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“It take a strong person to apologize, and an even stronger person to forgive.”

I wish I could forget it all.....My 92 yo father and sister removed me from his HCP for being unjabbed. His physician told him (in writing) that he should not be in "close quarters" with the unvaccinated (me) in 2020! Funny thing was that when he was hospitalized in Dec of 2021 - no one was allowed in the hospital! Vax status did not matter to an acute care facility at that time. Same sister tried to require me to test before seeing my father and to mask when caring for him when he came home. I refused - and cared for my father more than anyone because no one else is around or cares to devote the time. I'll never get over the way I was treated for my health choice - by my own family. I have never received an apology from my father or my sister and don't expect it will ever happen. It is a bitter pill and awful sadness that I wish I could get over. Some days are better than others.

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Apr 5·edited Apr 5Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Brilliant and laugh out loud funny. Thank you. I share your outrage and your impatience. Impatience with the friend who kicked me out of her home for having the temerity to say to her (timidly) "actually, there are a lot of vaccinated people in hospitals too...." while she disparaged the many delusional unjabbed who allegedly were taking beds in hospitals away from legitimately sick people. She expressed outrage that I was so "naive" to believe "conspiracy theories". Yeah. I'm kinda outraged too. I don't expect an apology anytime soon. I've grieved the death of our friendship, but I'm over it now.

The character and courage of a Dr. Boz is sadly in short supply.

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Apr 6Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Forgiveness is not for the person who wronged you. It is for your own mental health. Forgiveness DOES NOT mean you forget. It means you let go of the resentment that is taking up emotional and mental space rent free. The person whose actions need forgiveness is, far to frequently, oblivious of their transgression. Making forgivenes conditional is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.

I have forgiven all the people whose actions and attitudes displayed their bigotry and immorality. BUT they are so indelibly etched in my memory I will never trust them again.

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Apr 5Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Forgiveness is for God to grant and for me, I can’t forget nor will I ever forgive the murders of both my father and brother because of their medical policies during Covid.

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Apr 6·edited Apr 6Liked by Jenna McCarthy

I enjoyed reading this essay-- though the whole situation is so ghastly sad.

I'm not expecting any apologies— in my life a lot of people are just lost. I either don't have anything to do with them anymore, or I treat them with kindness and forebearance, as I would any person with dementia and/or some peculiar delusion. By the way, on last night's Vaccine Safety Foundation livestream one of the hosts came up with a new term, VDS, vaccine derangement syndrome. I like it.

Relatedly:

Canadian Tik Tokers Talk #I'MSORRY

https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/imsorry-a-vaccinated-apology-to-the

Sept 11, 2022

TRANSCRIPT

OLDER MAN IN BASEBALL CAP (a) NOTEATINCRICKETS: Hi guys, me again. I just wanted to touch on my previous video a little bit. You know I think it's high time we really need to start to come together on this. And when this all first started, and the vaccine started rolling out, I wasn't paying attention, I wasn't listening, I soaked in whatever the government was telling me. And you know what, it really took the Freedom Convoy to open my eyes a little bit and to see what was going on. You know, seeing them trucks out in Coutts, and truckers blowing through the barricades, and seeing hundreds of people lined up on the highways supporting the convoy. It was really touching. And that's when I really started to dig deeper and open my eyes.

Sometimes it takes a big man to say, you know what, I screwed up and I'm sorry. Well, from the vaccinated to the unvaccinated, you know what, I'm sorry I didn't listen to you sooner. I'm sorry I let the government get the best of me and think that they had our best interest at heart.

I want to encourage other people who are vaccinated to do the same thing. You know, we got, you might not see it because it doesn't affect you or it doesn't concern you, but people have lost their jobs, they've lost family and friends, they couldn't visit their sick parents in the hospital, they couldn't be at funerals and weddings, you know, some of their friends might have said, you know what you're not vaccinated you're not my friend anymore.

We really need to come back together as a people and start to work together on this. So for me, as a vaccinated person to all the unvaxxed, I'm going to start to train and say, I'm sorry, I fuc*ed up. And thank you, thank you for what you're doing. God bless.

YOUNG WOMAN IN CAR (a) UNIQUEGREENLADY: Alright, I'm going to try and do this without crying. I would just like to say thank you, sir, for your apology. Through all of this bulls*it with covid I've lost friends of over a decade, family has chosen to stop speaking to me. My mother couldn't be present for the birth of my daughter. And for someone who doesn't get apologies very often, this means a lot. I probably won't hear an apology from the people who I think frankly owe me one. So, thank you. Thank you very much.

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For those who forced vaccinations on others, disparaged their character for questioning and even pointing out issues, no apology will ever be accepted. It is the lack of critical thinking and disparagement of people they knew for decades who they dismissed for which there is no excuse. They outed themselves as superficial individuals and going forward a waste of time.

For those in authority who forced others to take the jab, I would like to see prison time with such huge fines that they hold only the bare means of support. I am tempted to tattoo CORONA on their foreheads for all to see for the rest of their lives, but I doubt the idea would have much favor.

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Apr 6Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Good news is that you have made many new friends and gained a ton of respect from people around the world. Stay strong.

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22 “unexpected ” deaths, acute/aggressive cancer deaths, death by clot, and unknown. Another 37 serious adverse events… you know like two 36 year old breast cancers, double mastectomies, double heart attacks at 26, and triple miscarriages…super icky stuff like that.

People need to hang for what has been done. Forgiveness, hell no.

BTW iI collapsed and spent 30 hours in the ER. Someone who lives in my bed collapsed last week. I’ve had two collapse in my arms, another at a table next to me, another one the day after a Moderna booster, and one who sadly landed wrong, broke hiS neck, was a quadriplegic and then died of pneumonia. All within a year.

There are too many, more than one, who are still…still pushing this gene therapy.

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I had family members who sat 6 feet away from us on the beach at our family reunion because we weren't vaccinated. Their rental house was much closer to the beach than ours but they made a rule that only vaccinated people could use the bathroom in their beach house--even if they weren't in there.

One of the strangest COVID interactions was when family members came to have dinner but at the last minute called and asked if we could eat outside since we weren't vaxxed. This was after I had set an elaborate indoor table. We dutifully moved the meal outside which was quite an ordeal. As it grew dark and chilly, I asked if anyone would like to come inside, and then everyone stood around in the kitchen talking for about a half hour before leaving. Why did we eat outside?

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Apr 6Liked by Jenna McCarthy

For every one of the people who treated you poorly, there are 10 of us who hung on your every word so we could learn how to take care of ourselves if we or someone we cared about got covid. Thank you for being courageous and giving us the information we needed to survive (not only physically, but mentally.) We need to stick together to fight the lies they want to keep telling us.

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Apr 5Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Ohh does the resonate with me, & I know it does with my twin sis too. So so many friends of hers & just a few of mine . Ours include or twin brothers who have acted like complete educated idiots … you know the kind … Pius puffed up never ever wrong

I am trusting in Gods justice for this massive injustice, massive coverup, massive killing of unsuspecting victims . So many at so many different levels.

It has been daily sanctification for me. Some days easy some days seemingly impossible to forgive those so called “friends” possibly wolves in sheep’s clothing .

( I write this w/ 2 beers ) which I do not do too frequently.

Thank you for your constant insight. ♥️🤍💙

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Apr 6Liked by Jenna McCarthy

The silence has been deafening. I think overall there's a lot of shame and people deal with it in pretty shameful ways. Anyone in flat out denial I no longer speak to - they're garbage and it wouldn't be fair to ignore that. Besides, how am I supposed to reconnect with people that I have found to be fundamentally untrustworthy? The real victory here is that we get to move on: autonomous, intact, free, and much wiser.

Jenna please don't wait around for these people to grow a brain. I'm surprised too but they're as stupid now as they were then. It's a matter of personal limitations.

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Apr 6Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Oh, I so relate to this. Obviously, the reality is that some people I'm never going to see the same way again.

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Apr 6Liked by Jenna McCarthy

Thank you, I needed that!

What is most critical is that you never compromised your integrity, didn’t back down, cave to fear of judgement, being ostracized.

In other words, you were and are a Fearless Warrior! Fighting to save lives against the greatest adversity.

History will not look back kindly on many.

You can hold your head high and continue your walk on the path of Truth.

Bitterness and persecution may try to deter and distract, yield ye not!

Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do.

We need the light that shines forth in the darkness.

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Apr 6Liked by Jenna McCarthy

I also have that dream: family members, friends, and especially those responsible will come clean and acknowledge that their thinking did not go deep enough, if at all. I am still observing people getting side effects: blood clots, strokes, stents, etc. None of the people have come close to realizing that the "I am science man" is actually a mad scientist, When I presented them with the paper he wrote where he actually said vaccines are not effective for corona viruses, they still denied it. They are lost and apologies from them are a dream.

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Apr 6Liked by Jenna McCarthy

No. There will be no forgiveness on my part. #MistakesWereNotMade

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