To Appease the Right Wing Base, Their Leaders Are Letting Them Die.
I’m not sure their leaders realize what they’ve started.
A few days ago, an old conservative coworker of mine who happens to be on Facebook shared an image of an anti-mask protest from a town close to where she lives, with the person who originally shared it captioning it: ‘We are here. Come join us!’. My old coworker wrote:
“I’m so beyond proud to see this! Unfortunately, due to a positive covid test..I could not attend. I’d be there in a second otherwise. I am home praying instead. I am praying for medical freedom, praying to unmask children, and praying for the families who lose their loved one’s to all this. Craig and I are home sick, but we are doing just fine thanks to the amazing people we have in our lives and God. No, we do not wish we would have got the vaccine. We are strong enough to fight this and in it together. We are kicking Covid’s ass like our bodies were designed to do! #mybody #mychoice #medicalfreedom #stopthemandate”
Not two full days later, my old coworker shared that Craig, her fiancé referenced in her post, was in the hospital. He remains seriously ill, and is — as she put it — “still not out of the woods”.
This is not a unique incident. What my coworker and her fiancé are experiencing has…
