“why are you here?” people ask me “At least there you can try to effect some change!  Here, we’re helpless.”  Helpless, my friends say, because we’re old and there are so many people with so many different opinions, one person’s ideas don’t matter.  Anyhow one scientist said to me, even science has become constricted and it has become goal-oriented in such a way that unknowns are discounted as insignificant (you know, like long-range vaccine effects) 

If I were in Israel, they say, I could be demonstrating and my voice would be counted….