I had to say goodbye to my mom dying of COVID over zoom.

But I'm sure your brunch, your bar hop, your party was worth it.

Wear a damn mask and stay the fuck home.

She was in a nursing home, hoping to recover from lung cancer that had caused tumors in her brain.

She should have been safe there. But we can't even keep our most vulnerable safe because it takes everyone working together to do that.

Instead, our nation decided to act like spoiled children because they can't wear a piece of cloth over their face when they're around people. And corporate America is so obsessed with treating workers like children that they want to hover over employees in person.

So instead, I had to make the decision whether to risk my life and anyone else's that I came in contact with in order to grab my mom's hand for the last time.

I couldn't do it, and so instead I tearfully told my mom thank you for everything she had done for me over a computer screen, through an iPad held by a nurse covered in layers of PPE, as my mom's sedated body involuntarily gasped for air.

The answers to preventing this were so easy, and yet didn't happen. And so I am filled with heartbreak and rage, exchanging daily, hourly, minute by minute. I wish no one else would have to go through this, but I know that thousands and thousands more will.

To be clear, the blame lies mainly with our elected officials who lacked the correct response to this pandemic, allowing it to get to this level. ( @GovParsonMO, you're one of them)

But absent that, the blame lies with the people who don't care, who pushed for reopening early, who continue to go out and live life as if there isn't a virus that has killed 160000+ people even with all the measures that people are taking.