Thanks, Rosy. I'm happy for you guys! My parents were just vaccinated as well and are very happy.

Life is full of concessions we have to make to continue on together. I think our US tax code is a joke only the wealthy get to laugh at but I do my part.

I think one interesting aspect I didn't explore in the piece is my wife is a brilliant, highly educated woman, but these kind of conspiracies resonate deep in primal parts of our brains. I think the prospect of our going to Egypt, without her parents, will motivate her get her shot, reluctantly.