i'm not sure.
i have been vaccinated for sure, and only has a sore arm for a couple days, because someone put a needle in my shoulder.
i may or may not have had the virus - i'm not going to get tested and find out - but i have had what was no different than a regular mild cold . maybe that's because i have been regularly taking a lot of immune-system-boosting vitamins for years, maybe because all i actually had was a common cold or seasonal allergies, maybe because the i did have some covid variant and the vaccine was helpful -- who knows? unless i go get some bloodwork done for the presence of antibodies, i won't know. i don't really care.
what is worse, IMO, is how politicized the whole thing has become. people are under-reacting because politics, and other people are over-reacting because politics, and a lot of people who used to care about the Bible now spend all there time reading vaccine-conspiracy pages instead, and imagine it's a 'christian' thing to do.
it'd be great if we could get back to some sense of normalcy. btu even if i think it's gone crazy i'm not going to make myself a lawbreaker just because i'm not convinced some things are useful or necessary. at my work, we've gone back to requiring masks all day when we're near others. what do i look like if i refuse to? i look like someone who disregards authority. am i being hurt by it? nope. in fact my nose stays warm. is it a rule that makes sense? who cares -- it doesn't necessarily make sense that i have to also wear safety glasses whenever i'm under a 6,000lb hunk of metal either ((i mean how does that help?)) but guess what -- i complied with that rule too, because likewise, it's not 'attacking my religion' and it's not 'infringing on my rights' -- it's just one more piece of PPE i have to keep up with.
i'm tired of it for sure. and i question how much good it does. but is it Christian of me to ignore the laws and rules just because i think they're a bit unnecessary? no -- that's not Christianity. that's every-man-make-his-own-laws. the Bible tells me to obey the authorities, not to call conspiracy what everyone calls conspiracy, and not to go along with people who want to overthrow the government. so i do what's asked of me, like a servant -- yes, like a sheep. no one is ordering me to disavow my faith - they're asking me to help prevent the spread of disease. is washing my hands after i blow my nose, or staying home when i'm sick anti-God? wow, no! it's common decency!
overall i'm like, who cares -- live with it -- remember when we used to talk about Jesus?
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