Accompanying the event's
Facebook page is a
Facebook group of more than 7,000 members dubbed
"Reopen Missouri." The group's cover image is one of Mel Gibson from
Braveheart, a movie which ends (spoiler alert) with the main protagonist dying while experiencing tortuous, agonizing pain. So far, so apt.
Here is the group's description:
Here's how we can provide greater protection to those who are most vulnerable to COVID-19:
1. Ask everyone over 70 and anyone with serious underlying health conditions to hunker down more than they have been.
2. Ask the rest of the population to get back to work.
3. Mobilize those who have already tested positive and recovered to cater to the needs of those who are most vulnerable.
Now is the time to reopen Missouri! So, to recap:
1. Into the cellar with you, grandma! We're gonna head out into the world and spread this shit like wildfire; you go ahead and live in absolute isolation — hunkering down even "more than [you] have been," in the words of the same exact people who believe the level at which we've all been hunkering down is akin to tyranny and torture — while the rest of us cough all over everything and overwhelm the hospitals so that when you fall down and break your hip in your house there are no ambulances left to come help you. It's for your own good!
2. Back to work, everybody! Never mind the fact that demand for most goods and services will be absolutely decimated whether these businesses are open or not on account of the many, many people staying home and sheltering in place under the advice of scientists and medical professionals. And never mind the fact that if you absolutely must work, you can likely get a job at a grocery store or hospital sanitation team right now, since those industries are booming. Not scared? To the front with you, then!
3. Ah yes, because there's been no problems so far with getting tested, right (HAHAHAHAHA)? Also, P.S., you can help those who are most vulnerable
now; you don't need to wait until the government allows you to get your nails done again. Make a casserole and leave it on your elderly neighbor's porch if you need something to do so badly.
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