Thank you for sharing, its actually a comfort to me that you did. For whatever reason, any thread I read when this topic gets brought up seems like its only people who either BOTH didn't get the jab or singles. Also a lot of comments of people saying things like "If they were so stupid that they got the jab, I wouldn't be with them anyways" or the like.
Its nice to know that there are other people who at least had some idea of the risks and for whatever their reasons made different decisions. I mean, there was certainly a metric fuck ton of mindlessness and ignorance pervading at that time, but I don't think they put in an advertising and fear campaign costing literal billions of dollars to capture THAT segment.
It was for people like us, who had jobs or other situations they needed to take advantage of in order to force us into rationalizing and downplaying the negative consequences so we would do something unusually stupid for our character. I mean, intelligent people do silly, inadvisable things ALL THE TIME - and that's without all the pressures and the weight of the world added to the wrong side of the scales, not to mention the peer pressure.
Not that I'm calling your husband that at all. I completely understand where he was coming from and had I been in the same situation at the time, I'd likely have done the same. Even if you got an exemption back then, the landscape was such that you were made to feel like you might STILL be pushed into it at a later time... we all had NO CLUE of when or if they would ever relent and leave us in peace, without getting it.
You're completely correct that some of the backlash is way too harsh and actually gets pretty cold and downright mean at times. It was a more crucial decision that any of us could have realized in hindsight and it has almost no reflection on who a person is, how intelligent or engaged they are, or what they believe or their character is.
There's a lot of understandable angst and backlash from the unvaxxed, and everyone's situation is different, but sometimes I think some of these people feel like ANYONE who got a jab was some kind of fascist liberal advocate for getting it, and MUST HAVE put pressure on others if they got it themselves. Gotta chill out a little.
Thanks again for sharing your story! It made my day, truly. 😁
Thank you for sharing, its actually a comfort to me that you did. For whatever reason, any thread I read when this topic gets brought up seems like its only people who either BOTH didn't get the jab or singles. Also a lot of comments of people saying things like "If they were so stupid that they got the jab, I wouldn't be with them anyways" or the like.
Its nice to know that there are other people who at least had some idea of the risks and for whatever their reasons made different decisions. I mean, there was certainly a metric fuck ton of mindlessness and ignorance pervading at that time, but I don't think they put in an advertising and fear campaign costing literal billions of dollars to capture THAT segment.
It was for people like us, who had jobs or other situations they needed to take advantage of in order to force us into rationalizing and downplaying the negative consequences so we would do something unusually stupid for our character. I mean, intelligent people do silly, inadvisable things ALL THE TIME - and that's without all the pressures and the weight of the world added to the wrong side of the scales, not to mention the peer pressure.
Not that I'm calling your husband that at all. I completely understand where he was coming from and had I been in the same situation at the time, I'd likely have done the same. Even if you got an exemption back then, the landscape was such that you were made to feel like you might STILL be pushed into it at a later time... we all had NO CLUE of when or if they would ever relent and leave us in peace, without getting it.
You're completely correct that some of the backlash is way too harsh and actually gets pretty cold and downright mean at times. It was a more crucial decision that any of us could have realized in hindsight and it has almost no reflection on who a person is, how intelligent or engaged they are, or what they believe or their character is.
There's a lot of understandable angst and backlash from the unvaxxed, and everyone's situation is different, but sometimes I think some of these people feel like ANYONE who got a jab was some kind of fascist liberal advocate for getting it, and MUST HAVE put pressure on others if they got it themselves. Gotta chill out a little.
Thanks again for sharing your story! It made my day, truly. 😁