The @PAGOP, @MikeTurzai, @russdiamond think it's a joke to withhold health information from their colleagues, belittling them for challenging them on this, yet they've taken precautions from themselves to protect their own loved ones from #COVID19 in their midst. 1/ https://twitter.com/BrianSimsPA/status/1265801436794949636

This is so deeply cynical, hypocritical, callous and cruel. But it's what the @GOP has become across the country nowadays. Accumulating power, protecting and enriching themselves, at the expense of everyone else. 2/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/politics/andrew-lewis-brian-sims-pa-house-coronavirus.html

I remember when some #Republicans challenged @realDonaldTrump as a candidate on moral grounds, but in the span of just a few years have decided their own political fortunes are paramount and they've turned themselves into Mini-Me's of @POTUS. 3/

Now cruelty isn't a bug, it's the feature of what they do. It's the point. Let's just step out of the politics of it for the moment. What does this say to our children, what lessons does it provide? 4/

It says: Lie. Risk the safety of others, if you can protect yourself. Say whatever you need to say to get what you want, even as you privately act differently. Don't ever admit you're wrong. Just belittle or bully those who challenge you. 5/

This is about moral rot, a corruption now beyond political that has leached into our culture. Remember family values? Remember every time they invoke God in their remarks, proclaim their devotion to religion? Well, in biblical terms, they are a shiqquts, שיקוץ, an abomination. 6/

I can't believe this is who we are. Who we have become. Beating #SARSCoV2 is a collective task, it requires generosity, deep feeling for your fellow man and woman, extraordinary sacrifice, caring for someone other than yourself. No wonder we are where we are now. end/