Same here - I was all for it, encouraged many people at risk to get ahead of it.

Your comment combined with mine made me realize... I (and the people I work with) played a big part in this theater.

As a federal contractor, when the federal mandate came down... those employees had to be vaccinated. The employer conveniently pushed this policy to the other 200k+ employees.

It was all a scheme to boost the vaccination rates and push this cart along faster -- the results never mattered.

It facilitated this... 'everything is normal/okay, the unvaccinated are the ones to blame' narrative.

Woefully lacking in attention in so many ways

>> played a big part in this theater.

May I extend a big "Thank you" to you and GP for recognizing and admitting this. You have now contributed to the restoration of trust in society in a great way. At least for me, personally :)

To be clear, you were in the full right to choose whatever treatment you wanted for whatever reason. The blame here is squarely on those who threw the wrong reason (threat of force) into the mix - they should have thought more about unintended consequences of their mandates.

The straw that broke the camel's back for me was when we fired all of the unvaccinated nurses amid the Omicron spike, and then CDC lowered the quarantine to 5 days and hospitals made sick workers come to work. So yes, let's fire folks that want to work, but force sick (contagious) people into work. It makes 0 sense.