Guest Post by Ivy Schmidt
I remember when I was five years old. My cat, Grey Feathers, had been missing for almost two days. I looked out the window to see our backyard covered in a blanket of snow. There were just a few things that stood out from the snow, such as the black tire swing, the tall garden gate, and then there was the gray-feathered item further back in the yard.
We ventured out to find Grey Feathers frozen on her walk back to her house. This was my first memorable event with loss. We all have a story from then and perhaps now of when we lost a loved one.
This story is about loss, but not in the traditional sense. I recently lost both of my parents. They’re still alive, mind you, but I have lost them. It’s almost like some older folks who lose their memory when dementia creeps in, but it’s more sudden, like when a new pimple pops up.
My parents have been divorced for over 45 years, so that’s not the loss to which I refer. My newest loss of my parents has to do with vaccination. They are Baby Boomers. And, from what I can gather, the Polio vaccine was a major player in both of their lives during those formative years. They were brought up to believe – just like every other child their age – that the vaccine was the be-all, end-all solution to Polio. It ended up being a solution, that as my parents would both separately said, “…that saved many lives.”
This peculiar tribute to a drug in a needle bred complete believers. They were evangelistic to the Polio vaccine through and through. It literally runs through many of our veins. My mom touted that in school, she and her peers were being asked to be part of the solution. They were helping humankind by trying to solve this Polio problem.
Never had I heard any of these yesteryear stories from either parent until COVID.
Now, while I can talk on the phone, through email, text, and any other creative and ever-reliant tech means possible to both of my parents, I cannot see them again face-to-face. This realization prompted a feeling of great loss inside me. Neither of my parents uttered those words, but I know that is what they feel. They are devout vaxxers who try to push me and my family into getting any and all, regardless of need or risk. When we don’t comply, I feel they are intentionally punishing me by hinting that they can never see me, my husband, or their grandchildren again.
It is clear my mom is enveloped in fear. She is still terrified that this virus is going to kill her and everyone she loves…though it has been around for well over two years and in her eyes, everything except our freedoms appear to be intact… as long as you get the shot..
My dad? Over Trump’s presidency, my dad was sucked up in that media tornado that is still spinning murky substances somewhere over Kansas. He wholeheartedly agrees with everything said from every news source he considers reputable.
He has been part of the bullying tribe, a gang of well-meaning older people who have been led astray and don’t realize it, constantly blurting, “You should really get the vaccine. Everyone I know is doing it.” I’m not sure they ever will see the bigger picture, namely that it could be right for some but not all.
The ironic thing is that these older bullies led astray are the same ones who used to march for peace in the 1960s and 1970s. They are the same cohort who stood for saving the whales, blocking forests from being chopped, and singing peace songs to avoid destroying it all. Well, it’s all destroyed now. Out with the old mindset (freedom) and in with the new (media).
I have lost my parents. They believe the rhetoric, the lies, and no matter what research I show them, what reminders I share from their past lives when they were true hippies who marched for no nukes and used critical thinking to solve problems, they are caught in the foggy tornado with a frequent, giant sprinkle of media-fused fear.
And now I see this country as split, but not down political lines anymore; that is just a facade. There is a distinct divide between those caught up in the revolving stories of war and disease through tech addiction and those who are – or have become – truth seekers, science followers, and truly critical thinkers.
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First, I’m a baby boomer. Secondly, you are not alone. Although both of my parents are deceased, my two brothers are also true believers and have gotten all of the jabs. They do not understand why I haven’t and last year at this time, it caused a text “argument” between me and my older when he said I was selfish for not getting this vaccine.
Now, let me elaborate a little. The fact is, I’m betting that even when your parents were young, they were not critical thinkers. I was a young adult during those “hippy years” in the 70’s and the fact that they protested only meant that they followed the crowd then too. However, one thing I do share with them is that the thought process on vaccines was that they were meant for good. I never thought, until this Covid nonsense started that they could be meant for harm. Once again, this required critical thinking skills and not eating the pablum from the MSM.
I’m sorry for your “loss”. There is really nothing you can do about it as trying to talk rationally to them or sending them more evidence of the injuries and deaths, or even trying to rationalize that there should be no need for 2, 3, 4 or more jabs to keep them from hospitals or death. No, they are part of the group think programming that Dr. Malone talked about. They would need the help of a deprogrammer at this juncture and there is probably no way that is going to happen. I’ve lost my brothers to this too but, the truth is, I lost them around the time that Obama was elected.
Real vaccines are great and I have taken many. This stuff is shit, pure and simple. Like most here I waited for the lab rats to try it first. They fucked around and found out the hard way.
“Real vaccines are great”
I beg to differ. There are real risks and questionable benefits to most of them.
We get to make our own INFORMED decisions on all that. I am really happy with my shingles and pneumonia vaccines.
Informed?? When you’re ‘informed’ you know both sides of an argument and make your ‘informed’ decision based on why one side outweighs the other, right?
Then you can tell us what you found to be at least 3 of the most solidly factual arguments that negated the official narrative of the efficacy of ANY vaccine at all – especially polio and smallpox, by many scientists in agreement – and what the contradictory evidence to these scientists claims was that you considered nullified their arguments?
I made that effort in the 80’s by the way and learned exactly why I should never jab myself or my future kids with anything and didn’t, and all the easily available pre-internet information in book form back then still stands.
Informed is not a blank piece of paper for an insert.
I learned why I should avoid vaccines back in the 90’s, also from books. When the Internet came along with even more info from doctors and scientists, it was merely confirmation of what I had learned from the books. I sure did appreciate all the up-to-date ingredient lists on the Net, which are a quick and easy way to share with others what the controllers want to put inside your body. Monkey kidney cells, really? Immortal lung tissue from an aborted baby? Formaldehyde? That’s only 3 ingredients, tell me that you can’t wait to get some of that inside of you.
Immortal tissue is a pretty way of saying cancer.
Not to mention TB and Diphtheria.
But I’m not going anywhere near a needle again. I don’t trust the medical industrial complex to not “accidentally” inject this poison into me.
He obviously doesn’t mind the toxins. His brain probably requires them by now.
There are no real “vaccines”.
All these “vaccine injection concoctions ” contain various degrees of aluminum, thimerasol (a form of mercury), and formaldehyde, a chemical used to preserve specimens in labs. Not to mention a host of other chemical poisons.
I can think of no good reason any of these substances are needed to be injected into the human body. Unless you are looking at slowly poisoning someone over time. Sure, the “medical authorities” will tell you these are needed as binder agents, carrying agents, etc…but still, I think Edward Jenners story on connecting cowpox infections in milkmaids helped prevent being infected with smallpox is the best kind of prevention. Look it up for your own edification, and to see how far medicine has strayed from its roots.
Read this description of ingredients in vaccines from the UK, and start asking hard questions…of yourself, and of the medical industrial complex….if you dare…
https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients
The plans to destroy most of humanity that are contained in the Georgia Guidestones has been around for over a hundred years, and the GG has been enshrined in stone since about 1980.
YMMV….good luck on y’all getting red-pilled.
Very questionable….polio was and is a minor disease caused by poor hygiene, whereas the Salk vaccine contained cancer causing monkey viruses, notable SV-40, and caused an outbreak of cancer years later that killed far more people than polio ever did…The measles vaccine kills about 20 kids per year, while measles hasn’t killed a child in decades in the US…
It is suspected that polio was caused by DDT and to some extent from food from unlined tin cans that became popular during the war. The symptoms are still here, but the name has been changed a couple of times. Transverse myelitis is another name for polio, which was not cured, least of all by a vaccine.
SMH…
There never was a good vaccine, just good vaccine propaganda.
Dr. Malone is controlled opposition. He said he took the jab and now he says it is poison. I find that impossible to believe.
He admits that it was a mistake. He’s not perfect, never claimed to be. It’s probably that he is injected that he, like Steve Kirsch, realizes that he doesn’t have to worry about long term blowback from fighting the injections, so might as well go out swinging.
Brewer, Me too and well said. Our cohort was little more than virtue-signaling conformists who mostly never became individuals or learned to think for themselves. . We only made a splash in the demographics because of our numbers. It’s all about truth seeking vs Peer pressure affirmation.
I am beyond grateful neither of my parents took the kool-aid. Both boomers (75 and 74), they were not activist-types, rather they are blue collar through-and-through.
My father is retired department of corrections and my mom also worked for DOC as support staff.
We always had guns in the house growing up. I grew up in a very blue state but a very red house. My dad was a staunch Regan supporter, and believed in the real America where everyone gets equal OPPORTUNITY to live their lives, not hand outs.
My dad smelled the BS immediately, and we have spoken extensively about the rot, lies, and moral decay of this nation.
His oldest sibling, and only other left alive, is his sister, my aunt. 87 years old. TERRIFIED OF COVID. Has not left her house hardly at all for 2+ years. Hounded me relentlessly about getting the shot (she took only one dose per her docs advice due to a bleeding disorder she has). Her adult children are vaxxed, her grandchildren are as well. Convinced if she lives her life she will be struck down by Covid.
Doesn’t go on the internet and an avid newspaper reader and MSM news partaker.
Truly believed Trump was a captured Manchurian Candidate for Russia and has been for decades.
She is of the Smallpox vax generation, and that shaped her utter belief in not only all vaxing, but Doctors in general, who in her mind are infallible and do no wrong.
It is mind boggling how two siblings can be so completely different in their views, one totally brainwashed the other sees the truth.
I have a few friends who took the vax and were perplexed when I didn’t, but they have never cut me off, or hounded me, or made me feel like I was a nut case for not taking it. And we just don’t discuss it at all, live and let live. They did in fact vote for The Two Minute Egg, but we do not discuss that either, as I am quite sure they are now regretting that vote and all that has transpired after and will happen later.
Sadly they are ill-prepared for what comes next, and it will be a tragedy for sure when they can no longer heat their homes or feed themselves or their children.
I refuse to live in “I told you so” land…it solves nothing, and won’t change a damn thing. What I will do is advise anyone who asks for it, prepare as best I can for the gathering storm, and pray for them all.
I will continue to have a grateful heart and soul for my clarity of thought and action, the very very big bullet I dodged in not being vaxxed, and the loved ones I have that also did not partake of this evil.
May all my fellow truth seekers and tellers have strength for what comes next.
Well written and well said. Your are a smart and savvy young man. I’m sure your dad is proud of you.
…or woman.
I stand corrected. I made an assumption.
Hard to tell sometimes here. 🙂
I’m a Boomer. Sounds like the author’s parents are the same stupid fuques I have fought all my life. Fifty years ago I was punching them in the face. Today I disparage their stupidity and parroting online. Screw them.
But you LOVE your shingles vax… OK, boomer
Might be interesting….
The DOJ Is Hiring Tort Lawyers To Defend HHS From Vaccine Injury Cases
The Biden regime’s DOJ apparently needs to hire at least four new tort lawyers to help with vaccine injury cases against HHS — according to a new job posting on the federal government’s official hiring site USAJOBS…
…represent the interests of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in all cases filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (“Vaccine Act”). The cases involve claims of injury as a result of the receipt of vaccines covered by the Act…
Notice that the candidates will need “top secret” security clearances to do their jobs. Now why would you need a top secret clearance to do vaccine injury settlements? My guess: the Biden regime will try to hide the roles of Dr. Fauci and Dr. Baric and DARPA/Moderna (and all the rest of them at the Pentagon and NIH) in creating COVID-19 by designating the obvious truth as classified information. It’s all bioweapons research after all.
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/the-doj-is-hiring-tort-lawyers-to?s=r
4, more likely they are going to need a lot more than just 4.. More like 40,000.
John Morgan is going to make a fortune on this.
Older people tend to believe the government. Most younger people believe the government has all the solutions. Even while Rome burns in front of their eyes. The cell phone is the main culprit. It brainwashes those who use it. They get their instant gratification all the time. They will be very upset when they have to go on a diet when the food shortages and rationing begin.
Yeah, my dad brought up the Polio thing. I told him to read The Moth in the Iron Lung. Of course he is not interested in reading anything I recommend, or hearing anything I have to say on the subject. Lots of us in the same boat.
Thanks I’ll read it.
Anyone who thinks Covid-19 (especially omicron) is like polio or smallpox is innumerate and beyond help. Those had death rates almost 100 times that of Covid. The majority of the US population (probably the vast majority) have had and recovered from Covid. Covid poses less risk than the flu to people under 40.
Yup, wife is similar. She had to take shots after she was bit by a dog when she was a kid. Walked straight into the trap being in the medical field.
Fuck the government.
The “vaccine good for some”…sadly, no…It actually makes serious infection more likely…
Well Ivy, be thankful.
Or like my dad once told me after observing my clever young son, ” you know…smarts skip a generation”. God Bless the old man.
The jab appears to be benign for some, extremely toxic for others. The long term consequences are still to be determined. However, its efficacy is certainly not what was touted. Of course, the umpteenth booster might help. Ha ha.
The real tragedy is how we are so divided and unable to talk. I think that problem was already there; the magic virus has just revealed how deeply the problem is embedded. It also shows how many people are easily led to believe anything they are told. And how extremely ignorant most are about science, and a great many other things.
Another poster made a very astute remark. Those who follow the narrative have always followed their peers. It takes courage to refuse to march in lockstep with the mob.
Nothing ever changes by following the crowd. Rebels make and facilitate changes. I will live and die as a rebel.
It appears benign for some because the doses, etc. were not the same for everyone.
Naomi Wolfe discovered there are enormous variances between batches. Some have multiple times the amount of others. Dr. Malone noted that there are batches with no issues and others with loads of death and injuries. They were either letting unsupervised illegal aliens make this shit or they were experimenting on innocent victims. There is a record of who got what so the fuqueres knew the results. Some fear there was targeting of certain areas or groups. At this point I wouldn’t discount that.
There are difference among ethnic groups as well when it comes to the virus.
For example,because the virus attaches to the body’s Ace II receptors, the lower the number of ACE II receptors the less the danger from.the virus. Also people who have O Neg blood are less susceptible to the virus.
Unfortunately, the actual reason for the “enormous variances between batches” is much, much more insidious and criminal than random chance or individual “tolerances” to different viruses and/or chemical injections.
Reactions will depend on the vaccine serial numbers what one is injected with, saline, classic mRNA vaccine, or mRNA with cancer causing “adenovirus” in the solution. Please reference this article:
https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2021/11/vaccine-scandal-in-slovenia-bottles-have-code-s-for-placebo-vax-or-kill-shot-2679682.html
Essentially, the discussion boards/blogs I have read indicate that the “plans” were to have about 80% of the public injected with saline for the first go around of injections, and the remaining 20% to get either the classic mRNA or the adenovirus injection.
In the coming years, the initial 80% saline injection group will wind up getting either the classic mRNA injection or the adenoviral injections in the booster shots that are being pushed on everyone by the medical “authorities”.
All the deaths and terrible reactions we are seeing in the news and in VAERS are from mostly the traditional mRNA “vaccine”. In a few years, we will all see an absolutely astonishing amount of cancers cases coming out everywhere among the jabbed, I’m afraid.
I hope I’m completely wrong about all of this, I truly wish I was. But, based on my career and experience, unfortunately, it seems my worst fears are just beginning to be realized.
It looks like all of us are on the Highway to Hell right now, and the journey is just getting started.
YMMV….
Killing and maiming people is the real tragedy. The other thing was already there just not manifested yet.
I lost my wife and a son.
I wouldn’t agonize over the situation – get on with your life, love them from a distance, avoid arguments, keep interactions positive
time for you to be the adult
I’m vehemently anti-vax, and have all sorts of sheeple relations – I just avoid the subject. If they shun me, their loss, I’m not lonesome by any stretch.
Perhaps there is hope.
When I called my daughter in January 2022 to visit, she asked me if I and my Sue were vaxed.
She told me she had to talk to her husband to see if I could visit them and my grandson and would call me back. I did not argue,they both have degrees in biology. My son her brother tried to intervene.
Low and behold she called last week ,March 21st and asked if it would be okay if they came for a visit in August.
I did not say anything except yes and no problem. I was and still am dumbfounded.
All that wasted time – very sad. However, I am pleased for you that you will get a chance to renew your relationship with them.
Some people are just unteachable/unlearnable.
The measure of one’s knowledge is whether or not they can teach it to others. I have never found someone who couldn’t learn if the subjects presented in the right manner. The traditional method of memorize and regurgitate is the worst possible way to try and teach. While I have no personal experience with it, unschooling seems like the best.
It was only a few years ago that I believed that the Government always had our best interest at heart and would never intentionally do something to hurt us. Yeah, I know, blind as a bat I was. But that is the sort of America I grew up in (born ’56). I was educated and allowed myself to be educated into what the truth really is. But I had to be willing. You are wasting your time hoping the parents will change. A suggestion. I have the same problem and with both parent and friends. What I do is I have learned to LIE. “Oh, son, did you get your Covid shot?” “Oh yeah, I got it. So what you been doing lately…” You may say that the truth is the best way and you’re not wrong. But when you see something you disagree with and withhold your true thoughts, to save the other from pain, is that not a lie? “Oh, you look so pretty today!” (and you are really thinking “sheesh she looks terrible”). Think about it. You want to lose your parents affection and love, over a stupid vaccine?
Ivy,
I feel for you and can personally relate as my wife and I recently “lost” our daughter and son-in-law. After two years of the pandemic panic, and their self-imposed isolation, we had hoped that their reasoning powers had kicked in just a little bit. They were double vaxxed and boosted, so we figured the time might be right to see them again.
We asked to visit them as part of an extended road trip we were planning. “Absolutely, love to see you! Let me talk with my husband and we’ll get back to you tomorrow.” Her husband works for the state Health Department and has a Master’s degree in public health. He is basically a statistician, so we had hoped the truth of the matter was being made manifest.
When the phone call came the next day, it was chock full of restrictions. “Well, we can hang out in the back yard and safely distance from each other, but you can’t come in the house. If you need to use the bathroom, only one at a time and then come right out.”
When we asked about taking them to lunch or dinner, it would only be acceptable outside and absolutely no way we could ride in the same car. Of course, masking up at all times was mandatory.
I foolishly asked “Well, can I at least give you a hug?” the answer was a resounding NO. She allowed us to think it over and call her the next day.
To say we were crestfallen is an understatement.
We called to tell her making the 2 day drive to “see” her wasn’t worth the time and effort. We could get the same level of intimacy from a zoom call. She said she wasn’t surprised. When I remarked that living in constant fear must be exhausting, that was the proverbial straw. The conversation got heated and despite our telling her we have unconditional love for her, whatever her beliefs are, she hung up on us.
An almost instantaneous flurry of vicious texts followed. We did not respond as there seemed no way to improve the situation by texting back. The next day a scorching email arrived, telling us she doesn’t want anything to do with people who “behave” as we do. No phone calls, no letters, no emails. She even sent our Christmas card and gifts back, marked “Return To Sender” and “Refused”. And there it stands.
My fervent hope is that someday she might come around and contact us. My wife is not so optimistic. I suppose we could honestly tell people we lost our daughter to Covid.
Hugs….So much heartache – I cry every time I read an accounting like you just posted.
I’m sorry to hear this Vagabond. I’m dumbfounded, as I still find it hard to believe that people are behaving this way. It’s even more curious now that two years have passed and there’s still no evidence of a genuine pandemic. (I’m still using the original definition of the word pandemic.)
Fuck her. It sounds to me like she had issues with you before and this Covid bullshit just gave her permission to vent her previously suppressed rage. Send her a text telling her that from now on, you will tell people that your daughter is suffering from severe mental illness. Nobody would treat a person that they loved the way she has treated you.
Also, I recommend that you let her know that what would have been her inheritance will now be donated, in her name, to a right wing charitable organization of your choice, in order to promote “freedom & clear thinking.”
Dang, and upvoted.
It’s an unstable single strand RNA virus. There will never be a vaccine. I phone my closest relatives every 90 days to remind them their booster is no longer effective. They asked if I was vaxxed. Ha, I laugh and repeat the first two sentences. This troubles them because I did take biology. Only one asked if the vaccine was safe and effective. I responded that biologics have risks and you should get some guarantee in writing. That gives them a hobby. There are a few relatives that completely cut off communication without reason. I suspect they are afraid to find out that I am unvaxxed. I do not offer advice to anyone. I told one relative I charge $5k to find out what I think. I live in a small secluded paradise with lots of wildlife, organic farms, no fences, and awesome neighbors. This is my family now.
Can I come visit?
If they were so easily conned, had you not likely lost them long ago? War seems to be another key test of one’s commitment to principles and sanity. In the end, the remnant ends up being so much smaller than you thought it was going to be. Its sad.
Just for the record, the polio vaccine I got, sometime around 1960, was in a sugar cube. Booster too. No needles, or there would have been an insurrection.
i lost my sisters the same way.
Same. One, I can talk to, if the other isn’t there.
Remember “Question Authority”? Good times.
Wait til you tell them truth about Russia and Ukraine!
No kidding-right now, I’m an ignorant commie supporter….