Well….we’ll see what this judge does come Oct. 25.

But! As I try to explain in this essay, the rock-solid, bottom line “reason” most white people who buy into this nonsense is simply a matter of maintaining and expressing power over those they deem to be “less than.” Don’t you think that if Trump had come out swinging against Covid from the get-go, if he had urged his acolytes to get vaccinated rather than indulge in snake-oil cures and “Democrat” (read black-brown conspiracy theories), they would have flocked to testing and vax sites, and at least 400,000 people would still be alive?