Despite being right about everything, those of us who pushed back against lockdowns from the outset are not redeemed. Many of us remained “cancelled.”
By Jennifer Sey
I’ve been a bit grumpy and on edge this week. It’s the 5 year anniversary of lockdowns. I’m still mourning the loss of my life as it was. I love my new life. But it’s harder. And I’m 56 and I guess I was hoping for easier at this point.
You see, I loved my old life and I’d spent more than 3 decades building it and it was taken from me because I dared say “open the public schools.” Yes, it was taken from me by a bunch of psychotic covid alarmists and authoritarian censors. Which was almost everyone. I’ll never forgive them. I don’t care what they say about letting go of anger and how it poisons you to hold it. Those who targeted and cancelled dissenters deserve for our rage to be trained on them. They deserve it and I hold it in a place, I make room for it to exist, while building joy around it with my family, my new city, my new start up, my new friends. But it’s there, make no mistake.
I don’t really know what to say about it all. I’ve written extensively on the subject, even a book — about what it was like to dissent from the outset. I feel tinges of rage at prominent “heterodox-ers” who now, or perhaps 2-3 years into it all, pretend at dissent. We needed you then.
There is broad recognition that school closures went on too long, and even some acknowledgement that lockdowns were ineffective and terrible human rights violations.
The Boston Globe published a review of the book “In Covid’s Wake” about a week ago. The book, while being praised as redemptive for those of us who pushed back early and often, provides no such redemption. While I’ll admit I haven’t read it, I’ve read the review several times now. It allows for “it was early we didn’t know” and seems to scapegoat Fauci and even other public health officials without excoriating EVERYONE who went along with the hysteria, turning in neighbors to police and targeting colleagues for firing.
As philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke famously said in 1795: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
All those who did nothing are also responsible for the global human rights violations of the covid era. And of course the covid enthusiasts who acted as snitches, and joyfully targeted friends and neighbors for punishment deserve our ire. Beyond that you have those directly responsible, the media which utterly failed in their duty as the 4th estate resorting instead to publishing Big Pharma and government issued talking points as “news”; the medical community, with few exceptions; the academics; the teachers; I could go on.
The vaccine (and of course mandates — which people lost jobs over) have disappeared from public consciousness. I mean does anyone actually get that thing anymore?
We are still reminded of masks, as any good leftist protesting about anything…
Read the rest: https://jennifersey.substack.com/p/the-5-year-anniversary-of-lockdowns
While I can certainly understand her anger, to keep nursing it will only harm her soul. We should pray for our enemies not become like them.
Yes, rejoice because your REAL redemption is at hand, provided you fought against these evils, guided by Traditional Catholicism, and a true love for Jesus Christ. In a certain sense, we should LOVE being pulverized by “the powers that be,” those who orchestrated the mess. Catholics thrive on persecution if they comprehend why it happens (City of God versus City of Man).
In a similar vein, don’t hold your breath on any wordly/political redemption involving any of this since the new folks in charge (Trump and pals) are exactly the same as those who permitted it in the first place (Trump and pals).
I do not put my trust in princes.