No one’s perfect.
As much as you want the good ones to be perfect, we all make mistakes.
And while it’s easier to look further into the past and make these judgements, today’s heroes deserve the same accountability.
Think about this video. A woman with a massive platform redid lyrics to her iconic song to promote experimental gene therapy to sway people’s decisions.
So how do I reconcile this with the same woman who, singing from the depths of her soul, proclaims “There was Jesus” to all the problems of our age on the regular radio rotation?
Every right to be mad
This isn’t about being right.
It’s about the suffering we’re still living with that resulted from the influence campaign.
It’s about the family I see at Church whose 11-year old daughter out of nowhere developed Stage 4 cancer and died in under two weeks.
It’s about the coworker who lost his sister when a ventilator blew out her lungs because it was the “preferred” therapy that brought the hospital incentive payments from HHS.
It’s about having to fight for my job against an overzealous safety professional making a name for himself by promoting social distancing wearables and mobile vaccination clinics.
Or about tens of thousands of deaths reported to VAERS when the campaign should have stopped once the count reached five.
Each one of those resulted from a choice that could have been made differently, especially with a little more digging, but social contagion took hold instead.
Right in their own eyes
But something I can’t take away is we were all trying to do the right thing.
In the face of absolute uncertainty, with a host of unknown unknowns, and the desire to not see others suffer.
Yes, the CDC was offering a lot of money to influencers and creators to promote experimental gene therapy.
But a lot of people wanted to “do the right thing” so everyone could get back to “normal life.” Because that’s the path the people in charge told us we needed to take to get there.
That includes a lot of people in my community who, at the end of it all, I still had to figure out how to return to harmony with and continue building our community. Many of whom have unfortunately also passed.
Their intent is not something I can judge just because my viewpoint was to look at as much evidence as I could get my hands on and make the best decision for my family.
Both can exist in the same space. With some friction.
Too big to see it all?
Which brings me back to the woman who worked to provide millions of children with the educational opportunities she didn’t have.
At that level of success, it’s difficult to dig in to something outside of your lane. Especially when you’re putting money on something you think will help people and that’s what you’ve spent your life doing.
Because at the end of it all, people of that caliber deserve better than a trolling.
Rest in peace, Dolly. We’ll take it from here.
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