CDC advises people to wear masks indoors at all times, except at home

[NurseJackie]

11. The HS graduation rate is below national averages...

... the employment opportunities are few. The Connellsville or Uniontown Walmart are the area's biggest employers. (So that people can, in turn, buy what they need from Walmart... because most other businesses have closed shop.) It's a very depressed area. I've visited there when my husband has returned for weddings, funerals and an occasional reunion (pre-covid, of course) and it's a completely different world.

Now we are not wealthy by ANY means. We live in a double-wide mobile home for God's sake... but compared to the quality of life out there... we're living like royalty. And still they vote for Trump; and still they believe the lies; and still they do everything to help the 1% because they believe that someday they'll be rich too.

It makes me sad whenever he wants to go home. I know it's familiar and comfortable for him... but it's also the reason he left. He knew that if he stayed, that he'd be lucky to someday be the manager at the Sheetz. (Instead he joined the army and GOT OUT of a dead-end town.)

Anyway... it always amazes me how those who have the least... and who are suffering the most... will blindly follow those who cause the most harm and offer the least relief. I'm emotionally exhausted whenever we come home from one of these family gatherings.