They are pleading for help beyond the public bromides about health care heroes, words and drive-bys that mean nothing if not backed up by actions that help cut down the body count. Our physicians and health care workers are understaffed, overrun and exhausted. The county is in the worst public health crisis it has known in its history. Then came a school board vote turning down a temporary mask rule. It was a hothouse of covid deniers exactly four miles down the road from the morgue at the hospital, where bodies are piled up as if the Black Death were resurrected. When the latest numbers are posted today and tomorrow, Flagler County schools in less than three weeks will have exceeded the number of student infections it had in 10 months of school last year, when we didn’t even have the vaccine.įor all that, what took up 90 minutes of the school board’s time before the chamber had to be cleared last week were fanatical arguments against masking and a bogus story about an Indian Trails Middle School student.
We’ve had more infections since July in Flagler than we had all of last year combined. At least 40 Flagler County residents have died of the disease just in the last four weeks. We have nearly 100 people hospitalized with covid at AdventHealth Palm Coast. It’s the divide between the maskers and anti-maskers, the vaccine states and the anti-vaxxer confederacy, the scientific north and the social media South, where misinformation has the weight of gospel, and where even elected officials abuse their position to corrupt truth and amplify fabrications.
I don’t think it’s ironic that the two wars at this point follow the same North-South boundaries. So we go about our business waiting to see what kind of casualties we’ll be in this biological civil war that’s claiming more lives much faster than did the more conventional one a century and a half ago. For my son at Flagler Palm Coast High School, for my wife with the strings program she runs, they’re convinced it’s a matter of time before they get infected with covid despite their vaccines, despite their masks, which can’t do much against those around them who think masks are the biggest threat to their freedom since Tojo bombed Pearl Harbor. I’m feeling like a sitting duck these days, as are the other members of my family.
#SCREW YOUR FREEDOM MEME FREE#
So this is why I think we all have to work together on this.… We have to come together rather than fighting and always just saying, 'According to my principles this is a free country and I have the freedom to wear no mask.' Yeah, you have the freedom to wear no mask, but you know something? You're a schmuck for not wearing a mask.The prevailing mood at last week’s Flagler County School Board meeting: a surrender to fatal fairy tales. You cannot go and not put the mask on because when you breathe you can infect someone else, and you can infect someone that then gets sick and may die. You cannot say, 'No one is going to tell me that I'm going to stop here, I'm going to go right through it.' Yeah, then you kill someone else. They put the traffic light in the intersection so someone doesn't kill someone else by accident. "It's like, no different than a traffic light. That is when it gets serious," he argued. You cannot just say, 'I have the right to do x, y, and z,' when you affect other people. Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities. And the only way we prevent it is we get vaccinated, we wear masks, we do social distancing, washing your hands all of the time, and not just to think about, 'Well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.' No, screw your freedom. "I think people should know there is a virus here, it kills people.
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