That said, the various forms of Covid-denial run wide and deep: a sister in Florida believes that 'masks don't work' and is convinced that her husband picked up a mild case while visiting a friend in a cancer ward where everyone was masked, and not in one of the many places they go unmasked--at least they are both vaccinated. And my husband's nephew in Scotland, who has insisted that there's no such thing as Covid, just an effect caused by G5 cell phone transmissions, is in a high dependency ward. No vaccination, no masking or distancing in his family, who are all ill as well. His response to a get-well message was 'there's no such thing as Covid' and he only agreed to be tested after being hospitalised. It's not the only conspiracy theory he subscribes to.

So it's possible that a personality trait is involved in at least some cases, but I still can't help but suspect that ensuring 'Biden's failure' is involved for the politicians with presidential ambitions.

How can folks who claim that the government is too big and constantly whine at how horrible regulations are for businesses to make money also think that unions are not needed as we have enough laws that protect workers just fine? Democrats definitely have an opening to reach out to conservative union members, I just hope they do it quickly before Republicans realize that with all of the voters they are killing off with opposing vaccines and masks, they cannot afford to lose too many union members to the Democrats.

thank you, have a sweet year. i sometimes wonder how frequently jewish holidays fall on secular ones. someone on the internet must know.

Who is the Democrat who is most vociferous in supporting unions?

Three guesses and the first two don't count. Ahem.

:-)