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Screw merchants have their finger on the pulse of the common Man (add your preferred pronoun here).

This country needs a brain trust of real world folks to consult Glitchy til we can run him and his ilk out of office! 😏

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Ok this might get long, but I just don’t have another safe place to get it off my chest without being attacked by butt-hurt , science denying, fear-relishing asshats, one in particular who is a long time personal friend.

I talked to this friend last night for the first time since May. This is a person who was sobbing in fear when she had to return to work last year. She’s absolutely convinced she’s going to die if she gets Covid, yet she has no early treatment plan. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I stopped talking to her in May, because she asked me what I thought about the election and I told her Biden is the President, but I have questions about how the election was conducted.

Please do not use facts on these people. Lol

She got really made even though she talks about ghosts and aliens all the time.

Anyway, she called me and I returned the call. After talking about her cat for twenty minutes we drifted into omicron. It was ridiculous how terrified she still is. Because I hate to see people living in fear, I pointed out some very reassuring facts about the mutations. She seems to think because it’s more contagious, it’s more dangerous and turning into a vaccine resistant super bug, no Jan, it’s turning into a cold, a fucking cold. 🤦🏻‍♀️

There are therapeutics now. I’m convinced people dying now are dying either with Covid, but not FROM Covid, OOOORRRRRRR, they are uninformed about treatment options.

And why aren’t our health overlords urging us to maintain a healthy weight as a preventative against negative outcomes? We could have improved our collective health with this alone.

I was always found it astonishing whenever they make a big deal out of a younger person dying, they put up a photo saying the person had no pre-existing condition, but you can clearly see in the photo they were fat as fuck. This is probably the number one risk factor for all age groups.

(Although Chris Christie’s survival gives even us fat-asses hope, yet he came out pushing masks, not diets)

Then we drifted into climate change (80s this weekend in Texas) and I had to get off the phone before I beat my head into a wall.

This person used to identify as a republican, her hatred of Trump, and pandemic fears turned her into a lunatic. 😂

I give up. Enjoy your fear driven life!

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I have a friend who is very similar to yours. I feel your pain. Sigh

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Yes! It ain't rocket surgery.

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Yep.

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Amen!

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