Covid, Covid, Covid

Hell yes. What else is there to talk about?  I am appalled at the stubbornness, ignorance, stupidity of people not wearing masks.  It’s unconscionable. Maybe we need to carry a card that says, “yes, I always wear a mask” or “no, I don’t wear masks.” That way when you get COVID they triage you when you arrive at the hospital by your stance. 

I can’t believe the rage that frontline and medical workers must feel when they work selflessly to save lives and then walk out of work and see people not following CDC guidelines! Can you imagine?  Put yourself in their shoes; the anger and devastation these caregivers must feel. I feel it and I’m not one of them. No, really, can you think of the Other? Put yourself in their shoes? After working untold hours to care for patients, they get in their car and see a bunch of assholes at bars and restaurants not social distancing? Home parties? Sigh. It really blows my mind. 

I heard Sarah Haines from The View compare our “sacrifices” to military families. It’s perfect and so absurd that anything the CDC has recommended has become about liberties and politics. Military families sacrifice every day. They are used to not having their loved ones home for family events.  They may not be happy, but it’s part of the military package list of sacrifices. They don’t get to share family occasions with their loved ones. Everyday they have to worry about the safety of their soldier. So is it so difficult to sacrifice by wearing a mask for your fellow man?  What is the fucking problem? 

Trumpers have got to read and watch another station. Get more information and truth telling. I do. I will turn to FOX and read the NYPost to see what is being said so I can try to understand. I don’t, to be honest. I just don’t.  We are living and dying through a pandemic the likes we have never seen and yet only now, only NOW, are Republican Governors beginning to tell people to wear masks.  Do you know why?  Their States are getting decimated by the COVID virus. Didn’t care before! Decided to standby the Orange one in the White House. How’s that been working out for all of you?  

What we are living through has interrupted all of our lives. Those of us who have listened to the science more than those that didn’t, but now, our Country is being terrorized by a virus that didn’t have to kill over 250,000 so far. Many more to come. I love holidays with family, but for fuck’s sake, if we are lucky there will be many more years of full family holidays. This is just one year. 

Shut up and sacrifice. Stand back and look at the whole picture. It’s not about you. It’s about all of us!! It’s about America!

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@DianaPodolsky