What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.”
HUMANS!
I understand that underneath the “are we just supposed to wear a mask forever?” question is a fear of uncertainty and genuine panic but what if we just focused on wearing a mask today, tomorrow, and this week? Let’s get through this week before worrying about forever.
I know millennials get a bad rap for being corny and too into BuzzFeed quizzes and identifying way too hard with Hogwarts Houses but we’ve been dealt a horrible hand and turned out to be the best generation
You know what is effective against H5N1? Masking. respirators. The thing that most of you gave up on despite disability advocates pleading you to protect us (and yourselves).
We are NOT prepared for another pandemic - and the best thing you can do right now is wear a mask
The mission now is to save what we can.
The future is going to be worse and more painful. The damage will be felt for decades.
But we save what we can. And make them fight for every inch of what they destroy. There's not really another choice.
A dire dire day for the living planet. Probably on balance literally the worst day ever.
Future generations will curse those who made today possible. That is not any kind of nastiness; it is simply a statement of fact.
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