Thread by @J4Years

Since the early days of the pandemic, the sane people kept pointing out the biggest risk was overwhelming the hospitals. We knew this a year and a half ago. And yet here we are.

https://twitter.com/patdeklotz/status/1428559128461414409

We were talking about flattening the curve in spring 2020. But the MAGAites wouldn’t, and many still don’t, take this seriously.

healthblog.uofmhealth.org/wellness-preve…

Experts kept telling us that the risk wasn’t just getting serious COVID (which is a big risk alone, with 600,000+ dead) - it was taking away hospitals’ ability to save people from other things.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…

“IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS IF I MASK OR GET VACCINATED!” they cried. Even without the risk of them spreading the virus or helping mutations along, that was never true.

And now people are going to die (and not just from COVID) because a lot of moron-Americans can’t do basic science or separate partisanship from public health.

https://twitter.com/heyitskmatt/status/1428075831297982465

And much of this suffering is going to be because political hacks and grifters want to leverage it for political and financial gain.

But in the end what’s really happened is that a huge percentage of Americans now think that “freedom” means “nobody can ever tell me what to do” which is not how society works.

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1428545101572317185

You don’t get to drive drunk. You don’t get to walk around the city center naked. You have laws to follow and rules that apply to the public good. But more than that, people have RESPONSIBILITIES. I cannot believe how many purported adults have forgotten that.

https://twitter.com/LibertyBritt/status/1428538472747384835

I believe in an America where people take care of their fellow citizens, where they chip in to help out others. Where they worry about something other than themselves. I don’t think MAGA believes in that. And it’s killing people.

So in short:
#GetVaccinatedNow
#WearAMask
#America