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I have no close friends locally who are shrews. I am living a somewhat strange life…similar to Todd, in that everything seems “normal”….day to to day. All of my friends here are in the sheep category…I hate to label them in that way because they are similar to Todd’s people…they are educated, well spoken, aware of current events, etc. At the beginning of the “pandemic” I voiced my views and they considered these views as totally “wrong.” But they were respectful in disagreeing with me (unlike my former older and best friend of 50 years who no longer speaks to me).However, they never questioned why I had these certain views…what or who were my resources. So from that moment on…because I am not one of the most courageous of shrews, I never brought those subjects up again. If someone does say something blatantly untrue from all I have studied, I will counter with a remark. But strangely, as Todd has mentioned in previous articles, no one asks why did I say that particular thing. So I meander on…the folks I just mentioned are good friends…dependable friends. I know if I kept bringing up certain truths that perhaps they would no longer be friends. And they are all vaccinated so that limits me in what I might say now. Of course, I certainly do not feel as connected to them as years ago. I have my in-depth conversations with out of town shrew buddies.

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Well Todd, your wife and friends may be exceptionally bright but not exceptionally aware. As you know from your profession, conditioning is very hard to break through. What you describe is looking at life through rose coloured glasses. I have always been a positive person but it also needs to be balanced with reality. Some of these folks don't want to see reality nor do they believe it is reality. I have a friend and he says, "Well there is nothing I can do about it so I am just going to enjoy life as best I can for as long as I can". Is that denial or reality? Always depends how we look at it. If all hell breaks loose, I wonder what some of these rose coloured glasses wearers will do. The reality will crush them. Hang in there Todd, you have like-minded friends here.

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