Before I share the ultimate point of this post, I want you to take a good hard look at this photograph.
This is Kenneth Rogers, MD.
From 2020 until late 2022 Kenneth Rogers was the director of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. He was my ultimate "boss" during much of the time when I was a peer support specialist with this area's mental health office. Rogers was ostensibly charged with guiding the agency with wisdom and integrity.
That is the furthest thing from what Kenneth Rogers really was. In truth he turned out to be a far-left activist who had no compunctions about enforcing his own agenda upon the thousands of hard-working and dedicated mental health workers working for the state.
Rogers saw South Carolina Department of Mental Health as his personal play toy. He turned his position into a bully pulpit for his ideological beliefs. He certainly had a captive audience. Whenever I opened up a web browser on my office PC there was Kenneth Rogers's face - as you see in the photo above - with some decree he had made from on high. And sometimes they had absolutely nothing to do with mental health.
Case in point: what Rogers posted following the George Floyd incident. Rogers jumped on the bandwagon immediately, without any proper evidence, and blamed institutional racism for Floyd's death, never mind that the Floyd was a dead man walking with all the fentanyl in his system. Floyd was going to die regardless of anything else that happened.
Rogers finished up with accusing practically all white people of harboring racism.
It was a dip into the political realm that was utterly disturbing. No responsible leader of a state agency, no responsible person at all, would have stooped so low in using departmental resources toward furthering personal ideology. I was disgusted by it and for several fleeting moments I considered writing to Rogers about it. But I had my job to consider: I was just a peer support specialist, someone without a masters degree. So I kept quiet.
(Obviously, six years later I am letting it all come out without fear.)
I decided then that Kenneth Rogers was a poor choice to be the head honcho of an agency whose purpose was to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable of the people of South Carolina.
I watched Rogers do his thing, on and off. I could not but shake my head in disbelief whenever he made his decrees. And I continued to wonder what could I do that would arouse the attention of the people who had appointed Rogers to the job in the first place.
And then came COVID. And Kenneth Rogers really let his inner leftist demagogue loose.
Rogers commanded that everyone in the department get the COVID vaccine. Never mind that it was so very new and untested. We each had to get it, or else lose our job.
Which would have been personally devastation to a lot of people and it certainly would have been to me. Not only for the loss of income, but it would mean that I could no longer see my clients: people who I had come to care for tremendously. Being in peer support meant relating to the people I served in ways that the more "qualified" counselors and doctors and nurses could not. Not without themselves having a mental health condition. Being a peer support person meant letting my bipolar disorder become something useful toward helping vulnerable people live richer and more fulfilling lives. I came to love those "clients" (I could not call them "patients" because I didn't have a masters degree), every one of them. Three and a half years after leaving the department and I still think of them. I still pray for them.
Not getting the alleged "vaccine" would mean that I could no longer work with them or see them at all.
There was an out for people who were conscientious objectors. I wrote a short essay explaining why I wanted to decline getting the shot. All I know is that it was turned down. Maybe it didn't help my case that I wasn't a member of any organized religious body, not even a small country church. There was nobody to help me plead my case.
So it really was get the shot or lose my employment, and with that would come no longer getting to help my patients (well, that's who they were).
Kenneth Rogers continued in his demands that everyone get the shot. As he put it in one screed, we were all "going to follow the law".
There was no "law" requiring involuntary inoculation. The "law" Rogers cited was an order by President Joe Biden and Rogers automatically declared that this was to be as adhered to as any properly and rigorously argued and passed piece of legislation.
Long story short: Kenneth Rogers used his position to enforce a political position of liberals like those in the Democratic Party and especially of the Biden administration.
Well, I was stupid. And I got the shot. I got both of the initial course of inoculation. After getting the second jab a blood vessel burst in my right eye. And ever since then I've wondered if my breathing is as well as it used to be.
Kenneth Rogers posted a photo of himself getting the "COVID vaccine". He was masked up and everything. For all we know that wasn't the real vaccine at all. It could have been saline water or something else innocuous.
I got the shot and I've felt dirty ever since. It did something to me. I feel now like it cost me my integrity, of too much of my soul even. I should have done the hard thing and quit my job outright. Except there were my patients and who would have been there for them like I had the unique position of being?
It's five years after getting the "vaccine". If I knew then what I know now, I would have told Kenneth Rogers that he could take his precious shot and jab them [REDACTED]. He's an absolutely loathsome, disgusting and criminally negligent individual who does not deserve to be in any position of medical care and administration.
There are a lot of people who deserve scorn and ridicule stemming from the COVID vaccine propaganda. Half of Democrats polled at the time wanted those who refused the "jab" to lose their employment, be fined, and even be incarcerated. People were silenced on social media by giants like Facebook and Twitter, for the "crime" of questioning the efficacy of the "vaccines". There were the businesses ruined and the churches vacated.
Nobody who was advocating the pro-vaccine agenda deserves to have any place at the American table. They violated the people's trust. They forced a medical experiment upon us and told us "tough" if we resisted.
I'm a peaceful man. I try to follow my Lord's instruction to "love one another". COVID however brought about a seething and quite righteous hatred toward certain people. I only wish the worst upon them.
David Strom has written an ASTOUNDING article for Hot Air about how it has come to be that we can at last openly discuss the persecution that we suffered because of vaccine propaganda. If you have been angry before, Strom's piece will reignite your fury. If you have had blinders on until now, this well-researched essay laden with citations will hopefully open your eyes.
COVID became tyranny by leftists. Maybe we will be much more the wiser the next time that they think they have an opportunity to control our lives.
