Pretty amazing that at this point, after 800,000 people have died of Covid—and fake leftists have opposed all remedies for curbing transmission—prominent twitter dingbats can just cavalierly pretend 800,000 people haven't died of Covid and dismiss concerns as "sneering."
There are people whose whole thing now is acting as though the reason we still have Covid is because we refuse to start pretend that Covid isn’t a problem, which is exactly what Trump did, and honestly anyone doing that should be cut off from polite society forever.
If your roads are in disrepair, they remain so unless fixed.
To fix them, you have to actually agree to pay for the work, and then the work has to actually be done.
If you refuse to pay the price, you don't want to fix the roads.
Is this not obvious? I think it's obvious.
You want normalcy? You have to lock everything down.
Which means you have to pay people to stay home.
Then you have to institute vaccine mandates for all employment and access to public spaces, with carve outs only for medical reasons—people who medically can’t be vaccinated.
You spend the literally trillions of dollars at your disposal to make testing free and easy and readily available.
You distribute vaccines globally, and you knock down logistical barriers. If we can distribute imperialism we can distribute vaccines.
You fix the fucking roads.
You don't refuse to fix the roads because the work will temporarily shut down the roads and tell people to just live with the problem.
You fix the roads, and you build them back better so they don't get broken so badly.
You learn. You grow.
Or you don't want to fix the roads.
These "clap-your-hands-to-defeat-Covid" assholes know what they're doing: they don't want what's best for schools and students.
They're avoiding the price of fixing what's broken, because they represent people who don't want to pay.
They'd rather sacrifice students to do it.
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Yes, the boat hit the iceberg, but putting the children in lifeboats is the most destructive thing imaginable to their psyche. It's time for us to stop all this evacuation talk and just complete the voyage.
Yes, the first 7 watertight compartments are now flooded with frigid North Sea water, but it's time for us to stop being ruled by our fears and get back to our normally scheduled travel. We MUST open the shuffleboard courts on the lido deck.
Look at children's faces when they're in lifeboats. They're frightened. They're confused. They don't want to be there. Their parents don't want them there. We need to put them back on the boat, whose deck is now pitched at 90 degrees.
What's fascinating to me is that there *could be* a point at which comfortable centrists actually think to build a coalition with progressives, but instead they keep pursuing the same rapidly-diminishing & truly marginal group, anti-Trump right-wingers.
We’ve never been more polarized in most of our lifetimes, at least that’s the word.
"This polarization is tearing us apart,“ says the pundit to a nodding panel. "Cancel culture is out of control. We need to stop fighting ourselves, learn to build bridges to each other.”
*We* and *us* are such interesting words. They leave a trail; you can follow them back to the lair of their underlying assumptions.
“We have never been more polarized as a country,” for example, says something clear about who is considered a part of this country, and who is not.
Nor do I, but the issue isn’t about blame, the issue is about accommodating; treating the beliefs of the malicious and duped both as if they are valid and should be considered when making policy.
There is no way to accommodate the ignorance and selfishness of the pro-Covid crowd without treating the lives and dignity of healthcare workers—and everyone else—as disposable.
It really says something doesn’t it but every single one of these “open-minded” takes depends on a completely bananas misrepresentation of reality-based positions.
Nobody wants endless restrictions. We just want Covid to actually end; they don’t.
Their position is let’s just carry on as though Covid is over even though it isn’t, and whoever dies dies, and that will be acceptable losses.
That’s not a misrepresentation, that’s what they’ve been saying in just so many words from the very start.
The fuck out of here.
The idea that being in favor of both vaccines and preventative measures is an incoherent position is itself a position so incoherent, relying so much on the wholesale acceptance of the bad faith claims of malicious actors, it makes my eyes want to melt down my cheeks.