Panic!

[A Black Falcon]

You know, the way the Trump wing of the Republican party are so devoted to their cause of being a death cult that they continue to refuse the vaccines that have now been available since the end of last year, even though they work well and kill very very dramatically fewer people than the virus does, particularly the newer more transmissible variants of the virus... I mean, if you had told me THAT back when the pandemic started, like when I made this thread?  Honestly, I probably would be surprised.  I mean, Trump has spread vaccine misinformation in the past, but he supported vaccine development and took the vaccine himself.  And yet, his devotees are now all-in on dying unnecessarily while overwhelming hospitals with their stupidity, particularly in the southern states where vaccination rates are lowest.  I am very fortunate to not be in that part of the country, but still... gah, it's so, so horrible and sad, and yet most of the deaths are entirely the faults of the people dying now so that sure makes it feel somewhat less bad.  It's still bad, but not as bad as innocent victims are.

(If in some place enough conservatives manage to kill themselves with the virus that we win some election we otherwise were going to lose that sure would be poetic justice for those people...)

But yeah, seriously, everbody needs to get vaccinated.  And get a booster eventually, since they sadly seem necessary.  But since Donald Trump and his inexplicably insane fanbase have managed to politicize something which has nothing to do with politics, that isn't going to happen.  So I just hope that enough people do that we can finally beat back the virus.