I am totally with you, @gianmi. Looking to the Gato for reassurance, but I fear there is none. NOTHING is too absurd for people to swallow. My own mom (passive sheep) just said that maybe if 75-90% of the population gets immunized, we can take off our masks? And anecdotally, she's noticed most of our family has gotten the jab and hasn't had COVID?

Meanwhile, I'm fighting my ASS off in the bluest city in a super-blue state. I can't leave here for reasons I can't get into, so I stand my ground every day. I shriek at school committee meetings. I'm suing the dept. of ed. about masks. I write letters. I take off my mask in stores or else bedeck my chin with one that says GOVERNMENT MANDATED MUZZLE.

the gato says to keep going, take every inch you can, but it feels like screaming into the wind. I do wonder if it's completely hopeless to try to gain ground in blue zones, and whether we should just balkanize in the red zones.