If you are paid to spend days searching through media of all types, traditional, social media, blogs, it is impossible not to notice the number of people who have decided that there isn’t an issue out there that doesn’t fall on one side of the political line or the other. Perhaps, sports might be the lone last holdout, perhaps.

If one had asked three years ago whether a global pandemic, one that could take the lives of up to one million Americans, if not more, could rally the country together as a whole, unifying everyone, there is a chance it might have been something for which we could set aside politics. Sadly, we never even got the chance to see if society could unite.

Trump rolled out COVID wrapped in politics, taking away the CDC’s ability to “speak” and running everything through messaging at the White House. Perhaps if Trump had come out and said, “People, this is big, we all have to come together on this. The CDC will be issuing guidelines and we will follow them…” it is entirely possible that COVID might have rallied the nation. We never got the chance.

“We do so much testing…” (Said Trump, defensively), has led to statements on Twitter by literate people who can even assert themselves rather elegantly, telling us that “viruses” are not real and that vaccines have always been a pharma gambit. These same rather elegant statements ignore that smallpox has been eradicated from the earth. It used to eradicate entire armies.

So here we sit, now having to listen to someone like Christina Lowe, who is only 32 years old, and a widow. She and her husband Mikel were strongly opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine and masks because they thought – of course – that this was just another political wedge. They were not going to let the libs tell them what to do.

Mikel, a fifteen year fireman who likely helped save lives is dead of COVID and Christina now wants you to know it’s not political, sort of, Rawstory brings us a clip from a San Diego television station:

We thought the vaccine was rushed,” Lowe told NBC San Diego. “We thought it was more about money and power than about Americans and protecting the people… We honestly thought that COVID was mostly political.”

The vaccines were rushed because COVID rushed. The “rush” led to “imperfect” (but very close to perfect) vaccines and yes, a lot of money was involved because it takes a lot of money and a lot of money is going to change hands with anything at that level, it just “is.” When a lot of money changes hands, it’s inherently a little political but that doesn’t make the issue a fairy tale.

Mikel had developed a pneumonia at home:

“I went upstairs to check on him and his face was purple and blue. He was struggling to breathe on oxygen.”

That’s not political, it is tragic, he was only 37 and had to be in reasonable shape to be a fireman. And now, because they decided it was political and he died, she needs help:

“He was a firefighter, a man of honor and integrity,” his sister wrote on a GoFundMe campaign. “Please help my sister in law provide for her sons in this deeply devastating time. We all know this money will not be able to bring him back, but this money will be able to help Christina as she is now a widow that needs to provide for her sons.

The sons are victims, they are honorable. All children are. But at what point does ignoring the obvious in order to maintain one’s political beliefs transition from “honorable fireman” to “stubborn idiot MAGA,” when asking for help afterward? We give the help because the sons shouldn’t suffer the sins of thy father. But don’t call it honorable.

Christina, for her part, still doesn’t really get it:

“I understand some of you believe that this political– and it might be, it could be political, I don’t know that it’s not,” Christina said. “I do know that because of that decision of my husband believing it was political, that was why he did not want to wear a mask, he did not want to get vaccinated. He didn’t trust them. It cost him his life.

That is not honorable. Sorry. We want it to be, but this “and it might be, it could be political…” we hate to sound hardened but she could go back to the net at any point (the net never forgets) and read a million articles saying “It’s not political,” and even after her husband’s death, it still might be? No, she is holding on to that “might be” because she must hold on to her MAGA, it is her identity. Perhaps she’s worried about sounding too “liberal” if she said, “This isn’t political! Get masked and vaxed!” Hence the “might be, could be.”

We feel bad for those kids, who have it uphill from here on out:

"It was too late:" After suffering the loss of her firefighter husband to COVID-19, a Henderson woman is voicing a plea for the community to get the vaccine. @maddiewhitetv has more.

FULL STORY: https://t.co/KgaJ0SdXGV pic.twitter.com/aHqx4HBE7p

— FOX5 Las Vegas (@FOX5Vegas) September 3, 2021

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