Are you going to take the vaccine?

[Margan]

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I still don't believe in a conspiracy from our governments. I think pushing that angle would be as fear-based as a great many of the anti-vaccination arguments. I just don't find this helpful.

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See I sort of keep on getting the impression that you do not want to "believe" in those things because it does not fit in with your optimism distortion.
optimism just like pessimism are attitudes and as such contrary to reality. Reality does not care whether you are an optimist or not.
It wont change the way things are, maybe life is easier for you if you live in a pink bubble of your own making but you are still deluding yourself.
I think honesty and a willingness to see things as they are, and not as one wishes them to be should be part of (spiritual) life imo.
For the rest of your post I agree, we also have elections in september and I do hope that people will vote for the parties that are against mandatory and those covid rules. We will see how it pans out, since anyone against the official restrictions re covid is being painted as being "far right "in this country. As someone else said "black is white" and "good is bad" .... and in that sense people speaking out for freedom and respect of our constitutional rights are called "fascists" these days.... but apparently the world wants to go thru this at this stage as you said.