It feels as if COVID-19 is getting closer and closer. Two friends have lost parents to the disease in the last few days. Two of my staff members have been sick with it in the last two weeks. Both were very sick; one of them terribly so.
Most of these deaths could have been avoided if this country had mounted a strong response to it and if all the people who live among us took it seriously and acted appropriately.
To those of you you deny the seriousness of COVID-19, who say it is a hoax or just like the flu; to those of you who believe mask mandates violate your so-called rights; to those of you who have encouraged people to believe these things out of idiotic ideology or, even worse, political expediency–the blood of tens of thousands Americans are on your hands. We will not forgive or forget your treachery to human decency or your fellow Americans.
You will never pay the full human price you should for what you have done. But I’m sure you are already paying the price of your twisted and desiccated souls. And, sooner or later you will pay a political price and your sick ideology will disappear from this country and then this earth.