Recently a group of people met to plan an annual event that benefitted the community. Ten people gathered at a church hall wearing masks and social distancing. They were interrupted by the arrival of the police. Someone had snitched about people gathering. The lead officer said that since the group was following the mask and distancing requirements, there was no need to go further. The police were friendly, but the group worried about who saw the cars and who was watching – someone eager to spy on their neighbors.

In another incident, a home health worker felt that she was being followed by the police when she left a client's house. She knew that the woman across from her patient's house was a progressive Democrat. Later she told a friend about the incident who said she was paranoid. Later that day she was at another client's house and followed home. Her husband asked her why an officer was taking down her license plate. He thought she'd run a stoplight.

The police are ticketing people who don't wear masks. In a two-week period, 14 citations were given out.

Our progressive Democratic county commissioner, Alicia Edwards, admonishes in a commercial during the Rush Limbaugh show to wear masks. Another bureaucrat warns that bandanas and the little blue masks don't work and that we should wear at least double-ply masks. Ironic since multiple times on this show, there's information that cloth masks don't work because the virus is so tiny.

My boomer-age husband refuses to wear a mask when he goes to Wal-Mart, but he does wear a Trump hat. With the newest lockdown, he had to wait 20 minutes to get into the store. A couple the same age wearing Biden/Harris masks stood behind him in line. When they were all allowed to enter the store, the man from twenty feet away yelled, "Put on Your mask." The man probably thought that employees would rush to throw my husband out. That didn't happen. Instead my husband yelled back an anatomically impossible action. The man responded in kind and they walked away from each other.

Often liberal women sporting the Food Co-op look accost my husband about wearing a mask. He tells them it's nonsense and to mind their own business. He also puts bug spray in his cart in case anyone tries to attack him.

Some Democrats continue to be decent human beings by inviting their Conservative friends to Thanksgiving Dinner.

A Fed Up Grant County Republican Woman
I'm not using my name because the last time I spoke out against the lockdown of the town, a named liberal said I was a political extremist and should be fired. (Fortunately, I was a volunteer.)

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