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I learned that a colleague of mine in his forties stroked out recently and is in rehab today.

Sad news to be sure, but I don't feel feel about this like it was a bolt from the blue. I am pretty sure he is vaxed up, and I am sad that he believed that bullshit and did that to himself. It is different than, "oh, Jesus, he had a stroke?!" I am sympathetic for sure, but the stronger emotion is that which tends toward disappointment.

Have to ponder on this, it is hard to articulate.

I learned that a colleague of mine in his forties stroked out recently and is in rehab today. Sad news to be sure, but I don't feel feel about this like it was a bolt from the blue. I am pretty sure he is vaxed up, and I am sad that he believed that bullshit and did that to himself. It is different than, "oh, Jesus, he had a stroke?!" I am sympathetic for sure, but the stronger emotion is that which tends toward disappointment. Have to ponder on this, it is hard to articulate.

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I am not military, but in my mind it's like the difference between losing someone in your unit versus squad wiping some hapless enemy teenage combatants. I could see where you might feel like, "what a waste," but they would kill you first if given the chance.

And maybe that is sort of the feel. I have been threatened and harmed immensely by the vaxed society. So perhaps I don't feel the same kinship as I would have before.

Mind you I am not ready to squad wipe the vaxed, but I am definitely on a different footing now.

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Yeah, that's perfectly normal, everything is relative.

You definitely experience some loss of empathy in that circumstance.