A covenant with death

From CPAC.

This is what conservatism has become: paranoid fantasies about life-saving vaccines and an active alliance with a deadly virus against humanity. Cheers for the fact that we have thus far failed in this country to vaccinate enough people to achieve herd immunity and put the pandemic behind us. The alliance with ignorance that lies at the heart of the Trump revolution has clearly and frankly become a covenant with death.

There is blood on these people’s hands, and no sane or decent person should have any illusions about it. To discourage people from being vaccinated, to keep the pandemic going, to stop us from reaching herd immunity, to give COVID a chance to mutate further and undo a golden opportunity to end a scourge that has killed over 600,000 Americans already is simply evil.

The issue when it comes to vaccination is not a mere difference of opinion. The anti-vax position is not simply an alternative viewpoint, any more than resistance to lockdowns, masks, and other common-sense public health measures were differences of opinon. Given the amount of misinformation the radical right has spread about COVID, the pandemic, and the vaccines, to be confused and a little hesitant is certainly understandable. But to actively promote that disinformation is barbaric.

Tens of thousands have already died unnecessarily because of the misinformation spread by these extremists. At this critical moment when COVID could be dealt a decisive blow and the pandemic put behind us, nobody should be confused about the fact that the product being sold by people like this guy is not merely confusion and ignorance, but death itself.