It isn’t that we have been vindicated

Most of us who chose to remain unvaccinated have stories of discrimination and prejudice. I carry some unsettled feelings that makes me resistant to going back to ‘normal’ and forgetting it all happened.
It isn’t that we have been vindicated from the blame or allegations. It is easy just to let everyone forget the whole thing. To let people forget what they did (and some still do)… that they excluded, condemned, cancelled, censored, and hated us.
I am willing to let bygones be bygones, except for one thing:
How am I to know it won't happen again?
I don't feel very safe among these people. But more important than my own comfort or safety is what kind of world my children will live in.
As someone once said “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
​I fear the likelihood that pandemonium will become a permanent culture, woven into our social and political institutions, our habits, our reactions and norms…

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