"I trusted my government.
I do not trust them anymore."

What I found so moving about Alice the Journalist's ten-minute video of London's Vaccine Injured Protest is how she captured the stunned and almost devastated faces of onlookers.

Almost as powerful is when one of the vaccine injured stands at the mic and says: "I trusted my government. I do not trust them anymore.”

This reflects the words of Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams in his viral video: "I really think the anti-vaxers were just distrustful of big companies and government. That's never wrong. It's never wrong to distrust government. And it's never wrong to distrust big companies. So if you took the position: let's just distrust everything the government did — well, you won."

Stay sane, stay real,
John C. A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/