My point is simply that the vaccine mandates are coming in horizontally and vertically. It isnt only the powers that be that want vaccination, but your neighbors. How do we explain ourselves to our neighbors? Do we defer or do we say No and take a principled stand? If we take a stand, what arguments do we use? Which science? Will it stand up to critical Proverbs 18:17 examination? I doubt it, because it seems to me that our resistance to Covid even being a problem, then to lockdowns, then to masks and now to vaccines is driven by resentment to governing authorities we know hate us, and it’s time to get even.
So far, the record of Covid doves has not stood up nearly as well as Covid hawks. Given the failures of elites in the past 20 years, it seemed to me a good bet that they would be wrong again about Covid, but they weren’t. The predictions about deaths were right. Our predictions about the election were wrong. The economy did not collapse. Civil authorities werent acting vindictively, but out of desperation in the face of God’s judgement. They kept up restrictions knowing that vaccines were being developed and they would be able to shift back to normal later.
Would any of us as fathers want our records to be as cynically judged or as harshly criticized as the record of our civil authorities have been for 18 months?
Covid doves were right about schools and children. We are still right about how difficult it would be to bring the population back from the edge as a result of social media driven frenzy. We were right about many of the socially negative downstream effects of lockdowns and masks. We may be right about cycles and PCR tests, although that may be due more to incompetence than malice.
All this to say: if you start off on the wrong foot, there’s nothing wrong with starting over again. That’s what I’m doing. I started out with maybe 5% trust in the authorities, and now I trust them more, because the record is what it is.
Ironically, resisting the vaccines means that the regime of testing, quarantining and masking must continue.