It goes against my conscience and my belief system, but I've had enough. At this point, if my brother-in-law and his wife, or my cousin and aunt, or my brother's fiancee's family members, get it (all unvaccinated), I doubt that I will get overly emotional about it. I've watched them drift off to a parallel intellectual universe for several years now. Even before I'd ever heard of this virus, I was braced for impact. In the cases of the ones I'm closest with, I suspect what I'm subconsciously doing is starting the grieving process now so any deaths don't crush me all at once.

People have taken leave of good sense and they aren't coming back. I don't want them to suffer, but if they still won't get it after the numbers coming out over the last few weeks, how can they be regarded as anything other than unsaveable? Like the Confederates, they'd rather lose the fight than admit to a mistake.