Nothing arouses liberals more these days than expressing a deep sense of disappointment in people who didn’t lock the doors and hide under the bed for a year because they might otherwise risk being exposed to a virus that is severely harmful only to relatively few people.
That arousal continues with the latest column from David Brooks. “In 2020,” he wrote Thursday, “Americans failed to socially distance and test for the coronavirus and suffered among the highest infection and death rates in the developed world. Millions decided that wearing a mask infringed their individual liberty.”
You hear that, losers? Brooks is disappointed in you.
And now, on to the vaccination shaming.
“We’re not asking you to storm the beaches of Iwo Jima,” Brooks said of the people who are simply not as smart as he is. “We’re asking you to walk into a damn CVS.”
Brooks goes on, however, to signal his virtuous consideration for ethnic minorities — they are not the target of his disdain. Of course not! “Marginalized groups tend to be the most distrustful, for good reasons — they’ve been betrayed,” he wrote.
It’s not your fault, black and Latinx people! I like you! You are excused for not doing the things I’m so high on my horse about!
After all of that, Brooks concludes by promoting President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar welfare scheme (sometimes referred to as an “infrastructure plan”) because, he says, it would signal that “we are in this together.”
But, of course, Brooks doesn’t really care about Biden’s spending push. That didn’t show up until the last two paragraphs of his article, after 13 paragraphs of haranguing everyone who is fed up with being told to do just one more thing, to wait just a little longer, to “hunker down” just until it’s “safe.”
No, what Brooks really cares about is telling you what a disappointment you are for “failing” him because it makes him feel good to put others down (unless you’re black or Hispanic).
People are declining to get vaccinated against the coronavirus for a number of reasons. Brooks being an insufferable snob about it is surely one of them.
