We must each ask ourselves how much of this resentment we feel is based on the vax no vax question, and how much on some real or perceived and yet unavenged slight we received at some dinner party five years ago. When the ‘center does not hold’ and violence begins in revolution or civil war, the first deaths are always steeped in personal grudge, jealousy, revenge etc.

This situation has given me a great opportunity to reevaluate all my “friends”. If they didn’t act like friends when I needed them they simply got marked way down without my having to say a word. They are just kept at a distance now and I have found others to replace them. The revenge is this, if you need that: all their lives they will have to be themselves. What worse could you wish on them?