Thread by @Shoq

A THREAD YOU MAY READ, but typically, most of you won’t do much more than “like it,” if you even do that much. But I’m going to say it anyway and hope I’m wrong. Because we’re running out of time. Quickly.

I am just so angry right now. Earlier, I drove by two … 1/25

parks. In each, were several groups of 10 or more children with city counselors playing games. Not one child or counselor was wearing a mask. So I pulled over, and said to one counselor, “Why aren’t you and those children wearing masks?”

She: “Sir, we are … 2/25

outdoors. We don’t need them. The virus can’t spread outdoors.”

Me: “That is absolutely incorrect. Who told you this?”

She: “No one told me, Sir. It’s common knowledge. I watch the news.”

And there we have it, folks. That is why hundreds of thousands of us are … 3/25

going to DIE. Because for all the god damn money we taxpayers pay for government to HELP us, they cannot even wage a simple public information campaign to educate us all in what we can all do to at least not help a virus to kill us, or our friends, loved ones, and … 4/25

fellow citizens. In this respect, all lives really DO matter.

This lack of informed action is NOT the park counselor’s fault. And it’s not the children’s fault. But it IS the fault of:
⏵Donald Trump
⏵The Republican Party
⏵50 state governors
⏵@SpeakerPelosi, … 5/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer
⏵@theDemocrats
⏵The press
⏵The rest of us who do little to demand that those above start leading.

Thee need is all around you. Go to your hospitals, as I have. Your ERs. Your doctor’s offices. You might see a CDC flyer on the wall, if you’re lucky. It … 6/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats won’t say much besides wear a mask and wash your hands. Turn on your TV and try to find any hard hitting PSAs scaring people into wearing masks, or doubling down on social distancing. Such campaigns do not exist. It’s just pathetic.

Just because Trump and the … 7/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats Federal government is AWOL on #covid19, is not a good reason to let everyone else off the hook for this failure to educate and sound alarms. @TheDemocrats (and their campaigns) have money, influence,and power. So do hundreds of left-leaning organizations. They … 8/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats could all be leading their own charge to educate all of us in how we save our nursing homes; our children; our first responders, and ourselves.

#Covid19 is a once in a lifetime crisis, and it’s going to make those lifetimes much shorter for many of us if the … 9/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats people who can make things happen do nothing but slam the @Potus every day for what he’s not doing. That’s a lovely hobby, and important for November, but saving hundreds of thousands of American lives would be pretty damn good for our political fortunes, too.

Yet … 10/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS it feels like almost no one but me and a smattering of pundits is ever asking, “WHERE IS THE ALARM? Where is the urgency? Where is the DATA? Where is the PUBLIC EDUCATION?

We have to stop pretending this a political issue. It’s a life and death issue for many of … 11/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS us, and our families. It is nothing less than a WAR, and the biological enemy is conspiring with the Republican enemy to decimate our way of life, while ignorant conservative fools pollute the narratives and shade anything that can help us just because it makes … 12/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS some liberal weep not to. Yes, they’d murder their own parents just to own another Lib. That’s how sick our culture has become. That’s what @FoxNews, @rushLimbaugh, and the family of @RupertMurdoch has done to us. They have destroyed our ability to govern, and … 13/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch right now, the act of governing, even if not actually the government doing the acting, may be the only thing that will save our way of life.

It is time to stop sitting on our asses watching our leaders NOT LEAD. They could be doing so much if we’d just start … 14/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch demanding they take the lead and stop hand-wringing about a broken Federal government that will never lead, because it cannot lead. It can only be shamed into taking more active measures. Measures they are simply not now taking. They need examples to follow, or … 15/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch actions to outdo (to “trump”, so to speak); they need models for action so the public can start expecting more of them, and they can expect more of themselves.

For example, @SpeakerPelosi or @Joebiden should be on a Jumbotron on the Washington mall, with #DrFauci … 16/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch @JoeBiden and other experts, broadcasting 2+ hours of facts, figures, education, and guidance each week (if not each day). Each show is designed in chunks meant to go viral, or be shown in pieces on the nightly news. Call it #VideoFreeAmerica.

Livestreams and viral videos … 17/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch @JoeBiden can penetrate the haze and reach the @foxnews and @WeAreSinclair viewers who haven’t seen a real COVID fact or statistic in their entire lives.

In addition, @TheDemocrats should be paying for Zoom educational seminars for town councils, public health officials and … 18/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch @JoeBiden @WeAreSinclair city workers, to make sure they are getting the latest science, advice, literature, and statistics on how to keep their communities safe. If we lack the spine to pass laws DEMANDING MASKS, the least we can do is educate people about why they are ESSENTIAL, thus … 19/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch @JoeBiden @WeAreSinclair making it easier to SHAME people who are not wearing them. (How many Americans know that masks helped New Zealand drop to ZERO new cases? Answer: almost none.)

There is MUCH THAT CAN BE DONE. But not if we expect the venal and corrupt Republican controlled … 20/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch @JoeBiden @WeAreSinclair government to do much of anything. They won’t. They have already decided that thousands of deaths are more survivable than their next primary challenge.

We have to stop pretending we’re on some slow-rolling train to salvation. We’re going in precisely the opposite … 21/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch @JoeBiden @WeAreSinclair direction—and very fast. By August, our economy will be utterly destroyed, and the virus so out of control, nothing will put the plague back in the bottle.

We have to stop waiting for Congress to save us. They’ve already abdicated their duty, and are currently … 22/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch @JoeBiden @WeAreSinclair good for little besides appropriating money that will be gone like crap through a goose.

It’s time for us to save ourselves. If you agree, prove what I said at the start of this tread is wrong: make some effort to share it, talk about it, and get others to write … 23/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch @JoeBiden @WeAreSinclair similar threads, blogs, and videos. and then share those.

Because if we don’t start doing that soon, it’s going to be game over for these very Un-United States of America. And we won’t be able to blame anyone but ourselves for putting faith in a Federal government … 24/25

@SpeakerPelosi @SenShumer @TheDemocrats @POTUS @FoxNews @rushlimbaugh @rupertmurdoch @JoeBiden @WeAreSinclair (and 27 state governments) that have been badly broken for decades. They will not save us unless WE FORCE THEM TO.

I strongly suggest that we get started. 25/25