What does however, is that certain players have a role they are taking on right now optically, to protect the majority from an even worse stage of circumstances. It could be SO much worse right now than it is, with endless lockdowns, and MANDATORY vaccinations. Trump actually prevented that. We have until the FDA emergency authorization ends, and they could switch that on real quick…
See what’s going on right now in Greece, and France etc?
What’s the ONE issue that will get MOST every American engaged, and out in the streets of EVERY city in the country?
MANDATORY VACCINES.
It's going to be bad. My coworker heard through the grapevine that I wasn't vaxxed. Earlier this week we met in person. The rage in his face and body language was building just as fast as his voice was getting louder. He lectured me about how he'd piss on anyone's grave that infected him (even though he's vaxxed) if they spread it to him and his family (implying people like me).
We have our first office get-together soon and most people have been afraid to come into the office (deep blue northeast). I'm planning to attend and see coworkers for the first time in 15 months. I wonder if he's going to call me out and make a spectacle.
Hope some irrefutable news drops before then. I need all the help I can get.
At least he hard it though the grapevine. Our manager cornered us in a zoom group meeting and basically wouldn’t let it go until everyone made their vax status public on the call. We have a relatively small team, but still.
Please do spare me the comments on you should refuse to answer or answer by asking them their std status. All that really does is immediately let them know you are unvaccinated anyways..
I agree...I have been asked numerous times by Family, friends and co-workers and I don't hesitate to say NO, And I Never will get the vaccine and you will have to shoot me first...Most tend to back off...
Hope you recorded it. You can have his job when the tables turn.
I don't make any attempt to dodge the question, but I'm always a troll at heart, so I answer with, "No, I'm in the control group!" xD
Should have just lied to 'em to shut 'em up. It's like parents lying to their kids, it's because they can't be reasoned with. It's easier just to lie.
That may have been the best approach. Perhaps I’ll do that in the future.
At work, they're likely to ask you for proof at some point.
They all know on some visceral hind brain level that it’s BS and something is way off with the whole vax thing and the anger is projected at those who’ve had the courage to say no. Encountering people who are unvaxed makes them feel inadequate and afraid that they have made the wrong decision so they take that anger our on you for holding a mirror up to show them they’ve made a huge potentially life changing/threatening mistake. They don’t have faith in the safety of the vaccine so they want reassurance that if everyone else is doing it it must be ok right? You’re unvaxed status denies them a security blanket and makes them terrifed
Coworker = not a friend if that is the reaction. Friends would seek to understand your reasoning. They would understand that the freedoms we are supposed to have allow you to make your own choices. If that coworker had actual faith in the vaccine they would not be angry or worried.
My take is that most doubt the vaccine, they can smell the lie, but cannot accept it. The doubt in the vaccine is causing fear and fear is driving that response. The fear is the root of the anger. Too bad that the coworker is afraid! Afraid of getting educated, afraid of learning the truth. Next time instead of addressing that coworkers anger, address that coworkers fear, "what are they actually afraid of?". The source of the fear is the lack of being educated.
It's better to rid yourself of false friends without 'outing' truths about yourself. Much like the Nazi German citizen who was friends with a Jew - you, the Jew, would not want to reveal yourself if your NSDAP friend stood to gain from your demise, or discovered a reason to hold a personal grudge against you...
Certain secrets should stay yours, until your natural predators are... gone.
Most of the people you work with are not your real friends and do not seek deeper meaning. Just acceptance and affability.
Keep it up, fren. your coworker sounds like a faggot
Makes total sense. We should all get the vaccinated, so our vaccinated friends don't get sick from the virus they got vaccinated against, because we weren't vaccinated. /s