Thankfully.
Some with comorbidities are expressing dissatisfaction about what has been, and continues to be done to others – supposedly on their behalf.
Even though he is pro-vax and focuses mostly on the harms to children1Largely overlooking the infringement on multiple human rights, Years of Lost Life, closed businesses, jobs ended, increasing depression and suicide, medical waiting lists getting longer, fractured families and friendships, starvation and poverty caused by supply chain interruptions, injuries and deaths from the injections… I think immunocompromised Alex Lieske vents it well.
I’m immunocompromised, and I’ve never asked others to protect me…
… hereditary spherocytosis. It’s a blood disorder that causes my red blood cells to be shaped like spheres instead of flattened discs…
… Every day, from the time I had my spleen removed at 8 years old until I graduated from college, I took amoxicillin to help bolster my immune system and fend off infections. I’ve gotten every vaccine known to mankind. To limit my risk, I continue to work out by boxing or running 4-5 days per week, and I try to eat healthy… Understanding my individual risk, I take measures in my daily life to make sure I’m as healthy as possible to help boost my immune system. This is my individual risk, and my individual risk alone; no one, and I repeat, NO ONE is responsible for my health other than me. And on the flip side, others are responsible for their own health. This is how I’ve always lived my life.
Then 2020 hit, and along came COVID-19. At first, the response was unified as we learned more about this infectious, aerosolized virus that no human intervention measures can stop (AIER lists over 30 studies showing the ineffectiveness of lockdowns, for example). As time went on, it seemed that the response was becoming more about politics and “winning” than about the virus. Every psychological trick in the book has been tried, some to great success (“my mask protects you; your mask protects me,” “stay home, save lives,” it’s all for “the common good”). Despite my issues with almost all of the fear messaging over the past year, the one that really made my blood boil was the mass vaccination campaign that broadly weaponized the “immunocompromised” as a reason that everyone, young and old, needs to be vaccinated…
As an immunocompromised individual, I NEVER asked for this, and there are millions like me. It’s not the government’s job to protect my health; it’s the government’s job to protect my freedom, liberties, and rights. How dare we keep children out of school for a year (or more) using people like me as the reason, without our consent? How dare we mask and distance our children and close schools when globally—and domestically—we have data showing it’s completely unnecessary (in fact, mask-optional schools showed lower transmission)? How dare we use children as shields for adults? If it’s not clear, this has never been about students or their health, but it has everything to do with institutions trying to appease the mob and avoid any conflict. That’s no longer acceptable, if it ever was. Kids are not responsible for the irrational fears of adults. Children unequivocally aren’t responsible for my health, and I never would ask them to be.
Adults, we have failed children for over a year. And now, holding kids’ educations ransom until they get an EUA vaccine, when they are at lower risk from COVID-19 than influenza, is the one of the worst things humanity has done, and these measures, without a doubt, disproportionately affect the disadvantaged and marginalized. And don’t get me started on the teachers’ unions.
We can start to repair the damage we’ve done before it’s too late.
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It is time to reshape the narrative, add context to the COVID-19 risk profile that has been hidden for a year, and start to promote self-responsibility and accountability when it comes to one’s health. And, one more time for those in the back, you are not responsible for my health or my family’s health, and I am not responsible for yours. Let’s start acting like civil adults again. It’s time for humanity to move forward for the sake of our most valuable asset, our children.
Alex Lieske
- 1Largely overlooking the infringement on multiple human rights, Years of Lost Life, closed businesses, jobs ended, increasing depression and suicide, medical waiting lists getting longer, fractured families and friendships, starvation and poverty caused by supply chain interruptions, injuries and deaths from the injections…