Weekly update 8/52 Spring patterns and thoughts of being obedient covid puppets

Another week has past and here in Düsseldorf the past few days has really felt like spring. Birds are singing like crazy and some spring flowers are blossoming.

I have ordered some new fabrics with very happy and spring influenced prints. All cotton and BIO certified from a German company I found. I am making gift bags which I will be selling on the market here in Düsseldorf which is coming up end of March.

Loren came back from his trip to Sweden and brought back Semla ( special Swedish pastry which we eat in February)

And I keep brightening up life with all the nice an colorful flowers

I have a lot to write about what I think about all this covid ~~vaccin~~ exaggeration and all this current super weird restrictions here in Germany mainly connected to how many times you have been vaccinated. It is all so crazy and idiotic. But we are not suppose to talk about our unhappiness or questions things. Basically we have lost the right to be even just a little source critical. Mass majority of us continues to trust what we are being fed from media. To question and wanting facts are not the same as being anti or against something. But this pandemia has had a scary affect on us human beings. And how media have failed us with only showing one side and not the other. How researches has not been done correctly but adjusted to show what companies and governments behind the studies wants to be presented to us. And how we are not talking about this.
And how many times should we inject ~~vaccins~~ into our bodies? And since when have politicians become doctors capable of advising the whole population to take the vaccine which we still don´t know what it contains and heaven forbid let´s not talk about side effects from the ~~vaccine~~. But we should do it for solidarity reasons - really do we stil believe in that?! We still get sick and we can still spread it right. Again I am not a antivaxx person I have done my two doses but for me it is enough this year as I feel it is just wrong to keep ~~vaccinate~~ a young healthy person with boosters and booster on top of yet some more boosters.
When will we stop being scared and get real and say enough? When will tests and scientific studies be true to us? And will we ever understand that having different opinion is ok and wanting facts are our rights.
It makes me frustrated and sad - how stupid have we become!?
I read slogan last week that the Washington Post has started to use
"Democracy dies in darkness"
So true and such scary fact that is was so easy to make us all to into obedient puppets..

If you are Swedish listen to podcast: Framgångspodden med Katarina Gospic

Have a good week !

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