Mostly quiet where I live, but who isn't exhausted by this election cycle? I have a nutcase relative who was emailing me links to articles I just had to read before the election (which I never did.) She's gone dormant. The few faithful warriors still have their Trump/Pence signs out, and one jackass on a county road has had his flag at half-mast since Nov. 7 -- which should tell you that he knew Trump's claims of victory were bullshit even then. The Trumpies I know who were college educated and have sophisticated vocabularies -- now those are the ones I'm curious about. I'm dying to ask, "But his claim that he actually won -- you did know that one was a lie, didn't you? At least that one?" But I won't. Good fences make good neighbors. We're careful to mark our boundaries, and we step around them delicately.
And there's the now-famous Twitter from a nurse in South Dakota (Jodi Doering) who describes the patients she gets who are battling covid but still believe it's not real. Here's some of what she said, as quoted in one of our local papers:
"The ones that stick out are those who still don't believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is going to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm. They tell you there must be another reason they are sick. The call you names and ask why you have to wear all that 'stuff' because they don't have covid because it's not real. Yes, this really happens."
In my hometown, we had a man in his late 30s who filled social media with all kinds of nonsense on covid and proudly insisted he would never mask up. He was found dead in his house 4 months ago from covid.
