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10) Well this one we could still kinda sorta maybe achieve! But we're not. Have you ever walked somewhere without a mask and when prompted said "I'm vaccinated'? Trust me, it doesn't work. They still make you wear the mask. Which is seriously fucked up.

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11) A while ago it was in vogue to say "it's evil to ignore COVID protocols, but once there are vaccines it's your right to be free". People said that to justify lockdowns. Now the vaccine is here. Where did those voices go?

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12) (And, before you point out not everyone is vaccinated: at least in the states, most people who are planning to get vaccinated have already: twitter.com/NateSilver538/)

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Somewhat worrying numbers on vaccine hesitancy from the new Axios/Ipsos poll. 56% of US adults say they've gotten at least one vaccine dose already—great! But there aren't many Americans left who *haven't* gotten vaccinated but plan to do so. Just 14% fall into that category.

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13) And it gets worse. You know what _another_ option would have been? Search "when was the COVID vaccine developed" and you'll find lots of articles bragging about how FAST and QUICK it was. Because it only took a year to get to the public. The vaccine was ready in a month.

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14) Seriously! The mRNA COVID vaccines were ready in February. February 2020, that is. The next nine months were clinical trials. Meanwhile those who weren't dying were locked in their rooms.

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15) Seriously, fuck whatever systems decided that was a good tradeoff. We could have had it out in March; a simple trial on 1,000 participants would have been plenty to prove it was safe and effective.

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16) (People will decry the unprecedented money printing this year. It had bad effects! But also the economy would have been shit otherwise. We shut down the world for a year. IDK whether the monetary response was good or bad. Needing to do it in the first place was bad.)

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17) So, again, where are we now? We're lost, really. No one knows the plan, because there is no plan. We're opening back up, maybe, kinda, not really. Maybe this is the new normal.

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18) And that's the scariest part. Not that we fucked around for a year with a vaccine ready. Not that we all gave up 1.5 years of lockdown, and counting, along with inflation and businesses closing, for 30 days of life. No, the worst part is that we gave up on the future.

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19) There are various phrases the US likes to say, sometimes. New Hampshire is the Live Free or Die state. And maybe that's an exaggeration. But what the world has shown in the last year is the opposite.

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20) We're willing to permanently give up our livelihoods, friends, and freedom, slowly and passively falling into the "new normal", without really much of a second thought. Policy keeps shifting under our feet, moving the goalposts further and further away. "Meh", we respond.

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21) As I write this, a police officer came up and pointed at my face. "I'm vaccinated and just got 2 negative COVID tests", I said. I hold up my paperwork. He pointed at my face again. Also, of course, he has a gun. I sigh and put on my crumpled mask until he passes by.

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It is incredibly scary to see how we're giving up our freedom, not only without much of a second thought, but in most cases willingly and happily (!!!)

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I'm absolutely gobsmacked how reliant people are on the government and who, without batting an eyelid, suggest that the people they labelled 'fascists' 1-2 years ago are the people who will do what is best for us...

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Everyone is ok with it because we have endless cheap entertainment with Netflix, video games, etc...

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here we have a rule to wear mask in the restaurant until you go to your table, then you can remove the mask. same air same space. you get up from your table and forget to put your mask on, people look at you funny or angry.

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FOLLOW THE RULES DON!!!

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I do not respond "meh" I have been fighting hard against restrictions in my country but it seems like a never ending battle and the UK has the most arbitrary non sensical rules but people are easily manipulated when scared. After 1.5 years you think they would be asking questions

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Also this book is very good. Looking at how the U.K. and behavioural psychologists weaponised fear to turn our nation into subservient, ask no questions citizens. It is very interesting.

A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic

This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our health and our minds. It's also about how the government weaponised our...

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