Hindsight is 2020
L, Tugboat Operator, Smith Island, VA
What got me was, I didn’t like the government control. I didn’t like the way the government was trying to control me and the world, really. Because of this disease. I more or less based that disease and what was happening to my faith. I was acting on my faith. I wasn’t worried what was going on in the world, I was going on what God had planned. I caught it, I had COVID, the first strain of it. And I’m still here. I didn’t take any shots, I still haven’t taken any shots. That’s the way I felt about it. I just didn’t like the control, that they thought they could control me and tell me what to do, you know, if I didn’t want to do it. I’m not for that.
And also people were supposed to be staying home but we had more visitors that summer than we’ve ever had! I didn’t like that at all because they were bringing it and they were coming here like crazy. It was a safe place for them but they weren’t making it safe for us. They were off of work so what else were they going to do?