Enforcement of Vax escalating is the title, and for whatever reason had not well followed this thread (it was an active thread for a short period), which has gone cold now since January.
Reading the posts here, can well sympathize with peoples choices being made to do or not to do, which is so individual. The thread started as people were getting their heads around the post initial rollouts. orders, mandates and to do or not to do, and the enforcement to make compliance the reality. For me it became the 'not to do' as an individual reason. Had read enough on these vaccines (if they are to be called that) make up, however what became apparent for me was in working relatively closely in the beginning with Health agencies, even though I was not directly associated per se. Also, it had been usual as part of the job to get media releases to read and ponder at work. However these releases got ramped up with carefully produced headlines and narratives to help frame the stories around the pandemic'ish complexities of fear, heightening individual and social anxieties. This was every day news reading. Soul crushing reading comes to mind.
These incremental steps being used immediately started to become apparent - carrot and stick, and a little more carrot and stick, then all stick. It became more than clear within days that pandemic-propaganda was becoming art-form used very effectively. Word play was cemented as only the Orwellian can do, while targeting body-centric emotions of whole populations. The science had no real science at all for lack of all the papers vilified or outright suppressed. IMO, the cat was out of the bag quickly, but it still has to be dealt with by each individual applied to their own circumstance and understandings. A failure for so many gov/health/corporate groups - often tied at the hip to each other, such as doctors, nurses et cetera, was that very few stood up. They easily could have in vast numbers. However, even their unions rolled over with hardly a fight, while CEO's, directors and upper managers bit their lips as they were served 'emergency' directions from above. One minute they are talking about human rights, the next it is that the lawyers are telling us you really don't have any.
From my perspective, the focus of work had always been on helping businesses, and then with covid events, quick response became how they would manage the
illusion of a pandemic; what would lawyers write, what polices would form their backbone to manage and be implemented - step by step, lie by lie it was all laid down for businesses and their workers, which I was a worker. Now many businesses did not like this (although stated quietly), however the pressure was enormous in the face of escalating 'cases' - and how to get by and get back to normal. How to play the game and hope the bad dream would go away, then realizing it was not about to go back to normal (openly stated by the politicians de jour). For me, and what ultimately became my choice; age became a factor, but it was also other factors, such as social woke conformities - indoctrinations in the workplace of the worst kind that was becoming standard HR script. When the vaccine mandates happened, I did my best to get around them with exemptions, but unlike some countries with better constitutions and judges, the window was only open for the very very few, quickly making it an exercise in futility to make argument. When the employer finally said, sorry, we cannot accept you doctors exemption, Huston, we got a problem, a doctor apparently meant nothing anymore.
If it had come to taking a vaccine (again, whatever you call the term), the many pages in threads on protocols would help, and had briefly though to do so, but for me it would come down to either taking their corporate policy knee or finding another way (and some just can't, it is completely understandable), so the the latter became the reality. Thus, I joined the ranks with many others and simply became unemployed; no flights, restaurants or easy access - a vax-pass persona non grata, xmas-excommunicated and all around socially shunned like a leper in this increasingly bizarro world. I've also good friends and colleagues who could not go the non-compliance route, even though they well knew the game and they tried their very best (and others who just believed, openly saying they believed Fauci). In the end, whatever the choice, people were either fearful or beaten down, bullied, threatened and even terrorized by government order or or corporate policies - policies that were helped in their development using standardized language coming off the shelf from outside.
If one is to glance back at Dr. Robert Hare's
The Corporation, this is just how it is when it comes to many workplaces. That said, not all of the managerial class within corporations think this way, but many in fact do, and the gap is getting wider to include so much more nonsense that would never have been allowed before. In the sense of psychopathy, the standard advise is to get away - leave, and a corporation exhibiting highly in this trait is no different, you stay or leave.
It is now into eight months from this last entry on this thread, and indeed "enforcement" has not left the table, although in some places it has the appearance of being abated, for now and in other areas it is being cemented. So, have people who have written here changed their thinking, and if so, how?
Lastly, it is highly likely that things are going to change again; mandated vaccinations being just one vector of many in order to be allowed to participate in society, economically or otherwise. So, once again we may well find ourselves making choices, and this time being employed or unemployed may matter not. Enforcement may be passive, escalated or completely abject.
My thanks for the posts peeps made in this thread, some have been tough to read just as they have been interesting to read, and I feel for the many having to have made the choices either way.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
― C.S. Lewis
, I was a bit hesitant to admit that I'd been jabbed at first, but I took care to point out my reasoning and the response on here has been fine.
