Thread by @lalytatweets

It’s January 2021!

How is herd immunity still a thing?

It’s been, since last April, a callous delusion that the arrogantly ignorant & selfish—out of denial and/or malice—fall for.

It’s a cruel delusion that—out of greed—the self centered on a power trip push for.

🧵

#COVID19

https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1349453542281637888

As @mattbc and @Jandelliott said long ago, "Herd immunity strategies are about culling the herd of the sick and disabled. It's grotesque."

These "strategies" are STILL the product of delusional denials—out of greed, fear or disregard for others and #LongCovid—on repeat.

https://twitter.com/lalytatweets/status/1316496849033887745

This 🧵 from @gregggonsalves is as heartbreakingly true today as it was last year.

https://twitter.com/lalytatweets/status/1315769780322918401

Herd immunity was callous in March, it was callous in October, and it is insanely callous in January 2021.

https://twitter.com/lalytatweets/status/1316820897869844480

Thus, call it 'shielding', call it 'herd immunity', call it 'put the vulnerable somewhere else', call it 'keep the ones at risk home', call it 'blue' and it is still all a callous deadly mistake.

Logic lost, morals lost, and arrogant ignorance embraced.

Insane.

https://twitter.com/lalytatweets/status/1321533809997860866

"It doesn’t affect me", said too many in this #Coronavirus pandemic, "it just affects others".

https://twitter.com/lalytatweets/status/1346114355167973376

May the tight embrace of delusions end sooner rather than later.

https://twitter.com/lalytatweets/status/1348777605793771521