Thread by @epmurphymn

This is no game Jason Lewis, @LewisForMN. With more than 230,000 American deaths and 9M infected, suggesting this is a game is why you aren’t going to represent Minnesotans in the US Senate. 🧵

https://twitter.com/lewisformn/status/1322203013923119106

Earlier this week, you had emergency surgery in Hibbing. By your own words, you received excellent care by doctors, nurses, and health care workers. That’s our job, our code, our oath.

Our healthcare workforce is under tremendous strain caring for those who become very ill from the virus. As #Covid surges, remember that they are working with inadequate PPE, no standard testing, and are often working short staffed as providers get sick themselves. #NotAGame

When you claim that #COVID19 is a game, you’re signaling to people that it’s not serious, contributing to community spread. Even Donald Trump has admitted that it spreads through the air and that it is more deadly than the flu. #NotAGame

Here’s the thing. Those nurses and doctors who cared for you are going back to work everyday. When you use your platform to say this is a game, you add pressure to an already strained system and risk to providers giving their all to care for sick Minnesotans. #NotAGame

None of us want this virus. Denying that it is killing people and our livelihoods for a political stunt is beneath all of us.

I hope for your full recovery. But #COVID19 is #NotAGame and saying otherwise hurts people.

It’s no way to win a race and it’s time to stop.