Thread by @mikamckinnon

The degree of rage I feel when someone flippantly declares getting COVID is inevitable and we should give up is beyond my ability to politely express.

It’s never too late to make things less bad. Like Climate nihilism, it’s self-destructive bullshit & I have no tolerance for it.

Science is an astonishing tool linking cause and effect, enabling us to create a path to any future we want.

It’s not easy! Untangling details can be lifetimes of effort to get right. But the harder part is picking a future, then doing the work.

It’s daunting. We need to do the work individually, but we also need our communities, governments, & everyone everywhere else to do the work.

But if we refuse to surrender to suffering?
If we keep struggling to do better?

We have infinite possible futures that are less bad.

Catching COVID isn’t a moral failing. Context (& luck!) matters, and much of that context is beyond individual control.

But giving up?
Declaring that it’s too hard to try to make this shit less miserable?
Actively making it worse?

That’s where my rage sparks.

We are fragile humans on a planet that can kill us countless ways. Death is inevitable. But anything else? Nah.

Despair & inaction is easy, but gains us nothing. It’s hard to keep trying, but it’s worth it if it means our future is even a little less terrible than it could be.