If you are unvaccinated, don’t expect apologies anytime soon.

Little did I, or anyone else, know three years ago that the world would soon come to a standstill … or that such a thing as Covid even existed … or that I would end up writing 250 articles on this issue in the past 30 months.

But that is exactly what I have done. This is indeed my 250th article on the subject, and my concerns throughout have remained quite consistent.

My first piece on February 2, 2020 covered the topic only in passing, back when they were still using the word ‘Coronavirus’.

My second piece was penned on March 10, and was theological in nature, asking about how some Bible passages might relate to plagues, disease, and the like.

But it was my third piece of March 12 that started a trend that has continued to this day: it offered a warning about how the state can use a crisis to take more power onto itself while taking away basic liberties from the people.

I said this:

My thesis is simple: In times of crisis, the power of the state can expand rapidly while the freedoms of the individual can shrink dramatically. Of course, in times of genuine crisis and emergency there is a place for the state to step in and act in a responsible and appropriate manner. But the trick is to discern what is a real and major crisis, what is a mild crisis, and what is just a man-made or fake crisis.

By March 24, I was writing articles with titles like this: If You Like the Corona Crisis, You’ll Love Communism… I concluded that piece with these words:

Of course, to say all this is not to argue against some temporary and stringent government intervention in times of a major national crisis. But what it is to argue is this: all of those who hate the free market while singing the praises of socialism are now experiencing first-hand just what socialist life is like. I for one think it stinks.

On March 30 I asked, Corona and Statism: Which is Worse? and by April 9 I was writing about The Expansive Corona Police State. Or consider my May 10 article: Fear, Fascism and Fealty. I even contributed a chapter on all this to a book that appeared late in 2020 that was edited by my friend Augusto Zimmermann: Fundamental Rights in the Age of COVID-19.

You get the drift.

But for daring to ask some urgent and hard questions, all hell broke loose. The number of people and even ‘friends’ who turned on me and treated me like I was the devil incarnate was quite shocking and so very hard to take.

For daring to question the narrative, and to even dare to critically discuss the rushed vaccines, I, and so many others, were treated like lepers and second-class citizens. I was treated like absolute dirt, missing out on family Christmases and the like. I never want to go through the hell of hyper-lockdowns and the hatred and bigotry poured out on me from so many Covid true believers again.

Well, a whole lot has happened since early 2020. Most of the warnings that I had been making have now been fully vindicated. With so many of our so-called medical experts, politicians, and elites backtracking almost on a daily basis about most of the things that we warned about and were called conspiracy theorists over, it is now time to ask about the ‘A’ word.

Will we ever hear any apologies from folks like Fauci, Gates, Dan Andrews, chief health officers, the WHO, and Big Pharma? I am pretty sure that this is just wishful thinking. But others are asking the same sorts of questions. We are owed not just plenty of apologies, but one can almost now talk about Covid reparations.

Dominick Sansone for example has discussed this in his new piece, The Unvaccinated Deserve Reparations. He begins:

I am being somewhat ironic. But really, not that ironic. How many people in the ‘land of the free’ lost their ability to care for their families for refusing to go along with the Covid jab mandates? For saying no to injecting themselves with an experimental gene therapy ‘vaccine’, even though most of them weren’t at severe risk from the virus?

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Those who refused the shot on principle endured the vitriolic attack by their government and peers. They were labeled as antisocial and denied access to society in many cases. Roos may have made his statement in Brussels, but it also resonated with those of us in the United States and Canada. The latter endured particularly draconian lockdown orders and vaccination requirements.

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‘Conform, or else become an untouchable.’ That was their goal all along. Divide and conquer. Remember when nearly 50 per cent of Democratic voters said they would potentially be okay with forcibly interning the unvaccinated in isolated locations – you know, as in camps? Forty-eight percent wanted the government to fine or imprison anyone who merely questioned the efficacy of vaccines.

He continues:

‘Sure, you’re free not to get the vaccine – but you’re a bad person, and we will do everything in our power to ostracize you from society.’ So hearing Small (the Pfizer executive) plainly state that they had no scientifically tested basis for claiming that the virus stopped transmission might seem like a victory. But it’s only a moral victory.

I’m not kidding when I say that I believe reparations are justified. Maybe not in a cash handout, but an easy place to start would be the various businesses that were forced to fire employees offering to hire back the unvaccinated with back pay for the income lost. The government should support this. Then again, those employees might not want to be rehired by the employers who betrayed them. The government should still pay the difference in lost income for those who lost their jobs.

And what about Washington helping out? Sansone concludes:

That’s likely too much to expect, at least from this administration. We all know that. Most of the individuals who refused the jab on principle probably don’t want Washington’s money anyway. That’s fine. But there’s one other thing that the people of this country undoubtedly deserve – even more than reparations. It’s something that they will almost definitely never get. How about an apology?

Yeah, how about it? But I sure won’t be holding my breath.

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