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Jul. 21st, 2023|11:37 am |
Yes. That time was a self-organizing and institutionally regulated social warfare field full of fear, uncertainty, attacks of induced guilt and blaming, low tolerance to any errors, overreaction to some opinions and underreaction to others, but also (I believe so) all driven by the best intents, care, compassion and the will to protect and save lives of our dear elder people, all happening within very tight timeframe.
The factor that polarized society the most and led to drastic institutional measures was thesis that vaccination shortens the lifecycle of the virus in its carriers body and significantly lessens the chance of its spreading. It is still an open question with no scientific data solidly confirming or refuting it, at least not any one known to me. But it seemed quite logical that if body can fight the virus early, it cannot multiply as fast and spread itself out at the same rate. Still, an open question is if that would give necessary results as we know now how extremely agile, tiny and aggressively spreading this particular virus was. Second assumption that sitting at home is better that taking a walk in nature was obviously wrong and was soon debunked however was rather true in regard of gathering in public spaces and offices which were badly ventilated and having HVAC systems that actually helped spreading the virus across buildings premises.
I think your family and the likes being with kids and still deciding to go unvaccinated went under the biggest stress and hardship.
My nephew (then 21) also decided to go unvaccinated knowing that he will be unable to continue his studies as a result. We had a conversation, and while I didn't feel easy about the situation I said that I fully respect his decision.
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