Her vaccinated caregiver tested positive two and a half weeks ago. The only reason she tested is because my Mom was supposed to go to a church thing. So, my Mom and her caregiver didn't go.
Enter the COVID Christmas hysteria.
One of my siblings then decided that my mother, who had a runny nose, had to get tested. She tested positive. Then said sibling decided not only that my mom couldn't go to the extended family Christmas even "five days after she was asymptomatic wearing a mask" which is apparently the new bullshit rule. AND, that no one should have direct contact with her. AND, that anyone that did have direct contact with shouldn't go to extended family Christmas either, even if they tested negative. So I was banished, and adult children that flew into to town for Christmas were banished. Not because they were with my Mom. Because they were with me, who was with my mom, who was barely sick, and clearly not sick enough to get me sick.
It was awful and I don't think the rift will be healed anytime soon. I became persona non grata because I decided to take my chances so as not to isolate a little old lady at Christmas. The irony? I (unvaccinated) took some MMS and didn't get sick notwithstanding that I have been with my mom every day since. Prolly because unvaccinated people exposed to a real virus then thave broad based immunity - something everyone in the world used to know.
So, my unvaccinated mom was less sick than the vaccinated and boosted caregiver that got her sick in the first place, and I wasn't sick at all. Yet we are the problem. The good news is my elderly mom will probably never get it again. The bad news is she was heartbroken at Christmas, and she probably does not have a lot of Christmas's left.
The problem is once these tyrants expose themselves, how can you ever trust them again?
We see this a lot. People who went full nazi during covid, backpedaling and asking for forgiveness.
Tests of humanity and courage are not announced. They just happen. These people failed that test. There is no do over. When times were tough, and the authorities exerted their pressure, people failed that test. They turned on their own family and community, and they did it from a position of moral high ground. That is the greatest insult.
Covid was the great exposer. It allowed those people around us harboring inner evil and cowardice to step out into the open. Now we know who these people really are. And we know they cannot ever be trusted again.
It's the stuff you wish you didn't know. But there it is. No un-ringing the bell.