Hello again, my friends. Like many of you who are elderly, I also live alone, and I am really quite the recluse. In fact, since March of 2020 when the pandemic first seems to have hit our island, I have only left my home about twice a month to get my monthly lab work done, and to go to my monthly doctor’s appointment.
Other than those two monthly outings which I cannot miss, I have only gone out a few other times to get certain things in more recent months. I have someone who does my food shopping for me, and who checks my mail for me as well. I also find myself purchasing more online items as well. No surprise there.
While there is strong pressure here on Guam to get vaccinated — it is constantly promoted by the local government and by local health officials, and published in the newspaper just about every day — thus far, no official person or government agency has pressured me directly to be vaccinated. My personal physician also respects my choice not to be vaccinated.
Whether the situation will change in the future remains to be seen. Honestly speaking though, it is not looking very good for those of us who are still resisting being vaccinated.
As many of you will already know, and as I have shared in previous posts, from President Biden on down the line, the pressure to be vaccinated is quickly building and gaining more and more support, so that now entire cities — beginning with NYC — government agencies, companies, universities and public school systems are tightening the clamps, and this trend will no doubt continue.
Equally troubling is the fact that the animosity and hatred towards “non-vaxxers” is growing, and we are slowly being ostracized and squeezed into a corner, and now being blamed for the spread of the delta variant.
From the U.S. government and its various agencies, to the news media, they are all pushing this very same narrative. And as we saw in the news just a few days ago, the government came right out and said that the goal is to make life difficult for “non-vaxxers”.
Do you see the hypocrisy in this? In recent days, the Biden administration has repeatedly said that they will not make the vaccine mandatory. Yet by their very actions and war of words, they are doing the exact opposite.
I say this: The more a government insists that they won’t be doing a certain thing, the more you can be sure that that is exactly what they eventually intend to do.
So what are they waiting for? Well, my suspicion is that because right now there is still a lot of strong resistance — including at the state level, such as with Texas and Florida — and because there are many millions of American citizens who are refusing to be vaccinated, it would not be a good time for them to completely lower the hammer and mandate vaccinations for everyone.
So, I think perhaps they will abide their time, while they continue with their fear-mongering campaign, and with their pressure tactics, and with their constant demonization of “non-vaxxers”, until the FDA fully approves the vaccines sometime in September, according to the latest news reports.
They are already saying that they believe that such action by the FDA will be a game changer, and that it will convince a lot more people — perhaps millions — that the vaccines are safe. But are they really?
In short, my suspicion — and it is only a personal theory — is that they will slowly whittle down the over all number of vax resistors, until it reaches a certain percentage of the U.S. population which they feel is manageable. Then they will totally lower the hammer and mandate that everyone must be vaccinated against COVID-19, because we will be in the minority by then.
In short, free will and personal choice regarding the matter will be totally eliminated. They will point to certain ambiguous laws and legal precedents — the meaning of which they may twist for their benefit — in order to justify their actions, regardless of how illegal said actions may be.
In fact, if you are paying close attention to the news, you will discover that certain lawyers, university law professors, etc., are ALREADY beginning to spin this narrative. It is all a part of the psychological manipulation process to soften the people’s resolve.
Regardless, I will continue to resist getting the jab for as long as I possibly can, until there is no way out, and it is forced upon me. Of course, I hope that it doesn’t come to that.
Quite frankly, at this point in time, I am more afraid of the potential side effects of the vaccine, than I am of actually getting COVID-19. I already suffer from certain health issues, including problems with my lungs.
The fact is that I have survived for seventeen months of this pandemic thus far. As such, I must trust God to see me through the rest of it. And if not, if I should become infected and die, well, sudden death is sudden glory for the Christian Believer, as they say.
Quite honestly, I have a peace about this, and I just don’t worry about it. I don’t fear and fret every day like a lot of people are now doing. All of the government and news media fear-mongering and scary talk about the delta variant do not move me to fear. I just go on living my life every day as best as I can.
Of course, when I am out and about each month, I do wear a mask and practice social distancing, because it has been a government-mandated requirement here on Guam since March of last year, if I recall correctly. You can’t get into any places without a mask.
I should mention too that with a population of about 165,000 residents, since March of 2020, Guam has had a total of 143 officially-recognized COVID-19 related deaths. That is an average of less than 9 deaths a month for a 17-month period.
I should also mention that in the vast majority of cases, the deceased had underlying health conditions which were supposedly made worse by the coronavirus. So what did they really die from?
Obviously, any death is sad. But my point in sharing these figures with you is to demonstrate that in our case at least, wearing a mask and social distancing appears to have been to our benefit, which is something to think about.
In conclusion, let’s all pray that our personal choice is not completely taken away, because that certainly seems to be where things are headed in regards to the vaccine.