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xmas 2020: a dear friend invites me to annual party being thrown by mutual friend who works for a famous newspaper (the big famous one).. i've been to many of his parties in the past. wanting to be a good soldier, i text newspaperman to let him know i'm coming but also want him to know that i don't wear the hygiene theatre prop.

"fine with me, but let me just check with the people who are here," he texts back.

15 minutes later he calls me. "i'm totally ok with that but there are people here who would be uncomfortable [this is nyc, covid has been extinct at this point for about six months]. i have an extra mask, would you be willing..."

i tell him i'm looking forward to seeing him when this madness is over. since then, crickets. paradigmatic moment.

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Aimee's avatar

My husband’s siblings were in town in late 2020, and I was really questioning the masks, natural herd immunity denial, the PCR tests, the whole thing basically. One of the sib’s is a scientist, the other works for a famous college out east. So I started asking questions, thinking they’d be up for a rational discussion. One ended up saying, “But people are dying!” while the other one sat and made faces at me all night. I’ve never seen such absurd immaturity in so-called professional people in all my life. I had assumed they were well educated and intelligent. (They have all the right credentials.) This is not how well-educated, intelligent people behave. We haven’t really spoken since. My husband got mad at ME. Just awful, what this horrible Fauci lie has done to people. I am definitely not ready to forgive and forget. Maybe if they’d just apologize. I doubt they ever will.

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