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9 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I'll start "learning to live with Covid" when "learning to live with Covid" means "doing the things that allow us to live with Covid" and not "acting as if the way to end a pandemic is to pretend the pandemic isn't real."
You want to live with Covid? Great. Support:

1) Vaccine mandates;
2) Worldwide coordinated manufacture/distribution of free vaccines/boosters;
3) Masking and shutdowns during outbreaks;
4) Universal safety nets for rent, child care, healthcare, wages.

OR

1) Shut the fuck up.
You want to just go back to normal without doing any of the things that allow normalcy—things we have yet to actually try in any coordinated way?

You don't want to "live with Covid." You want to make other people die with it, and you feel personally safe.

We see you. Fuck off.
VIRUS: I want only to replicate.
ME: I am not afraid of you.
VIRUS: lol OK
ME: Watch how I don't fear you!
VIRUS: So much the better.
We currently live in a oligarchist fantasy world where we can simply give trillions of dollars to people who already have trillions of dollars during a global crisis.

Seems realistic to use that money on fixing the problem instead of billionaire welfare.
Never ceases to amaze me how many people there are who cannot comprehend the notion that people might legitimately care whether other people suffer and die, and who credit their grotesque solipsism back to themselves as a virtue.

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8 Jan
Nothing in this thread about the incitement and material support received from the rioters by Trump and members of Congress.

Nothing about the entrenched Republican efforts to overturn future elections.

Nothing about the conspiracy we now know was happening to overturn.
Nothing about 140 Republican congresspeople voting to overturn the election.

Nothing about state electors harassed and threatened away.

Nothing about a year's worth of defense of the conspirators and the insurrectionists on far-right propagandist misinformation apparatus.
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6 Jan
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.

It's time to declare this sinking OVER.
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4 Jan
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.
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4 Jan
I don’t understand the point of fire alarms. They’re not actionable. There’s the whole segment that wants “awareness” of fires—to what end?
Speaking of an unshakeable commitment to an utterly failed and pointless strategy.

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.
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3 Jan
POLARIZATION AND STRIFE

Let me suggest something that might seem counterintuitive: We have rarely been *less* polarized as a country.

Am I saying we’re not polarized? Far from it. I’m saying we’re miscategorizing what polarization even is.

getrevue.co/profile/julius…
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.
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31 Dec 21
This is the price of accommodating the beliefs of selfish assholes drunk on their own exceptionalism and fever-dreams of rugged libertarianism.
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’s time for consequences.
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