Ivermectin and Other Sins: How the Political Right Got Away With Murder (or at Least Involuntary Man

[LawDem]

Steve Day
BuzzFlash

Imagine someone you loved died a horrible death unnecessary. Now, imagine there have been many other such deaths. Worse still, many of these deaths have occurred, at least in part, because of lies told to the victims by people they trusted. Finally, imagine that despite all of this death and suffering, the people who spread the lies have in no way been held accountable for their actions. In fact, many are continuing to spread the same kind of misinformation.

For literally millions of Americans — and, yes, it is millions — this isn’t hypothetical. It’s a truth they live with every day. Husbands and wives, children and parents, close friends — people once central to their lives, now are gone forever. Empty chairs at the table on holidays, stories untold, joy unfelt.

And so much of it was unnecessary, so criminally unnecessary.

There have been so many misleading claims regarding Covid: some are outright lies, others pseudoscientific garbage believed and recklessly shared with others. They fly across the internet, leaving a trail of broken lives. Some involve the virus itself. The blue-ribbon winners in this category, of course, are the many claims that the Covid pandemic was a hoax created to hurt Donald Trump. Then there is the never-ending drumroll from those who insist, on the basis of no evidence, Covid is no worse than the flu, children don’t catch it, and, in any case, it will soon disappear.

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