“Know Nothing” Republicans Must Be Held Responsible for the Death and Suffering They’ve Caused
The GOP’s lies should land them in the dustbin of history
Two weeks ago Jerry Schneiderman, my best friend for 50 years, didn’t answer my call when I phoned his home to say hi. Instead, his stepson told me he’d been taken by ambulance to the hospital with Covid pneumonia.
When I finally got through to him at the hospital ER, he told me between gasps for breath that the doctors “aren’t optimistic,” that he missed his beloved wife, and his final words to me that day were, “I don’t want to die here all alone.”
It’s hard to describe the pain and fear you feel when your best friend, a person you’ve shared most of your life with, tells you he may be dead within a day or two. Louise and I were shell-shocked. Jerry survived, at least so far, but many more have not.
A half-million Americans are dead from Covid.
No other country in the world has seen this kind of death. None.
America has lost more people in the last year than we lost in all the wars of the 20th century combined. More than those who died in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam war, the war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq, combined.
