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The COVID emergency is finally over. So, how did the pandemic change you? | Readers’ essays
NJ.com ^ | May 11, 2023 | Guest Columnist

Posted on 05/12/2023 5:24:22 AM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: DoodleBob

I now take more vitamins (NAC,K2,D3,C,ZINC,Quercetin). I now have a nice stash of 12mg pharma grade Ivermectin and a selection of ABX. I now am much more politically aware...of the capacity of elected officials to do evil, even global evil at the expense of the populace. I now am more....I better stop there.


21 posted on 05/12/2023 5:43:59 AM PDT by know.your.why
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To: DoodleBob
The COVID pandemic had a profound impact on me. It taught me not to trust — not to trust my government, not to trust the CDC, not to trust FDA, not to trust WHO, and not to trust the people who should have been guiding us and telling us the truth

This is me. Luckily my family was spared from the worst of Covid. All of us got mild cases of it and had the sniffles and a cough for a few days. My daughter was planning a summer study in Italy last summer and got the jab without our knowledge. She's a legal adult and can make that decision. And once again, luckily, she has had not side effects.

22 posted on 05/12/2023 5:44:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: DoodleBob

Whatever faith and trust I had in government is gone.

I no longer see a possible solution to political problems that does not involve some sort of force.

COVID did that.


23 posted on 05/12/2023 5:45:53 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: DoodleBob
The most distressing thing I learned is that even many Freepers are cowardly morons.

Never thought I'd see the day when a bunch of Branch Covidian A-holes would get on here back in March/April 2020 and scold me for refusing to shut down my business and hide under my bed.

24 posted on 05/12/2023 5:46:08 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: Vision

The scariest day in your life is the day you realize that monsters are real and look like ordinary humans.


25 posted on 05/12/2023 5:46:28 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: DoodleBob

It didn’t change me one bit. I rarely wore a mask, didn’t get the jab, and didn’t lose my business like millions did. I didn’t take up gaming and smoking pot. I paid my mortgage on time and left the house whenever I wanted.

It did change one outlook I had. I never realized how many moronic pussies we have in this country.


26 posted on 05/12/2023 5:46:59 AM PDT by albie
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To: Organic Panic

Many landlords lost their entire investments as they were unable to pay the mortgage and the government said their tenants didn’t have to. That would seem to consist of an unconstitutional “taking” by the government.


27 posted on 05/12/2023 5:49:04 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: DoodleBob
I saw how easy it was to control people with fear.

Fearful people loose all common sense.

I found out that doctors are not as smart as I thought they were. All they do is follow CDC guidelines that are written by Big Pharma. I get better advice from the internet.

I will never willingly take another “vaccine.” I am now convinced that childhood vaccines cause autism and SIDS.

Mail in ballots are ripe for corruption.

28 posted on 05/12/2023 5:49:37 AM PDT by GrannyAnn ( )
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To: grobdriver

You could ask to have a pureblood family member to donate specifically for you.


29 posted on 05/12/2023 5:50:23 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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30 posted on 05/12/2023 5:51:42 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: DoodleBob

It showed me that there are WAY more sheeple in this country than I ever imagined.


31 posted on 05/12/2023 5:52:32 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: DoodleBob

How did the planDemic affect me?

I ignored the whole thing as much as humanly possible.
The major effect on me was a profound loss of respect for my fellow man.
The way everyone around me took the fear-mongering bait, and complied with all manner of useless and hurtful mandates was extremely disappointing.

The way the Democrats exploited and cultivated the fear was disgusting.
The way the Republicans took the bait and let Trump’s election year economy be destroyed by Covid mandates - and then let 2020 get stolen via the Covid fake mail in ballots drop box scam - was embarrassing.

The saddest part is that the powers-to-be may well ring all the same bells again, and everyone will obediently jump to attention and comply with all the same absurdities - and even congratulate themselves and each other for being such good citizens.

Those of us who ask WTF? will again be treated with utter contempt - as dangers to society and ‘science’ deniers.

The Founders must be rolling in their graves.


32 posted on 05/12/2023 5:53:12 AM PDT by enumerated ( )
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To: DoodleBob

It didn’t change me. It changed my opinions. I assume that’s what they meant.

I have little trust for the medical establishment. I have little to no trust in government. I realized that the democrat party is fully on board with the destruction of this country. I learned that much of the public is a bunch of stupid, gullible sheep. I learned that the pandemic was used by the left as a cover for their willing adoption of fascism. I learned that government tells the social media who to suppress or cancel. I learned that social media does it willingly.


33 posted on 05/12/2023 5:53:19 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is the most subversive and harmful institution on the planet. )
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To: Old Yeller

There are at least a few doing that to not contaminate others with something.


34 posted on 05/12/2023 5:54:10 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DoodleBob
One of the biggest question of the history of the 20th century was answered......

What made able bodied men willingly load themselves and their families into boxcars? Now I know.

For a tyranny to succeed, it needs enforcers. Kill the enforcers and it grinds to a halt. Why didn't this happen?

35 posted on 05/12/2023 5:54:46 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: DoodleBob

Made me realize that there truly is a globalization movement that will stop at nothing to gain total control over every person in the world. Even if that involves destroying the economy, Imprisoning the opposition and outright killing millions of people. I will never trust the government or their propagandist news media again.


36 posted on 05/12/2023 5:55:19 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: dennisw

Tennessee decided that they would keep all the employees working by working in office two 4 hour shifts. 8-12, 12:30-4:30. Now, if they can make due with half their employees, then wouldn’t you say that their workforce is at least twice as large as it should be?


37 posted on 05/12/2023 5:55:38 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: Organic Panic

My wife and I have often brought up the many, many people, in your position.


38 posted on 05/12/2023 5:55:51 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The scariest day in your life is the day you realize that monsters are real and look like ordinary humans.

Boom!!


40 posted on 05/12/2023 5:58:51 AM PDT by BobinIL
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