Do you mind if I screenshot this to keep it?
I haven't even contracted Covid-19 (tbh, never been healthier or had a better life in every single domain other than Covid). But, this resonated so drastically.
I was the first person I knew to stumble across Covid-19, in December 2019.
Jan 6 2020 I raised it with my parents and sent my dad a study urging the use of the precautionary principle; closing borders, preparing etc.
In February, I started screenshotting articles written by media outlets calling it a flu, or the WHO saying that global travel didn't need to be paused. I also wrote an email proposal to my dad outlining some options for our family; buying gold, land outside of a main city, buying cryptocurrency.
I worked in government at that time, and around this time was listening to the most broken nonsense being discussed, and arguing with people about why it wouldn't work. Suggestions to keep life as normal, while China built a hospital, 4 million phones disappeared, and people were locked in their homes.
March comes along, and I feel vindicated. Except every media outlet flips a 180. Now, it's daily torture porn; 1000s dying. But, the death stats aren't linked to anything - never tied to age, or obesity, or anything that enables honest discussion. Just death.
A year and a half of this, and I am disillusioned with every estate in the global "West". Media, government and even our courts in the west have proven themselves to be run by some form of parasitical elite nonsense who can say (a) then (b) with a straight face and just fucking CRUSH our souls, and nobody seems to notice or care. Hell, they reward themselves internally for it.
I don't even know if I have a medical stance - I'm open to vaccines, to Ivermectin, to Niacin+melatonin. I'm open to considering and discussing where risks fall at an individual and collective level. But, there are virtually no people who are actually ready to discuss this stuff. It's maddening (both anger and insanity) and it creates implicit requirements for compliance - or, you go insane.
Good luck.