My wife and I are not employed, so we are not directly affected by the injection mandates for employees. We've become aware of many people in our small town that were AGAINST the jabs and were steadfastly rejecting any such demands. Now, push is coming to shove, and it is disheartening to see people that seemed so full of integrity caving in with pathetic little whimpers of excuses.
I feel unable to criticize them because of my position but they fail to see that my wife and I made huge sacrifices years ago so that we'd be better able to resist something like this. We live offgrid in a glorified tent. We gave up our vehicles and licenses. We poop in buckets. We haul all our water in buckets (different buckets). We go without a lot of luxuries and conveniences so that we can be closer to freedom. I feel like we are looked at with scorn because of our seemingly "comfortable" position right now, but we were pitied not long ago because of what they perceived as our "poverty".
It is painful to watch as people trade away their dignity in exchange for the things they consider necessities. What could be more necessary than your dignity?!
Imagine looking at someone who shits in a bucket with scorn.
I am in the same boat to some extent. I still live in civilization, but I made wise financial decisions to weather the storm. Never touched debt. Made smart investments (except DWAC - had to sit there and watch the moonshot due brokerage fuckery). Can it last forever? No. Eventually I'll have to hustle again. Tying to decide whether to hibernate through the storm as long as possible or inject capital into my own business. I'm no prepper though and I will probably cave if they make it impossible to get food. Money is no good if you need a vaccine passport to buy anything.
A lot of people are living on the edge with a lot of debt. They cave because they have locked themselves into pay check to paycheck. Many don't even have an emergency fund of 6 months of living expenses to see them through hardship. Although I must admit, we are almost two years into this, so I have massive respect for those that got fucked at the start and have already burned through their savings.
I've been slowly burning through savings in a race to get food production in place and a long-term sustainable home built.