I had my annual appointment with my primary cardiologist today. No news except to carry on suffering. I have lost weight and don't need a CPAP so that's cool. In the waiting room there was a woman sobbing openly into her phone while her adult child she was there to support stared blankly into space, numb. I could not help but overhear that their insurance was gone, overnight. I couldn't parse if it was through the military, or a Medicare/Medicaid issue. I don't have any shred of patience tolerance or kindness left in me. I don't have the ability to tolerate the calls from pundits like Ezra Klein to find some way to cooexist peacefully with people who would see me, those I love, sick children dead from poverty and despair. A guy I went to Bible study with in college runs a network of churches here in metro Detroit and he is venerating charlie Kirk as a modern day king David, and compared his podcasting to the Psalms. What common ground is there to be made with someone like that?