Among all the vaccines I have known in my life: — diphtheria — tetanus — smallpox — typhoid — anthrax — rota virus — measles — rubella — chickenpox — hepatitis — meningitis — tuberculosis I want to also add: — flu and pneumonia. 😳 I have never seen a vaccine cause more division. 😳 I had never heard of rewards, discounts, incentives to get vaccinated. 😳 I never saw discrimination for those who didn't. 🥺If you haven't been vaccinated no one has tried to make you feel like a bad person. 💔I have never seen a vaccine that threatens the relationship between family, colleagues and friends. 👩🏻‍⚕️🎓I have never seen a vaccine used to threaten livelihoods, work or school. 📋I have never seen a vaccine that would allow a 12-year-old to override parental consent. 😡After all the vaccines I listed above, I have never seen a vaccine like this one, which discriminates, divides and judges society as it is. And as the social fabric tightens… It's a powerful vaccine! She does all these things except IMMUNIZATION and recovering from the virus means NOTHING. If we still need: — 💉a booster dose after we are fully vaccinated, —👃🏼and we still need to get a negative test after we are fully vaccinated — 😷and we still need to wear a mask after we are fully vaccinated — 🏨and still be hospitalized after we have been fully vaccinated “It's time for us to admit that we've been completely deceived." Stop it. Just stop it. Stop making excuses. We’ve gone from “a few weeks to flatten the curve” to fully vaccinated to see a doctor. We’ve gone from “two vaccines to be fully vaccinated” to three, possibly four, five, six… We’ve gone from “when we reach 70%, life will go back to normal” to 80%, 90%, 95%… We’ve gone from “the vaccine is 100% effective” to not preventing infection, barely curbing transmission, and dwindling effectiveness against symptoms in less than 6 months. We’ve gone from “the vaccine is 100% safe” to risks of blood clots, Guillain-Barre, myocarditis, pericarditis, and skyrocketing reports of adverse reactions on yellow card systems across the globe. We’ve gone from “masks are relatively ineffective” to wearing masks when there is no active disease in the local community. We’ve gone from “kids are unaffected by this disease” to promoting vaccines for 5-12 year olds. We’ve gone from “vaccinate to get back to normal” to vaccine passports will be required to access normal necessities. And here’s a few more “Stop-It’s” while I’m on my rant… Stop telling me, “the vaccine is not experimental” when it is still in an experimental trial stage. Long term data is not in on mRNA vaccines for humans and no amount of data fudging and spin can prove otherwise. Stop telling me, “we don’t have polio anymore, thanks vaccines” when mRNA vaccines are nothing like the polio vaccine, coronaviruses are nothing like poliovirus, and the first release of the polio vaccine resulted in a catastrophic pharmaceutical disaster. Stop telling me, “but it still reduces the spread” when affected states and countries are at 90% levels of vaccination and returning record numbers of break-through cases. This is hardly a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’. Stop telling me, “well, it’s about reducing the load on our health system” when they can afford to sideline thousands of healthcare workers, once celebrated for their heroic service on the frontline. Stop telling me, “yeah, but we weren’t expecting this highly infectious new variant” when any virologist worth their salt will tell you this is exactly what viruses do. In general, they become more infectious and less dangerous over time. Stop telling me, “it’s about keeping us safe” when they suppress treatments, threaten and harass doctors who speak out, censor dissenting scientific voices, and seemingly couldn’t give a toss about suicide, mental health, smoking, and drug and alcohol addictions which kill tens of thousands each year. Stop telling me, “people still have a choice” when you know full well there is no choice when somebody’s livelihood, healthcare and welfare are at stake. And finally, stop telling me, “it’s a conspiracy theory” when it’s all happening right there in front of you. There is a virus. Yes. It’s a bad one. Precautions need to be taken. But, this response is a total overreach and most people know it. They may not express it. They may not acknowledge it. They may even argue against it. But, surely they can feel it. Something’s not right. This is no longer about a virus. This is about passports, power and control. I don’t know where it’s coming from. I don’t know how it got here. But, it’s here. It’s global. It’s terrifying. And we must push back. We must. Stop making excuses.