But instead you have Fox News mocking the CDC’s warnings. Meanwhile, over at MSNBC you have Rachel Maddow relaying the horrific story of her partner’s battle with COVID and telling viewers to re-calibrate their risk acceptance because “you do NOT want to get this thing.”
Two diametric opposites. It’s mind-boggling to me.
The states that are getting hit hardest are the states that believe the threat the least. Utterly mystifying. This isn’t a debate over whether zombies are real. Actual footage (even on Fox) of hospitals being overrun are dominating news coverage. CNN keeps a running total of cases and deaths on the screen at all times. By now, practically everybody knows someone who has it or has had it. Soon we all know someone who died of it.
So you’d think, at the very least, people would take this pandemic seriously. And news outlets would not politicize it for the sake of appeasing a deranged madman. Folks would err on the side of caution. We’re just talking common sense. Wearing a mask does not qualify you for Mensa.
But you know how this will play out. Millions will ignore the warnings, get horribly sick, and some will die. Needlessly. To have one stupid meal.
It won’t be many of my friends. They take this seriously. They social distance. They wear masks. They don’t travel through crowded airports and sit on packed airplanes that keep their ventilation systems turned off until they’re taxiing. They live without Aunt Carol’s jello mold (which isn't very good anyway).
So two realities. One where people stay healthy, and the other where people get gravely sick and die by their own choosing.
What are YOUR Thanksgiving plans?
from By Ken Levine
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