It’s their primary life and the real world is secondary. That’s why they don’t have time to work and find it irrelevant to living their virtual life. Wait, is this social media?
Hmm...
I guess it’s different for everyone. I literally know like only 3 unvaccinated people.
1 is in her mid 30’s and is essentially a non-believer in all of it. She runs around and travels like nobody's business yet she also left her job from day 1 and took advantage of the government COVID unemployment the entire time it was offered stating she was too afraid to work in the public. She then chose to not get vaccinated. She’s pretty special..
Another is a fairly close friend of mine that I don’t see often these days who was a ”wait and see” person. He was also the person I used to play tennis with outside and when I occasionally burped, he would freak out because he was afraid of catching COVID and bringing it home to his parents (they all live together). His parents have since been vaccinated, yet he did not. He contracted COVID around Christmas time and the kids decided it would be best to move the parents out of the house to quarantine. My GF asked him why he never ended up getting vaccinated, and he said “well I am a healthy guy and I have always been extremely diligent with personal hygiene and I really don’t go anywhere.” My GF said “OK, and you just told me that you just got over having COVID.” They are pretty special too..
The other is my GF’s cousin, and he falls into the category of not trusting the vaccine because of its ties with the government. Meanwhile, we offered to take him out to a nice meal in a restaurant a few weeks ago and he declined as he said he was too afraid to catch COVID.
Everyone definitely has their own unique view on COVID and vaccination..
Nobody in my family is vaccinated (60yr old parents, two brothers, nephews, niece, son, ex wife, etc), but on my wife's side, she and I are the only unvaccinated ones. Her entire family including her kids are all vaxed up. her kids all got vaccinated AFTER having COVID. they went to a party last march (college) came back with covid, gave it to their mom while I was away travelling to AZ. it didn't phase them at all, she had a cold basically. I coincidentally got it while in AZ and quarantined as I have mentioned, never got fully sick just felt like I was about to get sick for about a week so I doubled down on my vitamins. a month later the kids all ran out to get the vaccine to protect them from the disease they already had, weren't seriously ill from, and had recovered from. <-- that has never made sense to me.
my 60yr old parents and everyone else in my family got it around the same time. everyone's experience was the same as mine. my co-workers who got it were divided into two categories basically. some went home, laid in bed for a week and said they were sick but after recovery said it wasn't as bad as prior illnesses. the other folks basically pretended to never get sick and just lived with their 'cold'.
I come from a redneck town of farmers that has been publicly shamed in the past 6 months by local Seattle news for being so "anti mask". even the city council continued meeting which was shamed, and without masks, more shaming. My wife and I have had many more direct exposures with no issues. a couple weeks ago we were surrounded by probably 20 positive test results, all Omicron I'm sure as nobody had more than a runny nose, she stayed home sick for a few days with the same symptoms but tested negative. I never got sick, but a few times I got pho and doubled my vitamins because I thought "maybe I have a cold coming on", but again, it never hit.
now, in march of 2019 I was so sick I went to urgent care caused I was miserable, they discovered a heart defect. that's another story, but just saying, I have been quite sick in my life, lol.
To me it seems like our approach to all of this and our response is likely a direct result of our experiences. You are seeing the worst of the worst and it's likely shaping your perspective differently than me, who is seeing the exact opposite of you. every vaccinated person in my life honestly is APPEARING to be an idiot in my mind. I'm talking about masks when alone walking down the sidewalk, alone in their car etc etc then of course they give me a big maskless hug. (what??) the hypocrisy and lack of consistency drives me crazy. I have met 80yr olds while I was down in AZ who recovered from covid and said they didn't understand what all the drama was about.
so.............................. I'm not saying the stuff you're seeing isn't happening. I'm not bold enough to be a denier per se, but our experiences over the past 2 years are likely having a huge impact on our difference in perspective. I just haven't seen anything in my region to justify any of the tyrannical approaches we have accepted by our govt.
