Thread by @studentactivism

I just want to get past this, Shadi. My girlfriend is sick, my daughter is immunocompromised, my parents are 80 and 78 years old. I just fucking want to get past this.

https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1475123040988155911

I am vaccinated and boosted, @shadihamid, and I don't want "endless COVID restrictions"—hell, I flew to Europe in November. What I want, what I need, is for my kids to stay healthy and my parents not to die. That's what I want.

And I read your essay, @shadihamid, where you say that I need to "live life...as if COVID doesn't exist." And no. Fuck that. I'm going to do what I can reasonably do to keep my parents and my kids safe—and, crucially, keep them in each others' lives.

I've accepted—and my parents have accepted—that being in my kids' lives the way they've been accustomed to being means that they're going to have to shoulder an increased risk of early death. That's already factored into our calculus.

But to keep that risk at a manageable level—at a psychologically and morally sustainable level—we need to be careful. We need to be cautious. We need to worry, and act on our worries. Of fucking COURSE we do, because we're an intergenerational family in a deadly pandemic.