Becoming pretty clear to me that Trump followers will usher in the 2nd deadly wave of infections
...I see it at my job where a department manager was resisting our state law to mask-up where social distancing isn't possible, refusing to fully comply and loudly proclaiming that folks insisting he should follow our new state regs were just trying to make Trump look bad. I'm not kidding, a grown man with responsibility for the safety of customers and associates alike is playing political games with a highly infectious virus.
Another fellow brought in from another store to help out played dumb when asked to mask-up tonight, claiming the manager at his home store wasn't requiring it. It's beyond ignorance, at this point, to resist guidelines and laws meant to stop the spread of the coronavirus. It's become a malicious, political act for some people refusing to wear a face mask in public, or follow any of the basic protections like distancing and hand-washing.
It goes without saying that these are the people we should be avoiding like the plague. But there's more at stake than our own personal safety in allowing them to go unchallenged. Thing is, their displays of umbrage and anger at the regulations is no match for the fear, anguish, and outrage felt by those in the nation who find their safety compromised by crowded housing, infected nursing homes, unprotected workplaces.
We know who suffers for these clowns' refusal to take this virus outbreak seriously. It's their workers, neighbors, passengers on public transportation, fellow shoppers, and others in their way who they put at risk. It's also the health and medical care workers who also, ultimately, will be made to bear consequences of these fools' irresponsibility.
These brazen displays by conservative flacks of reckless indifference to their own health and safety, as well as others, can be laid squarely at the feet of President Trump and his republican party. Never in my lifetime have I witnessed such reckless disregard for such a broad swath of American citizen's lives from a U.S. president, and it's already influencing followers to the extent that they're emulating him, like virus suicide bombers.
We need to get our own anger out there, get a flurry of breathless reports on Americans fed up with being threatened by capitalists looking to put us to work without testing the population to determine the actual scope and scale of the infections in our midst. Without that knowledge, and as long as Trump can keep that information from Americans, we are like sheep to the slaughter.
One way to get attention would be to rally many American's reluctance to return to unsafe workplaces - checkmating overt moves by the government to send workers back into dangerous situations, with a deliberate, organized strikes. We need to find a way to bring our anger forward and keep it there until we vote in November.
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