Thread by @SaraCarterDC

Hey, I spent the majority of my career covering war zones on the front lines and in Mexico covering the drug cartels - I also grew up overseas and have traveled to nations where there are untreatable viruses and diseases that kill indiscriminately (including children) I did so

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without any medical facilities near and many times without protection. I think it's tragic that anyone die for any reason - but that's life

Human life is fragile - that is a fact. But we live life...what makes us remarkable is that we take extraordinary risks to achieve great advancements. We traveled into space when the odds of coming back were slime. We treated people with incurable illnesses only to become sick

ourselves. Marie Curie discovered radium only to die of radiation poisoning because she didn't realize the impact of her discovery. It is called being human. Hiding from the world out of fear is not human, it's not life. Common sense is the way to live and doing what's right

for those most at risk. But locking down our society and terrifying our children with two vaccines already on the horizon is not how to handle COVID19. We might as well live with masks on forever because there will always be something - somewhere - to be afraid of.