It's especially stupid because Harriet is (I assume) an adult who can run her life however she wants. If she thinks that she's too busy post-lockdown, she could -- hear me out on this -- JUST STOP DOING SO MUCH SHIT.
The bit about the stresses of maintaining friendships is my favorite part. Girl, the rest of us were devastated to not be able to see our friends. I still have teens who are recovering from the permanent loss of friendships--friends who embraced the lockdowns or whose parents wouldn’t let them return to school. It’s been rough.
I wonder how she feels about the stress of being disowned by friends and family because one went to the official covid sites and saw the entire covid narrative was bullshit?
Any stress at all about being forced to take experimental medicines with OBVIOUS AND IMMEDIATE side effects in order to keep a job?
If Harriet thought being part of the covid herd was stressful, she should try being on the other side for like an hour.
Many “friends” were lost during this fiasco! Long term friendships-52, 35 years. Thos3 aren’t real friends, no matter how much you’ve been thru together. Well at least they are safe, all vaxxed up, boosted, invalid PCR tested and with their families also shot to the nth degree.
I don't shed much of a tear for "losing" the people who would have turned in Anne Frank. My friend selection is on much more solid ground now because people have been exposed by covid.
I got lucky. My best friend of over twenty years was on our side, as well as my son. The only 'friends' I lost were after my husband died- all of his friends were Colbert/MSNBC junkies who probably shortened my husband's life by constantly scaring the shit out of him with their constant fear porn, first about Trump, then about Covid. It is typical for widows and divorcees to not keep contact with the former spouse's friends. In this case it was more like 'good riddance'.
I agree--those aren’t real friends--but it is a crushing blow to find this out after so much time. I’m sorry it happened to you, and sad that it happened to so many. It’s been the craziest 3 years I could ever have imagined.
No lie! I actually suspect one of my daughter’s friends was lost when she found out we weren’t vaxxed. She has not spoken to her since. An entire year playing dodgeball with 3 different school’s discriminatory policies would have sent Harriet to the looney bin.
During the height of the panic I loved to tell people "All it takes to see through the covid narrative is internet access, a few spare hours, and a sense of curiosity. Since you're on Twitter, I know you have the first two."
I hate these people. My elderly mom cried in my driveway on my birthday in 2020 because she said she was afraid that if she hugged me she would kill me.
I'll never forget my husband crying because he was sure I was going to die by being unvaxxed. That is the strength of the propaganda his 'friends' and online media were promulgating. What a horrible thing to put on somebody.
I’d like for Harriet to feel what it’s like to see your dad hospitalized for Covid, suffering all alone, isolated on a ventilator, while your fully vaxxed mom is prohibited from seeing her dying husband on their 45th wedding anniversary because some faceless hospital bureaucrat doesn’t like the form of mom’s vaccine certificate. I’d like Harriet to hear mom wailing in despair as she is denied the humanity of seeing her loved one as they lie dying. Then I’d like hear Harriet talk about her nostalgia for the evil reign of lockdown terror. She disgusts me.
Reminds me of trauma bonds- when going through a difficult situation you'll tend to stay with that individual even after the relationship has become dysfunctional.
Lockdowns were experienced in different ways by people depending on their status as extroverts or introverts; but mostly as their economic status. If you were lounging around in a big suburban house with a garden and access to trails, a private swimming pool, etc, probably it wasn't terrible. Maybe you didn't notice. But that means you have to totally ignore the people that were devastated by the lockdowns--kids, businesses, loss of liberty, closed churches,etc. Never AGAIN
At first they kind of made sense, and I watched Sweden with interest. When their cases rose and fell in line with everywhere else, I thought common sense would prevail, but no instead we got doubling down and absurd cherry picked comparisons to Finland and Norway (who basically only did lockdown in name, it amounted to very little).
So all of the hundreds of millions of old people whose cognition and lives utterly depended on visits and activities and touch, who went off the cognitive cliffs, and all those who died of poverty, perhaps 15 million in the developing world, and those who lost their small businesses, 3 million in the US according to RFK jr., just don't count, don't exist, never existed, or never mattered. The real pandemic is one of narcissism and triviality, the elevation of exteriority, fame, and money as a sign of being superior, and shallow self-absorbed navel gazing. People like this, who don't at least acknowledge that this happened, leaving the rest of us to carry on our backs the unspoken stone of these tragedies, will indeed bring it all back down on us.
Once, long ago, I was canvasing for Greenpeace in Orinda, California, a Republican stronghold and I walked to a house at the very top of a high hill. The fellow that answered the door would not contribute, saying "Why do you think I live up here?" Great article.
I am from the "laptop class" - I do not need the lockdown, but I definitely do not need to go into an office to do my work. I save two hours of commuting each day and the costs coming with that. My freedom increased by giving me back two hours of my time each day. I do not have to catch every cold and flu that goes around on busses and trains or the office itself. I do not have to see the faces of all those people knowing I am an antivaxxer or mask-denier.
Fashion editor.....hmmm....Not an essential worker. So very busy editing about fashion. Might have made more of a societal impact if she helped manufacture the toilet paper we all needed so desperately.
This crazy woman already locks her kids down out of another fear, which in turn locks her down. Stop ferrying your damn kids all over town, and planning their every activity. Send them to school, have them do homework and then go the hell outside and play. And don’t go out there with them. Let them learn to be independent, capable human beings that have a sense of self developed confidence that they will benefit from for the REST OF THEIR LIVES. And you might have a little time to yourself.
It's especially stupid because Harriet is (I assume) an adult who can run her life however she wants. If she thinks that she's too busy post-lockdown, she could -- hear me out on this -- JUST STOP DOING SO MUCH SHIT.
Stop over complicating things. Shutting down the world is far easier
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The bit about the stresses of maintaining friendships is my favorite part. Girl, the rest of us were devastated to not be able to see our friends. I still have teens who are recovering from the permanent loss of friendships--friends who embraced the lockdowns or whose parents wouldn’t let them return to school. It’s been rough.
I wonder how she feels about the stress of being disowned by friends and family because one went to the official covid sites and saw the entire covid narrative was bullshit?
Any stress at all about being forced to take experimental medicines with OBVIOUS AND IMMEDIATE side effects in order to keep a job?
If Harriet thought being part of the covid herd was stressful, she should try being on the other side for like an hour.
Many “friends” were lost during this fiasco! Long term friendships-52, 35 years. Thos3 aren’t real friends, no matter how much you’ve been thru together. Well at least they are safe, all vaxxed up, boosted, invalid PCR tested and with their families also shot to the nth degree.
I don't shed much of a tear for "losing" the people who would have turned in Anne Frank. My friend selection is on much more solid ground now because people have been exposed by covid.
So very true.
I got lucky. My best friend of over twenty years was on our side, as well as my son. The only 'friends' I lost were after my husband died- all of his friends were Colbert/MSNBC junkies who probably shortened my husband's life by constantly scaring the shit out of him with their constant fear porn, first about Trump, then about Covid. It is typical for widows and divorcees to not keep contact with the former spouse's friends. In this case it was more like 'good riddance'.
I agree--those aren’t real friends--but it is a crushing blow to find this out after so much time. I’m sorry it happened to you, and sad that it happened to so many. It’s been the craziest 3 years I could ever have imagined.
No lie! I actually suspect one of my daughter’s friends was lost when she found out we weren’t vaxxed. She has not spoken to her since. An entire year playing dodgeball with 3 different school’s discriminatory policies would have sent Harriet to the looney bin.
She was surely a “disowner” & true believer in the jab & has stepped right up for each & every one
She’ll be “locked down” forever pretty soon as long as she keeps getting her boosters.
All the believers have done this! No research, just fear. Sad really.
and the lockdown gave them the time to do the research...but no, too lazy or just wilfully ignorant
True! And I still haven’t stopped researching!
Hopefully you are too!
During the height of the panic I loved to tell people "All it takes to see through the covid narrative is internet access, a few spare hours, and a sense of curiosity. Since you're on Twitter, I know you have the first two."
Pathetic for sure, Nancy
Exactly. So blind.
I hate these people. My elderly mom cried in my driveway on my birthday in 2020 because she said she was afraid that if she hugged me she would kill me.
Can't 'like' this because it is so sad and heartbreaking.
It is the world we allowed ourselves to be boxed into. Worst part, she loves St Fauci.
I'll never forget my husband crying because he was sure I was going to die by being unvaxxed. That is the strength of the propaganda his 'friends' and online media were promulgating. What a horrible thing to put on somebody.
Your hatred is justified. What horrible damage they did!
maybe the rest of us have REAL friends?? Not 'relationships' that we need to 'work on' or 'maintain'.
I’d like for Harriet to feel what it’s like to see your dad hospitalized for Covid, suffering all alone, isolated on a ventilator, while your fully vaxxed mom is prohibited from seeing her dying husband on their 45th wedding anniversary because some faceless hospital bureaucrat doesn’t like the form of mom’s vaccine certificate. I’d like Harriet to hear mom wailing in despair as she is denied the humanity of seeing her loved one as they lie dying. Then I’d like hear Harriet talk about her nostalgia for the evil reign of lockdown terror. She disgusts me.
The modern version of “let them eat cake.”
Let's put Harriet in a locked psychiatric or prison ward and see what happens with her longing.
Reminds me of trauma bonds- when going through a difficult situation you'll tend to stay with that individual even after the relationship has become dysfunctional.
Stockholm syndrome , too..... feelings of trust or affection felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim toward a captor.
Crazy is that my country is in full Stockholm syndrome. That's why they keep voting back the same crap dysfunctional government.
Yes..... "Govern me harder, daddy!"
Yes exactly Stella- all those heightened emotions wrapped up in a confusing bow indeed.
Lockdowns were experienced in different ways by people depending on their status as extroverts or introverts; but mostly as their economic status. If you were lounging around in a big suburban house with a garden and access to trails, a private swimming pool, etc, probably it wasn't terrible. Maybe you didn't notice. But that means you have to totally ignore the people that were devastated by the lockdowns--kids, businesses, loss of liberty, closed churches,etc. Never AGAIN
At first they kind of made sense, and I watched Sweden with interest. When their cases rose and fell in line with everywhere else, I thought common sense would prevail, but no instead we got doubling down and absurd cherry picked comparisons to Finland and Norway (who basically only did lockdown in name, it amounted to very little).
So all of the hundreds of millions of old people whose cognition and lives utterly depended on visits and activities and touch, who went off the cognitive cliffs, and all those who died of poverty, perhaps 15 million in the developing world, and those who lost their small businesses, 3 million in the US according to RFK jr., just don't count, don't exist, never existed, or never mattered. The real pandemic is one of narcissism and triviality, the elevation of exteriority, fame, and money as a sign of being superior, and shallow self-absorbed navel gazing. People like this, who don't at least acknowledge that this happened, leaving the rest of us to carry on our backs the unspoken stone of these tragedies, will indeed bring it all back down on us.
Once, long ago, I was canvasing for Greenpeace in Orinda, California, a Republican stronghold and I walked to a house at the very top of a high hill. The fellow that answered the door would not contribute, saying "Why do you think I live up here?" Great article.
Lockdowns . . . the ultimate privilege. Demented MFers!
Have never doubted for one minute that ALL of it can come roaring back, only worse. The sheeple were primed & performed admirably for their masters
What a child. Too busy keeping up with the Jones to live her life as she would really like. Instead needs the government to tell her what to do
I am from the "laptop class" - I do not need the lockdown, but I definitely do not need to go into an office to do my work. I save two hours of commuting each day and the costs coming with that. My freedom increased by giving me back two hours of my time each day. I do not have to catch every cold and flu that goes around on busses and trains or the office itself. I do not have to see the faces of all those people knowing I am an antivaxxer or mask-denier.
Fashion editor.....hmmm....Not an essential worker. So very busy editing about fashion. Might have made more of a societal impact if she helped manufacture the toilet paper we all needed so desperately.
Quite.
Welll said NE, thank you.
“...time that didn’t come with the pressure to be used efficiently or productively.”
So they enjoyed playing into the worthless eater Narrative. Klaus vill be verrrrry happy to hear zis.
This crazy woman already locks her kids down out of another fear, which in turn locks her down. Stop ferrying your damn kids all over town, and planning their every activity. Send them to school, have them do homework and then go the hell outside and play. And don’t go out there with them. Let them learn to be independent, capable human beings that have a sense of self developed confidence that they will benefit from for the REST OF THEIR LIVES. And you might have a little time to yourself.
This piece is so important for EVERYONE to read! A must share.