Instead of consistently whining and wringing our hands about the COVID mandates and vaccine passports, we should be coming together as communities and forming our own micro-societies/micro-economies (dare I say “autonomous zones”?) free from the tyranny of the system that we trying to bring down, while at the same time fighting to stay a part of. The answer is WALK ALWAY. LET IT GO. Let them have their tyranny. They can be masters of no one.

I struggle with staying positive and/or keeping the faith. Yes, very much seems all things COVID are distraction and meaningless. If there’s a silver-lining in ANY of this madness of the last year and a half, I sincerely pray we could take your suggestion here and return to a society in which, yes, communities are smaller, tight-knit and supportive on the local level. I sometimes think our lenses are opened too wide, we’re inviting worry and strife into our daily existence when it really isnt necessary.