Monsters

My sister and I had a very distressing phone call with our step-parents today. They are having a big family gathering soon with people from all over the country (and Bermuda) getting together at their house. All of them, including my step-parents, are unvaccinated. They were really upset when we declined to come to the indoor maskless gathering because they all were not vaccinated.

My step-parents are in their 80s, each with a pile of co-morbidities. They said their doctor told them that if they got vaccinated, it would bring back past cancer. They said that they didn't believe that more than a thousand people were really dying of covid every day .... that's just a lie. They said that if it was their time to die, then that was ok with them.

We tried to inject some facts into the conversation but that just made them angry. They seem to believe that we don't really care about them because we don't want to expose ourselves or them to covid.

If they die of covid, it will be Trump and Fox news and Republican politicians who murdered them, murdered them with their cynical self-serving lies.