I don't know if enough anti vaxers will ever get the shots. While the vaccinations are not the cure all, you are probably not going to die and most people who are vaccinated and still contract covid are not getting deathly ill. But now I have a health issue so I do wear a mask when we go to hockey games here in Milwaukee. Up until now because I have a health issue I had not been wearing a mask at the baseball games. We have gone to baseball games and hockey games. We go to Minneapolis once am month or so to see my son and grandson. I can't say I have totally isolated myself. I am vaccinated and getting a booster shot today. The flu might go away, but the psychological damage it has done might take longer to go away. While I don't blame you for staying at home, this does not seem to be a good way to live. But eventually the Spanish flu did go away. I wonder if there were variants from the Spanish flu. But that's another somber reality, and it's best to limit ourselves to one loss at a time. It's not like they're going to be using those closets anymore. So for now, out of sight, out of mind, hidden in the boys' closets. No, that takes effort, physical and mental. The better to endure the passing years to come, though as I put them away, it occurred to me they'll be out of fashion by the time I finally put them on, assuming they're not out of fashion now. Better to pull them out, dust them off, tuck them in suit bags, and exile them into a closet in one of the boys' rooms. No need to keep the suit coats handy in my bedroom closet, with the flannel shirts and fleeces and stuff I actually wear. But December is half over, and nothing on the calendar. We'll both survive, if that is what this is, survival. I figure, if I haven't talked to you in a year, in a year and a half, during all this stuff, then I never have to talk to you again. I can think of a number of people I fancied friends, or close to it, whom I kept up with in the first six months of COVID and then just let go and watched them float away. You get out of the habit of human interaction. Toward what purpose? Not getting dressed up is only the surface of the social loss. I suppose I could have pushed myself, found other things to do, other parties to attend.