Post

I have no idea what to do with this Covid revisionism. It feels like the bad kind of group therapy where you help each other ignore facts. We don't have to go *that* far back in the social media timelines to prove how fucked up it was. We were so scared we were scrubbing eggs and baking the mail.

"But Fauci--" Shut up. In those first months, we were so horny for someone smart and competent that when Fauci was asked who should play him on SNL and he said, "I don't know, Brad Pitt?" they got Brad Pitt and he ended the bit by breaking character to thank Fauci.

I think the reason the conservatives will never forgive Fauci was that he attempted to appeal to their empathy and they don't have any. Putting a visible tangible symbol on your face that you care about other people is humiliating to that tribe and they'll never stop resenting being told to do so.

The political machine that was already operating at high gear instantly took "please wear a mask, get the shot, and observe social distancing rules" took mere Nanoseconds to translate that into "an assault on their freedoms" They don't GET TOLD. They DO THE TELLING.