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I was raised by a single mom. She's awesome. I miss her a ton. We were going to go into quarantine yesterday, going out only to get groceries via curbside pick-up, so we could visit her for Thanksgiving. But, no. (thread)
COVID-19 numbers are skyrocketing. It is, frankly, irresponsible for us to have even a small family get-together. Hospitals are swamped. Their staffs are exhausted. I can't risk contributing to that.
I also can't imagine how I would feel if we inadvertently introduced COVID into my mom's home. Actually, I can imagine it -- and it's f**king horrible, so I won't risk it. Or how she would feel if she inadvertently got one of us sick. She'd be inconsolable.
And all of this because: A) our government has failed to provide the social and financial support necessary to realistically allow many workers to stay home. This is a crisis of Great Depression proportions, folks. We need programs of New Deal proportions.
And...
And...
B) People still refuse to take COVID-19 seriously, pointing to its rate of mortality. They don't think about the massive medical debt; the short-term misery; the known long-term health consequences; the unknown long-term health consequences. They just don't want to wear masks.
Folks are dying because people are arguing that social responsibility is somehow bad. Being entirely self-centered and refusing to consider the well-being of others is equated with "liberty."
But let's be crystal clear about something...
But let's be crystal clear about something...
...all of those folks who refuse to wear a mask? This is their fault.
Folks who mock social distancing? This is their fault.
Folks who protested when their gyms were closed? This is their fault.
Folks who mock social distancing? This is their fault.
Folks who protested when their gyms were closed? This is their fault.
Politicians who urged "open up," even as public health experts said "DO NOT OPEN UP"? This is their fault.
Politicians who refused to put programs in place to support low-wage workers, forcing them back to work? This is their fault.
Politicians who refused to put programs in place to support low-wage workers, forcing them back to work? This is their fault.
And guess what? Those politicians and business "leaders" are exemplars of being penny wise and pound foolish. Our economy is going to take far longer to bounce back, because our initial precautions were not even close to being adequate.
At any rate, I am so disheartened that selfish, short-sighted, impossibly stupid jerks have driven our country to new levels of pandemic catastrophe. Knowing it didn't (and doesn't) have to be like this is salt in the wound. And we all suffer for their sins.
Okay, that's the end of that rant.
I'm just so fed up. How many people have to suffer, have to die, have to rack up massive medical debt, just because some jerks refuse to take common-sense health precautions? Ugh.
I'm just so fed up. How many people have to suffer, have to die, have to rack up massive medical debt, just because some jerks refuse to take common-sense health precautions? Ugh.
