Andrew
A friend of mine, Claire, who refused the Pfizer vaccine, told me a while back that her friends have apologised to her after months of open contempt because they could now see she was right and in hindsight, had concluded that the vaccine was doing more harm than good.
One problem. They did not apologise because they ostracised her for having a different opinion. They apologised because her ‘guess’ was supposedly proven right.
I told Claire that they’d learnt nothing and that if they changed their minds again they would go back to rejecting her. Alas, my assertion was subsequently proven right, as some of her girlfriends did indeed change their minds – and their behaviour too.
You can see my point. I don’t want anyone apologising to me because I have been proven right. As an unvaccinated person, whether or not I’m technically right in my decision is secondary. I’m not a bad person for being wrong if I am, and neither are you.
If you apologise to me, it should be based on the simple fact that you rejected me with contempt, because I had a different (albeit honest) opinion to you.
That was the sin – not my being ‘wrong’. And likewise, if you apologise for the wrong reasons, then I know you will commit the same sin again the next time our Government plays us for fools. Hence, I really don’t want to hear it.
