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Great. Meanwhile, a restaurant server who’s been told to get back to work or lose their unemployment, can’t get a mask to save their life. Nor can any sensible person who wants to protect themself from the nevermasking, undistanced horde.
This reads like a crime novel, if the criminals were amateurs trying to make their first score with a tractor trailer full of heroin. It says a ton about the incompetence of the Trump administration that this is how the response to the pandemic has gone down, and that basic resources are being left to a shady element trying to make a profit instead of the vast resources of the federal government. I really can’t wait until we have a government that will investigate this whole shitshow and hold people accountable who let it happen and profited off of it while Americans were getting sick and dying.
There, Fixed It For Myself