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I received a message from a friend who lives in Linn County. She told me that she had been asked if she had gotten COVID “yet.” She said the question sounded more or less as if getting COVID is some sort of badge of honor.

Her questioner said that she had gotten it and had gotten over it. She wanted to tell her questioner, “Thanks a lot, @#$%&!” And also, that when her questioner said that she had gotten over it, “Well, that’s all that counts to the ‘Me’ generation.”

My friend was hurt and her lung collapsed. The doctors told her that she will always need to bewar...