A Gentle reminder on empathy in the age of COVID from the worlds foremost Asshole:
One of the things that I did not like the past year were people who “minimized” COVID, through personal experience or anecdotal statistics. Saying that you had it and it was “just a cold” or that, in general, it had a survivability % of “99.999… etc” is little comfort to those who actually died or watched family members die. There’s hundreds of thousands of dead in America and millions more globally, and to those touched the most nobody cares you had the sniffles for a few days. Congratulations, don’t be a dick.
Similarly as vaccines roll outs occur many of are posting your inoculation status on social media, and that is well within your rights and I respect that.
What I have a tough time swallowing is the vaccine minimization via snarky remarks that are occurring: namely jokes poking fun at conspiracy theories like 5G cellular transmission and microchipping.
While you are telling your unoriginal jokes the NEJM released an article yesterday showing that the Astrozeneca vaccine causes rare blood clots in some people, namely 5 healthcare workers out of over 130,000 who received the vaccine.
Now 5 out of 130,000 isn’t “a lot” but do you think those 5 find your jokes amusing?
Some who received their 2nd Moderna shot are reporting developing Shingles, a more dangerous adult form of Chicken pox. We should probably study why injected synthetic nanotechnology is causing long dormant varicella zoster viruses to reactivate before you develop your Microchip comedy schtick, don’t you think?
Just this week news outlets in Michigan reported that 246 Fully Vaccinated residents contracted COVID, of which 3 died. (“Hey that’s still a 99.987% survival rate” 🙄)
I’m sure the family and friends of the deceased are not amused, nor are they in the mood for a debate on whether the departed “died from the vaccine or merely while vaccinated.”
Now I have no doubt that the vast majority of people who get vaccinated won’t die suddenly or get rare blood clots or get shingles. But some will.
And Whether we like it or not we are still going through a planetary crisis that is still killing a lot of people and traumatizing even more.
They deserve empathy and compassion, not snark and pontification, regardless of what your beliefs are…
Chiropractic Rōnin 