This series documents stories from the Herman Cain Awards subreddit, tracking the COVID mis- and disinformation on Facebook that is leading to so many deaths. Today’s cautionary tale is … oof.
Brace yourself.
OMG.
They should pray for everyone to get vaccinated.
I’ve written it before, and unfortunately, I’m seemingly doomed to write it again and again: The most horrendous part of this pandemic era’s right-wing noise machine is how it has broken so many parents’ most basic instincts to protect their children at all costs.
They listened to the nonsense spewed on Facebook and left their 12-year-old orphaned, traumatized, bereft, and unnecessarily disadvantaged for the rest of his life. And they were both teachers! They should’ve known better!
This shit is too much. All we can hope is that someone reading this guy’s righteous rant will think twice about remaining unvaccinated. Maybe it’ll remind some people that it’s not just about themselves. That their actions have consequences for others, and especially so if they have young children.