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I live in a Seattle suburb, surrounded by the panic stricken, the Karens, virtue signalers jogging in masks. I wish the west coast governors would all disappear. They have driven the panic bus, and terrified people... My 80 yr old step mom lives in Port Angeles. We haven't seen her in 2 years because she watches tv, hears that her county is having a HUGE OUTBREAK, and is petrified of seeing family. Her county has had 1 death, and 4 hospitalizations and 106 cases in July... media is killing people faster than covid in Democrat run states. It's pure evil.

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Whatever flimsy faith critical thinkers had in public health has been obliterated and will never be regained in my lifetime. We have descended into madness pure and simple. Once again, this endemic virus is not about the science, but definitely about the political science

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If I’m denied healthcare because I’m unvaccinated, does that relieve me of my obligation to buy health insurance? Asking for a friend…

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Well said as usual. But we need to fight and destroy all these restrictions on travel. It needs to be unacceptable to be forced to wear masks on planes or for kids in school. These effect everyone. And if these remain, they have control of nationwide fear, no matter what is happening in local Utah.

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And I got yelled at yesterday by an employee in the Bx/Px on our local AFB for not masking up. We have been shopping there sans mask the last 2 months and now this again? I told the guy I had no idea, and he said "don't worry about it". I told him I never worried about it.....and won't in the future. Funny how they are 50 ft away from you and come up to you and have to get really close to me because I have a hrg. loss and can't hear them with a mask. I am going to start telling people what a huge risk they just took...can't take it anymore. But the food court...well, I pointed to it, and said "everyone is safe out there, right?" Crowded as all get out!

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Cat, you've been such a comfort to me in dark times. I don't see a paid sub/donation option for your substack - is there one?

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I was an antivaxxer before COVID

My life changed as little as possible other than having to explain to my young children why some imbeciles are wearing masks while walking their dog outside alone

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I'm in Southern California. Yesterday, I saw people walking in the hot sunshine, with no one else around for MILES, all masked up. At this point, I'm just ashamed of my fellow Californians. I'm starting to believe they will swallow anything. That's good news for Gov. Newsom. He can Covid variant himself into a nice, long political career of ineptitude.

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Spot on. Been saying this even here in my BLUE New England state. As long as you don't watch the news, things are normal. Have been for a while. Most folks no longer care. A few whack jobs are re-donning masks based on Wollensky's shreaking. They are losing, and they are getting more desperate. And by doing so they are digging their own graves. It only takes a vocal 10% to win. We are way more than 10%, but we need to be vocal in public, not just on SM. And by attempting to reinstate masks, threaten lockdowns, it will quickly become obvious amongst the public how few folks still give a rat's ass about the CDC/Fauci/WHO/insertfavoriteclownhere BS anymore. Then they are done. It will crumble quickly.

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You're in Utah!? Let me buy you a drink (or bowl of milk?). Utahns are an eclectic bunch. They are a mix of followers (large LDS contingent) who like to be obedient, and freedom lovers (also large LDS contingent who have always thought of themselves as very patriotic). Salt Lake City is similar to other metro areas. Park City is just filled with CA immigrants or CA wannabees. Utah political leaders have that inferiority complex of many in flyover country. Our current Gov Cox is so proud of his appearances on CNN and MSNBC (he thinks people still watch those stations), thinking it gives him national prominence. Having said all that, most of us really just want to be left to ourselves. We love our families. We do love our country (lots of conservative Mormons fervently pray for The Lord's blessings on President Biden, b/c he's the President of the United States) AND (not but) we're skeptical of DC-based authorities and other "experts" (LDS leaders have long warned against sophistry and intellectualism). Everywhere I've gone all summer (except some hardcore liberal subdomains in SLC like Sugar House) people are living full-on pre-COVID freedom, fun, and happiness. I think the Garth Brooks concert at the U of U had like 50,000 people there with not a mask to be seen.

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Schrödinger’s cat solving the paradox by simply keeping out of the box.

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Here on Long Island, there's some resistance, but mainly limited to masks in schools. The majority of people at the grocery were masked despite the sun and humidity. Meanwhile hospitals are hovering around 50-65% utilization, and I have not yet seen any concern over low utilization and budget crunches since this goes against the narrative. Along that line, this will likely cause more health care avoidance, skipping routine checkups and screenings, all to preserve the hysteria. However, it's good to hear the rest of the country moved on, so we might have to move on from NY, especially if the schools stay nutty and my work remains remote.

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I'm in Utah county and this is spot on. Just don't watch the news, top 2 stories on FB from local stations today was the surge in the delta variant, case counts rising and hospitals filling up. They just can't let it go.

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Writing here from lockdown-loving San Francisco, where most of the bars, on their own, just started the vaxxport last night. I've been to FL, AL, MS, LA, KY, and Ohio (where I just attended a 500-person mask-less funeral) over the last few months, and pretty much all of those places were in a normal life mode (outside of some restaurants requiring their servers to wear masks.). People, in general, just didn't talk much about the madness. It was so refreshing. And then I have to come back here. But, even here, our legions are growing, so we'll see what happens next.

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You're just a Puerto Rican Pollyanna!

I've just coughed three times in the last 15 minutes. Sure, you'd probably say it's just the Carolina Reaper sauce I had on my lunch -- but it's a cough, I tell you! It's Covid! I'M GONNA DIE!!!

And it's all your fault.

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Here is SF it's scary. They keep wanting to put more restrictions to get people to vax.

I have had it with this town. Evil politicians. I want to move but CA is awful everywhere and I don't trust Newsom.

Any other suggestions about places where you can avoid this stuff just to get away. Sounds like Utah may get mask mandates soon.

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