Holy shitballs. Life has been getting back to normal in small-town Northeast Texas. It's getting to the point where I even forget that COVID is a thing, until I accidentally stumble onto some sort of comments section online where people from other states are in full-on panic mode, calling everyone who refuses compliance a murderer. Part of me is extremely grateful to live in an area where people hold some sort of common values. I want to just pretend that the other places don't exist anymore, but then I remember that we have to make sure they don't migrate here and turn Texas into shithole California. The COVID hysteria is worse right now than it was in 2020, I think... because some people have accepted it as a permanent thing, and I'll be damned if I'm going to.