How stuck in the hive mind of fear do you need to be in order to tweet something like this?

Ali feels that he's "in a horror movie" because [checks notes]... children who are overwhelmingly not at risk for a virus that now has a widely disseminated vaccine are enjoying normal life without covering their faces with thin masks that they're constantly touching.

How do you even arrive at a tweet like this without having watched CNN eight hours a day for the last year?

I mean, seriously, is this some bad attempt at a troll??? I don't know if Ali realizes this, but outside of little blue bubbles like his, 95% of people are walking around without masks now.

"...I'm in a horror movie."

Yeah, people had some thoughts for this paranoid man:

Some pointed out that Ali's young daughter is a cancer survivor, and while that understandably increases her specific risk level, what he's implying is that all of society should be held hostage to fear in order to mitigate any perceived risk of injury or illness to his child.

Were that rule to be followed, none of us would ever be allowed to leave our homes again, let alone do insanely risky things like strap ourselves in a gas-filled metal machine that hurdles us down roads using controlled explosions!

And yet, Ali doubled down on his madness, saying "right-wing Twitter" had been "triggered" by his assertion that children enjoying life unimpeded with their families was "a horror movie." He also threw in an erroneous claim that the neckbeards at the Capitol killed five people, because lefties have to connect everything to that incident to keep the lie of their worldview running!

This guy is supposed to be a journalist!

Sorry bro, if you think letting kids be normal humans again when we've held them hostage for over a year with a virus that doesn't statistically affect them, you don't get to claim the people opposing you are the loony ones.