I work for a national organization and once a month, meet with other district leaders. Prior to Covid, this organization would sponsor twice-monthly events where professionals in certain industries could attend to keep up their continuing education requirements. Since Covid, these events have been moved online, but today's call was about starting to have hybrid events again.
Then someone mentioned she would not allow members to attend the in-person events until they could prove they had gotten the vaccine. I immediately interjected that I would not do that for the members of my district. First off - HIPPA, I'm not asking anyone about their medical history. The second point I made was if someone was vaccinated, it shouldn't matter if there were non-vaccinated people, where it devolved into an argument about even with the vaccine there was a 10% chance you could still get it so she was going to penalize the people that refused.
I then jumped on FB because I had updates to make to the company page. There was a post, from one of the most 'gothic-punk' people I know, waxing poetic on how he just got the shot with tons of people cheering him on, bashing us 'conspiracy nuts' who were dooming society with our selfishness.
I guess I'm dooming today but seriously, I don't see anyone waking up. In fact, I'm seeing more people that I thought were either 'right' or anti-establishment touting this bullshit. :(
Jumping on Facebook isn't going to fill you with confidence about the way society is heading, that's like trying to find refuge on Twitter.
So many people will say all sorts of things that sound stupid but if they find themselves with an agreeable mob, they'll think they're on the money. For example, my in-laws were very pro covid vaccine initially whereas I have been staunchy anti covid-vaccine. At first, my opinion wasn't considered agreeable. But their opinion shifted once they saw it was actually far more common to be against it here.
Nothing I said would have convinced them and I had no part in their shift. Enough sentiment from others was around to make them feel "comfy" enough to transition their opinion without a loss of face. Such as the booing about the vaccine during the Australian Open.
It's frustrating but sometimes things have to play out that way.