Seán Ono Lennon is "completely dispassionate about covid and vaccines."

I don’t follow Seán Ono Lennon, but this caught my eye yesterday and it was so refreshing.

https://x.com/seanonolennon/status/1893730714451169617

I am completely dispassionate about covid and vaccines. I am quadruple vaxxed myself. That may turn out to have some complications, and it may not. I made my choice for personal reasons (my mother is 92). It is an interesting topic. That's all. But calling anyone an 'anti vaxxer' or 'extreme right' because of questioning this stuff to me is a red flag. Being anti vax was THE default view point of EVERY single left wing hippie who raised me in the 70s. It has nothing to do with right or left. Some people think amethyst crystals will heal you. That's their opinion, I don't care.

There is interesting data indicating a possible link between Covid and long term immune responses to other viruses, and there is ALSO interesting data suggesting it could be the vax doing it. Could be neither or both or just one.

I have zero emotional investment either way. People who make this a political issue, or even an emotional issue, are annoying af. We're talking about science and research here, and we should be able to ask questions and cite studies on all sides of all arguments without being shamed or insulted.

Again, I don't care what turns out to be the truth. I just want to know. Covid may have been made by interacting with bats, or by a 14 year old hacker living in the Hollow Earth in a spaceship. The vax may be worse or better than initially claimed. Lord Xenu may or may not be circumcised.

I just want to know, but have no investment in what the answer should be. The fact that people are unable to discuss this without getting upset is basically just goofy on all sides. There are reasonable and unreasonable people on both the left and the right. My feed is very good evidence of this fact. If you are of the unreasonable persuasion please leave me the fuck alone.

Thank you.

Interesting…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the passions that have driven all of us. Advocacy and activism can be treacherous. All that caring can become very inflammatory.

Activism and Cultural Autoimmunity

I’ve been working on this for a while, but the best I can manage so far is still catching myself getting caught up. This is what came through from Elephant (my Spirit guide) in a meditation journey in 2019:

Balancing Activism with Introspection

First, the burden is not all yours and neither is the choice. You have to prepare for the idea that your way is not necessarily the way to create a sense of safety for everyone around you. There is still too much fear and too little understanding. Understanding will take some time and it will be a painful process for most. You will need to create a lot of empathy. You will need to create a safe space for everyone who has regret, who will make mistakes and who will be part of a larger campaign that will ultimately create suffering. ALL of these people have and will have trouble looking at frightening and ugly truths that will eventually emerge. And ALL of us are people who, at some time in our lives, will have to look at our own ugly truths. Decide right now whether you think those people deserve compassion and act accordingly. Treat yourself and everyone around you with that degree of compassion…

It’s weird to look back at this. It was pre-COVID and I didn’t really understand what it meant. I was focused on vaccine choice and saving a religious exemption. It certainly lands differently now.

I go back to these meditations often. There’s more than what I see, what I care about, what I want. And thankfully, the burden of all this healing is not all on me. Back to my own humbling learning curve and my own healing.

But thank you, Seán Ono Lennon. There’s something so hopeful in your ability to be dispassionate about something so polarizing. I’m hoping we can all find our way to something like this.