I work in South Korea. Everyone here wears masks even when they are outside. I've seen joggers running with masks. It's crazy. You can sit inside a coffee shop without one, but God forbid you get seen outdoors without one. It's the most insane version of group think I've ever seen. My boss' dad was a politician, she knows how they can lie and previously I appreciated her level of critical thinking. But now... I refuse to wear a mask outside. She saw me on the street and asked me to put it on. i refused. I was reamed out for being unscientific and reckless. I didn't budge. Even if I thought masks work, I do not see the benefit of wearing one 24/7.
Just needed to vent a little. I'm leaving Korea soon, so quiting my job atm is not an option. Like I said, just needed to vent.
It's fear. I have a dear friend who it's becoming increasingly hard for me to hang out with. She's afraid, and washes her groceries when she gets home with them. She's looking forward eagerly to getting her shot, thinks masks are polite and actually work, and she has literally no interest in even finding out which manufacturer's jab it is. She asked if I was getting the covid vaccine. I said I wasn't, and when I asked if she wanted to know why...she actually said no. She's an otherwise intelligent and capable woman who's a successful artist, and when I sent her a link to America's Frontline Doctors she got angry and belligerent.
She's a Taurus...and once she's chosen a path, she (like so many others) does not want any information that would make her question her choice. I find it to be bizarre beyond description.
not sure Taurus has anything to do with it.
I'm a Taurus, so please don't confuse the symbol for the temperament. We are not all "stubborn as bulls". Unfortunately this has torn apart not only friendships but families as well. I sincerely hope for your sake that she sees the light at some point but there is a possibility that she won't. It's never easy to see people you care about go down irrational paths. But the push to scare people with this has been huge, and some have succumbed to it. All you can do is plant the seed, which it sounds like you have, and hope that one day she'll see the light.
If I may share a quick story with you, I broke ties with a girlfriend of mine that I'd known since I was 6 years old. This was in my late 20s. I saw her going down a bad path, her personality changed for the worse, and I didn't want to be her next victim. So I cut things off before something happened that we couldn't recover from. Now, we're both in our 40s, and I got in touch with her and reconnected. She's her old self again and I'm so glad. I guess the moral is that you may have to take a step back to preserve what friendship is there, to be possibly picked up later. I wish you the best.
The Taurus comment was specific to her tendencies to close off from any information contrary to what she believes to be so. Of course our astrological predispositions to certain things can be mitigated through experience and personal work...but I do feel that it helps in understanding people.
I'm definitely cool with stepping back. She's already apologized and spoken of the next time we go over...which I'm in no hurry for. It's another brilliant opportunity for non-attachment. Frankly, on the macro level both white hats and team dark are doing their best to influence Humanity and gain our trust. We can't afford to cleave to any particular truth right now but for the fact that we're up against evil, and the only way through to freedom from it is to be the Light ourselves...live as though the world already is the way we're dreaming it into existence to be.
I know soooo many people like this. A bright kind doctor I am friends with who has embraced with open arms the Covid pandemic narrative, dismissed the America’s front line doctors video without watching it by saying Simone Gold was arrested for being at the Capitol on the 6th, therefore apparently she has no credibility (& the FBI says “ mission accomplished”) ... uggg
Then she said the solution to the virus is the vaccine, to which I said I did not want to be a lab rat (not really, I couldn’t be that rude), I simply said “my body, my choice.”
Sooo many otherwise intelligent people have fallen for the hoax unquestioningly (& if they had questions the looked to the wrong places for answers e.g. Fauci).
I have not spoken to a few of what were my closest friends in many many months, because I am thinking and questioning and they think “How dare you question and think! Fauci says so!”
But, other friends are still there.
This is a challenging time. I am certainly looking forward to the being awake part of this great awakening!!!!
Do you live in Santa Fe? I don't even go there any more, not till this crap is over. The NM nazi govenor is a real pain in the ass about all restrictions, hope she goes to jail for all this crap!
Howie Mandell is a poster child for where this is headed. Germaphobes are gonna be our bane for yrs to come.