Have you written in greater detail what happened between you and your school? If so, please tell her I can find it. If not, may I ask for more details? Your experience seems so close to mine.
To reiterate, you are unique among all I know or have met, with your actions over the mask. Among those who are against masks, you and I are the only too I know who have refused to wear them regardless of the cost. While my situation has not been anything other than extremely difficult, your path to anti masking was more difficult. It is my belief that as hard as it is to stand up to the peer pressure to do something one’s training and certification demand should not be done, it is harder to resist this pressure after having initially gone alone with it. Knowing this, I feared that once submitted to, masking would be woven into society’s norms. This fear seems to have been borne out.
I am interested to learn how you came to give up the mask and how you were able to make the decisions you made over masking and stick with them. I know no one else who has done as you have.
I have also been insulated from the vax issue. All my students are adults and the college students have already had their clot shots before I meet them for the first time. Not limited to the clot shot either. The female med students are required to get the HPV vaccine too. I have had one student get cervical cancer despite (because of?) this vaccine. But they get these and others before I have any opportunity to try to persuade them. Doubt I would be persuasive anyway, as refusing these shots means they cannot attend class and thus abandon their desires to become doctors. I have tried to steer my private students away from them without success, but again, they are adults. I would not be able to stay with any organization that promoted them for children.
You spoke of the nervousness and other emotions you experienced while standing up and speaking out against the madness and the difficulty you have in describing the situation. No one who has not stood up and said “No.” when no one else would can comprehend what it is like to do so. It cannot be described.
Glad to hear you made the decision to explore your ideas/options in MT! I'm excited to learn more about your adventures.
Have you written in greater detail what happened between you and your school? If so, please tell her I can find it. If not, may I ask for more details? Your experience seems so close to mine.
To reiterate, you are unique among all I know or have met, with your actions over the mask. Among those who are against masks, you and I are the only too I know who have refused to wear them regardless of the cost. While my situation has not been anything other than extremely difficult, your path to anti masking was more difficult. It is my belief that as hard as it is to stand up to the peer pressure to do something one’s training and certification demand should not be done, it is harder to resist this pressure after having initially gone alone with it. Knowing this, I feared that once submitted to, masking would be woven into society’s norms. This fear seems to have been borne out.
I am interested to learn how you came to give up the mask and how you were able to make the decisions you made over masking and stick with them. I know no one else who has done as you have.
I have also been insulated from the vax issue. All my students are adults and the college students have already had their clot shots before I meet them for the first time. Not limited to the clot shot either. The female med students are required to get the HPV vaccine too. I have had one student get cervical cancer despite (because of?) this vaccine. But they get these and others before I have any opportunity to try to persuade them. Doubt I would be persuasive anyway, as refusing these shots means they cannot attend class and thus abandon their desires to become doctors. I have tried to steer my private students away from them without success, but again, they are adults. I would not be able to stay with any organization that promoted them for children.
You spoke of the nervousness and other emotions you experienced while standing up and speaking out against the madness and the difficulty you have in describing the situation. No one who has not stood up and said “No.” when no one else would can comprehend what it is like to do so. It cannot be described.