Yeah, I still have alot of family that still live there or more like stuck there. Both of my parents lived and met there so NY is the reason why I'm even alive lol. But since I left the country, I've lost touch with pretty much everyone there. I came back to the states to buy a car and then take a take a roadtrip to go see them. Unfortunately, everything about that trip, all my plans went to shit and I got "sick" for the first time since I last lived in NY...long story. I was able to at least get to facetime some of them but it was also what I feared given my research and knowing about the CCP-style covid response there; unwell, fatigued, noticeable weight-gain, probably Vxed.

Oh and I gotta give a +1 for Michael Kreiger, I used to read his liberty blitkrieg blog way back in like 2012-18 and had his twitter bookmarked when I dropped twitter for good. I've always enjoyed reading his insights and what he had to write/tweet.