The dinner table is a place for socialization. This is where conversations take place, where people discuss all sorts of things (including subjects of political

The dinner table is a place for socialization. This is where conversations take place, where people discuss all sorts of things (including subjects of political relevance). Appealing to COVID to enforce silence especially in settings where a good portion of communication takes place is a great social harm. The isolation of the pandemic was bad enough in this regard. We've lost our minds where COVID is concerned. We've made rituals of real or imaginary effectiveness the highest standard of conduct. COVID is not synonymous with death, as if by voiding COVID you or others will avoid death. The extremist, fallacious, and obsessive thinking surrounding COVID very much qualifies as a phobia and one which leads to imprudent and irrational fears unmoored from the reality and risks of everyday life. You will die eventually. Everyone will. Get used to it. And it probably won't be because you got COVID.