Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Nurse reveals how she pranks Covid deniers who call her a crisis actor" video.

  1. Education to the fascist Republican cult means programming lies, fears, and hate into people, while discouraging critical reasoning, independent thought, and objectivity.
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  2. Republicans: "We're killing democracy, America, and ourselves...so we can keep it great!"
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  3. We may never know the origins of COVID-19, but we do know that Toxic Trump and Republicans are responsible for the senseless deaths of over a half-million Americans by politicizing a deadly pandemic, through gross incompetence and homicidal criminal negligence, and by spreading disinformation and callous, wanton disregard for human life. Additionally, they are also responsible for most of the unnecessary suffering and long-term adverse health outcomes caused to millions of Americans contracting COVID-19.
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  4. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (VVM, or “the Wall”) is dedicated not to the war, but to the 2.7 million U.S. military men and women who served in the war zone, living and dead. It contains nearly 58,300 names of those dead or missing, on two ten-foot high granite wings, each spanning nearly 250 feet. A close uncle’s name is etched into the black rock of the Wall. Propose erecting a similar monument for all those who senselessly lost their lives to COVID-19 due to our Traitor-‘n-Thief, Toxic Trump, and all those Republican so-called “leaders” in Congress, SCOTUS, and the GOP, along with Reich-wing demagogues and media, who were complicit in enabling, aiding, and abetting his malfeasance, and in spreading disinformation and misinformation. In just four MONTHS, the U.S. had ALREADY needlessly lost more than TWICE as many to COVID-19 than died in all thirteen YEARS of the Vietnam war. By the time Trump left office, one out of every 800 Americans had died from COVID-19 in just ten months--over 410,000 fatalities, as many American casualties as all of WWII. To put it into further perspective, throughout Trump's catastrophic mishandling of a deadly global pandemic, the U.S. led the world in cases and deaths, suffering nearly 25% of each, despite having only 4.25% of global population, despite having the advantage of being the richest and most advanced nation in the world. The memorial would also honor all those front-line ESSENTIAL workers who selflessly put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe and secure; the names of their dead to be given prominence and note upon the structure. Whether constructed in the form of a wall or something different, its principle intent would be to serve as a constant, enduring reminder to us all and to future generations; as a testament to—and a barrier against—our own American ignorance, arrogance, avarice, cowardice, and malevolence. A sort of visual prophylactic, if you will, built in hope of protecting us against inbred hubris, greed, and stupidity. It’s design should be open, with interchangeable elements that challenge—and help teach—people to reason, and to think critically and objectively, while stressing humanity, humility and humbleness. The VVM Wall is likewise also a monument to American ignorance, hubris, avarice, and malevolence, although erected solely to honor those military personnel. Few may think, or have thought, of it that way; and doubtless many would refuse to think of it as such, but the truth stands out in stark, prominent display for everyone to see…if they just apply a little critical, objective reasoning. Another thought to ponder: The VVM Wall marks the first time America fatally failed that generation; the proposed monument would mark our second time they were senselessly sacrificed. Would like to see the proposed COVID-19 monument erected adjacent to the prior monument attesting failure, the VVM Wall, to serve as symbolic bookends, as a further tribute to that ill-served generation of Americans.
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  5. Keep telling these Reich-wing religious extremists and nut jobs that COVID-19 is not just an opportunistic killer, striking down the old and infirm, but a random killer too, capable of killing or injuring even those who are younger and in the peak of health. But they refuse to listen, seem bound and determined to prove Darwin's theory of evolution by wiping themselves out, making the human race smarter!
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