We’re leaving Idaho because of Covid

 I'll elaborate. 

We will be leaving Idaho in the spring. As much as I'd love to run today...right now, the plan is spring. Once the weather starts to warm up. We're leaving because of covid.

We've been able to tolerate being here for a few years. It's never been great, but it's been easier in the past. Then covid happened. My neighbors, and fellow Idahoans are incapable of accepting how bad this is. Their disregard for the lives of their neighbors is honestly, fucking soul crushing. So much for pro life right? So much for #alllivesmatter right? Seeing our numbers rise and the countless protests has been one of the most anxiety inducing events I've lived through. 

I've reached the point of fucking hating everyone. I make bitchy comments to people standing too close to me in the grocery store. I scowl at everyone, especially if they aren't wearing a mask. I'm pretty sure I have 50% more grey hairs than I started 2020 with. I'm leaving because I don't think it's going to get better. Between the Trump cultists, the literal fucking nazis, and the covid deniers...I can't mentally keep living in Idaho. Some of my friends have said I should stay and fight...be part of the good, but I can't.

I've been screaming this since I was fifteen. I've been fucking begging people to do and be better for seventeen years of my life and I am so fucking tired of being shit on for it. They don't listen. They're never going to listen. 

In the spring we are selling our house. We are just leaving. Hitting the road to find somewhere better than this. We're not sure where it'll be, but it's not here. Idaho doesn't feel like home anymore and we want to find somewhere that does. 

I wish I could say this is all shocking, but it's not. Growing up in a small town in a red state...nothing is shocking. If you didn't think Idaho was bigoted and racist, you weren't paying attention. 

It feels like it's getting worse every day and I don't want to be here to see it crumble, to see more people die because these cousin fucking patriots keep storming the health departments. I don't want to hear another person tell me I should leave because Idaho isn't a place for liberals. 

So yeah, fuck it, they're right. Idaho isn't the place for us. We're leaving and we won't miss it.

Cheers.

-Chels, Brandon, Rooey