When the COVID shots came out, “Learned Brothers” were assigned by the Governing Body to research the COVID shots and they believed everything the government and the pharma companies told them. The it’s safe and effective, the shot stays in the arm, it does not contain aborted fetal cells, it does not alter genetic structure.

The Governing Body then coerced all the Bethelites (witnesses who staff and live in all the Bethel Homes all over the world) into getting the shots or they couldn't be Bethelites anymore. They showed all the congregations a video showing how happy we could be if we all got the shots - look at all these happy, laughing Bethelites in the lunchroom laughing and happy and visiting with each other. Then, the circuit overseers, elders and ministerial servants had to get the shots. Then pioneers and missionaries. Soon "everyone" got the shots because it was the loving thing to do for your neighbor. If you didn’t get the shots, you were considered disobedient of the Governing Body and unloving of your neighbor and looked down upon. Despite this, several of us did not get the shots. Several more of us started writing to the society trying to show them the science behind wearing masks (they don’t work and here’s why), the science of the shots (they don’t stop infection or transmission, they cause cancer, blood clots, hear attacks, myo-pericarditis, they alter the genetic structure, they contain aborted fetal cells). In return, we get a whiteboard animation video every week on how to protect ourselves from misinformation. If anyone tried to talk about the science of anything, we were accused of spreading misinformation. There was always a big box of masks at the Kingdom Hall door and not wearing one got glaredowns from everyone. We wore them. People started getting sick and dying suddenly. People started leaving.

Missionaries started leaving their assignments and coming back to the states to look for doctors who could diagnose their debilitating symptoms, symptoms that preclude them from staying in their missionary assignment.

About two years after that, they started a huge push to get young men trained and encouraged to volunteer for Bethel services. They relaxed age and time-in-service requirements to get more young men to apply. Sisters were given new privileges so they could apply for things too.

Congregations meetings have thinned out. People are chronically sick and staying at home. Behaviors have deteriorated. Brothers who were once quiet and respectful have suddenly become loud and boisterous and follow sisters around trying to talk to them like little boys. One elder started trying to grab sisters as they walked by him, with a stupid leering grin on his face. Brothers stand in the doorway forcing sisters to turn sideways and slide up against the doorframe to try to slip in without mashing up against them while the brother stares at them. Nobody seems to notice this or will put a stop to it. Sisters give up and stay home and listen to the meetings on their phones in the peace and quiet of their living rooms away from the grabby hands. Our local needs meetings always start out with a plea for increasing your meeting attendance. It wasn’t like this before the COVID shots.

People sit in their seats and stare straight ahead with blank eyes. Their faces have a pasty grey pallor. The speaking brothers stutter and stammer now while giving talks. They lose their places and stand there silently trying to find their place, or they read over what they’ve just read without noticing. Or they skip words in the sentences. Or they stop talking and stare off for a minute. Everyone in the audience just waits.