Masks are not a lockdown.
Nor is testing before events.
Or getting boosters.
Or improving ventilation & filtration.

None of those interventions (despite some people's best efforts to claim otherwise) cause more harm than good. Every person who cares about the economy, jobs & quality of life will support sensible #COVID19 precautions, not oppose them.

Some people are advocating for millions more to die and many more to be chronically disabled. Reject their patent lack of sense & empathy.

Any pundit who is criticizing Pres. Zelenskyy's attire is failing to read the room, but moreover, they're just completely missing the point.

A country and its leader under immediate and existential threats have no time for suits and neckties.

He has no visible rank or medals or nametapes or epaulets or brass buttons or starched creases. He's wearing what women and men who are fighting on the frontlines in Ukraine are wearing.

He's wearing the urgency of the moment.

That's the point.

Washington Post journalists on Mastodon:

@willoremus
@taylorlorenz
@teddyamen
@tonyromm
@tatumhunter
@Shira
@samueloakford
@rachellerman
@pbump
@perrybacon
@NaomiNix
@nitashatiku
@markseibel
@jeremybowers
@jeremybmerrill
@JosephMenn
@hamzashaban
@heatherkelly
@gbrockell
@geoffreyfowler
@Ddiamond
@databae
@cristianolima
@cqz
@bellwak
@andrewvandam
@alyssafowers
@aaronjschaffer

Please let me know who I'm missing! More to come.