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If I wake up with superpowers, I will compel Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott to spend one week working in Covid ICU units and then publicly describe their experiences and observations. What they do next will show us if they have empathy for other people. Or are just brazenly ambitious, power-hungry politicians for whom human suffering is an acceptable means to an end.

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Without PPE. And having to do the cleanup: emptying bedpans, cleaning rooms of patients who died, etc.

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👍👍👍👍

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...and have to tell a family member about the death.

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These words...." just brazenly ambitious, power-hungry politicians for whom human suffering is an acceptable means to an end"..... Yes.

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Michael, You have prescribed a forced empathy treatment. What do I think of already sick and suffering patients being exposed to DeSantis and Abbott -- not so much.

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Good point Fern ... yikes!

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Yes, I imagined lying in a hospital bed and awakening to DeSantis' face. Oh, Cynthia, I saw that now as I wrote it. Excusing me, while I go to throw up.

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Okay, I'll be the meany in the room - if they are people who CHOSE not to be vaccinated and/or wear masks, I think there is some justice in their awakening to the faces of those two.

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Hi meany. There is no guarantee that all the patients D and A might encounter are anti-vaxxers with covid. Hospitals cannot fill beds according to D's and A's work schedule. You re also ignoring the nurses, aids and other hospital staff. You don't want to mean to them, do you?

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OK, here's my ultimate meany moment...when the beds and supplies run out, how about they go to the back off the line...? ( I know there is no line, but...)

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Good point. I just figured while we were fantasizing extreme improbabilities, we could also make sure that everyone was matched up appropriately...

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Me too!

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I vote super powers for you, Michael.

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So mote it be. I don't think they could make it for a week. I would settle for a 24-hour shift where each idjt would be responsible for physical care of actual patients.

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And they don’t get to sleep more than 3 hours a night.

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And when their bases are no longer alive...?!

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Not gifted at long-term effects thinking.

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Good one, you funny meanie.

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Certainly an example of the need for better teaching of critical thinking skills.

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Michael, I think your second choice sums it up for them.

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Michael, Your last sentence says it all.

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I suspect one day would bring them to their knees begging for mercy or their Mamas.

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Thank you, Beth. I would settle for them on their knees through eternity.

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