🧵(1/17) I listened to @POTUS’s speech in my Jeep driving home after dropping off my kid at her masked dance class. Overwhelmed by his support for educators & those who have worked so hard to keep our kids safe, I finally just pulled over & parked. #COVID19 #Arkansas #GoJoe
🧵(2/17) As @POTUS spoke, I was flooded with 18 months of grief for those we have lost, despair for those who died alone and their loved ones left behind. #Covid_19 #GoJoe
🧵(3/17) Every memory of my child’s disappointed face each time I had to say no to sleepover invitations and unmasked gatherings that never stopped flashed through my mind. #CovidIsNotOver #GoJoe
🧵(4/17) I remembered the desperate search online to find vaccine appointments for my parents, and the panicked moment that I first realized that my desperation was not shared by the majority of my fellow Arkansans. #GoJoe #COVID19
🧵(5/17) I remembered the anxiety that followed every exposure, the loneliness of every quarantine, and the hopelessness that crept in when I felt like I couldn’t keep my people safe. #GoJoe #Covid_19
🧵(6/17) I remembered the rage I felt as I watched our state legislature ban vaccine mandates and vaccine passports, and the shock of realizing that our only hope of sending our kids to school safely, was to go to court to get an injunction against their mask mandate ban. #GoJoej
🧵(7/17) I remembered every patient conversation I had with an unvaccinated parent, trying to counter the ceaseless storm of misinformation and encourage them to get their shots. #GoJoe #Covid_19 #GetVaccinated
🧵(8/17) I remembered the social media pleas of exhausted healthcare workers, the prayer requests for sick, and the go fund me accounts for the families of those on ventilators, on ECMO machines, or in coffins. #GoJoe #COVID19
🧵(9/17) I remembered the anti-mask mom who dressed her children up as sheep berating our local school board for their efforts to keep our students safe and in school. #GoJoe #Covid_19
🧵(10/17) I remembered the unsatisfactory answers I gave to my child when she asked why people weren’t being safe, why so many grown ups didn’t seem to care about the kids under 12, when she could get a vaccine, & who would take her to dance if we (her parents) both got #COVID19
🧵(11/17) And I felt, all at once, the toll of 18 months of decision fatigue, emotional labor, sacrifice, isolation, and the inevitable loss of control that happens when life as you know it unravels. #GoJoe #Covid_19
🧵(12/17) I felt the heartbreak of all of the lost moments—the final months of my kid’s last year at her beloved elementary school, the cancelled trips, and the empty chairs at Christmas dinner. #GoJoe #COVID19
🧵(13/17) I’m not a huge fan of government mandates. I think they should be rare. I know the backlash that undoubtedly follows. I wish enough people would do the right thing on their own volition. #GoJoe #Covid_19
🧵(14/17) But the wounds that result from one’s choice not to vaccinate aren’t solely self-inflicted. That choice threatens our access to routine & emergency medical treatment, insurance premiums, the economy, in-person education, & our kids’ health, mental & physical #GoJoe
🧵(15/17) Today, I heard @JoeBiden say he is going to do everything in his power to end this vaccination civil war, to protect the vaccinated and the cannot-be-vaccinated from the willfully unvaccinated, and to protect the willfully unvaccinated from themselves. #GoJoe #Covid_19
🧵(16/17) And his message came from a place that only those who have suffered the darkest of losses, who have survived trauma through service, who wouldn’t wish their own pain on their greatest enemy, can speak. #GoJoe #COVID19
🧵(17/17) I don’t know what will come of it all. I’m sure many people here will hate him, but they will survive…literally. Hell, many of them already hate him & will even if he saves their lives.

But I HEARD him, & I finally felt heard & seen #GoJoe #COVID19 #ThankYouJoe 🙏

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