Another attack on a vaccination site
This is the natural result of @GOP pro-plague politics, and why we have the worst COVID-19 numbers in the world.
InMinivanHell - @inminivanhell · 9:08 AM · Jan 8, 2022
Thomas Apollo went to a mobile clinic in Tustin, CA to protest covid vaccines. After calling employees “murderers” he assaulted them. Punching numerous staff members, leaving one requiring emergency care, it took 7 officers and a stun gun to subdue him.
He was cited & released.
[EMBEDDED ABC7 VIDEO OF ATTACK (KABC-TV 7 Los Angeles)]
The @GOP decided a long time ago to operate on the philosophy of “our country or no country,” in that if they don’t get to rule, there’s no functional country _to_ rule, which means unending sabotage when out of power.
Talk all you want about how we could have 100000s fewer dead - millions fewer long-term ill - how we could have this under control with rational steps.
None of it matters when you have a literal party of plague and sabotage - the @GOP - intentionally making everything worse.
This is the reality you HAVE TO face when actually trying to _implement_ COVID response.
You can science all you want - I certainly do - but if you do so ignoring the political reality on the ground, including the fact that @FoxNews and the @GOP will sabotage at every turn...
...then your plans may as well be astrology for all the good they’ll do.
The way out of this is to make pro-plague politicians and pro-sabotage parties to go down hard. To lock them out of power, and make it stick, because that power is the _only_ consequence they care about.
It’s been so obvious - so outright stated - for so long, and yet, people _not_ on Team Plague keep ignoring this basic reality, acting, planning, setting their own expectations as if this defining political axiom doesn’t matter.
Or doesn’t exist.
Like antivaxxers do with COVID.
Things you don’t want to be real are _still real_, no matter how much you wish or pray or demand they weren’t, be it COVID or structural white supremacy or the fact that the
gop
actively boost the plague via sabotage.
Until you actually accept that, you can’t fix _anything_.
And that refusal to acknowledge reality… that, maybe more than anything else, is this moment’s actual defining axiom.
Not that we want to change reality. That’s fine.
That we won’t even acknowledge what our current reality even is.
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InMinivanHell - @inminivanhell · 9:08 AM · Jan 8, 2022
Thomas Apollo went to a mobile clinic in Tustin, CA to protest covid vaccines. After calling employees “murderers” he assaulted them. Punching numerous staff members, leaving one requiring emergency care, it took 7 officers and a stun gun to subdue him.
He was cited & released.
[EMBEDDED ABC7 VIDEO OF ATTACK (KABC-TV 7 Los Angeles)]
The @GOP decided a long time ago to operate on the philosophy of “our country or no country,” in that if they don’t get to rule, there’s no functional country _to_ rule, which means unending sabotage when out of power.
Talk all you want about how we could have 100000s fewer dead - millions fewer long-term ill - how we could have this under control with rational steps.
None of it matters when you have a literal party of plague and sabotage - the @GOP - intentionally making everything worse.
This is the reality you HAVE TO face when actually trying to _implement_ COVID response.
You can science all you want - I certainly do - but if you do so ignoring the political reality on the ground, including the fact that @FoxNews and the @GOP will sabotage at every turn...
...then your plans may as well be astrology for all the good they’ll do.
The way out of this is to make pro-plague politicians and pro-sabotage parties to go down hard. To lock them out of power, and make it stick, because that power is the _only_ consequence they care about.
It’s been so obvious - so outright stated - for so long, and yet, people _not_ on Team Plague keep ignoring this basic reality, acting, planning, setting their own expectations as if this defining political axiom doesn’t matter.
Or doesn’t exist.
Like antivaxxers do with COVID.
Things you don’t want to be real are _still real_, no matter how much you wish or pray or demand they weren’t, be it COVID or structural white supremacy or the fact that the
gop
actively boost the plague via sabotage.
Until you actually accept that, you can’t fix _anything_.
And that refusal to acknowledge reality… that, maybe more than anything else, is this moment’s actual defining axiom.
Not that we want to change reality. That’s fine.
That we won’t even acknowledge what our current reality even is.
Also posted to ソ-ラ-バ-ド-のおん;
comments at Dreamwidth. Please comment there.