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Holly MathNerd's avatar

Thank you for writing this. I am very grateful that I always had total freedom to make this choice without anyone suffering for it other than me, which made it pretty easy. In a bizarre way, being a PTSD-brained freak saved me. When the President of the United States (a male authority figure) said on September 9, 2021, that his patience was wearing thin and he wanted me to immediately submit to having my body penetrated with a medical instrument of his choosing, against my will and without my consent, a line was crossed. At that moment he triggered (in the PTSD sense, not the colloquial sense) my survival mechanisms. The instant he said that, the decision was made and there were no circumstances under which I would comply. I have no family and if my income goes away, the only person I have to keep housed and fed is me. I was fully prepared to get out my phone and tell agents of the state that they had better have guns and be prepared to save my health by putting their "vaccine" into my cold, dead arm because that would be the only way it would happen. In the two and a half years since, I've reflected often that I was grateful he showed his true, authoritarian colors then--because I never even *considered* getting their goddamn jab after that. Having a strong tendency towards radical autoimmune reactions (like half an inch of psoriasis that can occur overnight, if I get upset enough) I'd probably be dead if I had.

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Robert Fireovid's avatar

I also viscerally hated the masking, and I attribute my rejection to the fact that masking is anti-life. Our life is considered to begin when we take our first breath after birth. And our life is considered to have ended after we have taken our last breath. Spiritual traditions talk about a supreme being "breathing" life into the first human or even into the universe. Breath is Life, so anything that inhibits the breath is anti-life. I think some of the fucking authorities who instituted these masking mandates knew this.

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