Went to breakfast with two friends from HS, one who has lived in the deep south since college. Hadn't spoken to her in years. Other (vaxxed) friend I see all the time. Alabama girl was talking about how nice it was to see people from home at the holidays after the COVID shit show. When she mentioned it has been difficult because she wasn't vaccinated, I looked at her and said, "me neither!" Instant comaraderie. Then she started talking about why she wasn't vaccinated and it was like me talking. Initially it was, "I am not taking an untested vaccine from a crooked company like Pfizer that is releasing it on the condition that they can't be sued, for a virus that I have an effectively 100% chance of surviving. Especially since the flu shot I took ONCE and never again, made me sicker than the flu has ever done." Then, like me she said "I have never been anti-vax in general, but once they started telling me this is mandatory? Hell No, now this is a hill I will die on."

She was always a unique individual and a real leader. Went to college on an athletic scholarship. Was super "popular" in HS because she was so talented. But she was the nicest person you ever knew. Took time for everyone, even shitty athletes like myself. Rare bird in every way good.

Yes, I'm like the Russell Crowe character in "The Insider," who responds, "Because I don't like being told what to do," when he's asked why he's blowing the whistle on tobacco companies.

Makes me feel like a different species entirely.

Well that might be closer to the truth than you’d think, considering that the vax may have changed the DNA of the people injected.

It’s called “common sense”……

I feel the same and I’m glad I’ve had this type of personality my entire life. I’ve never gone by social norms, I’ve never even felt like I was being submitted to peer pressure of any kind, never cared what others thought of me ( I was a new waver/punk) in a school full of rednecks, and always did things a little differently than my peers. I was asleep as to how corrupt the government was until about 1998 though. That’s when I went to a counter rally of the million mom March and supported the second amendment sisters. After engaging brain washed women of the million mom March someone handed me an independent conservative newspaper which had a major article on how the Oklahoma City bombing was an inside job. That lead me down many rabbit holes. I consider that the day I became fully awake.