Hi @JuliaHB1, I have a short story for you which I hope will focus your mind and make you realise why the rhetoric that you constantly produce is so dangerous. This is a real-world, current example. Please this short thread and reflect

My aunt lives in France. She's missing a chunk of lung after having cancer a few years ago, which means she really mustn't get covid.

She lives with her college-age daughter, whose dad died a few years ago.

For Christmas, they had 2 people over. Completely within the rules.

One of the people who came over started to feel ill early this year, got a test and is positive. Confused where she picked it up from, she asked around, and her boyfriend - laughing - revealed that he knew he was positive shortly before Christmas. Why did he find it funny?

Well, "it's survival of the fittest, it's only the old and sick that get this bug seriously, what's the big deal"

This is your rhetoric. Whether you mean it like that or not, that's how it sounds, and that's what your supporters constantly say.

So what are the consequences?

Not only is my cancer-surviving aunt, in her 50s, terrified that she has it and is going to leave her daughter as an orphan, his (now-ex) girlfriend is a nurse, and the other person who was there at Christmas is a shopkeeper who has seen many customers since

he also helps his elderly neighbours out with all of their shopping and various household chores. He's seen them since Christmas too.

This "it's only the old and sick" man, who uses the exact same rhetoric you do, may well have caused an outbreak among several vulnerable people

They are all now waiting on tenterhooks to see if they develop symptoms. My aunt is having shortness of breath but we think that may be panic attacks and anxiety. At least we hope that's what it is.

@JuliaHB1, please think and reflect on what your rhetoric does to people.

This was just one man who has potentially infected a whole bunch of vulnerable people. Now consider the size of your platform, the number of followers you have on twitter, the number of listeners, and think just how many thousands of people *your* rhetoric has infected, @JuliaHB1

My aunt has tested positive. Now we wait.