Let’s Declare A Pandemic Amnesty
Posted By: Pinkpanther, 10/31/2022 11:49:53 AM
In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself. We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching on the trail and we needed to put on our masks. Once, when another child got too close to my then-4-year-old son on a bridge, he yelled at her “SOCIAL DISTANCING!” These precautions were totally misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare CORRECTION*
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Let’s Declare A Pandemic Amnesty
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In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself. We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching on the trail and we needed to put on our masks. Once, when another child got too close to my then-4-year-old son on a bridge, he yelled at her “SOCIAL DISTANCING!” These precautions were totally misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare CORRECTION*
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Let’s not forget this is the woman who has tweets from last year encouraging people to prevent antivaxxers from participating in travel and public activities. No, I won’t forgive nor forget how my family and I were treated by the vaxx crowd. People have died from this vaccine, lost their livelihoods and treated like trash. I don’t want amnesty, I want accountability, including jail time.