I think pretty much everyone saw this coming

Two separate incidents, one anecdote from a nursing forum I lurk on and the other a story from NPR.

keep in mind, this isn’t happening at the start of the pandemic, this is nine months after the development of not one, but several safe and effective vaccines. This is something that shouldn’t happen in any, even semi-functional society.

I’m not sure where we go from here.

3 thoughts on “I think pretty much everyone saw this coming”

  1. From A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller:

    So it was that, after the Deluge, the Fallout, the plagues, the madness, the confusion of tongues, the rage, there began the bloodletting of the Simplification, when remnants of mankind had torn other remnants limb from limb, killing rulers, scientists, leaders, technicians, teachers, and whatever persons the leaders of the maddened mobs said deserved death for having helped to make the Earth what it had become. Nothing had been so hateful in the sight of these mobs as the man of learning, at first because they had served the princes, but then later because they refused to join in the bloodletting and tried to oppose the mobs, calling the crowds “bloodthirsty simpletons.”

    Joyfully the mobs accepted the name, took up the cry: Simpletons! Yes, yes! I’m a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We’ll build a town and we’ll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they’ll be dead! Simpletons! Let’s go. This ought to show ‘em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!

    1. I found all the ranting about death panels to be funny(?) poignant(?). Anyone paying attention knows that we’ve had death panels forever, its just that they’re run by private insurance companies and based on economics instead of being run by the government and based on need and available resources. That makes it all okay I guess?

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