I know this is probably a common occurrence for most of you, but we live in a very small town that has literally had 2 COVID cases (within one family) this entire time - and while some people are getting the jab, and lots of people mask up because the stores have made it mandatory, we just don’t see the same level of paranoia here that my family in California sees. A childhood friend emailed me today to wish us a Merry Christmas. We email several times during the year, and they were among the first to get jabbed back when the jab first came out. Her whole email was about their Christmas gatherings where she specifically mentioned who attendeed and was vaxxed and boosted, and yet they spent 5 hours on Christmas Eve traveling back and forth to a testing site so they could be sure they didn’t have COVID before attending a family gathering that consisted of their immediate family bubble WHO ARE ALL VAXXED! I cannot wrap my head around this mentality! Now that we have TV again (after 3 years without) I see what the MSM does - they keep COVID front and center with every newscast - opening with it and going back every 2nd or 3rd story throughout the entire broadcast. But my 97 yr old Mom watches the MSM news in liberal California twice a day and doesn’t buy into any of this! Neither do my sons, my granddaughter’s mother, or my siblings! How is it we are apparently immune to the propaganda but people I grew up with and have known for 60 years are completely brainwashed? It makes no sense to me that educated people believe COVID won’t get you if you take off your mask in a restaurant because it only exists 3’ above the floor - but if you stand up, you have to mask up. And if you go ride your bike down a deserted street, you must wear a mask because COVID will jump out from behind a bush and get you.
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I'm in a big city in Canada, and from what I hear it's the rural population who've been least affected who are still freaking out the most over this. My wife's had family members drop travel plans, refuse visits, etc..because of case numbers, etc. and here we are all case positive carrying on with Christmas because why the fuck not lol
My parents are in a different country, retired very rural, barely see anyone and my mom is a retired nurse so she's freaking out and won't get the message that it's just the common cold.
You’re right. We’re in a rural Canada area - a small summer tourist town. Our pop goes from 3,000 in winter to 40,000 in summer with “cottagers” coming to their summer properties from out of Province every spring. We’ve literally had COVID affect only 2 people, in one family last Christmas, since this started and that’s it, but ppl are freaking out - especially when the “cottagers” come. Some out of Province vehicles have been keyed or tires slashed, and people yell at them to go back home - even when their spending over the summer is crucial to the economy. It’s been nuts. We just keep to ourselves and haven’t been sick once since Christmas 2019, when I think our whole family had it before anybody knew it was here.