The pandemic could and should have pulled us together, just as it could have happened as you wrote, Steve. Operation Warp Speed was the only good thing I can think of right now that the former president did. Why didn't he just inundate the air waves with how important it was for people to get it??? I read the Daily Kos newsletter most days during the pandemic, which had a daily feature based on a subreddit called "The Herman Cain Chronicles." Using posts from social media but with names and other identifying details redacted, it traced people's journeys from insisting the pandemic was a hoax, to getting a little sniffle, to spending outrageous amounts of money on ineffective treatments like ivermectin, to going to the hospital, to being intubated, to a family member setting up a GoFundMe to cover funeral expenses. SO EFFING SENSELESS. That evil man has so much blood on his hands.
It was indeed a dark time. A college friend was a doc in Enid, OKlahoma. He advocated for masks and self-quarantine. Most of his patients ignored this crucial advice, and he spent almost two years venting them and sending them to any open ER bed within two states. Many of them wept, as the vent tube went in, and told him they should have listened. As soon as the plague subsided, he retired. Neither of us could believe the Republican response to a major health crisis--science is the thief of freedom.
The pandemic could and should have pulled us together, just as it could have happened as you wrote, Steve. Operation Warp Speed was the only good thing I can think of right now that the former president did. Why didn't he just inundate the air waves with how important it was for people to get it??? I read the Daily Kos newsletter most days during the pandemic, which had a daily feature based on a subreddit called "The Herman Cain Chronicles." Using posts from social media but with names and other identifying details redacted, it traced people's journeys from insisting the pandemic was a hoax, to getting a little sniffle, to spending outrageous amounts of money on ineffective treatments like ivermectin, to going to the hospital, to being intubated, to a family member setting up a GoFundMe to cover funeral expenses. SO EFFING SENSELESS. That evil man has so much blood on his hands.
It was indeed a dark time. A college friend was a doc in Enid, OKlahoma. He advocated for masks and self-quarantine. Most of his patients ignored this crucial advice, and he spent almost two years venting them and sending them to any open ER bed within two states. Many of them wept, as the vent tube went in, and told him they should have listened. As soon as the plague subsided, he retired. Neither of us could believe the Republican response to a major health crisis--science is the thief of freedom.