My family is getting better slowly but surely, but still testing positive so I can't see them or help them, unfortunately. No one was hospitalized but my mom got a secondary sinus infection (which she has always had a weakness for) so she's on antibiotics too. Still, improvement and treatment is where thy are right now.

My aunt called to check on me yesterday, but inevitably most of my conversations with her eventually spiral back to Fox News talking points, and then she tries to tell me I started it. No, I responded with empathy to the fact that you said something horribly racist and I won't agree with it. "The turbanheads streaming across the border" will never be a part of my vocabulary for so many reasons, and I countered with would you say the same if it was people with yarmulkes?

She deflected with "Well, when we immigrated it was Polish, Irish, and Italians" and I said yes, but the Anglo-Americans still hated us back then. Isn't it better to break the hate chain rather than committing the same sins? I don't know how she can't see that this is the same stupid argument again and again, and that hating people is not going to solve anything. It's not about race, or religion. It's about seeing each individual as someone wanting a better life. If they commit a crime, as Fox News cherry-picks and focuses on, put them on trial and jail them if that is the verdict. But that applies across everyone, regardless of where they came from.

I don't know how else to work with her. I love her, but I do not love or agree with her views. Unless she learns to see people as just people doing the best they can, I don't think I ever will. And I will miss the woman I know she could be.