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Not even being Pendantic.
The CDC still requires a full vacination regime ofr covid to enter the US, and every unvaxed Canadian or anyone else risks being turned around for their personal medical decision when they try to enter the US. Has happened to my neighbor trying to drive home to Mexico. No sign this is ending.
Canada's Digital vaccine passport regime only ended start of october, so your sept timeline is accurate as well.
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A whole lot of people are going to try to downplay the fact they forced vast segments of the population into medical appartheid over the next few years, and it should never be allowed to be forgotten. Who you are at the moment of crisis is who your are always. If you were an Auswitz guard in 45 you never got to stop being that, and we should never let the COVID authoritarians take off the mark of Kane either.
We are likely going to get a new serious narrative fragmentation in the Western discourse between the minority who were on the receiving end of the apartheid and will remember this for a long time, and the majority who did what they were told and did not even notice that the McDonalds they were eating was banning 20% of the population for no good reason.
Almost everyone I know is in the category of "did what they were told without much fuss" and they have already binned the events of the last 2 years almost entirely in distant weird times category.
I do not think "serious" narrative fragmentation will occur, given that:
Those who suffered little from the virus but much from the lockdowns and are aware of such facts have no one fighting their corner and are not large enough to demand serious restitution. Pro lockdown media has already prepared their inevitable rebuttals, expecting you to forget everything that was done to you in the name of public health. Those times have been brushed under the rug, and now all our woes are the fault of Big Vlad or whoever.
There will be no reckoning, no rapture, and that is a pill so black that light cannot escape its surface.
Yes I agree. That’s exactly what I mean by new narrative fracture.
Some people are very upset and will remain so. Majority doesn’t even remember anymore and will consider those people obsessive loser conspiracy theorists. The political actions and rhetoric of this small group will stay incomprehensible to the respectable members of the society which will create all sorts of strange political and societal tensions which is pretty obvious if you have a memory longer than a goldfish but the media will somehow be totally unable to decipher. We have been seeing this dynamic with many contentious issues in the west for decades.
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For once I agree with kulak revolt near uncritically; Covid restrictions must be treated as never again territory on par with 9-11 and the holocaust, and those responsible for pushing them treated like 9-11 planners or architects of the holocaust.
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