I am extremely disheartened by the loss of friends and professionals from my life for whom I have a lot of respect. Many of them are decades-long friends or colleagues who have been nothing short of consummate professionals.
I had an argument with someone whom I thought to be very smart over my worries about the new vaccine. I'm neither anti-vaxx nor pro-vaxx but prefer waiting until it's safe before taking it. But he, like many others, start throwing labels like "You don't care about public health" or "you're drinking the Kool-Aid".
It's annoying how so many people are so willing to embrace "science" and not question it when the very point of science is to question everything.
It's really sad knowing I'll probably never work with these excellent people again.
How are you doing? How are you coping?
This happened to me thirty years ago as the publisher of an off-campus student newspaper.
We weren't a fraction as heterodox as today -- just a little and well within normal limits.
ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE ON US. Much as today but today is scaled up, since those students and professors of the early 90s are running the damned country today.
But they're the same people.
I learned then as a lad, having lost friends and romances, perhaps job opportunities since then (no one would have ever considered your private life in hiring / firing back then so long as it was legal) . . .
DO NOT CARE WHAT THEY THINK OR SAY ABOUT YOU.
Soon enough they move on to other targets to destroy.