Hello from Texas.
I cannot stress enough how the situation we’re all in goes so far beyond bad or incompetent governance. Many of these fuckers should go to prison.
People are dying because public health issues have been and continue to be egregiously and willfully politicized and weaponized. Now the propaganda campaign has turned from “it’s a hoax” or “it’s going away” to “we did great” and “we just have to live with it.”
What they want you to accept — what the propaganda will try to convince people to accept — is 100,000 new cases a day and however many deaths that requires for however long it lasts. And that includes your kids. Depends on them, in fact, because they want to open schools.
They need schools to open because they need poor, mostly non-white people to work the jobs at companies that, by being open, convince rich, mostly white people to believe their fucking lies.
It is a thresher. They will feed our children to it and they won’t think twice.
They could have solved this months ago and we always had the resources to do it. They didn’t fix it for stupid political reasons. They could still fix it right now by paying everyone to stay home for two months and building an actual test and trace system. We have the resources. But they won’t do that, because they don’t give a shit about you, and they are absolutely okay with killing you and your kids and your kids’ teachers and essential workers and anyone else that has to die for them to never have to say they are sorry, or that they were wrong.
Fuck these people. They aren’t just letting us get sick, or maimed for life. They aren’t just letting us die. They are killing us. And we, as a country, are letting them do it. We are letting them get away with it.
They know what they are doing. Ted Cruz isn’t stupid. Neither is John Cornyn. Greg Abbott isn’t stupid. DeSantis isn’t either. Nor is Pence. They are more than willing to let us die for politics. They are absolutely okay with killing us for politics.
Trump said people don’t want to open schools for political reasons, citing open schools in other countries. Schools are only open in those countries because their governments aren’t killing their citizens with policies that are bad on purpose.
I know I shouldn’t be surprised anymore. Nothing’s shocking. And yet, each day, they find some edge I didn’t expect, some casual cruelty or destruction of decency, and still, I am taken aback. Some day I’ll learn.