Thread by @exceedhergrasp1

I wonder how many realize we have not each touched on the worst-case scenario w/SARS-CoV-2. We're so busy trying to agree on what's happening right now.

You can't predict the future while you're still negotiating the present.

Look, clear-cut answers aren't easy. But saying, "getting COVID is good b/c it gets rid of COVID anxiety!"; or that COVID is over; or that COVID is like a cold; or that the loss of over a million American lives is nothing... these are deliberately misleading statements.

There's also a kind of ethical undercutting. We are supposed to laugh off a million American lives. Doing so is presented as worldly and grown-up.

We should be grieving.

All this pretense -- and our focus on it, the bread-and-circuses bit -- means we are not planning for what's next.

I get it. It's fun to yell blue checks on Twitter. It makes us feel good. Righteous.

But let's put our focus on what's most important. That's what we can do for each other today, and what comes next.

What (may) come next. A non-exhaustive list of potential health and economic consequences for continuing to downplay SARS-CoV-2 I really don't see in the news or social media:

https://twitter.com/exceedhergrasp1/status/1526413551421693952

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