Thread by @Loretta_Torrago

When @JuliaRaifman sent @drlucybmcbride this Tweet, McBride's response was: "Fear & shame aren't motivating."
Imagine the parents reading that their baby should be kept out of sight so that others might not be afraid.
This is the darkness of #UrgencyofNormal. 🧵

This is McBride's response in full. Notice McBride, after having shown no compassion for the passing of this little girl, no compassion for the grief of her parents, suggests, "Empathy & Compassion for all."
Who does she mean?
Notice McBride retweeted; to what end?

In the replies, McBride responds to the suggestion Rainfman's Tweet is "not offered in good faith." If you follow @JuliaRaifman you will know this is untrue. Yet McBride is quick to embrace the sentiment saying, "Exactly" adding that Raifman is "resorting" to bad tactics.

Ironically, McBride adds, she would not "motivate ppl to care abt mental health by sharing details abt suicide deaths."
McBride might not go into details but if you follow her, you'll know about suicides. If you aren't careful, you'll assume the suicides are due to restrictions.

After Raifman suggests restrictions stay in place longer to prevent another baby's death, McBride wants to know how many lives would be saved and how we'd explain the delay to depressed kids.
How quickly McBride has forgotten about the baby.
That picture is where I'd start.

All of this comes up in the context of McBride Tweeting about her son's disappointment that he can't have lunch in his college cafeteria. So when McBride asks about "college kids", it makes me wonder if what she's worried about are those kids who can't eat in the cafeteria.

Lucy McBride wants to talk cost-benefits. Fine. But I worry about having that discussion with someone who puts so little value on life, who won't discuss the children who die.
Why not? Their deaths are part of the cost.
As much part of the cost as closed cafeterias.

We should all have the composure of @JuliaRaifman. Noticing McBride is retweeting her unkindly, Raifman wishes her well.
I wish us all well and I wish us all better than what #UrgencyofNormal has to offer.
End.

@JuliaRaifman Naturally, I find too late a mistake and it's always in the first Tweet. I am referring, or course, to @drlucymcbride not @drlucybmcbride.