This is why we’re still here.

Fuck this ‘demic, and fuck you for going unvaccinated.

Blair said, “There’s people that will tell you on their deathbed, with their dying words, that covid’s not real, that this is all a conspiracy theory, this is a money-making scam. We really, truly do exhaust everything that we have in us to keep these patients alive. You already feel defeated, because most patients don’t make it. You feel a different kind of defeat, because you’re doing everything in your power to keep somebody alive, and they don’t believe in what you’re doing.”

The Struggle to Vaccinate Springfield, Missouri: COVID cases continue to rise, but many residents remain reluctant to get the vaccine., By Peter Slevin via The New Yorker.