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I was very lucky. I do IT/accounting support at a head hunting firm. Before the lockdowns I commuted by train from Connecticut to midtown Manhattan. I have been working at home since 3/12/2020. My commute was 3 hours a day so my life has changed for the better. I am 67 and unvaxxed. I had Covid in May. No big deal!
Starting on March 13, 2020 I was rolled into a ball sucking my thumb in the fetal position for about nine months. My work dropped to basically zero.
The government took away my clients!
I work in elementary school throughout the Midwest and northeast, performing educational programs for kids.
But when the government kicked all the kids out of school in the spring of 2020 I had no place to go. The following fall many schools were still closed but the few that did open up had mandates and restrictions that were so severe they bordered on ridiculous.
Fortunately, I was able to transition to performing many of my programs through zoom. Starting January 2021 my business blossomed again, but I was simply working in my basement in my newly fabricated studio and streaming to elementary schools all over the USA.
The first six months of 2021 mad up for The crushing blow that I took in 2020.
I ended up having my most financially lucrative six months in the 35 years in this business.
However, when schools finally did open up in the fall of 2021 the mask mandates were still in place, and people were still nervous about bringing strangers like myself into the schools.
The 2021 2022 school year was by far the oddest year I ever had. Some schools were fully open but only mandating that the classes remain 6 feet apart when in the gymnasium. Other schools require the kids to be 6 feet apart at all times while sitting on the floor or behind plastic Sheilds while watching me perform volunteerless, fully masked 30 feet away on a stage.
Nobody but me seem to notice the ridiculousness of me trying to do my science experiments and talking about the scientific method while 40 teachers and 600 kids sat obediently, masked up with zero science to say what they were doing was logical or sensible.
It was ridiculous as I watched hundreds of elementary school children fiddle with their masks and obey the Overly zealous dictator principals.
Now here I am in the fall of 2022 trying to rebuild my business. My majority of clients are PTA moms Who have all moved onto middle school. The clients that were consistently booking me for 15 and 20 years straight now consider me to be a stranger. It’s very sad. I spent 35 years building up my business, and I fear it will never return to the pre-2020 schedule that I used to have.
"Fast forward…In December 2020, I left a position after 10.5 years with a subsidiary of the world’s best-known educational brand. Except for the months beginning in March 2020, those were the best years in all of my recruiting and professional experience. Despite being the outlier in terms of my political views, I had great colleagues whom I respected and with whom I worked well. As a recruiting professional, I developed the most while working there.
Starting with this company as a contract recruiter in Jul 2010, I progressed to the level of Associate Director, leading all domestic and international recruiting for the organization. I managed a team of four and was a member of the senior HR team reporting directly to the SVP of HR who reported directly to the CEO.
I would send you to my LinkedIn profile except LinkedIn banned me permanently last December (2021). I had an international network of millions and dozens and dozens of recommendations. All gone. I broke LinkedIn’s professional “whatevers” as I call them one too many times. The final straw came when I posted an article with an imbedded video featuring Stefan Oelrich, the VP of Bayer Europe. Mr. Oelrich told us that these “mRNA ‘vaccines’” are good examples for (his word) “cell and gene therapy”. That post didn’t make it 24 hours before LinkedIn took it down and suspended my account, ultimately banning me permanently. I was an inaugural year member of LinkedIn and one of the earliest and longest-standing paying members, as well. Poof.
I knew out of the gate that this “COV!D” hysteria had a sinister motive. By March, I was calling it an “operation”. I told that to the senior recruiter on my team, adding that a crime was in progress…I had been watching the repo market through the last part of 2019, and I thought that the crime was coming to us from the financial system. It was ready to collapse…So, it had to be shut down, I thought.
In April 2020, I posted to LinkedIn John Iaonnides’s piece essentially telling everyone – paraphrasing in layman’s terms – to calm the hell down. We know who’s at risk. Lets take care of them, but everybody else? Someone in Germany saw the post. She went through her connections to get to one of my colleagues in the U.K. She had some very nasty things to say about me, including the “fact” that I was a disgrace to the University and should be fired because “people are dying”.
My U.K. colleague went to his U.S. boss (a person I’d recruited for his position). He got a hold of me to give me the heads up that this was already on its way to our CEO. He forwarded me the email chain with this woman’s rant. (She worked at one of my company’s sales prospects.) Sure enough, my boss hears about it from our CEO, which meant me getting called for a virtual meeting with her. While I’m entitled to post to LinkedIn (within professional guidelines) whatever I want, I must let people know that my comments and posts do not represent the company or the University. OK…So, I changed my profile “blurb” to: “This is my personal profile. All opinions expressed are mine. And have been mine. Always. Because I have my own mind.” I was “safe”. For a while.
But the writing was on the wall. If people were this crazed?? Then that loser in the corner office on Beacon Hill in Boston, Charlie “Parker” Baker, issued his mask “mandate”. (“Brandon” called Governor Charlie Baker “Charlie Parker” once, so now that’s what I call Baker — among other things.) I thought to myself that if people tolerate this blatantly unlawful and useless crap — on top of the destruction of the lives of so many — then next thing will be a mandatory needle. (I’ve never worn a mask; never will.)"
As I conclude in the above story, despite my losses, I'm luckier than so, so many other people.
I've been a teacher all of my life, but after what I witnessed go down over the past two and half years, I cannot any longer work in the public schools with any conscience. The first year of insanity started on Friday (March) the 13, a bad omen day, when they told us in a staff meeting that the kids were going to have an extra week of spring break. A teacher behind me breathed, "Is this Christmas? I thought it was Easter..."
And sure, I was pretty happy about a week off with no kids. The next week, we teachers set to work in various rooms putting crayons in baggies, and making stacks of work for the kids to take home, but on Tuesday or Wednesday, around 1pm, they told us to go home. Now. I was like, wtf? But the school honchos already knew that Newsom was calling for Shelter in Place . I knew what that term meant at school, that something was eminently dangerous outside. I left the school in a daze. Driving home I thought that everything looked ok. I didn't see people dropping dead in the streets.
During the two week to flatten the curve period, we got the news that the kids weren't going back to school at all. Teachers started flailing around about how they were going to teach over zoom. Since I taught ESL (English as a second language) in groups, my job was over they said, although I would get paid for the rest of the year. This felt wrong to me, so I asked the principal if there was something I could do to help, and I ended up painting a giant map of the USA on the school playground.
That school year ended, and the following school year the schools did not open. Someone asked me if I wanted to run a pandemic pod for around 14 kids at a horse ranch, where they set up a makeshift classroom in a barn. I was all in, and those kids were the lucky ones. I got to witness many, many, teachers on the other side of the zoom screen. Some taught their heart out the best they could, others just posted videos, or gave lists of things kids could do. For instance, for Science, "go outside and see the different flowers!" None of the teachers worked on Wednesday. They gave the kids massive packets of work that would be impossible to complete without assistance. I gave my all to those 14 kids (some changed through the year) but I know that many, many teachers were enjoying this break tremendously.
And it is hard to be a teacher, because you're dealing with the psyche of human beings, unformed human beings in the making that you are helping shape forever, so I totally get that some teachers were somewhat enjoying this unprecedented change, but Zooming isn't teaching. Looking at grid of faces, (or not, many turned their cameras off) and just blabbing away, is not checking for understanding of knowledge. And I watched the kids, especially the little ones, crying and avoiding the screen, or else playing with something else under the desk.
Year three I was back in the classroom at a middle school. Everyone was required to wear masks, inside or out at all times, even running the track, unless they were putting food in their mouths. The principal would come on the loudspeaker to announce for the kids to eat quickly and pull up their masks. This was a Pandemic. The kids were tested relentlessly, the phone rang all through class to send someone to the testing station because they had been in close contact. We had to keep meticulous seating charts for every period to see if they were within six feet for any extended period of time. No fun was allowed. All basketball games, school dances, extracurriculars were cancelled. Many teachers continued using apps on the computer instead of teaching, as they had the year before. Kids told me things like if they took off their mask they would die, that they thought they looked better with a mask on (mask fishing they called it, they could flirt better with it on) kids cried when they thought they infected someone by taking off their mask, and were traumatized from the vaccines because of how ill they made them, some being in bed for two days. The behavior, as you can imagine, was out of control, especially considering that there was no discipline policy because they did not want to traumatize the kids, they said.
Since I was unvaccinated, I had to get a PCR test weekly. I was told around January to change to an N95 mask. The principal checked my mask for nose wire, a requirement, and hounded me about boosters. The year was harrowing, but I was teaching art, my love, so I soldiered on. And then they fired me because I accidentally called a student by the wrong pronoun and called out another student for being ten minutes late and wearing clothes against the dress code.
I drove to work everyday. I was in some type of store for 45 days straight during April and May of 2020 no masks. I worked out 5 days a week by May 2020 I was listening to live music. I flew all the time no masks. (I always had a lollipop in my mouth or ate popcorn very slowly) I took 20 supplements a day lots of C, D and Zinc. I was outside often. I read Rational Ground, listened to Todd Herman and Ethical Skeptic for my Covid information. I did the opposite of what the CDC, NIH and WHO said.
My vendors couldn't give away 9" rolls of toilet paper so they asked if I would purchase some I did. I never took any of that mRNA trash and never got sick (do hangovers count?) Everyone I know that did take that garbage has been sick multiple times probably because their T and B Cells have been crushed. My guess is the lab that created the gain of function virus targeted the old and heavy because they are the biggest drain on the healthcare system.
I do business research, self-employed, mostly for other marketing and strategic planning consultants, although I do some work for individual businesses - I am the data nerd in the background for a lot of 'big picture' people. In March of 2020 I was part of a team wrapping up a strategic plan for the School of Hospitality for an East Coast University. The client presentation was in mid-April and it wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. All the assumptions and data became outdated practically overnight. Wrapped it and got paid anyway, but every other project cancelled. My husband is in commission sales, calling on retailers. Our state shut down for about 5 weeks so he had no income either. I used the time 2 ways - all those home projects I had put off: moved my home office from the basement to a former kid room. Cleaned out old files, drawers, closets and the garage. We finished a landscaping project we had started in the Fall. And started digging into the data. Origin of the virus, CDC numbers and how they were inconsistent with the narrative (ED visits declined during the pandemic, not rose), the sketchy tests, and those ridiculous models. Saw this all as one huge scam and did my darndest to wake people up. By the Fall of 2020, a few paid projects began to surface - did some research for a couple of people writing books. Some small projects for companies who had gotten funding. Ghost writing some articles, and did a few online webinars. Slowly my business has returned to normal. Still the self-employed feast or famine cycle, super busy summer but now a reasonable volume, but nothing on the books for early winter yet. Downturns do not typically hurt my business much, more people are looking for data/answers when things are not going well. But in 22 years of this, never had anything like 2020. From April to ~September/October everyone was just frozen. Fortunately for us, we had savings, no debt, paid off house, and a lot of concert ticket/festival refunds and were able to live on next to nothing since we were making next to nothing. Our 'work life' and our 'personal life' is now much the same as in 2019. But our trust in the medical profession is gone. Low trust in the 3 letter bureaucratic swamp is now zero trust. Time spent in political activities, and supporting good candidates has more than doubled since 2019. Currently on the door knocking team for 3 candidates, and doing other supporting things for several more. And still trying to wake people up.
I'm a Mortgage Originator (Loan Officer) for a large National Mortgage-Banking Company with over 5,000 employees. The pandemic really didn't change my life much from March of 2020 through December 2021, but the policies of the current Administration sure have since then.
Inflation has skyrocketed and along with it Mortgage Rates, causing over half of my Pre-Approved Buyers to no longer be able to buy a home. This has caused my Income for 2022 to be running at about 20% of what I earned last year, and it's been devastating.
I’m an engineer at a pipe manufacturing facility in AL. We were deemed essential workers (per our Governor) and our HR department issued us a letter stating that we were essential workers and requested we keep it in our car ‘in case we were required to show it to authorities’. That really freaked me out, the notion that I would be required to carry documents to travel to/from my place of work.
We had a small wave of workers get sick in late March and April. They had the equivalent of a bad flu, got better and came back to work. Office workers worked from home, and my small group was told to work from home. So I worked a total of 9 days over 3 weeks at home. We didn’t like it. I watched every one of Gov Cuomo’s daily briefings - Covid spreading like wildfire in nursing homes, 90% of patients placed on ventilator die. I watched every one of the White House daily Covid briefings. I watched a lot of CNN in April 2020 while mostly still driving to/from work. What we were being told on the news didn’t match reality. They were talking about frail nursing home residents as if that was the avg American and Covid was equally dangerous to all of us.
We had a bad outbreak of cases in a rural county where my niece’s husband grew up, so I asked him what was going on there. He said a nursing home resident was sick, tested positive, and the doctor sent them back to the nursing home. NO ATTEMPT OR LAW TO KEEP THESE SICK NH/LTC RESIDENTS QUARANTINED!!!! So the entire nursing home was infected with CV and many died.
At one of the WH briefings, Birx said Louisiana was a major hotspot, and the veil was completely lifted for me. This virus had been circulating everywhere in the US since February if not earlier. Mardi Gras is a big thing in the entire state of Louisiana, not just New Orleans. They have parades all over the state for the entire month of February every year. And here’s the kicker - the deaths didn’t start happening until April AFTER lockdown measures were implemented.
Then in May, we got the mask mandate. Where I work, masks lasted less than a week. It’s pretty hot here in May, so workers were nearly passing out, which is extremely dangerous in a manufacturing facility. Then there was me on Facebook explaining this to all of my friends who worked from home and didn’t see any of this - somehow I became the crazy person and lost a lot of faith in humanity. I found out who my sane Facebook friends were and found solace in Twitter, Justin Hart and so many others who could see what I saw.
The politicization of HCQ was BIZARRE if not evil. A year later, a few friends and I were buying IVM in bulk from India. We were giving them away to friends and family during the Delta surge. I’m connected closely with a group of doctors here in AL very similar to the Front Line doctors. One of them told me a doctor at a rural county hospital was telling his nurses and staff to take 3/4 inch per week of the horse gel. I have a stash of that as well. If you aren’t connected to a group of Christian stay-at-home moms, find one. They will save your life one day with a home remedy for anything from poison Ivy to cancer.
Out of 2000 employees, where I work most of us got Covid. It seemed like most workers were infected at home by their wives. We had one worker who knowingly came to work infected because he didn’t want to lose out on overtime pay. I finally got Covid when I went on a ski trip in January. I knew I would get it (Omicron) and just wanted to get it over with. But out of 2000 workers only 1 died of Covid and he’d also had major health problems due to silicosis, a work related lung disease.
Our company offered free vaccines on site. I was the only person in my group of 5 engineers to not get the vaccine. We are all conservative. I was worried for a while about the vaccine mandate, until late September. We had an employee die 1 1/2 days after his 1st Moderna shot. A healthy 26 year old dead due to myocarditis induced heart attack. Everyone at work heard about it and knew the shot killed him. No more on-site vaccines, no mention of boosters, and no mention of mandates after that. The man got the vaccine after being pressured by his wife who was a nurse. She was told by her employer, a local hospital, that she would lose family insurance coverage unless her whole family was vaccinated.
I’m sorry if this is too long. A lot happened over the past 2 years and I was watching all of it closely. Imho, the majority of Covid deaths were caused by our health care system and Covid protocols. Remdesivir + ventilator + lack of nourishment/vitamins = death even for ppl under 60. Joe Biden should be impeached and tried for treason - he made war on states by denying them access to monoclonal antibodies on Sept 9 2021 at the peak of Delta surge. Prior to that day, medical providers were getting as much as they needed and distributing except for the ones who were discriminating against the unvaccinated. You learn a lot when you’re in a private signal chat group with a bunch of concerned doctors.
I am a small animal veterinarian in Blue Connecticut. I am considered an Essential Worker so our clinic did not shut down. We went to curbside service whereby the pet owner is assisted at their car in the parking lot, the pet is taken into the clinic and discharged back to the owner in the car. It was very inefficient and not comfortable in snowy March, in the rain, or in the heat of the summer. We also had to have pets dropped off at the clinic since we did not have enough appointment slots. This created extra work, causing me to stay late at the clinic or come in more frequently on days off to finish paperwork and call-backs.
Early on we did not wear masks, but as the fear-mongering progressed more and more of us masked up (some double masking!). This made client communication very difficult, plus I was easily winded from running in and out of the building to speak with them while keeping a mask on. Many clients sewed masks as gifts to thank us for our service, which was a nice gesture but only promoted the deception that masking was effective.
I had been suffering from general burnout for some time and figured it was time to leave practice. I was almost 60 at the time and was hoping to semi-retire. I left in August of 2020. We couldn't manage without me working, and I could not find remote work. I ended up signing on in October 2020 with 2 major corporations as an independent contractor working at vaccination clinics. After a time, I stopped working for one of the companies.
Masking was initially required unless one had obtained the jabs. I didn't get the jabs and masked as long as the state mandate was in effect. I stopped masking in May 2021 when the state mandate ended, but local businesses and towns still imposed mandates based on COVID infection rates. I declined to mask and was not really hassled about it until I exercised my right to a religious exemption to masking as a medical device that I declined to wear. Corporate stated I had to then wear a face shield instead. I declined, informing them that even the CDC does not recommend these. Corporate then told me I would not be allowed to work. Since I do not have a corporate supervisor and the local manager is really just in charge of the hourly employees, I simpy went about my business and respectfully declined if asked to wear a mask. I did get guilted into if for a few hours on one shift.
In January, with the help of TheHealthyAmercan.org, I began a complaint inquiry with my local human rights organization regarding my religious exemption being declined. I could not file a complaint with the EEOC since I am not technically an employee. The persons I spoke with were very empathetic (they did not want to mask either), but they stated it might be a tough go. Since the pressure to mask had lessened, I left the inquiry open in case I needed to proceed this winter if the oppression began again.
As an aside, my income has been the highest it has ever been. I still work part-time and can choose my workdays. I only bid on days I wish to work. I don't win every bid, but that is OK. My husband retired from state employment in January of 2022 because of vax and testing mandates. He was going to wait until June of 2022 but the conditions became too oppressive. He had been working from home since March of 2020, but then they required all employees to work at least 40% of the time in the office, meaning get jabbed or get tested weekly. Ridiculous.
Our family was supposed to leave the US in Dec 2020 so in August 2019 we moved to a more favorable tax state. I worked from home via video at the time. In Feb of 2020 we had to move to another rental and we were going about our daily lives without much caution. I do remember pondering about wearing a mask, but didn't do that for long. By end of March I was laid off from my at home job but still had another part time job (in a center) in the wings so I went to the center. While our county had an indoor mask mandate I never did. I can't wear a mask while I work (sign language interpreter via video) and refused to wear one while not working. Others were masking, doing 6 feet, some were gloving up an doing face shields. A LOT (probably 1/2 of the 10,000 of us at the time were moved to work from home). I stayed at the center thru the whole debacle. Worked 3 days a week. Did get called into my bosses office because others complained about me but my company had no mandatory policy so there was really never anything to enforce. If I went out to shop and a store had mandatory masks I didn't shop there. Had "words" via email with the President of Costco and his response to my email was" Thank you (name) and i do respect your decision. That being said the mandatory mask will be required until further notice. WE TAKE GUIDANCE FROM CDC and we will evaluate on a weekly basis. I do understand because i do not like them either but it is not about me! All best Craig" and yes I kept it. I didn't make a big fuss just decided to go about my business. I worked at the center until April 2022 in the same manner. When other employees that worked there talked to me most said "oh I don't wanna get fired for not wearing a mask". I said whatever (and of course had the current policy of the company in my possession in case there was an issue) and went about my day. When the second wave of whatever hit they went back to their masks and gloves et al. Whatever.
Needless to say we moved to Florida and IF in the future something like this happens again you can bet your bottom dollar I won't comply.
I have followed SARS CV2 since January 2020 and was suspicious of the hysteria from the beginning.
In March 2020 I was living and working in commercial real estate in Boca Raton, FL. My husband was working In Central NJ in Pharma. I went to the office every day, he worked from home. We had a contract to buy a home in NJ signed in Jan 2020. He settled on in in late March 2020 and signed as my POA. The only reason I did not travel was for fear that domestic air travel would be stopped. NJ had a quarantine for out of state travel, so we used alternate airports in PA and MD.
We moved our pets in April 2020, by car, but we had to make hotel reservations in my name because I had a FL DL and my husband had a NJ one and could not check into a SC hotel.
We sold our house and moved in the lockdown.
In Florida we could go to restaurants in May, but all were closed until June in NJ and then we had to eat outside. The same was true for going to church.
My husband had to seek a religious exemption to refuse an experimental vaccine and keep his job. He also has to mask, when after 18 months he returned to the office 3 days per week.
We each got COVID, he in Nov 2021 and me in Jun 2022. We both got early treatment and recovered
within a week.
Thankfully our immediate family was on team reality and we saw them regularly. But our extended family
gatherings were nonexistent.
There are two years of life we will never get back. We tried to live as normally as possible, but it was not normal.
I pray daily for our country and its people and their return to God.
I typed my comment and got a message to "Type a shorter comment". Since I can't find what the character limit is for comments, I'm going to post mine in 2 parts.
Part 1
I work in the legal dept of a large oil and gas company in Houston, TX (blue city in a red state). Most of the employees worked from home during March and April 2020 during the “2 weeks to flatten the curve” spin. Some people were not able to work from home such as those in the refineries.
I enjoyed working from home i.e. not having to get up as early to put on makeup, fix my hair and get dressed, and I enjoyed not having that ½+ rush hour traffic drive twice a day. However, I did have the TV on while working at home and shows like “What you need to know” were thoroughly terrifying (as I now know they were meant to be).
Even though a lot of our peer companies worked from home the whole year, and sometimes into the next year, our CEO wanted us back in May. We were told that 40% of the company’s profits came from gas sales to commuters and he wanted to encourage companies to bring employees back to the offices. He wanted to show them that employees could work safely in the office. At the time, I was kind of p*ssed thinking they cared more about profits than our safety.
Our company put all the CDC recommendations in place and then some, such as masking when walking around, staying 6 ft apart, no meetings in small offices, only 4 people allowed in the elevators at a time, taking our temperature every day as we entered the building.
I thought some of the CDC’s recommendations made no sense like you could take your mask off when you sat down, but had to wear it while walking, as if the virus could not spread while we were sitting. And I thought that the claim that the virus couldn’t travel more than 6 ft was ridiculous. I had done a little research and I knew that droplets could travel much farther, especially if someone coughed. After falling for most of the scare tactics on the “news” for months, I was worried being around hundreds of people.
Every day, employees also had to answer a questionnaire before we came in to the office, which asked us if we had been exposed to someone with covid, and whether we had any symptoms like fever or cough. If we had any of these symptoms and answered yes to any question, we were referred to the company’s covid response team. One day, I developed a cough. I otherwise felt fine, and did not think I had a covid infection, but I had to answer yes to the cough question. So, they put me in “quarantine” for 10 days, which meant I worked from home and had to have a negative PCR test to return to work. But, apparently the covid team were confused about all the “rules” (and who wouldn’t be with all the conflicting information). Even though I quarantined for 10 days, did not get sick, and had a negative PCR test, I still had a cough. I told the covid response team I was still going to have to answer “yes” to the cough question. One person at the covid team said I could go back to work anyway that they knew I had quarantined. I later got an email saying that I was not released to go back to work, and wouldn’t be until I didn’t have symptoms for 3 days. Again, I was not sick and had a negative PCR test. It was a confusing mess.
The weekend before I was due to go back to work (if I ever got approval), I was exposed to covid through my elderly mother who had had a bad fall. I was with her every day for 3 days after her fall until she said that she felt bad and wanted to go to the hospital. I took her to the hospital, who then diagnosed her with covid. Since I was exposed to someone with covid, I was again put under quarantine at work. A few days later I started having symptoms. I got pretty sick. I had a horrible cough that lasted nearly 8 weeks, but every time I went to the Urgent Care facility, the doctors would say that there is no cure and there was nothing they can do. They would give me nothing for symptoms and told me that if I had trouble breathing, go to the emergency room.
At the end of ten days, I was still pretty sick. I had a horrible cough. I had coughed so hard, I felt like I had cracked a rib. But this time, the covid response team told me told that 10 days had elapsed so I was not contagious anymore, and I was released to go back to work. So, this time their rules were that, even though I was still really sick and coughing like mad, I was “magically” not contagious just because 10 days had passed. Then I was referred from the covid response team to the company’s nurse for “further handling”. I told one of the nurses that I still felt really horrible and was coughing hard. She told me that “you should be well by now”. I was feeling so horrible and my mother had just died, (at the time, I believed that covid killed my mother), so I lost it. I yelled at her “how can you possibly tell me that I “should” be well by now. The symptoms for everyone are different. Some people get over it quickly and some people end up in the hospital. For god’s sake, my mother just died from it!”
She backed off some, and actually admitted that she had lost a family member to covid. So it was even more shocking that she had claimed that “you should be well by now”.
After the covid fog cleared, I realized that I had had the exact same symptoms 1 year earlier when I had the flu and at that time, the doctors loaded me up with 5 or 6 medications for symptoms. But, when I tested positive for covid, I was told there is nothing that they can do. When I think back on it now, I am infuriated at the lack of care I received (thanks to that monster, Fauci's guidelines). I’m just glad I resisted going to the hospital or I could have ended up dead with Remdesivir poisoning. (A hospital killed my mother with that poison).
I work for a company that is a supplier to the lift truck industry. When everyone was shutting down in March of 2020, several of our largest customers sent us "we are essential business" letters. I was told to carry the letter in my vehicle. I thought that was laughable. So we stayed open, only closed down two days for lack of orders.
When masking was mandated, my direct boss did not require us to wear one in our building. So I didn't. Gladly I can say, not once did I wear a mask at work. We went against the "law" with that I guess.
Tested positive with symptoms November 2021. Seemed odd to me I did not contract Covid sooner, you know living dangerously unmasked and working in an office with others. Had so many "close calls" from infected contacts.
Pretty sure this is how/when I did contract: My boss came into my office 4 or 5 days before I was + and she and I talked for maybe 2 minutes. She looked ill/tired. Two days later she tested positive, then another 3 days, I was +. I joke with her that she gave it to me. She smiles and says, "yeah, probably." She works in a different building than I, so 2 minutes is all it took.
And I had always been clear with the boss that I would not get vaccinated. Even told her during the summer when everyone was checking on who was vaxxed and who was not, "you know this will become a pandemic of the vaccinated." Yeah, said that before the reverse was being said by our President. Most people looked at me like when you look at an oddball, she did not. She understood the rationale behind my statement. So, I respect her more than any other boss I've ever had in my 40 years with the company.
Out of the three unvaccinated in our company, 2 had Covid. All the vaccinated except one had Covid, some had it twice. The one vaxxed that did not have Covid? He is now taking a blood thinner when he was diagnosed with AFib in the summer of 2021. Hmmm, A lot friends are having heart troubles lately, wonder if that's a thing.
I was very lucky. I do IT/accounting support at a head hunting firm. Before the lockdowns I commuted by train from Connecticut to midtown Manhattan. I have been working at home since 3/12/2020. My commute was 3 hours a day so my life has changed for the better. I am 67 and unvaxxed. I had Covid in May. No big deal!
Justin, things are ongoing in the aviation industry. I’d love to give you my personal account or chat about what it’s been like as an airline pilot.
Starting on March 13, 2020 I was rolled into a ball sucking my thumb in the fetal position for about nine months. My work dropped to basically zero.
The government took away my clients!
I work in elementary school throughout the Midwest and northeast, performing educational programs for kids.
But when the government kicked all the kids out of school in the spring of 2020 I had no place to go. The following fall many schools were still closed but the few that did open up had mandates and restrictions that were so severe they bordered on ridiculous.
Fortunately, I was able to transition to performing many of my programs through zoom. Starting January 2021 my business blossomed again, but I was simply working in my basement in my newly fabricated studio and streaming to elementary schools all over the USA.
The first six months of 2021 mad up for The crushing blow that I took in 2020.
I ended up having my most financially lucrative six months in the 35 years in this business.
However, when schools finally did open up in the fall of 2021 the mask mandates were still in place, and people were still nervous about bringing strangers like myself into the schools.
The 2021 2022 school year was by far the oddest year I ever had. Some schools were fully open but only mandating that the classes remain 6 feet apart when in the gymnasium. Other schools require the kids to be 6 feet apart at all times while sitting on the floor or behind plastic Sheilds while watching me perform volunteerless, fully masked 30 feet away on a stage.
Nobody but me seem to notice the ridiculousness of me trying to do my science experiments and talking about the scientific method while 40 teachers and 600 kids sat obediently, masked up with zero science to say what they were doing was logical or sensible.
It was ridiculous as I watched hundreds of elementary school children fiddle with their masks and obey the Overly zealous dictator principals.
Now here I am in the fall of 2022 trying to rebuild my business. My majority of clients are PTA moms Who have all moved onto middle school. The clients that were consistently booking me for 15 and 20 years straight now consider me to be a stranger. It’s very sad. I spent 35 years building up my business, and I fear it will never return to the pre-2020 schedule that I used to have.
I left my profession after nearly 20 years as a result of the "COV!D" operation. I tell the story here: https://shethinksliberty.substack.com/p/about-me
An excerpt:
"Fast forward…In December 2020, I left a position after 10.5 years with a subsidiary of the world’s best-known educational brand. Except for the months beginning in March 2020, those were the best years in all of my recruiting and professional experience. Despite being the outlier in terms of my political views, I had great colleagues whom I respected and with whom I worked well. As a recruiting professional, I developed the most while working there.
Starting with this company as a contract recruiter in Jul 2010, I progressed to the level of Associate Director, leading all domestic and international recruiting for the organization. I managed a team of four and was a member of the senior HR team reporting directly to the SVP of HR who reported directly to the CEO.
I would send you to my LinkedIn profile except LinkedIn banned me permanently last December (2021). I had an international network of millions and dozens and dozens of recommendations. All gone. I broke LinkedIn’s professional “whatevers” as I call them one too many times. The final straw came when I posted an article with an imbedded video featuring Stefan Oelrich, the VP of Bayer Europe. Mr. Oelrich told us that these “mRNA ‘vaccines’” are good examples for (his word) “cell and gene therapy”. That post didn’t make it 24 hours before LinkedIn took it down and suspended my account, ultimately banning me permanently. I was an inaugural year member of LinkedIn and one of the earliest and longest-standing paying members, as well. Poof.
I knew out of the gate that this “COV!D” hysteria had a sinister motive. By March, I was calling it an “operation”. I told that to the senior recruiter on my team, adding that a crime was in progress…I had been watching the repo market through the last part of 2019, and I thought that the crime was coming to us from the financial system. It was ready to collapse…So, it had to be shut down, I thought.
In April 2020, I posted to LinkedIn John Iaonnides’s piece essentially telling everyone – paraphrasing in layman’s terms – to calm the hell down. We know who’s at risk. Lets take care of them, but everybody else? Someone in Germany saw the post. She went through her connections to get to one of my colleagues in the U.K. She had some very nasty things to say about me, including the “fact” that I was a disgrace to the University and should be fired because “people are dying”.
My U.K. colleague went to his U.S. boss (a person I’d recruited for his position). He got a hold of me to give me the heads up that this was already on its way to our CEO. He forwarded me the email chain with this woman’s rant. (She worked at one of my company’s sales prospects.) Sure enough, my boss hears about it from our CEO, which meant me getting called for a virtual meeting with her. While I’m entitled to post to LinkedIn (within professional guidelines) whatever I want, I must let people know that my comments and posts do not represent the company or the University. OK…So, I changed my profile “blurb” to: “This is my personal profile. All opinions expressed are mine. And have been mine. Always. Because I have my own mind.” I was “safe”. For a while.
But the writing was on the wall. If people were this crazed?? Then that loser in the corner office on Beacon Hill in Boston, Charlie “Parker” Baker, issued his mask “mandate”. (“Brandon” called Governor Charlie Baker “Charlie Parker” once, so now that’s what I call Baker — among other things.) I thought to myself that if people tolerate this blatantly unlawful and useless crap — on top of the destruction of the lives of so many — then next thing will be a mandatory needle. (I’ve never worn a mask; never will.)"
As I conclude in the above story, despite my losses, I'm luckier than so, so many other people.
I've been a teacher all of my life, but after what I witnessed go down over the past two and half years, I cannot any longer work in the public schools with any conscience. The first year of insanity started on Friday (March) the 13, a bad omen day, when they told us in a staff meeting that the kids were going to have an extra week of spring break. A teacher behind me breathed, "Is this Christmas? I thought it was Easter..."
And sure, I was pretty happy about a week off with no kids. The next week, we teachers set to work in various rooms putting crayons in baggies, and making stacks of work for the kids to take home, but on Tuesday or Wednesday, around 1pm, they told us to go home. Now. I was like, wtf? But the school honchos already knew that Newsom was calling for Shelter in Place . I knew what that term meant at school, that something was eminently dangerous outside. I left the school in a daze. Driving home I thought that everything looked ok. I didn't see people dropping dead in the streets.
During the two week to flatten the curve period, we got the news that the kids weren't going back to school at all. Teachers started flailing around about how they were going to teach over zoom. Since I taught ESL (English as a second language) in groups, my job was over they said, although I would get paid for the rest of the year. This felt wrong to me, so I asked the principal if there was something I could do to help, and I ended up painting a giant map of the USA on the school playground.
That school year ended, and the following school year the schools did not open. Someone asked me if I wanted to run a pandemic pod for around 14 kids at a horse ranch, where they set up a makeshift classroom in a barn. I was all in, and those kids were the lucky ones. I got to witness many, many, teachers on the other side of the zoom screen. Some taught their heart out the best they could, others just posted videos, or gave lists of things kids could do. For instance, for Science, "go outside and see the different flowers!" None of the teachers worked on Wednesday. They gave the kids massive packets of work that would be impossible to complete without assistance. I gave my all to those 14 kids (some changed through the year) but I know that many, many teachers were enjoying this break tremendously.
And it is hard to be a teacher, because you're dealing with the psyche of human beings, unformed human beings in the making that you are helping shape forever, so I totally get that some teachers were somewhat enjoying this unprecedented change, but Zooming isn't teaching. Looking at grid of faces, (or not, many turned their cameras off) and just blabbing away, is not checking for understanding of knowledge. And I watched the kids, especially the little ones, crying and avoiding the screen, or else playing with something else under the desk.
Year three I was back in the classroom at a middle school. Everyone was required to wear masks, inside or out at all times, even running the track, unless they were putting food in their mouths. The principal would come on the loudspeaker to announce for the kids to eat quickly and pull up their masks. This was a Pandemic. The kids were tested relentlessly, the phone rang all through class to send someone to the testing station because they had been in close contact. We had to keep meticulous seating charts for every period to see if they were within six feet for any extended period of time. No fun was allowed. All basketball games, school dances, extracurriculars were cancelled. Many teachers continued using apps on the computer instead of teaching, as they had the year before. Kids told me things like if they took off their mask they would die, that they thought they looked better with a mask on (mask fishing they called it, they could flirt better with it on) kids cried when they thought they infected someone by taking off their mask, and were traumatized from the vaccines because of how ill they made them, some being in bed for two days. The behavior, as you can imagine, was out of control, especially considering that there was no discipline policy because they did not want to traumatize the kids, they said.
Since I was unvaccinated, I had to get a PCR test weekly. I was told around January to change to an N95 mask. The principal checked my mask for nose wire, a requirement, and hounded me about boosters. The year was harrowing, but I was teaching art, my love, so I soldiered on. And then they fired me because I accidentally called a student by the wrong pronoun and called out another student for being ten minutes late and wearing clothes against the dress code.
I drove to work everyday. I was in some type of store for 45 days straight during April and May of 2020 no masks. I worked out 5 days a week by May 2020 I was listening to live music. I flew all the time no masks. (I always had a lollipop in my mouth or ate popcorn very slowly) I took 20 supplements a day lots of C, D and Zinc. I was outside often. I read Rational Ground, listened to Todd Herman and Ethical Skeptic for my Covid information. I did the opposite of what the CDC, NIH and WHO said.
My vendors couldn't give away 9" rolls of toilet paper so they asked if I would purchase some I did. I never took any of that mRNA trash and never got sick (do hangovers count?) Everyone I know that did take that garbage has been sick multiple times probably because their T and B Cells have been crushed. My guess is the lab that created the gain of function virus targeted the old and heavy because they are the biggest drain on the healthcare system.
I do business research, self-employed, mostly for other marketing and strategic planning consultants, although I do some work for individual businesses - I am the data nerd in the background for a lot of 'big picture' people. In March of 2020 I was part of a team wrapping up a strategic plan for the School of Hospitality for an East Coast University. The client presentation was in mid-April and it wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. All the assumptions and data became outdated practically overnight. Wrapped it and got paid anyway, but every other project cancelled. My husband is in commission sales, calling on retailers. Our state shut down for about 5 weeks so he had no income either. I used the time 2 ways - all those home projects I had put off: moved my home office from the basement to a former kid room. Cleaned out old files, drawers, closets and the garage. We finished a landscaping project we had started in the Fall. And started digging into the data. Origin of the virus, CDC numbers and how they were inconsistent with the narrative (ED visits declined during the pandemic, not rose), the sketchy tests, and those ridiculous models. Saw this all as one huge scam and did my darndest to wake people up. By the Fall of 2020, a few paid projects began to surface - did some research for a couple of people writing books. Some small projects for companies who had gotten funding. Ghost writing some articles, and did a few online webinars. Slowly my business has returned to normal. Still the self-employed feast or famine cycle, super busy summer but now a reasonable volume, but nothing on the books for early winter yet. Downturns do not typically hurt my business much, more people are looking for data/answers when things are not going well. But in 22 years of this, never had anything like 2020. From April to ~September/October everyone was just frozen. Fortunately for us, we had savings, no debt, paid off house, and a lot of concert ticket/festival refunds and were able to live on next to nothing since we were making next to nothing. Our 'work life' and our 'personal life' is now much the same as in 2019. But our trust in the medical profession is gone. Low trust in the 3 letter bureaucratic swamp is now zero trust. Time spent in political activities, and supporting good candidates has more than doubled since 2019. Currently on the door knocking team for 3 candidates, and doing other supporting things for several more. And still trying to wake people up.
I'm a Mortgage Originator (Loan Officer) for a large National Mortgage-Banking Company with over 5,000 employees. The pandemic really didn't change my life much from March of 2020 through December 2021, but the policies of the current Administration sure have since then.
Inflation has skyrocketed and along with it Mortgage Rates, causing over half of my Pre-Approved Buyers to no longer be able to buy a home. This has caused my Income for 2022 to be running at about 20% of what I earned last year, and it's been devastating.
I’m an engineer at a pipe manufacturing facility in AL. We were deemed essential workers (per our Governor) and our HR department issued us a letter stating that we were essential workers and requested we keep it in our car ‘in case we were required to show it to authorities’. That really freaked me out, the notion that I would be required to carry documents to travel to/from my place of work.
We had a small wave of workers get sick in late March and April. They had the equivalent of a bad flu, got better and came back to work. Office workers worked from home, and my small group was told to work from home. So I worked a total of 9 days over 3 weeks at home. We didn’t like it. I watched every one of Gov Cuomo’s daily briefings - Covid spreading like wildfire in nursing homes, 90% of patients placed on ventilator die. I watched every one of the White House daily Covid briefings. I watched a lot of CNN in April 2020 while mostly still driving to/from work. What we were being told on the news didn’t match reality. They were talking about frail nursing home residents as if that was the avg American and Covid was equally dangerous to all of us.
We had a bad outbreak of cases in a rural county where my niece’s husband grew up, so I asked him what was going on there. He said a nursing home resident was sick, tested positive, and the doctor sent them back to the nursing home. NO ATTEMPT OR LAW TO KEEP THESE SICK NH/LTC RESIDENTS QUARANTINED!!!! So the entire nursing home was infected with CV and many died.
At one of the WH briefings, Birx said Louisiana was a major hotspot, and the veil was completely lifted for me. This virus had been circulating everywhere in the US since February if not earlier. Mardi Gras is a big thing in the entire state of Louisiana, not just New Orleans. They have parades all over the state for the entire month of February every year. And here’s the kicker - the deaths didn’t start happening until April AFTER lockdown measures were implemented.
Then in May, we got the mask mandate. Where I work, masks lasted less than a week. It’s pretty hot here in May, so workers were nearly passing out, which is extremely dangerous in a manufacturing facility. Then there was me on Facebook explaining this to all of my friends who worked from home and didn’t see any of this - somehow I became the crazy person and lost a lot of faith in humanity. I found out who my sane Facebook friends were and found solace in Twitter, Justin Hart and so many others who could see what I saw.
The politicization of HCQ was BIZARRE if not evil. A year later, a few friends and I were buying IVM in bulk from India. We were giving them away to friends and family during the Delta surge. I’m connected closely with a group of doctors here in AL very similar to the Front Line doctors. One of them told me a doctor at a rural county hospital was telling his nurses and staff to take 3/4 inch per week of the horse gel. I have a stash of that as well. If you aren’t connected to a group of Christian stay-at-home moms, find one. They will save your life one day with a home remedy for anything from poison Ivy to cancer.
Out of 2000 employees, where I work most of us got Covid. It seemed like most workers were infected at home by their wives. We had one worker who knowingly came to work infected because he didn’t want to lose out on overtime pay. I finally got Covid when I went on a ski trip in January. I knew I would get it (Omicron) and just wanted to get it over with. But out of 2000 workers only 1 died of Covid and he’d also had major health problems due to silicosis, a work related lung disease.
Our company offered free vaccines on site. I was the only person in my group of 5 engineers to not get the vaccine. We are all conservative. I was worried for a while about the vaccine mandate, until late September. We had an employee die 1 1/2 days after his 1st Moderna shot. A healthy 26 year old dead due to myocarditis induced heart attack. Everyone at work heard about it and knew the shot killed him. No more on-site vaccines, no mention of boosters, and no mention of mandates after that. The man got the vaccine after being pressured by his wife who was a nurse. She was told by her employer, a local hospital, that she would lose family insurance coverage unless her whole family was vaccinated.
I’m sorry if this is too long. A lot happened over the past 2 years and I was watching all of it closely. Imho, the majority of Covid deaths were caused by our health care system and Covid protocols. Remdesivir + ventilator + lack of nourishment/vitamins = death even for ppl under 60. Joe Biden should be impeached and tried for treason - he made war on states by denying them access to monoclonal antibodies on Sept 9 2021 at the peak of Delta surge. Prior to that day, medical providers were getting as much as they needed and distributing except for the ones who were discriminating against the unvaccinated. You learn a lot when you’re in a private signal chat group with a bunch of concerned doctors.
I am a small animal veterinarian in Blue Connecticut. I am considered an Essential Worker so our clinic did not shut down. We went to curbside service whereby the pet owner is assisted at their car in the parking lot, the pet is taken into the clinic and discharged back to the owner in the car. It was very inefficient and not comfortable in snowy March, in the rain, or in the heat of the summer. We also had to have pets dropped off at the clinic since we did not have enough appointment slots. This created extra work, causing me to stay late at the clinic or come in more frequently on days off to finish paperwork and call-backs.
Early on we did not wear masks, but as the fear-mongering progressed more and more of us masked up (some double masking!). This made client communication very difficult, plus I was easily winded from running in and out of the building to speak with them while keeping a mask on. Many clients sewed masks as gifts to thank us for our service, which was a nice gesture but only promoted the deception that masking was effective.
I had been suffering from general burnout for some time and figured it was time to leave practice. I was almost 60 at the time and was hoping to semi-retire. I left in August of 2020. We couldn't manage without me working, and I could not find remote work. I ended up signing on in October 2020 with 2 major corporations as an independent contractor working at vaccination clinics. After a time, I stopped working for one of the companies.
Masking was initially required unless one had obtained the jabs. I didn't get the jabs and masked as long as the state mandate was in effect. I stopped masking in May 2021 when the state mandate ended, but local businesses and towns still imposed mandates based on COVID infection rates. I declined to mask and was not really hassled about it until I exercised my right to a religious exemption to masking as a medical device that I declined to wear. Corporate stated I had to then wear a face shield instead. I declined, informing them that even the CDC does not recommend these. Corporate then told me I would not be allowed to work. Since I do not have a corporate supervisor and the local manager is really just in charge of the hourly employees, I simpy went about my business and respectfully declined if asked to wear a mask. I did get guilted into if for a few hours on one shift.
In January, with the help of TheHealthyAmercan.org, I began a complaint inquiry with my local human rights organization regarding my religious exemption being declined. I could not file a complaint with the EEOC since I am not technically an employee. The persons I spoke with were very empathetic (they did not want to mask either), but they stated it might be a tough go. Since the pressure to mask had lessened, I left the inquiry open in case I needed to proceed this winter if the oppression began again.
As an aside, my income has been the highest it has ever been. I still work part-time and can choose my workdays. I only bid on days I wish to work. I don't win every bid, but that is OK. My husband retired from state employment in January of 2022 because of vax and testing mandates. He was going to wait until June of 2022 but the conditions became too oppressive. He had been working from home since March of 2020, but then they required all employees to work at least 40% of the time in the office, meaning get jabbed or get tested weekly. Ridiculous.
Our family was supposed to leave the US in Dec 2020 so in August 2019 we moved to a more favorable tax state. I worked from home via video at the time. In Feb of 2020 we had to move to another rental and we were going about our daily lives without much caution. I do remember pondering about wearing a mask, but didn't do that for long. By end of March I was laid off from my at home job but still had another part time job (in a center) in the wings so I went to the center. While our county had an indoor mask mandate I never did. I can't wear a mask while I work (sign language interpreter via video) and refused to wear one while not working. Others were masking, doing 6 feet, some were gloving up an doing face shields. A LOT (probably 1/2 of the 10,000 of us at the time were moved to work from home). I stayed at the center thru the whole debacle. Worked 3 days a week. Did get called into my bosses office because others complained about me but my company had no mandatory policy so there was really never anything to enforce. If I went out to shop and a store had mandatory masks I didn't shop there. Had "words" via email with the President of Costco and his response to my email was" Thank you (name) and i do respect your decision. That being said the mandatory mask will be required until further notice. WE TAKE GUIDANCE FROM CDC and we will evaluate on a weekly basis. I do understand because i do not like them either but it is not about me! All best Craig" and yes I kept it. I didn't make a big fuss just decided to go about my business. I worked at the center until April 2022 in the same manner. When other employees that worked there talked to me most said "oh I don't wanna get fired for not wearing a mask". I said whatever (and of course had the current policy of the company in my possession in case there was an issue) and went about my day. When the second wave of whatever hit they went back to their masks and gloves et al. Whatever.
Needless to say we moved to Florida and IF in the future something like this happens again you can bet your bottom dollar I won't comply.
I have followed SARS CV2 since January 2020 and was suspicious of the hysteria from the beginning.
In March 2020 I was living and working in commercial real estate in Boca Raton, FL. My husband was working In Central NJ in Pharma. I went to the office every day, he worked from home. We had a contract to buy a home in NJ signed in Jan 2020. He settled on in in late March 2020 and signed as my POA. The only reason I did not travel was for fear that domestic air travel would be stopped. NJ had a quarantine for out of state travel, so we used alternate airports in PA and MD.
We moved our pets in April 2020, by car, but we had to make hotel reservations in my name because I had a FL DL and my husband had a NJ one and could not check into a SC hotel.
We sold our house and moved in the lockdown.
In Florida we could go to restaurants in May, but all were closed until June in NJ and then we had to eat outside. The same was true for going to church.
My husband had to seek a religious exemption to refuse an experimental vaccine and keep his job. He also has to mask, when after 18 months he returned to the office 3 days per week.
We each got COVID, he in Nov 2021 and me in Jun 2022. We both got early treatment and recovered
within a week.
Thankfully our immediate family was on team reality and we saw them regularly. But our extended family
gatherings were nonexistent.
There are two years of life we will never get back. We tried to live as normally as possible, but it was not normal.
I pray daily for our country and its people and their return to God.
I typed my comment and got a message to "Type a shorter comment". Since I can't find what the character limit is for comments, I'm going to post mine in 2 parts.
Part 1
I work in the legal dept of a large oil and gas company in Houston, TX (blue city in a red state). Most of the employees worked from home during March and April 2020 during the “2 weeks to flatten the curve” spin. Some people were not able to work from home such as those in the refineries.
I enjoyed working from home i.e. not having to get up as early to put on makeup, fix my hair and get dressed, and I enjoyed not having that ½+ rush hour traffic drive twice a day. However, I did have the TV on while working at home and shows like “What you need to know” were thoroughly terrifying (as I now know they were meant to be).
Even though a lot of our peer companies worked from home the whole year, and sometimes into the next year, our CEO wanted us back in May. We were told that 40% of the company’s profits came from gas sales to commuters and he wanted to encourage companies to bring employees back to the offices. He wanted to show them that employees could work safely in the office. At the time, I was kind of p*ssed thinking they cared more about profits than our safety.
Our company put all the CDC recommendations in place and then some, such as masking when walking around, staying 6 ft apart, no meetings in small offices, only 4 people allowed in the elevators at a time, taking our temperature every day as we entered the building.
I thought some of the CDC’s recommendations made no sense like you could take your mask off when you sat down, but had to wear it while walking, as if the virus could not spread while we were sitting. And I thought that the claim that the virus couldn’t travel more than 6 ft was ridiculous. I had done a little research and I knew that droplets could travel much farther, especially if someone coughed. After falling for most of the scare tactics on the “news” for months, I was worried being around hundreds of people.
Every day, employees also had to answer a questionnaire before we came in to the office, which asked us if we had been exposed to someone with covid, and whether we had any symptoms like fever or cough. If we had any of these symptoms and answered yes to any question, we were referred to the company’s covid response team. One day, I developed a cough. I otherwise felt fine, and did not think I had a covid infection, but I had to answer yes to the cough question. So, they put me in “quarantine” for 10 days, which meant I worked from home and had to have a negative PCR test to return to work. But, apparently the covid team were confused about all the “rules” (and who wouldn’t be with all the conflicting information). Even though I quarantined for 10 days, did not get sick, and had a negative PCR test, I still had a cough. I told the covid response team I was still going to have to answer “yes” to the cough question. One person at the covid team said I could go back to work anyway that they knew I had quarantined. I later got an email saying that I was not released to go back to work, and wouldn’t be until I didn’t have symptoms for 3 days. Again, I was not sick and had a negative PCR test. It was a confusing mess.
The weekend before I was due to go back to work (if I ever got approval), I was exposed to covid through my elderly mother who had had a bad fall. I was with her every day for 3 days after her fall until she said that she felt bad and wanted to go to the hospital. I took her to the hospital, who then diagnosed her with covid. Since I was exposed to someone with covid, I was again put under quarantine at work. A few days later I started having symptoms. I got pretty sick. I had a horrible cough that lasted nearly 8 weeks, but every time I went to the Urgent Care facility, the doctors would say that there is no cure and there was nothing they can do. They would give me nothing for symptoms and told me that if I had trouble breathing, go to the emergency room.
At the end of ten days, I was still pretty sick. I had a horrible cough. I had coughed so hard, I felt like I had cracked a rib. But this time, the covid response team told me told that 10 days had elapsed so I was not contagious anymore, and I was released to go back to work. So, this time their rules were that, even though I was still really sick and coughing like mad, I was “magically” not contagious just because 10 days had passed. Then I was referred from the covid response team to the company’s nurse for “further handling”. I told one of the nurses that I still felt really horrible and was coughing hard. She told me that “you should be well by now”. I was feeling so horrible and my mother had just died, (at the time, I believed that covid killed my mother), so I lost it. I yelled at her “how can you possibly tell me that I “should” be well by now. The symptoms for everyone are different. Some people get over it quickly and some people end up in the hospital. For god’s sake, my mother just died from it!”
She backed off some, and actually admitted that she had lost a family member to covid. So it was even more shocking that she had claimed that “you should be well by now”.
After the covid fog cleared, I realized that I had had the exact same symptoms 1 year earlier when I had the flu and at that time, the doctors loaded me up with 5 or 6 medications for symptoms. But, when I tested positive for covid, I was told there is nothing that they can do. When I think back on it now, I am infuriated at the lack of care I received (thanks to that monster, Fauci's guidelines). I’m just glad I resisted going to the hospital or I could have ended up dead with Remdesivir poisoning. (A hospital killed my mother with that poison).
I work for a company that is a supplier to the lift truck industry. When everyone was shutting down in March of 2020, several of our largest customers sent us "we are essential business" letters. I was told to carry the letter in my vehicle. I thought that was laughable. So we stayed open, only closed down two days for lack of orders.
When masking was mandated, my direct boss did not require us to wear one in our building. So I didn't. Gladly I can say, not once did I wear a mask at work. We went against the "law" with that I guess.
Tested positive with symptoms November 2021. Seemed odd to me I did not contract Covid sooner, you know living dangerously unmasked and working in an office with others. Had so many "close calls" from infected contacts.
Pretty sure this is how/when I did contract: My boss came into my office 4 or 5 days before I was + and she and I talked for maybe 2 minutes. She looked ill/tired. Two days later she tested positive, then another 3 days, I was +. I joke with her that she gave it to me. She smiles and says, "yeah, probably." She works in a different building than I, so 2 minutes is all it took.
And I had always been clear with the boss that I would not get vaccinated. Even told her during the summer when everyone was checking on who was vaxxed and who was not, "you know this will become a pandemic of the vaccinated." Yeah, said that before the reverse was being said by our President. Most people looked at me like when you look at an oddball, she did not. She understood the rationale behind my statement. So, I respect her more than any other boss I've ever had in my 40 years with the company.
Out of the three unvaccinated in our company, 2 had Covid. All the vaccinated except one had Covid, some had it twice. The one vaxxed that did not have Covid? He is now taking a blood thinner when he was diagnosed with AFib in the summer of 2021. Hmmm, A lot friends are having heart troubles lately, wonder if that's a thing.