I guess I say nothing, because what's the point?

I miss the library.

Just before I stopped leaving the house altogether, I went for a walk and ran into an older neighbor who told me he is "not buying into all the bullshit." He stood too close and he exhaled his cigarette smoke and he sneered and told me he's just coming home from giving his friend a ride somewhere, that he's not changing anything just because of some virus. He's not the only person that I know who is angrily objecting to the one thing being asked of us: to use an abundance of caution right now, which means to isolate at home so that we can all band together and kill this terrible bug. 

I understand that the lockdown protestors, especially the ones suiting up to apparently shoot someone (?) are frustrated and terrified. But are they not seeing the same updates that I'm seeing? 

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"BOSTON (CBS) — There were 1,524 new coronavirus cases and 104 additional deaths reported Monday. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said there have now been 56,462 total cases with 3,003 total deaths in the state.

A total of 244,887 people have been tested in Massachusetts, with 8,787 new tests announced in the last 24 hours.

As of Monday, 3,892 people are currently hospitalized for a coronavirus-related illness, which represents seven percent of all current cases in Massachusetts.

Middlesex County has the most cases with 12,953, followed by Suffolk County with 11,883 cases and Essex County with 7,708.

Long-term care facilities in Massachusetts have been significantly impacted by the coronavirus. A total of 10,635 residents and staff have tested positive. As of Monday, 1,698 residents in those facilities have died from the virus.

There are 8,455 cases among people under 30 years old, 25,937 cases are among people ages 30-59, 7,709 cases between people aged 60-69, and 14,071 cases in people over 70."

Two days ago my friend David posted a Facebook rant about the "bullshit" shelter-in-place advisory and he wrote "wake the fuck up" and called for revolt. Now there is a guy in my Twitter feed fighting everyone about masks, citing it's the mask that's causing him to not be able to breathe. He claimed to pass out while wearing one, and is declaring his liberties are under attack and he's going without food because he is "not allowed inside the grocery store." He also writes, "You are being lied to by media and have for for years. Patients are being treated wrong. There is a virus there always a viruses. It's how your immune systems works. Ventilators are killing people. Not the virus."

Get that? It's face masks and ventilators that actually killed fifty-thousand people, the virus is no problem whatsoever.

There's some incredibly dangerous, magical thinking out there. I don't even know what to say anymore. I guess I say nothing, because what's the point? ∎