this tale of two cities, the va nated and the vaccuous. this deep denial is making us sick again. that is the fact. okay? now we have our fate for the future. the story of our collective fate for the fall is being written right now. the city of st. louis has just reinstated its mask mandate for indoor public places. i don't like that. i don't want to go back to wearing a mask. i never saw it as just like, ah, no big deal. it is a big deal. not as big a deal as being sick. but why? hospitalizations are rising so fast they can't handle the capacity. and they won't be the last. as long as so many stay unvaccinated. missouri's attorney general has filed suit in an attempt to stop the st. louis mandate, calling it continued government overreach. this is a farce. spend the time helping people understand that there is no patriotism in enabling a pandemic. this cannot be about feeling. it has to be about fact. there is nothing patriotic about exercising the freedom to ignore reality. if it makes you sick, if it makes people you care about sick, we're at 50,000 cases a day again, more than