Thank you for your post Kate… and for what’s it’s worth, I too am new here, and share quite similar feelings about harboring a degree of regret.
In retrospect, many of us had no choice but to do what we felt to be the right thing. It was a message which was being repeated in a continuous loop over the airwaves, and no matter where one turned.
Given that this can be such a controversial topic, viewpoints will always vary, particularly depending on where one lives. I happen to reside in a part of the US (North East) where it was bragging rights to get vaccinated. The rhetoric was such that those who didn’t should be “ashamed” of themselves, in addition to the harm which they were inflicting on society. Meanwhile… many of these vaccinated folks traveled the world, and without a care in the world, as if their perceived immunity gave them privilege.
Having contracted Covid 1.0 in March of 2020, I decided to take the ‘wait and see’ approach on getting the cure. (A year and a half after the roll-out.) Certainly more than a year of distribution was enough evidence to suggest that the “cure” was/is safe. Little did we know. Now however, the finger can conveniently point both ways if one were to have a debate. Some will always insist that it’s the disease when others might suggest that it’s the cure. To be honest, differences of opinion are simply difficult, especially when some folks have a tendency to view things from their own perceptive.
Anyway, it’s so important to never set up camp in the valley of despair or regret. Keep marching along, and never look back. I heard a saying many years ago. There’s a reason why the windshields on our vehicles are much larger than the rear view mirrors. We have to keep looking ahead.
Wishing you all the very best, and thank you again for your post. (yours as well mad dog melvin)
Kind regards.