As I watch Marjorie Taylor Greene equate Covid vaccination efforts to the Holocaust, I can’t escape the memory of going to Yad Vashem and seeing the exhibit of shoes, preserved from Holocaust victims. (a thread, if you’ll oblige me) 
Like so much of the museum, it grips you to a point of near paralysis. The sheer quantity of those shoes—piles and piles— is haunting. Human beings wore them at some point in time.
But, of course, they were not seen as humans by the Nazis. They were sub-human. And so, the shoes eventually became all that was left to preserve.
If, in five years time, I saw an exhibit that was made up of endless piles of discarded needles from our efforts to vaccinate people to protect them from Covid, I would feel absolutely none of these emotions.
I would see a marvel of scientific creation, a collective decision among people to protect themselves and each other. It would bring me joy, not sorrow.
No one thinks that the Holocaust is remotely comparable to the Covid vaccine effort. Discarded shoes are not discarded needles. The fact that this needs to be said is not depressing. It's exhausting. And frightening too. (fin)
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