New Year's Eve Parties Are Going To Be Very Very Very Bad For America And I Mean Bad

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21. I understand

I was quite sympathetic for a long while with the Havens Garden owner - a black single mom with 3 daughters (in almost all-white southwestern Minnesota) - just trying to make a living and not lose everything. And I certainly think it is completely, thoroughly, and totally wrong that we, our governments, are putting all the cost of the pandemic on a the owners and employees of a few business sectors. They should be compensated, and yes that means we pay more taxes at some point. So as to spread the cost of this pandemic around fairly.

However, I just get so sick of FREEDOM and CONSTITUTION and THIS IS AMERICA and TYRANNY video after video after video, with never, ever, a single acknowledgement, even momentarily, even in the slightest, that remaining open will almost certainly result in more infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. And not just by the people who go to this place -- they are "signing up" for this risk, so to speak -- but to the ones those persons in turn infect in their households, workplaces, and community, who did not "sign up" for a risk-taking adventure.

So now I just puke every time I see her.

Edited to add: Google sez:

The 5 largest ethnic groups in Lyon County, MN are White (Non-Hispanic) (84.4%), Asian (Non-Hispanic) (4.09%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (3.36%), Other (Hispanic) (3.23%), and White (Hispanic) (2.59%).