Angry People

(This post first published on Substack on March 14, 2022)

My previous post on stress and fear generated several direct email responses and comments. It also prompted one reader to send me “hate” mail. David (I won’t use his last name) who appears to work at a company called “Ethical Investors,” called me an “idiot,” “evil,” “ignorant,” “lunatic,” and “fringe minority.” He said, “People like you have been a fringe, stupid minority for thousands of years, and for the next several thousand years, you will continue to be part of a fringe, stupid minority.”

Now, normally, I’d be very upset by something like this but, instead, I suggested to David that he may wish to paste his email in its entirety as a comment on my post. That was a couple of days ago and I have not heard from David.

What do I think about David? I think David is very angry. He’s also very scared. He’s been inundated with so many MSM “facts” that he lashes out through his computer at anyone who dares have a different opinion from his or contradicts what he’s been told to believe for the past two years. Because David is anonymous behind his computer, it’s easy to say things that he might otherwise not have said in person. But here’s the interesting thing: I’m angry, too, but not so much at David.

I listened to a young lady’s video on TikTok where she revealed her feelings about the mandates. The point is that the lifting of these mandates should have brought society back to normal but it didn’t. Instead, it exposed the mandates’ obvious failings seen so visibly in those still clinging to their face coverings. Who’s following the science today? Is it the public health officer telling people to take off their masks or is it the mask wearers still hugging their muzzles, thus telling the public health officer they don’t trust her science after all? I don’t blame the mask wearers.

I don’t feel relief at the lifting of mandates. I am angry at the government for brainwashing us for the past two years. I am angry at the government for not protecting the vulnerable by focusing on the vulnerable instead of treating everyone the same way. We are not all the same - never were, never will be. We cannot all wear masks. We cannot all get vaccinated on someone else’s say-so: our health care is not the government’s concern. We cannot all survive on a government handout and quite frankly, it’s appalling that so many have become dependent on this socialist indoctrination. But maybe that was the plan all along.

The problem is that this pandemic became political under the illusion of concern for public health. If you are really honest with yourself, ask how is it that the latest round of pandemic decisions was based on public opinion? Public opinion has never and should never be the basis of health decisions. If it is, then you can bet these decisions have nothing to do with health.

Ultimately, one of the biggest missteps of this pandemic was flawed communication. It was never in context and the media did not do enough to deliver the full story. Whether this was on purpose, I don’t know. But certainly, federal funding didn’t encourage journalists to fill in the blanks to counter the government’s narrative. Money talks, after all.

In the end, it will be a he-said-she-said for committees to figure out the handling of this pandemic. One thing is certain: the measures have created more anguish than the virus ever could. I have personal experience of vaccine adverse reactions. I have personal experience of long-haul covid. I also have personal experience of the mental health issues resulting from this pandemic’s measures.

As I said, I am angry. Angry at a government that failed to do what it said it would do. Angry at a government that uses and used political measures that have and had nothing to do with health, such as vaccine passports and lockdowns. Angry at a government that has created a society of scared followers who will need a long time to return to normal.

However, I am optimistic that there is a light at the end of this dark tunnel. I just hope it’s not another promise of “two weeks to flatten the curve” because we all know how true that promise turned out.