I think this doctor speaks for a lot of us:

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I've been trying to stay away from Twitter for a few days (maybe after this tweet I'll do it).

3+ yrs ago today I was just some guy, a dad & a husband, toiling away in a nursing home tucked away in a corner of some blue state.

I wasn't political - like, at all. In fact - I despise the duplicity & rancor of politics. If you met me you wouldn't guess my politics - I never discussed them much with anyone.

I never voted for Trump, I voted for Obama in his first term & Gary Johnson (the libertarian) in the second election, IIRC. I simply was some rando healthcare worker - really, nobody remarkable.

When the lockdowns started, like everyone else I was caught up in the mass panic & shock. I went along with it - I supported (brief) mask mandates. I felt unsettled & very wrong about it, but I went along with lockdowns. I believed this would all go away when vaccines came out.

But it didn't. My kids stayed home from school for a year. My nursing home patients got sealed away from the world & subjected essentially to nonstop terror campaigns, treated like prisoners (I've talked about the "prison-like window visits") & essentially subjected to solitary confinement. They were cut off from their families. Everyone around them faceless, masked. I got to watch nurses trying to force decrepit old people with dementia into masks. These are images I still can't get out of my head.

I started feeling increasingly frustrated, guilty, demoralized. I was holding it all inside.

The world has gone completely insane now, with a single party & a weird, toxic, paranoid patchwork ideology of Wokeness & biomedical terror reigning unchecked on the population since Biden took office.

So I became a sort of weird online activist - I became "GeroDoc" almost a year ago now.

My main advocacy has been to get an "urgency of normal" for nursing home residents started. I see the fortunes of children (who also have been isolated, terrorized, & forced to mask like nursing home residents) linked with my residents. The most vulnerable in society have been used as political pawns by cynical operators who weaponized empathy to control people.

Everyone's life has changed since three years ago. I don't have nearly as much joy as I used to about the world - and I see what happened three years ago was a turning point where hope was stolen from so many of us.

Anyways, I don't know what else there is to say. I'll read a few responses then I think I really do have to log off for a few days. Thanks for listening.

There's a lot of angry, loud people on the internet, but I'd wager the majority of us feel like this man.

Know that you're not alone. A lot of us feel the pain of what they've done to us. It's going to take a lot of work to remake what they've broken. Let's do it together.