I have empathy for essential workers like grocery store workers who were repeatedly exposed to COVID19 by dumbass customers. I have empathy for the healthcare workers who sickened and died bc they did their jobs and cared for other sick/dying people. I feel empathy for those...
In prison and the concentration camps at the border; the government didn't do enough to protect them from the Coronavirus and, given their circumstances, were not in a position to help themselves. I feel empathy for children who caught the virus from adults who failed to protect
Them by either reopening schools too early or by refusing to take adequate precautions themselves. I feel empathy for people who lost their jobs and are now struggling with food/housing insecurity. I feel empathy for people who, isolating themselves out of concern for their own
Safety and the safety of others, are now suffering deleterious effects to their mental health. I empathize with anyone who sheltered in place with an abuser. I empathize with anyone who has a panic attack whenever they have to venture out. I sympathize w those who are struggling
To keep healthcare during a global pandemic. I empathize even more with those who didn't have it in the first place....

I empathize with lots of different people for lots of different reasons...
But I WILL NEVER empathize with Trump. I can't muster that small measure of humanity for a man who (1) repeatedly downplayed the severity of the virus (and stirred up anti-Asian racism all the while); (2) refused to issue a natl mandate on masks; (3) amplified the voices of...
People who sought to defy state-level masking mandates/ stay-at-home orders, (4) suggested nonsensical solutions to treatment like bleach-drinking while (5) refusing to mass produce PPE & stealing PPE from governors who were forced to bid against each other; (6) leaving America's
Largest city, New York, to die when the virus was hitting us particularly hard, (7) exploiting the cultural divides within the country to his own ends.
Maybe this karma. Maybe, as @criticalthotcop pointed out, this is simply science. Whatever it was, it finally caught up with Trump.

And, no, I will never empathize with him. He has done too much to deserve this.
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