GOP: Abortion is murder!

What about actual murder like mass shootings?

GOP: Mental illness!

What about healthcare to help treat mental illness?

GOP: Healthcare is a privilege not a right!

NYT: Health experts say it’s time to wear masks again https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/well/covid-flu-rsv-masks-tripledemic.html

Also the NYT: “The Last Holdouts,” framing people wearing masks as isolated oddballs https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/us/covid-masks-risk.html

"CDC Announces Negative COVID-19 Test Requirement from Air Passengers Entering the United States from the People’s Republic of China"

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p1228-COVID-china.html

U.S. exceptionalism and hypocrisy knows no bounds, pointing the finger at China whilst community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S is running rampant.👇

#covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #sarscov2 #BringBackMasks #Airborne #COVIDisAirborne
#WearAMask

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk&null=Risk

This is where "personal responsibility" leads: people avoiding any responsibility for the direct consequences of their actions.

This is why there's need for public health measures that educate the public on how their actions affect vulnerable people around them.

#COVID19

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Here's my fave #BigOldTree in #NorthSaanich - it has a #wise #face 😊

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