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We have settled into our camps: The vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
The vaccinated are likely still wearing masks when required and enjoying the freedom of the breeze when they aren’t, though they still give that coughing person a suspicious eye. This group is simple.
The unvaccinated camp is…not. One subset simply can’t get vaccinated, due to either a lack of available vaccines or pre-existing conditions that make the vaccine too risky (even though it is proven safe and effective for most people).
Another subset still follows most of the rules. They mask up when asked. They shrug off notices from the school that their children will be required to wear masks on campus. They wag their head with indecision at the most heated of vaccine v. non-vaccine arguments. Their laissez-faire approach to COVID probably sounds like understandable skepticism about the vaccine, its side effects, and the authorities that can demand it be administered.
And then, there is the most extreme of the unvaccinated, the anti-vaccine crowd that posts memes mocking government institutions and science, shares unresearched conspiracy-fueled home remedies, and perhaps even dares Mr. Coronavirus himself to show his wicked…