Later or possibly never, because:
- Golly it got made and deployed fast. I like my medical science thoroughly observed over an established duration, thank you.
- I feel lied to, mostly because I got lied to. This pandemic was reported to have a 15% death rate in late March. Then it was 12%, then 8%. Then 5% for a long time. Members of my family insisted that was a conservative estimate. Then, after awhile, a bit north of 2%. But definitely over 1%. Last I heard was .8% overall. This includes everyone, like the elderly, the obese, and the generally unhealthy. My age group survives at something like 99.93%, including the obese and the unhealthy. I doubt I'm one of the 7 most unhealthy people in 10,000 in their 40s. The promised pile of bodies simply hasn't materialized over the course of the last 9 months to anything approaching the size we kept getting told it would, and there's some question whether all the bodies in the pile even belong there. So now I doubt what I'm being told. That's what happens when you lie to people. I did my grocery shopping in a goddamn gas mask back in late March and April. And I did a lot of it. Not a surgical mask. A gas mask. Full helmet. If I had to work around others, I wore it. I advised everyone what mask and filters to buy. I posted about it here. I PMed people about it. I handed out my spare silicon masks to people I know. I urged my girl to quit her job in aged care when the news said the death toll for staff in that industry was going to be devastating. I asked her not to leave the house until we see how this thing develops and I would pick up the bills. She wanted to keep going to work so I stayed away from her and every other human for like 4 weeks unless, again, full gas mask. I refused to roll my window down at police checkpoints. There were no gloves so I put sandwich bags on my hand at the fuel pump. I cleaned everything I touched with methylated alcohol, which was like liquid gold and unobtainable. I was upset with myself for not having a fully stocked bomb shelter, and set about pitting that together. I bought inverters for my battery bank, purchased extra fuel, food and another freezer, water, and basically everything else needed to support 2 people for 6 months of complete isolation and mad max level economic collapse. Even though stores were empty, I stocked 3 houses to the ceiling. My girl's, my rental, and my house under construction. That cost a little money. Nine months later, I feel like a goddamn fool. I believed what I was told and ended up looking like a fool. I don't like being made to look like a fool by people who lied to me. It wasn't whoops. It wasn't error. They fucking lied. How much am I going to believe what they tell me about the vaccine?
- I've seen very poor decision making by governments. Destruction of people's lives caused by lawmakers whose own lives remain just fine. I don't want panicked or uncaring lawmakers making decisions for me.
- I'll be interested to observe The Push. The thing about a good product is that it sells itself. You don't even have to advertise. You definitely don't have to coerce. The more "Then you won't be permitted to..." I see, the more I will conclude that this product does not sell itself.
