Yes, willfully ignored is right!! For their own evil purposes or simply their personal power trips! I was told time and again that the “public health” people and “experts” knew way more about masking than I did and that it was safe and effective and had no negative consequences (or they were so minor they didn’t matter). I heard so many …
Yes, willfully ignored is right!! For their own evil purposes or simply their personal power trips! I was told time and again that the “public health” people and “experts” knew way more about masking than I did and that it was safe and effective and had no negative consequences (or they were so minor they didn’t matter). I heard so many people excoriating those of us who wanted to at least wait and see about the shots. We were ignorant and uncaring and selfish. They refused to listen to any reasonable hesitations or arguments. They were not interested in any information except that which supported their own views.
Yes we were the reasonable ones and they tired everything from gaslighting us to calling us ignorant to blatant lies. Remember the CDC “come on y’all”!!
Yep, “they were not interested in any information”. I was abolished from a BUNCO group I had played with for 20 years because I didn’t/wouldn’t get the Con-vid shot. NO ONE ever asked me WHY? NONE of them have ever reached out to me or spoken to me since. No problem… I’m good.
Yes, willfully ignored is right!! For their own evil purposes or simply their personal power trips! I was told time and again that the “public health” people and “experts” knew way more about masking than I did and that it was safe and effective and had no negative consequences (or they were so minor they didn’t matter). I heard so many people excoriating those of us who wanted to at least wait and see about the shots. We were ignorant and uncaring and selfish. They refused to listen to any reasonable hesitations or arguments. They were not interested in any information except that which supported their own views.
Yes we were the reasonable ones and they tired everything from gaslighting us to calling us ignorant to blatant lies. Remember the CDC “come on y’all”!!
Yep, “they were not interested in any information”. I was abolished from a BUNCO group I had played with for 20 years because I didn’t/wouldn’t get the Con-vid shot. NO ONE ever asked me WHY? NONE of them have ever reached out to me or spoken to me since. No problem… I’m good.
These kinds of stories make me feel all at once, angry, sad and perplexed.
Expiring minds don’t want to know:) I can empathize with you Gabriella.