I consider myself a new pepe (joined in January this year), so to all those who have been awake for over a year, I'm curious what your reaction to the pandemic, lockdowns, etc. was as well as what other people online were saying at the time. Did it play a big part in confirming your beliefs?
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I was a little ahead of the news when it came to this one. I wore an N95 mask (valved) early on, and I stocked up on food a week before the stores for overrun. I was actually pretty afraid, even encouraging my healthcare worker wife to wear a mask when out. I even took showers immediately after being outside.
Then the mask mandates began to hit, and I realized that the CDC and the Surgeon General had both said that masks were unnecessary and ineffective.
http://archive.today/RKdWc https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/84900
"Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching Coronavirus..." http://archive.today/5ScZF
That's when I knew that I was living a conspiracy. In April 2020, we decided that we were over it, and I began to compile as much evidence as I could.
I started researching and fighting all the mask and virus BS. I contend that there is a virus, but too much strangeness and lying is occurring for everything to be real. Fauci is a fraud and a dangerous liar. It was clear that this was about an election, then about control. I now routinely send texts to my brother, linking the latest vaccine passport articles with "this was a conspiracy back in April." I've printed flyers and handed them out. I've saved countless links disproving mask efficacy and demonstrating a reduction in flu rates, etc.
My sisters are too dumb to see the truth and I know that literally no one listens to me, but I share the truth whenever I can.
I work adjacent to healthcare and I know that the hospitals were deserted. Revenue went down. If the hospitals were overrun and the government was paying big bucks for diagnosis and death, then last year would have been a banner year. Not so.
Aside from no one listening to me, the thing that has been bothering me most is one of my few friends stating that he wouldn't fly until there was a vaccine. He messaged me and told me that if my BMI was above 31, then I was eligible for the shot. This is the same guy that told me in 2012 that he didn't get the flu shot because he gets the flu whenever he gets the shot, and I realized that the same was true for me. I reminded him of that and he seemed to not remember... I explained that these "vaccines" aren't actual vaccines, but it was no use. But hey, no one listens to me. Ever. I can whip out my credentials, I can whip out scientific research, and I can use a well-reasoned argument, but it does no good when the talking man on the news says that "experts" say that wearing a mask will literally save the planet and that your grandma is going to die because reasons.