My Experience in SW Missouri

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20. I Wasn't Speaking of YOUR Friends and Neighbors

Only from my experience. I doubt very seriously if we're talking about the same people, or even the same county. Be that as it may, you can go ahead and be friends with whoever you want to. I consider it hypocritical in the extreme to "be friends" with someone whose views are so diametrically opposed to my own (whether they loan me a shovel or not). You can live among the unvaccinated and take your chances if you want. I prefer to live in an area where the majority listen to science rather than the preacher in the bully pulpit.

I've known most of these folks for almost 50 years. They were narrow-minded in school (as were their parents) and none of the have changed. No one has gotten "in their faces" and told them they were stupid. My description of them was driven by frustration and worry at what's going on down there. The health professionals have tried to educate them, to no avail. I have talked, cajoled, pleaded and begged for those I know to get vaccinated. Arguing was the last resort. I know of at least 10 people in this area who have died of COVID-19, and not all of them were elderly. But even a close friend/neighbor dying does not phase these people. If you can't see that, then I have nothing left to say to you.

But yeah, go ahead and point your self-righteous finger at me as if I'm the problem.