A Lost Small Town

 I live in a picture-perfect region - the Hudson Valley, memorialized by painters and poets; a patchwork of autumn reds and yellows, majestic hillsides, storied waterfalls, and little homesteads, dotted picturesquely on the slopes of sleepy hamlets

I forgive the businesses that treated me like a criminal

• Millerton movie theatre: posted a sign in 2021 saying that only vaccinated people could enter.
• The young ticket taker told me that I had to go back outside, onto the sidewalk, and I could not even stand in the lobby.
• The Millerton flower shop employee demanded, "Are you vaccinated?" when I walked in - when I just wanted some nice-looking flowers.
• These store owners stripped me of a great benefit of a free society - the great gift of liberty, of America - that right to be dreamy, to have some privacy, and to be preoccupied with one's own thoughts

Forgive them.

• The unmasked and unvaccinated are eternally accused of having made scenes, but the scenes were made, really, by the actions of those coercing and conforming.
• All those people - now that athletes are dropping dead, now that their own loved ones are sickening and hospitalized, are they - sorry? Are they reflecting upon themselves, on their actions and on their consciences?
• Are they ashamed of what they have done to others?

Two and a half years of brutal, ignorant ostracism.

• It is hard to forgive the high school in Chatham, that forced a teenager to be vaccinated against her wishes, in order to play basketball, and thus hope for a college scholarship, or the mayor of New York City, who drove the brave First Responders who did not wish to submit to a dangerous experiment, to have no income with which to feed their families.
• Forgive the Ivy League universities, who took the money and forced all the members of their communities to submitt to injection with a deadly or dangerous experimental injection - one that will damage the fertility of who knows how many young men and women, and possibly even kill a number of community members.
• Forgiveness is almost impossible.

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