Running a little low on compassion here

[malada]

I keep reading about the COVIDiots and the deniers and the 'FREEDUM MEANS NO FACE MASKS' crowd coming down with the virus and spending days- even weeks in the hospitals.

I keep reading about people at COVID parties where all everyone is going "It's my body" - "It's a hoax" - "It's no big deal" now gasping for oxygen in some clinic waiting to be tested.

I keep reading about officials who insisted on reopening the bars and the stadiums and the schools only to have their hospitals fill up with the sick and the dying.

All they had to do was wear a mask in public, practice social distancing and wash your hands *properly*. Don't go to crowded places where some super spreader can infect dozens at once. Such a burden!

I get that lots of people are out of work. They need to buy food, pay rent, watch their kids. This is way we have societies and government. Rent forgiveness, food aid - these aren't 'hammocks' where people relax and leech off others but *lifeboats* to get them to safety.

I have little sympathy for those who've taken axes to lifeboats then whine when the water reach their necks.

-m

Comments

[marahmarie]

Well put.