1. Partisanship is a hellava drug. I am continually shocked to hear some members of Congress, the press, just the gen public, who, even after the past 5 yrs, have not really come to terms w how tragically affected we've been by hyperpartisanship. Trump hid to take his vaccine.
https://twitter.com/brianweeden/status/1371245518018506756
2. He'll never do a PSA to tell his own voters who are only rejecting science & who are only dying this way bc Trump & his fellow GOP Govs like Desantis, Abbott, Kemp, & others LED them into endangering their health- & in many cases, dying. This is the cold hard truth that Abbott
3. Trump, et al. will one day hopfully be forced to face- in this world or the next. They intentionally led people to their deaths. And those people that they led? Those people exposed other people and led THEM to their deaths. Doctors. Nurses. Grocery store employees. People who
4. may have wanted to prioritize their health & safety but had that choice stolen from them by the GOP's murder-suicide pact. BC that's what it is when you have a surging, airborne contagion that every public health expert tells you will surge if you open things up & demask (or
5. refuse to mandate masks) for your state. Don't forget, in TX, in GA, these R governors went so far as to sue cities & counties to INSIST the populations there be exposed. Its ludicrous, something that might be something you'd see in Brazil but in the U.S.? Frankly, its a human
6. rights violation. Had this pandemic came in 30 yrs ago and we had a NATO country doing this we would have thought them to be barbarians. The leadership of a state holds control over that state's population. In the case of COVID management, Trump and these govs had the power to
7. decide whether many or few people would die and they decided to go with many. That was a choice imposed on those pops. Its horrifying. That TX's death toll is so much higher than it should be is not an accident, or the product of unfortunate luck. It was an imposed choice.
8. Linking this thread to an earlier one on this topic
https://twitter.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1371232113849204736?s=20
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