The Truth About Grief

The Truth About Grief

When Your Parent Chose the System Over You

The grief of seeing your parent die from the Covid shots, and not being able to do a damn thing about it.

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Karen Sibal
Jul 31, 2025
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Some losses are quiet.

Not because they didn’t hurt—but because no one else seemed to see them as real.

That’s how it felt when my mom and dad believed the system over me.

When I begged them to slow down, ask questions, wait for more information.

When I saw their health unravel, but my concern was dismissed, often with anger.

When I watched protocol replace intuition— and loyalty to institutions override love for their child.

I lost my dad to the pandemic response, and it hit me really hard. Because his death didn’t need to happen the way it did. He was perfectly healthy, happy and vibrant for his age.

What really frustrated me was that he knew how to think critically about the vaccines -or so I thought. I’d always taken pride in inheriting his critical thinking skills. Which is why I was unable to wrap my head around his inability to see the truth behind the global depopulation agenda: that the vaccines were blatantly being used for this - and he simply couldn’t see it, no matter what I said.

Here’s how those shots played out for my dad and mom...

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