My answer (copy/pasted here):
I bought a lot of the pandemic narrative initially because in New Zealand our border closure essentially kept the virus out for over a year. However, the suppression of off-label medications really angered me.
I was skeptical of vaccines all through 2020, because I have always been vax-skeptic to anti-vax.
Plus, I just know that there is no way you can really develop a brand new medical technology and make it safe in such a short time period. That made no sense.
It also occurred to me in 2020 that one should not override the body’s natural defenses against mRNA. This is a HIGHLY conserved defense among almost all organisms, including bacteria. If a defense is that highly conserved, it is very important to survival. To override it is a VERY bad idea. Basic evolutionary logic. Evolution is always at the forefront of my mind.
In January I read Dr. Vanessa Schmidt-Kruger’s assessment of the vaccines and how they might affect cardiac health. I knew at this point the vaccines would be a disaster. It was a 20 page brief with a lot of biochemistry.
Shortly thereafter I learned of Yeadon’s statements warning about fertility concerns. Made total sense: do not give to pregnant women. And shortly after that in Feb., learned of GVB’s warnings.
The insanely creepy songs and slogans and free stuff, from donuts to college tuitions, were a YUGE red flag that should have tipped any normie who did not know the scientific stuff I knew. Totally insane.
But it didn’t.
At the time I was trying desperately to wake up normies, and instead of written logical arguments with SCIENCE, I would deadpan it. I would just post the videos of these advertisements and songs. No commentary. Could they not see how insane it all was? It was INSANE.
They didn’t see.
The VAERS data really started accumulating in Feb and March and it was horrendous, and they were trying to hide how horrendous it was.
I was in NZ so I didn’t get the chance to take the shot til August, but if I was in the US, there is no way I would have taken it under any circumstance as the case was never made to me, even before the rollout, that it would be safe and effective.
But when it started rolling out, all of those extra red flags went up.
Then… after the bribes were done… the coercion started. That’s when I knew there was some greater diabolical plan behind the vax rollout.
By March 2021 I was completely terrified and that’s when I began to make very fast plans to get back to the US before I had to get the Frankenshot to get on an airplane. I was out of NZ in July.
Here is how I knew. 4 ways.
1. The government was involved.
2. The government was involved.
3. I once had a medical malpractice case with a client who was on a EUA drug. So I had to learn all about what that involved. So I knew from the very beginning that they were breaking every rule that governed EUAs.
4. The government was involved.
For me the red flags came early.
In 2020 I was living overseas. We watched the initial Chinese lockdown with detached curiosity - the CCP is brutal & totalitarian, everyone knows that.
But when the news came of the first lockdowns in America, I turned to a friend and said: "This isn't public health - it's a coup!"
Later that spring, when the first lockdown hit us, an older European friend said to me: "They're trying to kill us." She was right.
Then like you said, all the creepy vaxx-is-savior propaganda, the bribes, the lockstep media support, the brazen censorship of dissent. Then the QR codes and the sudden coercion. While more and more rumors of adverse events. The obvious violation of every national constitution, all established law, the Nuremberg Code, etc etc etc.
When they called out the army to enforce a new lockdown, I bailed out back to the States. And glad I did. Thank God for America, the 2nd Amendment, Florida, and national hero Governor DeSantis.