Bereavement

Pancreatic cancer took my sister in law at 49 and my grandfather at 64, but not during the pandemic. My grandmother passed at the beginning of it from heart failure and I was so angry at those who thought they should just walk in maskless to visit her and all of us providing her hospice care as if it was no big deal. If any of us became ill, she would have had to go to the hospital and no one could see her there.

Again, I'm so sorry you have had to deal with so much.

I share your sentiments about anti-maskers, anti-vaxers, and anti-science people. I am to the point that I don't even want to be around people because of the discourtesy to those who are ill. People are showing themselves for who they are and I want none of it. This includes my 81yo mom who was so happy the local medical center went mask-free last month. I asked her where the cancer patients and other compromised people were supposed to go for health care. She said they can wear a mask. I don't think I made a dent when I told her that what she said was only a 50% solution, that people are not safe if no one else is masking.

I am just done with the selfishness.

I am building a local ag business and am trying to decide if I want to let the general public on my farm to harvest for themselves or if I should just plan to go to farmers markets. At least with the latter, I only have to deal with the worst among them once or twice a week for a few hours. But it means more work for me.