This information is based on our situation as of August 2021... I just wanted to put it in order of where it started.
In 2019 a "novel" virus was found. It was sweeping through China and quickly started working through the world. It officially was seen in the US in early 2020 but believed here months before. In March I started having students disappear as the fear mongering began. March 11th I had a student say "My dad is a reporter and says they're going to shut down the schools". I laughed and said I doubted that.
Sure enough. March 13th they announced they would be closing schools for 6 weeks starting March 17th. We ended up not going back in the next week. The official stay at home order began March 23rd, it was supposed to be two weeks to "flatten the curve" to help the hospitals be able to handle the number of people going through. It turned into the longest two weeks I've ever experienced... We were told to minimize going out in public. To stay six feet apart or wear a mask. OR quickly turned into a mandate that you HAD to wear a mask in public. Governor Inslee, in his infinite wisdom (note the sarcasm), shut everything down. Restaurants, gyms, schools, construction, salons, sports... anything deemed "non-essential". He even went as far as to release people from jail. Thousands of people lost their jobs, sometimes their businesses. Businesses that disagreed were fined significantly. He has managed to destroy business and lives. We had a gigantic loss of money from unemployment due to fraud in addition to the strain of supporting all the people that were quarantined. Stimulus checks were introduced based on your previous year's taxes. Large enough that when people were finally allowed back to work, people wouldn't go because they made more with the stimulus and unemployment than they did working full time. School ended up being exclusively digital until February 2021. By the way...the flu has magically disappeared. Those numbers were probably absorbed into the COVID numbers.
All in the name of "flattening the curve" which evolved into "stopping COVID". Which is literally impossible with a virus. Numbers were manipulated to the extreme, huge numbers of people were recorded as dying from COVID despite having died from unrelated things (gunshot wounds, cancer etc). The Hawaiian islands completely shut down. All of this following the "science" that seemed to change every other day and constantly contradicted itself.
Watching all of this happen, completely helpless to do anything was excruciating. I absolutely do not agree with the way this is being handled. Why shut down the entire state? It didn't matter your numbers, every city and town was treated the same way. The people with the risk factors (elderly and immune compromised) and their care givers were the only ones I believe should have been quarantined. Let the healthy people, with few to no risk factors get it and work it through the population. It's impossible to stop a virus without people being exposed.
Now they've magically come up with a vaccine. For a virus they recently said you could get multiple times. If you can get a virus multiple times, it's impossible to make a vaccine. That was expecting people to be logical, rational, and informed. Which we all know is a ridiculous expectation in these times. People's minds and opinions are centered around the agenda of the news and social media. All of which worked very hard to scare people into compliance. I have never bought into a conspiracy until COVID. Combine the fear mongering with the fraud that happened in this year's presidential election... it screams manipulation and fallacy.
The courts are refusing to allow investigation of the voting counts. They are actively suppressing them. COVID and vaccine data is being manipulated to show a specific result. Any doctors, pharmacists, respiratory specialists, virologists standing against the "science", despite their specialties are being suppressed. Google and Bing searches provide bias results. The "other" side is censored and kept from the public. If you go to the multitude of other search platforms you suddenly see information from the other side. Information is contested and it is clear that the "results" the "science" is getting isn't valid OR proven.
Vaccines are free now and pushed heavily. Employers are starting to require the vaccine. It is "emergency" approved but hasn't gone through the full FDA approval process. Complications and deaths from the vaccine are being actively hidden from the public by all the major players that control the news. Things like potential infertility, heart enlargement, paralysis and death. There is concern for long-term health issues also, specifically related to the vaccine. None of this matters. The vaccine isn't preventing people from spreading COVID, it isn't keeping people from getting it again...what's the point then beside a political agenda?
They're going so far as to say that natural immunity is less effective than the vaccine. Despite the fact that they have no proof. The testing required to determine that is expensive, extensive and requires a longer period of time than has passed. I personally believe that natural immunity is ALWAYS going to be more effective than a vaccine. To be clear I am not an "anti-vaxer". My children get all the standard vaccinations. There are terrible diseases that are being prevented by vaccines. However, those are ALL situations where they know with absolute certainty you will have a lifetime immunity. They do not mutate. COVID is mutating already, variants are showing up everywhere. It is more like the flu that is constantly changing. You will be getting boosters with their guess about it's mutation. It isn't always effective, it isn't correct most of the time. It only provides you minor protection in the form of reducing your symptoms if you catch it.
There is even a new variant that is conveniently targeting children. So now there is talk of emergency approving the vaccine for children under 12. This companies are making HUGE profits and it sure feels like they're in bed with the government. Wonder where the money is changing hands or if it's all about the power the government is getting.
They are saying now that 90% of the COVID cases that require hospitalization are unvaccinated people. The whole point (initially) was to make it so hospitals could handle the load. Meanwhile some of the medical clinics and even hospitals in certain areas were struggling to remain open because no one was going to the doctor...for anything. I think their initial purpose has been satisfied, yet almost a year and a half later we're still in the middle of it. They opened up some and now are in the process of shutting us down again.
Now they are starting to segregate based on whether you received the vaccine or not. It's illegal to segregate based on race, but this is okay. Any HIPAA protection is quickly being bypassed. New York has already prohibited unvaccinated people from certain spaces. They went so far as to try to ban unvaccinated children from public spaces (including school) fortunately a judge shut that one down.
At what point will we have to cave? I have no idea. If I'm required to get the vaccine to work, I honestly don't know what I'll do. If they try to go near my children with that particular needle though... I will move, I will find a way to be a stay at home mom again and homeschool them...I will find a way to prevent it. All of this has made me wary of any vaccine. I will continue the standard set of vaccinations for Carson. The flu vaccine is out, COVID vaccine is out. I will protect my children from this nonsense at any cost.
