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I was going to write a post on thriving in the Woke World but I went back and saw that I\u2019ve written that post<\/a> at least once before.\u00a0 Instead I decided to look and see what was going on around me.<\/p>\n

I woke up this morning and felt like I always do on the day after Thanksgiving.\u00a0 I felt like I ate way too much rich food.\u00a0 So, I had a cup of coffee and a bagel and looked over the news.\u00a0 I saw all the stuff I saw yesterday.\u00a0 Election legal challenges and noise about Biden\u2019s picks for a cabinet, COVID studies and vaccine speculation, big tech censoring and conservatives complaining.\u00a0 All the same old stuff we\u2019ve been seeing forever.\u00a0 Nothing I felt like talking about there.<\/p>\n

Later on, as I felt a little less like a stuffed museum exhibit, I asked Camera Girl if she wanted to go for a walk in the local state park.\u00a0 It\u2019s about a mile or two down the road and has a paved road that penetrates into the forest to allow fisherman to access the lakes inside the park.\u00a0 There are streams and forested hills and scenic stuff as far as the eye can see.\u00a0 There is also a half dozen picnic grounds and parking areas.\u00a0 We like going there because even when there is ice on the wooded paths the blacktop thaws quickly and gives us a good walking path until winter is completely in control of the weather.<\/p>\n

So anyway, she agreed and we parked and started walking.\u00a0 With my usual confidence I announced to her that it was so quiet because nobody was up and around after Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Two minutes later we passed the first parking lot and there were at least fifteen cars and I could see someone cooking on a charcoal grill.\u00a0 Ah, my psychic powers.<\/p>\n

As we walked along, we could see that the place was pretty crowded.\u00a0 Eventually we started passing people walking in the other direction.\u00a0 Couples, people walking with dogs, families with kids, families with three generations, you name it.\u00a0 And as we got within talking distance we\u2019d smile, wave, say hi.\u00a0 After about a dozen such interactions we looked at each other and read each other\u2019s minds.\u00a0 What struck both of us was that people without masks were friendly and greeted us with a smile and the people wearing masks were surly and unfriendly.\u00a0 For clarification neither of us were wearing masks but we never got within the COVID magic six-foot circle of death of the other walkers.<\/p>\n

And when we looked at the people who were barbecuing none of them were wearing masks and they seemed to be having a good time.\u00a0 After that I made sure that whenever I passed the masked marauders, I was especially cheerful and demonstrative.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it annoyed them terribly.<\/p>\n

By the time we got back to our car I felt a whole lot better about the day.\u00a0 There are plenty of people around who are just tolerating this COVID nonsense without drinking the Kool-Aid.\u00a0 And they are attempting to enjoy their lives despite it.\u00a0 And the true-believers looked pretty damn miserable from where I was standing.\u00a0 Maybe this whole COVID cult is its own punishment.\u00a0 But maybe it\u2019s just an act and they are really just signaling their virtue in case someone from the security apparatus is filming them for the quarterly report.\u00a0 Either way I can see that it will be pretty easy in this Brave New World to find the good people.\u00a0 They\u2019ll be the ones who look like they\u2019re actually happy to be alive.\u00a0 By this you will know them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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