No matter how sick they are, or who they infect, or whether other colleagues are exposed, this hearing is going to happen, and it’s going to happen on schedule.
, hugging and shaking hands, laughing, and celebrating. This event now appears to have infected multiple elected officials, presidential advisers, journalists, staffers who were just doing their jobs, and countless yet-to-be-tested others. There is also the question of the nameless people who came in contact with people in attendance at the event and who may also have been infected with a lethal virus.
Oh, right. Because they believed that being tested, having their temperature taken, and being given the assurances of the president that masks are stupid meant they were immune. In short, “because I can.”on Saturday morning, for those people who haven’t seen their parents or grandchildren, haven’t heard live music, haven’t hugged a living soul for eight months, the indignity of “because I can” truly smarts.
For many of us, the pain of the current moment is that it’s difficult to know what to feel when political leadership that believed itself impervious to fact, science, consequences, history, moral judgment, and public will is suddenly faced with the lethal reality of all those things. Already, more thanof a virus many Republicans believed would never touch them.
and now it has, and trying to work out how to feel about that is still complicated. But the GOP is proceeding as though nothing has changed, even in the midst of realizing that the party at which it celebrated its SCOTUS victory, because it could, turned out to be a possible superspreader event.
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