Thank you for taking time to share your perspective and I agree wholeheartedly that some of the policies haven’t made sense. However, I realized for me, that devolving down into the government or pharmaceutical companies or whoever is out to get me, to manipulate me, is actually self-traumatizing thinking. It positions me as a victim, which I am not. Instead, when I step into the belief that everyone is doing the best they know how, from the level of consciousness they have in the moment (including myself), I can access compassion. And, while I love individualism and personal expression, most of society has progressed along that spectrum too far, leaving behind the idea that we are all interdependent and sometimes we do have to sacrifice for the good of others or the whole. I observe many anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers fervently defending their individual rights without seeming to care at all about the rights of others. Yes, children need smiles and to see faces to learn emotional intelligence, but more so they need caring, listening and loving adults. Especially to witness adults who are able to consciously work through difficult situations without tearing each other down and spreading fear and conspiracy theories. That is way more damaging to their psyches. Wearing a mask does not equate to a lack of freedom. If we want to talk about true lack of freedom and trauma, we only need discuss the women and children of Afghanistan, who are being sold, enslaved, tortured and murdered. Those with ‘first world problems’ need to recognize their privilege. And those who were given a series of vaccines as a child, which successfully kept them from dying from measles or smallpox might ponder, why is this any different, except that it’s been politicized to engender fear.