This weird thing has happened in the world during the pandemic: people of the far right (including governors and judges all the way up to SCOTUS) and even non-right wingers, have developed a philosophy that amounts to granting the coronavirus a “right” to proliferate and spread…
such that ANY attempt by government to impede the natural proliferation of this virus: whether by mandating masks or proof of vaccination or even testing, is viewed as a fundamental violation of human rights and civil liberties. I mean this seems to be the SCOTUS majority view…
And it definitely seems to be the view of Republican governors; that NO governmental or even private action may be taken to stop the coronavirus from spreading; that it MUST be allowed to spread “naturally,” and that the only allowable course is treating the resulting illness.
Dixiecrats then: you can vote! You just have to tell us how many bubbles are in a bar of soap.
Republicans now: you can vote! You just have to fill out this form & send your ID. Oh the form we’re sending you doesn’t have an ID line on it and it’s illegal to send you a new one🤷🏾♀️
Ok just go stand on that long line. Sorry, there’s only one or two machines in your massive urban area even though we put 20 in our all white rural towns and you can’t use a drop box like the rural folk can🤷🏾♀️ Oh and no one can give you water while you wait. That’s illegal now🤷🏾♀️
Oh, and don’t mind that poll watcher standing over you. He’s just watching you because you’re Black or Hispanic. He’s totally judging you by the content of your character though, just like Dr King said in that one speech we misquote on MLK Day every year.🤷🏾♀️
Listening to the hypocrite Dixiecrat @LeaderMcConnell on his high horse scolding Democrats for trying to stop state Republicans from all-but barring mail-in balloting and legislating intimidating or even arresting voters they don’t like & flipping election outcomes is sickening.
Mitch giddily “broke” the Senate to pack the Supreme Court with his far right ideological allies. He walks around wearing an invisible Superman cape, claiming to be for voting rights and faking outrage over Bull Connor comparisons while grinning in front of a confederate flag.
He moans about Biden’s words being divisive while continuing to excuse the most vile president in U.S. history declaring fellow Americans to be enemies of the people and fomenting a literal insurrection. Perhaps Mitch hopes to benefit from the next attempted coup.
Thanks for the honest response! So here’s the thing-the vast majority of vaxxed people if they get COVID are NOT winding up in the hospital. It’s the UNVACCINATED who are clogging up the ICUs/taking all the beds. Also smokers, drinkers etc are made to pay more/wait more for care.
Insurance companies financially penalize smokers with higher rates. People are asked to disclose STD status when receiving healthcare, and because donor livers are scarce, alcoholics must adhere to behavioral changes to qualify for transplants. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
So again the question is, why shouldn’t hospitals and insurance companies and employers (who fund most of our insurance) make the exact same scarcity calculations with people who refuse to prevent COVID, yet are overwhelming our healthcare system “just because they can?”
Let me tell you how GANGSTER Republicans are. They're like ... you can vote, nonwhite people and white, urban liberals. But we're gonna make it so hard for you to register, you might just give up. And if you STILL manage to register? We'll make you stand in mile-long lines... 1/
And make no mistake, standing in mile-long lines is the ONLY way we're going to let you vote, while we engineer short lines and allow absentee ballots for OUR voters. And when you're in line? We're gonna make it ILLEGAL for anyone to even give you WATER. That's gangsterism. 2/
And if you manage to get through that? And your candidate beats our candidate? We're just gonna reverse the outcome of the election, so we win anyway. It's so thuggish, it should have been invented by the mafia! 3/