Been a long week for me, stressful at work. Pouring down rain all day and backyard is now a mud pit for the dog after the freeze/thaw. Between storms took her on a walk around the neighborhood to potty and get some exercise.
About 5 houses down female neighbor is unloading groceries from her car. Stop and chat for a bit and she's like "Mike hasn't been doing well. Been diagnosed with a heart condition and recently developed clots in his leg." To put into perspective, very active and fit early 60's and over the summer was rollerblading in the neighborhood. He was always walking, running or jogging and keeping fit.
I said oh no, so sorry to hear that. Any idea what is going on? She said it must be genetic but I can't figure it out as his parents lived healthy as a horse until age 93 and 96 respectively.
Putting two and two together I asked if he was vaxxed. "Oh we both have been triple vaxxed with boosters....."
I just flat out said "well there is your problem." She literally dropped her grocery bag in her driveway and went on a rage, calling me everything but a white man. "How dare you question the science" and incoherent rambling cursing after that. Mind you, cordial neighbors for years, not friends. Friendly Hi and wave here and there.
When she started cursing me I felt the anger raising inside of me and said look bitch "you demanded that I have a vax and a shot card to prove just to enter a fucking grocery store or Burger King. You demanded I wear a mask even outside or go to a car wash just to wash my vehicle. It is fair game that your husband's vax status is questioned and what you are doing to yourselves...."
She then slammed the car door, picked up her groceries and promptly told me to go fuck myself and that I am a moron and science denier.
First hand account.... 4-6% will never wake up....from their dirt nap.
I know people like that too. Now consider the doctors who told them to get it. Impossible for them to admit they made a mistake, too.
I have an appointment next week with a doctor who went ballistic when she heard I didn't get the jab last year. She berated me in a way I never thought possible. When I left the office I thought about how best to handle it. Since then I've compiled a ton of material that I've gone over from articles, videos, actual published studies, etc. and put it all on a thumb drive.
I will keep it in my pocket when I go. If the subject comes up and she starts spewing nonsense I plan to hold my hand up and say "May I ask you a simple question?" "Do you think you are able to have an objective opinion on the vax"? Naturally, she'll say yes. Then I want to say "you know, to be able to have an objective opinion you'd have to allow for the possibility, however slight, that the vax causes more harm than good. Are you able to allow for the tiniest of possibilities? She'll say yes, blah, blah, blah. "Well then, in the spirit of being objective, here's something I want you to look at when you have time." That's it. No argument, no hysterics, no anything. Just hand her a thumb drive that is complete with info she has never seen or knows anything about.
I spent the entire year collecting the information and made it as concise and on point as possible. Will she look at it? I don't know but curiosity might make her see what's there. When you open the thumb drive it has 2 folders. The first entitled Info on Covid-19 vaccine and links, the second is Videos regarding C19 vaccines. I have so much material that it would take her a couple weeks to look at it all. I don't think she'll do that. But it will be serious enough that if she looks at a little of it or a lot, she will know there's another side to the vax story that she hasn't seen or heard about. She'll also know that I put the time in to gather it and I'd venture a guess I know more about Covid than she does. But I do think she will approach me differently next year. With more data coming out every day and the info I give her, she won't be able to ever truthfully say she wasn't told.