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During the pandemic, many Americans volunteer and self-sacrifice to help others. Others howl about their "rights" being taken away & claim a virulent virus that's killed 65,000 Americans so far is lib hysteria. This is a story about two of them. 1/
During the pandemic, many Americans volunteer and self-sacrifice to help others. Others howl about their "rights" being taken away & claim a virulent virus that's killed 65,000 Americans so far is lib hysteria. This is a story about two of them. 1/
Jamie Allman is a former TV reporter & right-wing radio host in St. Louis. He was fired by Hubbard Radio & Sinclair (!) TV in 2018 after posting on social media that he wanted to "stick a hot poker up the ass" of Parkland school massacre survivor David Hogg. 2/
Being too sleazy for Sinclair is quite an accomplishment. Allman got another radio gig in St. Louis. He's part of the Flu Klux Klan, claiming, like those w/the emotional development of a 5 yr old often do, that he has the right to spread the virus & do anything he wants. 3/
Last month, Allman filed an FOIA request w/StL County for the names of people who'd filed complaints about businesses & individuals endangering public safety & violating the county stay-at-home & social distancing guidelines. 4/
MO's Atty General, who's filed suit to overturn Obamacare &, in a pro-Trump political stunt, sued China over COVID-19, ruled that StL County had to release the names of people who complained, despite their wish to remain anonymous. Allman got the list & posted it online. 5/ 
They've now been harassed by the usual collection of Trumpistas. Allman smugly continues to simper it's his "right" to expose people worried about public health to targeted vitriol, because his entitlement means there's no common good, and no pandemic, just Deep State plots. 6/
Another St. Louisan, former MO state Dem Rep Stacy Newman, has also been busy. She's organized volunteers to hand-sew hundreds of face masks for health care workers. She also organized volunteer purchase & delivery of meals to front-line workers across the area. 7/
To some Americans, like Allman, shared sacrifice is for suckers. Like Trump, "what's in it for me" is all that counts. Oozing w/entitlement, they only see plots & conspiracies to take away their "right" to do whatever they want, whenever they want, w/no responsibilities. 8/
To others, like Newman, this country is a community of shared aspirations, responsibilities, & sometimes, sacrifices. We're all in this together, & have each others backs. It's a moral choice, forged in the heat of crisis. Which kind of American are you, am I, are any of us? 9/
