When your employer cuts your pay 30% and informs you that half your peers are being furloughed, when the restaurant on the corner shutters forever, when your neighbor's body is found after a week, when you're told you have permanent pulmonary fibrosis, remember... 1/2
...all this was avoidable. The whole thing was unnecessary. Even the states that shut everything "early" were three weeks late. Even the places "ramping up testing fast" pissed eight golden weeks down the drain. Nature provided the virus, your "leaders" provided the idiocy. 2/2
Oh, what the hell. A few more points. Your manager who wouldn't approve WFH until the last moment? They endangered people's lives. That politician saying "please keep going to the bars"? Pretty close to manslaughter, that. Depraved indifference to human life and all that. 3/
When someone says "I knew it all along" but they were tweeting about how you should support your local pubs and not give in to fear a month ago, maybe you should, I dunno, remember that they had piss poor judgement? 4/
That neighbor who is still posting about how thousands die of the flu and we need to reopen everything immediately? Will you remember that in six months? Because you should. Remember that politician's words in November as well. 5/
And if you still think this is all just a stupid overreaction, what would it have taken for you to take this seriously? Watching your own children die? Maybe nothing at all would be sufficient? It's hard to say, but it looks pretty bad for you, too. 6/6
