Anonym: »We now stand at another crossroads in history.«
I wrote this article in September 2021:When something happens to you directly, that also cements the feeling of shock and disappointment. When my work colleagues went drinking, I did not. My team leaders and colleagues, some once respected, say that the unvaccinated should pay the consequences for their choices (their basic human right to do so, remember!) one even says that they should be excluded more than now! Others who see the madness of it all, simply shrug and try to change the subject. The few friends I have left who still can be bothered to meet me, seem to agree. Well, some do! Yet still, they all roll over and comply.
Still take their jabs.
Still wear their masks.
Still take their tests.
Still show their pass.
Telling me it is simply too difficult to have to miss out on things!
Well, it is. I can assure you. It is very difficult. And if they remove the option for testing and move to a 2G system, then it will become very difficult for millions more.
It brings me down everyday it is rubbed in my face. It crushes my very soul. Every time I walk by a busy street cafe and bar, everytime I see snaking queues outside test centres, every time I see that people accept this as even remotely acceptable or normal, a little bit of my heart grows colder. And I see it every single day.
When night time curfews were introduced in April this year, what limited existence I had was shattered. This cut me off from what is still my only social contact.
When you live alone in a small apartment, in a different country you can get used to loneliness. When you weren't able to see your family at Christmas and infact have not seen them since January 2020, you sometimes struggle. But it becomes a lot harder to cope when you are totally isolated.
Yes, daily I go to work. I've worked throughout this pandemic. Except for the initial 4 week lockdown at the end of March, I have been in the office everyday, whilst the majority of my team work from home. Still being the only employee who has attended work almost non stop these last 15 months. I was expected to come into the office at at time of significant risk, saying many people each day, even carrying a letter in case I was stopped by the police on the way to or from work.
But now I am being expected to take a vaccine to partake in normal life. And in not doing so, I am privately, professionally and publicly attacked, smeared, insulted and now actually excluded? I am to be further isolated, all the while being told that I am selfish? That I deserve this treatment. That there are consequences to my choice.
Well, tell me how these disgusting "consequences" are remotely proportionate to the choice of exercising your basic human rights?
When the mounting body of evidence shows just how preposterous vaccine passports are as an infection control tool.
They cannot even be defended as a stick to enforce vaccine uptake, when that idea is so unethical and counter to what makes us human, it should not even be considered as a valid argument to use. In any democratic society!
Just two year ago, the thought of mandatory vaccines to partake in normal life sounded as far-fetched as it did morally repugnant. Yet here we are, people advocating, accepting and acquiescing to this madness.
The law was changed just last week in Germany to allow companies to not only now ask employees their previously protected private medical information, in this instance their vaccination status, but be able to store and use that information.
Think deeply about that.
This change in law is currently limited to health care workers, educational settings and close contact public bodies. Which is bad enough as it is. And I feel sorry for those like me in those professions. But you only have to look to the UK or Italy to see where this will eventually lead for all of us.
The existing law says that companies cannot ask for this information. And rightly so!
But sadly, as we have seen recently, with companies in the UK such as Morrison's or previous statements from the Germany Health Minister, that the idea of financial penalties being enacted on the non-vaccinated are already here.
How long before it becomes a requirement for simply going to work? To being able to feed yourself and your family? To be able to shop? To be able to earn your wage? To be able travel again? To receive medical treatment?
It is no longer far-fetched for me to ask those questions anymore. I've seen how quickly we've gone to get to here, in just 18 months.
People have short memories. I’m often reminded of one particular line from George Orwell’s novel - 1984.
"History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
They quickly forget each step that was taken in these last 18 months, that slowly stripped and peeled away another layer of hard earned rights, and now demands the very thing their jailer wanted all along!
At this point it is clear that they will do everything in their power to not only maintain that power but extend it by repeating the same cruel tactics as last year.
People don't realise the damage that lockdowns have done. The missed treatments. The crippling fear. The lost businesses. The domestic violence. The poverty caused. The lives lost.
Or the damage that curfew and social isolation has done. The suicides. The depressions. The emptiness that you've fueled. Then those who developed these barbaric campaigns against their fellow eearthlings have to audacity to offer advice on people's mental healthy!
That’s not even getting into the actual documented damage that vaccines have caused many people affected by life changing side effects. That’s an equally pressing subject to address, but for another day.
Right now, we need to ask why are there so many peole that don’t seem to realise the dangers to them if vaccine passports are introduced?
As someone who is completely discriminated against and isolated by their usage, I’ll attest that they have no place whatsoever in any society, city or country that attempts to call itself civilised.
Just like all of the world's government's recent measures, they go too far, at too much cost, for little to no proven benefit.
Whatever you can do to resist them, I beg you that you do. Whatever it takes. No matter how small or how big.
We now stand at another crossroads in history.
I genuinely fear that Germany has sadly already embarked upon the wrong path and it will be too hard to change course now.
But it is not too late for your country.
Maybe it is not too late for mine, either.
Let us all hope that none of us are beyond redemption, just yet.
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