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I’m glad I’m not the only one angry about the current situation in the U.S., especially in MO, AR, TX, and other states with high Delta. As I said, I’m also scared that the unvaccinated will cause all our efforts to get vaccinated will be all for not. A few weeks ago, my husband and I went down to Southern MO to see my mother, who I had not seen in two years thanks to the virus and we went to the wrong building, but didn’t realize it yet. We open the door and they said, “We need to ask you to stay outside, because we have COVID in here. Someone will be out to talk to you.” We jumped back quickly and I was on the verge of tears, thinking I’d not get to see my mother, despite being fully vaccinated. Fortunately, it was the wrong the building and the building she is in was at that time safe from COVID-19 (I think it still is, although my mother said something about someone have the plague over the phone last we spoke). The Delta variant came close to causing us (and maybe others) having a wasted trip and all because people refuse to get vaccinated and are infecting some elderly people, who aren’t vaccinated. Luckily, my mother is, but for how long thanks to those who refuse the vaccine?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/31/vaccinated-angry-at-unvaccinated/

Specifically, she’s furious at those eligible to get vaccinated who refuse, citing misinformation or a desire to make a political statement. Graves, who lives in New York City, said she’s more understanding of those who worry the vaccines were rushed to market or people of color whose communities have been historically mistreated by medical professionals. But Graves said she worries about getting long-term symptoms if she contracts a rare breakthrough infection of covid-19.

An unwelcome resurgence of the coronavirus has caused a groundswell of impatience, frustration and even rage from Americans who got their shots months ago toward those whose resistance won’t budge. States are reimplementing mask requirements, corporations are delaying their returns to the office and support is building for more coercive ways to tamp down the virus’s spread, including vaccine mandates.

Watching it all, the vaccinated are emphasizing that it didn’t have to be this way.