Thread by @bccover

By their own standards, can we now call the TX delegation trip to DC a "super-spreader" event? I have so many questions about all of this at this point.

https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1417499820122574854

The term "super-spreader" was always overused, especially during the summer spike. Though large gatherings were banned, we knew it was always small gatherings (like the ones the TX delegation had all week in DC) were the events in which COVID spread quickly.

But the term "super-spreader" was used essentially by the powers that be to describe events they didn't support, and conveniently not used for events they supported. This is all about the hypocrisy of it.

Pelosi used vaccination rates/status in the House to keep a mask mandate when it wasn't necessary- and then "put her office at risk" when they welcomed the TX delegation. That's the hypocrisy. Right there in a nutshell.

And people in DC got to make the rules and impose them on others, and relax them when they weren't convenient for them. This is essentially the hair salon part 2.

It was never fair, and it was never right that the rule makers got to be the only rule breakers without real consequence.

And it's also true that you can follow every rule (maybe everyone in the TX delegation and all of the staff members were vaxxed), and still get COVID. We've seen it repeatedly.

The point is to highlight the hypocrisy, not the fact that they got infected. At some point we will all probably get COVID. The point is the hypocrisy. Flying without a mask while kicking off toddlers and their families for non-compliance. It's the two sets of rules.

And that there are some who have to experience/made to feel shame for catching a highly transmissible virus, while others are given a pass or a shrug.

I'm going to be honest: seeing the TX delegation maskless in a plane was really hurtful. How many families with toddlers have been kicked off of planes this year for just that? How many kids harassed for hours to keep their masks on for a long flight?

We haven't been able to fly back to VA yet to see family and friends because I have a child who hates masks and is done with them. I am terrified to be "that person" kicked off a flight because my kid "won't comply".

So many families have had miserable flight experiences, or like mine haven't flown yet, and they just smiled and got to skirt the rules. Rules that we impose on toddlers without mercy.

It's always the hypocrisy. The rule makers get to be the rule breakers, and the rest of us are along for the ride waiting to see what the next rule will be and how we have to adjust our lives (and the lives of our kids/family) accordingly.