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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPandemic Fatigue Is Real--But Now Is Not the Time to Give Into It
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Fred Wellman
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Eloquent and sobering from Molly.
Pandemic Fatigue Is RealBut Now Is Not the Time to Give Into It via @MollyJongFast | Vogue
Pandemic Fatigue Is Real. But Now Is Not the Time to Give Into It.
This dark winter will not be forever. Spring will come again. It always does.
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Fred Wellman
@FPWellman
Eloquent and sobering from Molly.
Pandemic Fatigue Is RealBut Now Is Not the Time to Give Into It via @MollyJongFast | Vogue
Pandemic Fatigue Is Real. But Now Is Not the Time to Give Into It.
This dark winter will not be forever. Spring will come again. It always does.
vogue.com
https://www.vogue.com/article/pandemic-fatigue-is-real-but-coronavirus-vaccine-is-almost-here
Yes, the vaccine is coming, I told myself as I spent my first Thanksgiving without any of my 70something parents in the hope of keeping them safe. Yes, the vaccine is coming, I tell myself as I look ahead to what will be an even lonelier Christmas. Yes, the vaccine is coming, I tell my father, who hasnt see his grandchildren in months. Yes, the vaccine is coming, I silently mouth as I look into my childrens bedrooms as they stare into the blue lights of their computer screens, deprived of school, friends, family and what used to be called normal life.
As we were warned, the darkest winter in history has arrived on our doorstep, with the most chilling of numbers: More than 2,800 Americans died on Wednesday, the most reported in a single day since the pandemic started back in March. And on Friday, more than 226,000 new cases recorded, another new single-day record. California is about to go into another lockdown, and unbelievably, one of every 800 people in North Dakota have now died of coronavirus. Hospitals from Missouri to New Mexico to Minnesota say they will soon run out of beds for the patients who need them. We are a country with more than 14 million cases of coronaviruswith the numbers rising every day.
Being stuck at home with unhappy teenage kids is depressingbut I know I am one of the very lucky ones. The toll this is taking on the country as a whole is almost unimaginable. According to the Washington Post, One in 8 Americans reported they sometimes or often didnt have enough food to eat in the past week. And the U.S. economy has a greater jobs deficit than was the case at the very worst point of every previous postwar recession, including the Great Recession.
We are a country that is sick, broken, and broke. Our president golfs and rages about the election, completely uninterested in the destruction hes wrought. His response to the coronavirus has been a humanitarian nightmare of unprecedented proportions. More than 14 million Americans have had COVID-19, and the real number is likely significantly higher since our president isnt a fan of testing because he believes it creates more cases. Mitch McConnell seems uninterested in providing financial relief for the millions who suffer, though stimulus talks are ongoing.
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Pandemic Fatigue Is Real--But Now Is Not the Time to Give Into It (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Dec 2020
OP
Food lines and evictions. Republicans sure worked hard to do unnecessary damage!
Hermit-The-Prog
Dec 2020
#3
Cirque du So-What
(25,997 posts)1. World War II called in with a word to whiny MAGAts
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Imagine if we had to make sacrifices for the greater good on a scale that Americans endured during WW II. Ruffy-tuffy-wuffies like the Oaf Creepers wouldnt last a day.
Imagine if we had to make sacrifices for the greater good on a scale that Americans endured during WW II. Ruffy-tuffy-wuffies like the Oaf Creepers wouldnt last a day.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)2. Time to Bear Down and Mask Up.
We now have the fourth quarter to go! This is no time to ease up the pressure on the other team (covid).
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,471 posts)3. Food lines and evictions. Republicans sure worked hard to do unnecessary damage!