(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . FLAME ON [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-03 Last night, scrolling the headlines at Google News (a serviceable news aggregator), I caught a glimpse of one proclaiming “The GOP base is still resentful over the Covid response”. This headline was sandwiched between others about the howling about purported Covid relief funds being mishandled (in the same shrill intonation as the former Confederates did about Reconstruction projects and their overruns—but that’s a diary for another day). At first, I rolled my eyes and went on with my scrolling. This morning, though? Thinking back, the first thing I thought was: You’re resentful? You’re resentful? You motherfuckers. You assholes. It was your temper tantrums at having to do something slightly uncomfortable for a small amount of time that you couldn’t tolerate. Six months. The government could have paid for everyone to stay home, stay put so that the virus wouldn’t replicate and spread. We could have had this behind us by now, a blip in history that we would barely even remember it. Remember the first run of SARS, twenty years ago? How quaint that feels. We were justifiably alarmed, but it was contained and burned itself out. We had that opportunity, and you conservatives squandered it. You let a conman trick you into thinking a health issue was a political issue. And he wedged you against yourself, your own fucking bodies. You’re the ones getting reinfected two, three, four times at a clip. But in 2020, we had a chance to band together, buckle down, and just bear it out. We could have done it. Instead, you motherfuckers wanted to fuck around, and the rest of us found out. There’s no going back. The virus has set up residence in other animals in our stead. The deer are passing it back and forth to each other now. It has escaped us in every way that is meaningful. Because you couldn’t stand wearing a mask and washing your hands and keeping a respectful distance away from people. That’s what this is about. Your basic lack of decency. Resentful about Covid. Are. You. Kidding. Me?! We had a chance to put this thing to bed, and now it will follow the human race forever indefinitely. It will haunt our children and our children’s children. Because you allowed yourself to be manipulated, because you liked being able to claim to be the injured one. What else was that about? Your freedoms were being abridged? Who sold you that claptrap? Do you have no perspective? Do you not see that your stamping of feet three years ago has changed not just history (as we see it) but the future? Do you not see that you have changed everything for the worse with your intransigence? The nerve. The absolute nerve. Get the fuck out of here. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/3/2150894/-FLAME-ON Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/