Thread: My family knew the facts about COVID from the earliest reports in December 2019, thanks to a husband who tracks viruses like most guys track fantasy football, and has done so for 30 years. 🤓
We were never afraid. Ever.
We watched EO after EO come, each one curtailing yet another freedom. My husband was on Facebook and Twitter sharing facts to keep people calm, but folks stopped caring as if they wanted to be afraid. Then it got political.
We played by most rules, but we never masked. The facts had been clear on masks for decades. Then people started changing profile pictures and telling each other they were doing their part to stop the spread! There was never a study saying masks work miracles.
In fact, we had several dozen studies saying they were worthless against respiratory viruses. Masking was was never science. It was always political cover. But people were scared and needed a security blanket. They believed the fatality rate was 10%, when it never exceeded 0.1%.
They started judging each other. Then hating.
A religion was born.
It didn’t have to be this way. We didn’t have to succumb to fear. Why did we let talking heads convince us that the air was poison, or that our family and friends were “viral vectors”?
Who did the most damage? Trump? Biden? The Media? Big Tech? Teacher Unions? Each other? How did we get here? And, most importantly, how do we claw our way back?
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If I hear one more person tell me that my kid wearing a mask is a small price to pay… Price to pay for what? For a jacked up childhood living in a constant state emergency that by EVERY SINGLE METRIC AVAILABLE is the very least of concerns for kids? Literally.
It’s not a price to pay to protect the double-masked and triple vaxxed teachers. It’s not for the 900,000 COVID deaths, of which 98% - NINETY EIGHT PERCENT - are over 75 or have multiple existing and life-threatening co-morbidities. Last I heard, kids aren’t singing in rest homes
So what’s the small price? Not being able to go on field trips? Not being able to read facial expressions at the most critical time for brains to learn how to process them? Being told they’re disease vectors and dirty? Being used as pawns for the “greater progressive agenda”?