Thread by @neontaster

I've found that none of these Twitter covid hawks who constantly retreat to "but kids" and "but vulnerable people" and "but but but" will never ever tell you what their personal covid endgame is. Not even hypothetically. It's because secretly they're still hoping for covid zero.

And yes, people who are like "keep covid restrictions in place because of my personal medical risks" are selfish people and don't think of the very real medical problems that were and still are created BECAUSE OF covid restrictions. Something I know about intimately.

"I might catch covid and I'm at risk" does not get to supersede "this person's medical condition has deteriorated because they had to stay home for two years and now they also can't find the specialized medical care they need because of restrictions and shortages." Screw that.

But no no, everyone who isn't you just wants to go have reckless fun because they want you dead. Sure.

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1341464813818490886

And yeah if "at risk" Twitter expect us all to keep altering our lives for their sakes, they at the very least owe us some measure of coherent answer about the scope and time scale of that sacrifice. The idea that questioning the open-endedness of it all is selfish is insane.

"We're all in this together!"

"For how much longer?"

"Shut the fuck up, murderer."

Can we also discuss the idea of "overwhelmed hospitals"? I understand spring/summer 2020 was brutal, but overwhelmed hospitals used to be a dog-bites-man story that got little attention before covid and isn't ever going away.

Just to close off this thread: I am fucking done being told I'm selfish or lack empathy because I was only willing to do all this stuff for TWO YEARS and not for an even larger and also indefinite number of years. THAT'S being selfish. That's how addicts guilt their enablers.

Watch any episode of Intervention. It's always "you NEVER do anything for me" and "it's NEVER about me" after years and years and it being only about them. It's a defense mechanism to keep them on the hook. And just like there, this isn't cruelty. This is tough love.