Missing “Before the COVID-19 Vaccine” Friendships

I would’ve gotten away with it too if hadn’t been for those meddling pharmacy kids

Today, sitting here, I imagine inviting people over to lunch who ended things over my getting the COVID-19 vaccines done during the pandemic. You think about how you never hard arguments. The one thing your mostly female, all unvaccinated pals you knew insisted on not talking to you over was something you never lectured about or said anything about beyond, “I got vaccinated. Let’s hang out when this crazy thing is over because I worry about me personally making you sick.” I could be a silent carrier. Right?

COVID vaccines, and conspiracy theories, are in 2025, on the weirdest things of our modern times to fall out over. I recall in 2020 how a woman when I had publicly branded social media, insisted I prove facts about the pandemic, lots of really bizarre, unsolicited notes. Of the strangest mini conspiracy theories slash gossip about me from people who never met me in person is a woman someone else knows alleging I don’t leave the home with intense agoraphobia and “haven’t left the house since 2020.” Uh, no. All I did from 2020-2022 during the pandemic was grab food, do the supermarket visits, take my sick puppy to the vet, get medical errands done, and get my COVID-19 vaccines done. How did the pharmacist vaccinate me at the pharmacy both times? Psychic powers? 😬 We all have days when you are so happy some crazy strangers do not have your personal contact info. The people online or, via word of mouth, I mention in this specific paragraph are people I never spoke to but once or twice, if I did at all, if ever online. Maybe I don’t recall this crowd of people around when I was younger, quite possibly, they never bumped into me. Ugh. Please go back into Gollum’s cavern.

I wasn’t judging anyone I really was friends with who got mad about the vaccine, so when they acted like the stranger weirdo types who see everything as what it is not, wow, was I surprised. Telling people anything, insulting. No.

I got vaccinated. Enough for friendship walls I felt were made of earthquake proof cement to crumble.

Someone finishing years, a decade plus, of knowing me when we never had a spar? Tragic.

Missing friendships I had so badly right now.