COVID-19 and all of its baggage undeniably and significantly damaged so many things that are relevant to us. The economy, travel, relationships, jobs, and, of course, healthcare, are just a few examples of what immediately comes to mind when I contemplate what was drastically impacted by the pandemic, and its effects are far from over.
I was recently considering how wild our lives were when the pandemic was at its height, and furthermore, how our vaccination status regarding the COVID-19 vaccine was deemed public knowledge in addition to an entitled right among one another. If you worked in any sort of public business during the pandemic, you would remember having to ‘screen’ individuals prior to allowing them access or entry to a given establishment, and this protocol only scratches the surface of what sort of invasive questions about our health we were expected to share willingly and freely with strangers in order to determine if we were considered safe to enter a premise.
To consider the hate, anger, judgment, alienation, ostracization and blatant bullying exhibited by those who were or are vaccinated versus those who were or are not is absolutely despicable, and while I don’t normally commend dwelling on negative aspects of the past, I have some trouble in letting this one slide. Families, friendships, and even lives were literally ruined and broken because of someone’s COVID-19 vaccination status, and some people are still dealing with the aftermath of being rejected by friends and loved ones because of a personal choice they made regarding their own health.
It seems as though currently, seeing as the intensity of the virus has seemingly subsided, whether or not someone is vaccinated for COVID or not no longer matters. Personally, I have difficulty forgetting how vile some people became and acted toward those who chose to forego the vaccine, and to those people, shame on you.
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