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. :(
If waking up is confined to the topic of vaccines the answer is no. They are driven by the fear of being one of the 0.03 percent who die or the small minority with lingering effects.
But what about lefties who are starting to differentiate between what they thought they were going to get with Biden and what they are actually getting? I hear complaining from the millennial self proclaimed socialists I talk to that this has been a huge disappointment. They usually end up claiming they didn’t vote for Biden as much as they were voting against President Trump. But they are seeing the Dems are globalists and are more concerned serving the 1% than they are doing something for the working class.