a future where a cheeseburger was ~ $4T. Another wanted a cure for cancer - and woke up to a world where cancer was cured, but he had a cold before going to sleep ... and there was no cure for that, so ....
Oh wow!!! I didn't watch much sci-fi stuff after I married and was a young Mom (which is probably when most of this genre was wildly popular (late '70's early '80's).
It may not feel like winning but you don't have a five year (or more) sword of Damocles over your head and better, you were granted a religious exemption.
Do you know how many lost so much more in even attempting not to surrender themselves and becoming a Big Pharma lab rat? Many people lost everything.
Yeah - just don't like the idea that we were given that "choice" in the first place. It should have just been a "I don't want this" decision from each person instead of "now I have to find a way to opt out of this or lose my job" decision. And I feel for our military and medical community who don't even get the option to decline without losing their jobs. I just don't understand - and sadly do know a couple of nurses who've been jabbed as part of the job. no ill effects yet, but it's early. I can only hope they didn't get the worst of the batches - or maybe got the "special" ones reserved for those who should stay. :(
I don't know your age, Peter--but IF you are MY age (over 70) I watched the original "Twilight Zone" avidly. Rod Serling ran an episode about "the elite" governing people killing off most of the world with their nuclear weaponry while THEY got to take a rocket to a far off planet where they could RULE THE NEW WORLD. But the rocket didn't last long enough for them to get out of the "earth's gravitational pull" so they just kept CIRCLING THE DESTROYED PLANET EARTH in their "rocket room"--until they died off too!! PROFOUND STUFF came out of Mr. Rod Serling...he was truly a FREEDOM THINKER!!
Wasn't a huge Twilight Zone fan. Those hit _way_ too close to home (which was the point). I do remember a Stargate SG1 episode where there was some alternate world/future/something and a "friendly" race was offering a cure to all of humanity's illnesses. And it worked. The hidden part was that it also resulted in making humanity largely sterile so they would have a massive population drop and then be a subject of the new ruling class.
I seem to remember several sci-fi shows with that "cure for everything that ends up worse than the disease" type plot. _Way_ back when there was a series of sci-fi short stories about people who were put in cryogenic sleep until their problem would be resolved. One person wanted money - and woke up to being a zillionaire in a future where a cheeseburger was ~ $4T. Another wanted a cure for cancer - and woke up to a world where cancer was cured, but he had a cold before going to sleep ... and there was no cure for that, so ....
Oh wow!!! I didn't watch much sci-fi stuff after I married and was a young Mom (which is probably when most of this genre was wildly popular (late '70's early '80's).
Ok, so I consider it not losing. There are no winners here.
AMEN!!