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When Anti-Vax is Auntie-NoVax
And she wants to hang out with your aging Momma
Oh, this photo makes me yearn for not so long ago!
Family… and others
What to do with them, and what to do without them.
In my own family, it’s one of my three brothers who has decided he knows too much to be vaccinated. But whether a brother, aunt, or next door neighbor, our lives are now being divided by Vaccinated and Un-vaccinated.
A sister-in-law’s family is completely divided: her father is, mother isn’t, she is, and brother isn’t. (It sounds like song lyrics if you read it aloud…)
The holiday season looms. Maybe by then, some of us will be in the hospital and others won’t, and that’ll make the inviting and attendance a whole lot easier! (You think??)
Respect
There were signs up on the doors of various stores and restaurants where I live… about respecting others’ decisions regarding masks.
In the past couple weeks, however, those signs have disappeared, and we are now back to “masks indoors.” I am hoping we do not go any further backwards, to that time of not stepping foot outside, but not everyone is doing what it’ll take... I think of countries in which the children in young families —…