A Pandemic of Discrimination and Repugnant Human Behavior #TeenTuesday
Contributing article by Teens Against Mandates
With the height of the pandemic apparently behind us, many people want to move past that rough patch in our lives – you know, the patch where you were probably disinvited to at least one event, forced to dine outdoors, wear a mask indoors, and/or dropped by a friend or two.
But as someone who has personally lost internships, opportunities, and friendships over the vaccine, I find it hard to just “move on,” as do so many others.
I previously volunteered remotely as a teen mental health volunteer, but I was forced to leave when vaccination became a condition of my volunteer service. Keep in mind, I was volunteering from the confines of my bedroom the entire time. I felt as though I was being forced to choose between my fundamental right to bodily autonomy, my religious beliefs, and my passion for teen mental health. This feeling of discrimination based on medical status is, unfortunately, very familiar to many people who likewise refused the COVID vaccination. If you’ve been a victim of medical discrimination, how do you just move on now that society is returning back to normal?
Recently, in a COVID hearing in the European Parliament, Janine Small, one of the Pfizer directors, just admitted: “At the time of the introduction, the vaccine had never been tested on stopping the transmission of the virus.” This is scandalous; and from both a medical and societal perspective, this admission matters tremendously.
The Pfizer Vaccine was authorized for emergency use to prevent COVID-19 – and was heavily marketed as offering a communal benefit of protection before it was actually tested in preventing transmissibility. This would remove the entire legal and ethical basis upon which the COVID mandates were predicated.
This puts so many mandates in question: for example, requiring the shot to invulnerable demographics such as school children and young, healthy adults – neither of which are at a general risk from any comorbidities. The known risks of the vaccines and listed SAEs in the VAERS database and several other resources, however, far outweigh any benefits to the population. Vaccine mandates were immoral, unscientific, and criminal from the beginning. Still, millions of people felt coerced to get vaccinated because of the slogan that we “do it for others.”
The ones who did not comply were faced with unjustifiable institutional discrimination. The justification offered by governments and health bodies to act for the sake of communal welfare was nothing less than a fabrication designed to perpetuate public compliance. So after a year-and-a-half of that kind of first-hand discrimination, how do you move past that? How are we expected to trust a government that continuously lies to us for financial and political gain?
It’s one thing for the government to lie and implement discriminatory policies without a scientific basis, which they did. But how do you handle it when some of your closest friends and family are enthusiastically embracing these policies, disinviting you to holiday dinners, milestone events, and other social gatherings? What about the friends who were too embarrassed to tell you outright that they wouldn't see you but subtly distanced themselves?
These policies and the sentiment that it’s “a pandemic of the unvaccinated” trickled down from the highest ranks of leadership–from Biden, Fauci, Justin Trudeau, and Prime Minister of France Macron–along with so many others. Our closest friends and family turned on us because the government told them the unvaccinated were “selfish, irresponsible, and morally repugnant.” That is probably the scariest part. People were complicit, and many continue to distance themselves. If you have lost friends over your immunological status, how do you just move on?
I can’t just move on. Something very ugly and on many levels was exposed. The lights came on in the dark of night. I have to live with the same scary people every day and the same scary governments also, every day. How can one just move on?
This horror is far worse than Nazi Germany’s horror. At least, Americans and others saved many from Hitler and were horrified with what they saw and what The Nuremberg trials screamed out to the world. Something is very wrong now and it’s easy to feel very alone in today’s world.
I know that’s what they want though so try very hard to loudly and clearly make myself heard as I did when I visited a physical therapist for the first time. Turns out - we easily finished each other’s sentences. She’s just like me. Not so alone - but what to do about this horror show. It is real and complex.
I also can't just move on. I lost my career to the mandates. I lost my hobbies to the mandates. I did lose some family and friends as well, but mainly the ones I didn't like in the first place. I guess I'm fortunate there.
When you get down to it, I've lost my home to the mandates. Sure, I'm physically in the same place, but this doesn't feel like home anymore, I know I can't live out the rest of my life here like I always thought I would. I've torn up my bucket list because there's no way I'm going to be allowed to finish it, and after what I've seen do I really want to finish it? I wish I could physically move away and start over in another place, but I'm tied down here with family. Even though the whole world has gone insane, there are a few places where there is enough sanity left to live out the rest of my life, which is now decades shorter than I had anticipated it to be based on how long the rest of my family has lived.
I haven't completely given up on figuring out how to move forward, but having covid was nothing compared to the nightmare that society's response to covid is. All I know is that if another pandemic comes along I'm not taking any precautions like I did with covid. If this is what has to be done to survive a pandemic I'd rather die in the next pandemic.