(03-18-2021, 10:55 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-17-2021, 05:39 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I just got my second shot today. I also took a photo of my vaccination card, and I treat it like my driver's license, Social Security card, Medicare card, a credit or debit card, or a passport (if I had one). Really it is worthless without other documentation such as a passport or driver's license that is identification.
As I say I found out that I
(1) did a good job avoiding COVID-19, as I got nasty symptoms from the vaccine,
(2) I have much more freedom now than I had, and
(3) the nasty symptoms suggest that I could have ended up quite seriously dead from COVID-19.
I have nothing but sympathy for the loved ones of those who lost someone dear of COVID-19. I have nothing but contempt for people who deny its reality.
If it is my experience, then my opinion is simply reinforced. I thank the politicians, including Republican Governors of Indiana and Ohio, who offered me no safe haven for recklessness that I did not get in Michigan.
If you have yet to get your vaccine, then mask it or casket until you have certifiable immunity, and after that, just set a good example.
You've got as much freedom today as you have had available to you all along. Whatever gain (feeling) you think that you have today that didn't have last year is all your mind so to speak.
The stalker "Rona" is no longer a part of my life. My judgment isn't always perfect... whose is? ... but I can put together a few facts and draw a valid inference. I may have gotten myself fifteen or more years of life than I would have had had I died on a ventilator.
One is free to say anything that one wants in Iran or China. Of course you can be killed for what you way, which somehow seems like an undue deterrent to saying that some top leader is a horrible person.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.