"Shared sacrifice" to them means that they think "the others" will sacrifice and they themselves can just do whatever.
I've told this story before--my father-in-law was a pharmacist in a small southern town when COVID hit. Nobody wore masks. So, sick people arrogantly going to the pharmacy when sick all day. Though he was really healthy he died right before the vaccine. All those nice people were so shocked--"Why--he was so healthy! Such a good Christian! I wonder what happened?" Putting on a mask never occurred to them. I will never, never forgive those people for taking my husband's dad. Never. They thought they were so special and couldn't care less about the people around them, and played dumb because it's more important to make some point than to care about people around them.
There were a couple of weeks here where I am where it was so lovely--people taking walks and waving across the street, people with masks standing at a distance to go into the store, everyone being kind and giving others space and going to the store for their neighbors--and then it all went to hell.
It also makes me sad and angry how many people must have known people who died senselessly and STILL don't care. Thank you. Let's never forget what happened and who helped it happen.
Thank you--it shocks me how angry I still get. I don't like hating people, but I think of my husband having to do his dad's eulogy on zoom and then all the people later being so stupid and I feel more hatred and violence than I'm comfortable with.
That just makes you human. Never let others take away your actual identity. You aren't hateful and you aren't violent, you are a compassionate, empathetic, feeling human being. Traits they will never know, and it's not worth trying to decipher or understand. It is what it is.
Yes, I agree with you.I live in a ruby red county in red Ohio.A lot of the people here wore their masks pulled down to their chins so they weren’t protecting anyone.It always angered me that they didn’t think of others, only themselves.
Christians and Catholics so little if not negatively concerned about the common good are still whining about not being able to worship without masks during Covid. They are simply unconscionably evil poseurs.
I don't go many places, but I certainly wear a mask at the grocery store (the main place I go). I dare someone to try and say something to me about it!
I knew a married couple that died two weeks apart in their local hospital after being on ventilators. They had refused to get vaccinated. They were in their sixties.
Astrophysicist Neil De Grasse Tyson who knows math said that the rate at which MAGAts were dying of Covid-19 would be enough to change the outcome of some elections.
I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He is brilliant and such a gift to humanity. He posted this today, "Go to a cemetery. See all the baby graves there from before the 1950s & 1960s. Then, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their kids. If you are unsure, the answer is, literally, written in stone."
Thank you for posting this. If all those anti-vaxxers had lived in the days before the polio vaccine, they’d be first in line for any vaccine available. The only vaccine available before the polio vaccine was for smallpox.
Where was this "shared sacrifice" among Americans in 2020 when they whined about wearing a mask in public during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic?
"Shared sacrifice" to them means that they think "the others" will sacrifice and they themselves can just do whatever.
I've told this story before--my father-in-law was a pharmacist in a small southern town when COVID hit. Nobody wore masks. So, sick people arrogantly going to the pharmacy when sick all day. Though he was really healthy he died right before the vaccine. All those nice people were so shocked--"Why--he was so healthy! Such a good Christian! I wonder what happened?" Putting on a mask never occurred to them. I will never, never forgive those people for taking my husband's dad. Never. They thought they were so special and couldn't care less about the people around them, and played dumb because it's more important to make some point than to care about people around them.
I am so sorry—I am still disgusted and always will be with how people responded to covid…
Yes, and all the shaming done to us who wore masks. “No one ain’t going to cover my mouth.” There’s your “shared sacrifice.”
The “face diaper” as they called it—I fucking hate those people!
It makes me so angry still.
There were a couple of weeks here where I am where it was so lovely--people taking walks and waving across the street, people with masks standing at a distance to go into the store, everyone being kind and giving others space and going to the store for their neighbors--and then it all went to hell.
Yup—putin and the magat online trolls destroyed any semblance of cooperation. It was absolutely a concerted effort, by many, with evil intentions.
I am so sorry. So many senseless deaths.
It also makes me sad and angry how many people must have known people who died senselessly and STILL don't care. Thank you. Let's never forget what happened and who helped it happen.
That is a heartbreaking story. So very sorry that evil came to your family's door. People can really suck.
Thank you--it shocks me how angry I still get. I don't like hating people, but I think of my husband having to do his dad's eulogy on zoom and then all the people later being so stupid and I feel more hatred and violence than I'm comfortable with.
That just makes you human. Never let others take away your actual identity. You aren't hateful and you aren't violent, you are a compassionate, empathetic, feeling human being. Traits they will never know, and it's not worth trying to decipher or understand. It is what it is.
Yes, I agree with you.I live in a ruby red county in red Ohio.A lot of the people here wore their masks pulled down to their chins so they weren’t protecting anyone.It always angered me that they didn’t think of others, only themselves.
That's even worse than no mask at all. "Oh I get it--I'm wearing a mask but not in any way that does anything--HAPPY?"
Yes, a kind of F U to all of us trying to protect others and ourselves.smh
Christians and Catholics so little if not negatively concerned about the common good are still whining about not being able to worship without masks during Covid. They are simply unconscionably evil poseurs.
God is all-powerful, but he can't hear you with your mask on!
Some of us still wear masks.
I don't go many places, but I certainly wear a mask at the grocery store (the main place I go). I dare someone to try and say something to me about it!
Yes, in Berkeley, many customers wear masks at the grocery store, and so does most of the staff.
I like your name. Classy!
A little piece of paper on their faces was a yooooge oppression to them
Four years later they went to a convention and taped a diaper to their ear
And in some cases, wearing them -- I remember when MAGAts were all about "Real Men Wear Diapers."
😆such dipshits😵💫
I am rooting for a 100% effective vaccine for an especially deadly version of covid. That should clear the deck somewhat.
The COVID-19 death rate was much higher among MAGAts than in the general population.
I knew a married couple that died two weeks apart in their local hospital after being on ventilators. They had refused to get vaccinated. They were in their sixties.
Yep, stories like that were very common.
Gotta fight “The Man”! ooops- now you dead!!
Astrophysicist Neil De Grasse Tyson who knows math said that the rate at which MAGAts were dying of Covid-19 would be enough to change the outcome of some elections.
I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He is brilliant and such a gift to humanity. He posted this today, "Go to a cemetery. See all the baby graves there from before the 1950s & 1960s. Then, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their kids. If you are unsure, the answer is, literally, written in stone."
He didn't originate the "go to the cemetery and look" idea, but he does have a platform as a famous scientist and kudos to him for using it this way.
I should have added that he didn't take credit for it, but rather as you said, he used his platform to inform others.
No worries
Thank you for posting this. If all those anti-vaxxers had lived in the days before the polio vaccine, they’d be first in line for any vaccine available. The only vaccine available before the polio vaccine was for smallpox.