waiting for the shoe to drop. Now they can deal with the next child’s death and the one after that and the one after that -- and just move on from there.
Children, you know, die every day, don’t they? And now their deaths will be folded into the everyday routine events at hospitals across the country.
Seriously, America, is this what you’ve become? This poor kid, the first at Seattle’s Children’s, caught the disease from someone else. Maybe from a family member who caught it from a friend or from an elderly relative. Maybe from an anti-vax fool or, perhaps, from someone who’d been vaccinated but carried the disease asymptomatically. This is the mess we’re all in today because of a disease left unhampered in its progress, in its mutation fecundity, because so many of us simply refuse to take precautions of any sort. This is the mess caused by patriotic Americans who gather in close places and breathe and sweat on each other, spittle spraying the air in a laugh, enjoying their “freedom” to kill at a distance, to snuff out lives of people they don’t know and will never see. And it’s not just the half a million Harley fools who gathered in Sturgis. It’s all people who joined crowds everywhere, unmasked because it’s a party, right, boss? And at parties we just let it all out and celebrate life, right?
And so we have Delta and many other “variants” as the virus mutates. In most cases, it seems, the variants (Delta aside) do not possess increased virulence; but in one or two, the mutation may add to its potency, to its lethality. Delta seems to attack younger people -- and it kills children. Maybe the next one will be 1,000 times as lethal as the Delta variant which, it’s been said, is 1,000 times more lethal than the original. And maybe that next one will leap over of the ability of the current crop of vaccines to ameliorate its effects. The sky is the limit and the first child to die may soon become just a landmark, ultimately something for the thinned ranks of survivors to look back on sadly in despair.
Apologies in advance for the rant. I genuinely fear for the future, for my children and grandson, and all the couples and children who have been rendered vulnerable to an increasingly deadly disease by an increasingly vocal and violent army of patriots who would rather beat a doctor to the ground than take a vaccine that can stop this killing disease, but only if everyone -- even those whom Trae Crowder refers to as “rock chewing stupid” -- takes measures to fight it and kill it.
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