I don't spend a lot of time reading FB
feeds. It's not because I am like the President and “know
everything there is to know about everything,” but because if the
feed is not from a reliable news source(and yes, there are many), or
a personal composition, I find that often the post is toxic, wrong,
and divisive.
One today came across my feed, and I
cut and pasted it onto my word processor because it sounded too wrong
to be true. I did a little fact checking. On this particular viral
post there were 11 statements which ended by bashing the media and
saying, “This is what you call a stacked deck.” Here is the truth
about the 11 statements: 9 were either dead wrong(6) or
pejorative(casting aspersions on a previous Administration {4}). One
of the statements was true. So basically there was one morsel of food
floating in a septic pool.
It is troubling that a President who
was actually elected twice by a majority of the population and
brought a nation's economy back from the brink, could be a target for
such vitriol, malice, and falsehoods. Sadly, now that license has
been turned on a lesser man and a worse president, his base calls
“foul,” and whines about his unfair treatment in the media. Every
unnecessary death because this President has mishandled the COVID-19
pandemic, will rest squarely on his shoulders, his enablers, and
Republican governors and state legislatures who valued party loyalty
over the well being of those they were elected to serve. I will
remember that come November. You should to.
Having lived through two hurricanes
when we lived in Livingston, I don't ever remember curfews, regular
police patrols, or orders coming from the Governor's office or local
leadership which engendered resistant and the outcry of “having
rights denied.” Yet, in a tsunami pandemic which in Texas continues
to spike with 365,011 diagnosed with the virus and 4,468 deaths,
folks are arguing over masks. Really, are you so emotionally detached
from empathy and concern for others, the most important right you can
think about is walk around with your face uncovered? Frankly, I have
seen a lot of these uncovered faces, and wearing a mask gives us all
a break. What I want to say is, “Grow up, think of someone else
beside yourself, do your part, and help us get past this mess.
Many of these infections and deaths
are the results of cowardly leadership. What that means, lack of
leadership continues to put our medical community at risk, first
responders at risk, and if that were not enough, now there is a push
to reopen the schools before we have any indication it would be safe.
So you can add teachers to the expendable list.
Every single day our political
leadership fails to lead courageously to address this pandemic, the
hole we are digging for ourselves just gets deeper and deeper.
On the upside, there will be a place to
bury all the bodies.
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