My boyfriend was adamantly pro-vax. He says he cannot believe that doctors — DOCTORS — would do anything as contemptible as place profits above patients. Yes, he is very naive. Even when a nurse friend warned him not to take the booster, and that none of the physicians or nurses were, he refused to believe that they were harmful.

And then my thrice vaxxed boyfriend got COVID over Christmas. He is 69 years old. He was symptomatic for three days and then recovered easily. Afterward, he admitted how terrified he was when his at home test was positive. He had drunk the Kool Aid and was sincerely afraid that he was going to die.

Because he never seemed afraid in the past three years, I did not realize what a number the propaganda had done on his psyche. I suspect many people exist in a state of barely controlled panic over COVID.