I read what you said here several times... and first time i laughed bitterly - and second time it just made me sad.

"it's requirement is imminent and that I SHOULD take it now while it feels like a choice before I'm forced to take it."

do they not see the irony? you should take it now WHILE IT FEELS LIKE A CHOICE. lol so they acknowledge that it only feels like a choice- and that they are prematurely surrendering to something they know is dictatorship.

hm.

I saw something so unbelievably disturbing today - that I'm really wondering what this Christmas is going to be like. I don't want to worry before I have anything to worry about. (but I find myself worrying anyway)

I try not to watch the news, but I have friends in South Africa and heard about the new variant. They don't have any real news about this variant, but they're already going to the extreme of banning travel from 8 countries. They admit that it's not going to stop anything, and that there is a good chance that the Omicron variant is already here. but they're going to try to "slow" it.

Because that worked so well for the last 2 years.

sigh. and bigger sigh.