It boggles the mind, it really does. I'm friends with an older couple whose family is in Wisconsin and rarely vaccinated. We've listened to the turmoil of her BIL on a ventilator for more than 6 weeks, then his son got ill as well. They died 30 days apart, and I've listened politely to what an awful fate it was for her sister, losing a son and husband that way.

To make it worse, the husband was a week away from getting the mandatory vaccine from his employer when he fell ill. I feel badly for my friends, losing family this way, but I can't help but be frustrated by the stupidity of it all.

I'm sorry to hear of their losing a friend. As you say, it's especially tragic when a death was easily preventable. Even when we decry and despair over people exposing themselves to needless disease and death, it's hard not to feel for the surviving family & friends.

Well, in one case it isn't. I was told recently of a father/husband who died of covid, alone except for the nurse, while his family sat outside- because they refused to put on a mask in order to enter the hospital and visit the dying man. What. the. hell. people!

The wages of ignorance is death.
The wages of sin is a really good weekend.