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the damned Global Pandemic is over. Meaning nasal vaccines are made available that actually block a person from getting the virus. Amazes me that my wife and I have been sheltering in place, working at home, going on 5 years, wearing masks in any indoor place with people, and basically feeling at times like prisoners to a world that is too inconvenienced to give a damn about anything that matters like this.

I don't think of following the science to not get sick, or cause sickness in another person, as "making a personal choice." That's for politics, religion, sports teams. COVID-19 does not give a damn who you are, what you are, where you come from, your virtue or vice. It will infect anyone, any time, anywhere. And those who get it are not getting a glorified cold. They are getting an illness to their bodies that will not ever leave, and the harm it could cause may happen now or years down the road. It's a real and living danger to all human beings.

I wear a mask because there is really no alternative, when among others. It makes me angry, and sad, and somehow feeling like President Clusterfuck taking his criminal ass back to DC makes sense. We could not stop the Pandemic, ongoing, because it's hard, requiring sacrifice and resources and time, and the corporate overlords want us to spend-spend-spend (like after 9/11). And we could not put that bastard in jail, while having four years to do so. So he's back, and the Global Pandemic remains.

I am usually not an all-is-lost kind of person, but at the same time it seems like we keep having to work harder than ever to make this world the bountiful, generous place it should be to all. I wish it wasn't so. So we work harder then.

Thanks for reading. And letting me vent here. I don't post often, but I have been at DU for a long long time. You are good folks