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Thanks for your sensitivity in protecting my identity, SC, but I don’t mind being “outted”, as here I am amongst friends. We were not allowed on base for the ceremony because my husband & I were/are defiantly unvax’d. And at the same time, the base was housing ILLEGAL ALIENS who were not under any tyrannical & unhinged mandate to be vax’d as were US citizens & parents of the 1% that defend this country. It was sickening, humiliating, INFURIATING

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Why I will never forget and never forgive:

I met a British girl while we were each hosteling in France in 1973 and because she said "sure!" to my suggestion we team up and hitchhike together, fate eventually gave me my son who is my life's treasure. So you could say I owe her everything.

She is a kidney patient and endured many years of dialysis and that provides patients only a sort of half-life. At the end of 2014 she received a kidney transplant and got her life back. For the first time in a decade she started to enjoy eating again.

When The Plague hit, she was quite concerned and was looking forward to getting the vax and asked if I intended to get it too. I told her no.

She tolerated the first dose but felt really ill after the second one. She then collapsed at home and had to be revived three times from cardiac arrest before the EMTs could transport her to the hospital. She lost the kidney due to massive internal bleeding and was hospitalized for months. For months every morning I dreaded checking my email in case her sister might've sent me a very very bad update. There were several times during her first hospitalization when her family expected her to die. The doctors were sometimes surprised to find her alive the following morning but she's never been the kind who gives up.

Now, she, the most independent and strongest person I know, has carers coming in daily. She has a hospital bed in her dining room because she can't get upstairs anymore. She can't have her middle-aged son, who is severely disabled and lives in a group home, come for weekend stays any longer and both of them are very unhappy about that.

I believe the vax destroyed her life. I don't know what she thinks about it because it ain't such a nice topic of conversation to have with anyone who lost just about everything that makes life worth living. We are in touch very rarely because she has so many daily challenges (many other health issues too) that there isn't much energy left over to email. I don't want to keep bothering her family for updates so I just send birthday and holiday greetings as the dates come around and hope not to get a very bad update sort of reply.

I will never forgive. Maybe the vax didn't do it. I think it did. I will never forgive.

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