“Good to see ya, Joe! How’s the ol’ self-righteous gullibility been treating ya?”
“Man, Bill, it’s been acting up. This morning I had a flareup of ‘poor people are just lazy'”.
“Jeez, Joe, we’re in the same boat. Yesterday I had an attack of ‘if those people just obeyed the law, they’d have nothing to worry about’. Lasted twenty minutes. It was hell!”
“I hear ya, Bill. I really thought I was done with the ‘abortion mothers should stop being tramps”, but I caught a headline and – wham! For an hour, I had it worse than ever.”
“Criminy. You know, the last time I went to the gym, I came home with a nasty case of ‘the unemployed don’t want to work’.”
“I heard that’s going around.”
“I tried to avoid it, you know, but it lingers in the air.”
“Well, Joe, I gotta say, my neighbor’s been suffering from ‘those environmentalists just want to destroy the economy’, and I totally caught it from him.”
“Yeah, that stuff’s contagious. You gotta be careful!”
“And you know I’m not looking for pity – but since our family Thanksgiving, my wife’s got the Q-anon.”
“Mercy! Did you take precautions?”
“The neighbors weren’t showing symptoms, so I thought we’d be safe just eating in the backyard. Now we’re thinking their son brought it home from his job.”
“How are your kids? Are they doing okay?”
“Well, you know, last semester the two of them had a bad case of ‘there’s no difference between the two parties’. There really isn’t much we can do.”
“I guess if one gets it, it’s only a matter of time ’til the other one has it too.”
“Usually the older one shows symptoms first. But last summer the younger one brought home that ‘we have to let things get worse to trigger the needed revolution’ bug.”
“Do you know where they got it?”
“Equestrian camp.”
“Wow. You really can’t be too careful these days!”