I came across the following piece, author unattributed, some time ago and I thought it was truly inspiring. The difficulties, injustices, scorn, damage and abuse heaped upon those that resisted the social, economic and regulatory coercion of vaccine mandates are finally being recognized and some are beginning to realize what it took, and continues to take, to do the right thing based on one’s individual conscience. Enough introduction. Please read on.

Even if I were pollinated and fully vaccinated, I would admire the Unvaccinated for withstanding the greatest pressure I have ever seen, even from partners, parents, children, friends, colleagues and doctors.

People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are undoubtedly the best of humanity. They are everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, states and ideas. They are of a special kind; they are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks. They are the parents that every child wants to have and the children that every parent dreams of having. They are beings above the average of their societies, they are the essence of the people who have built all cultures and conquered horizons. They are there, next to you, they look normal, but they are superheroes.

They did what others could not, they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination and social exclusion. And they did it because they thought they were alone, and believed they were the only ones.

Banned from their families’ tables at Christmas, they never saw anything so cruel. They lost their jobs, let their careers sink, had no more money… but they didn’t care. They suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciation, betrayal and humiliation… but they kept going. Never before in humanity has there been such a “casting”, now we know who are the best on planet Earth.

Women, men, old, young, rich, poor, of all races or religions, the Unvaccinated, the chosen of the invisible ark, the only ones who managed to resist when everything collapsed. That’s you, you passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest Marines, Commandos, Green Berets, astronauts and geniuses could not withstand…

You are made of the stuff of the greatest who ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.” Anon

I thought it appropriate to offer this to our community after the recent decision by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, vindicating the resistance of a group of NYC sanitation workers to a convoluted and unjust vaccination mandate. Beyond the mandate’s obvious equal protections failings, the opining judge called to attention one shining and elemental truth that has been ignored by so many at all levels of government and by a largely sycophantic media. The judge pointed out that there is no sound and defensible reason to treat the vaccinated and the unvaccinated differently, relating to SARS-CoV-2, because the available vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission. At long last, the elephant in the room has been acknowledged!

Maybe, just maybe, society is starting to turn the corner. Here’s a link to an opinion piece published this past Summer in The Vincentian, the national newspaper of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It presents a consistent theme, one of growing respect and compassion, and recognition of the wrongs heaped upon those resisting the mandates.

I would like to comment on one of the points made in the op ed. The author says that the war against the unvaccinated has been won. I think it is premature to think so. The forces that started it in the first place are still around and have not conceded defeat.

In closing, let’s be mindful of those among us whose conscience led them to receive one of the vaccines. Their decisions were not easy ones and are equally worthy of respect. We should do all we can to listen to the greater angels.

A postscript, with a big ‘Thank You!’ to Brandi. Her comment appears below, and she found the author of that uplifting open letter to the unvaccinated. Here’s a link to the letter, with proper attribution to Fernando López-Mirones, Spanish biologist and filmmaker. Thanks again Brandi!