[[Even if it were, their lives still matter. If somebody blows up a nursing home, we don’t decline to prosecute that person because the people inside were old.]]
How about if they send people who are infected with covid into the nursing homes knowing full well that 1000’s of the extremely vulnerable elderly folks are going to die, as several liberal governors did? Folks in power have certainly declined to prosecute them sadly-
You’re 100% right about that, and that’s the point I’ve been trying to get across to these people who either want to pretend the deaths aren’t happening or who want to argue that it doesn’t matter that these people died because they were old anyway.
Of course they matter! If I shoot an old man, I get prosecuted for murder. And I should! If Governor Cuomo or Governor Newsom forces nursing homes to accept known-infected patients and tens of thousands (possibly as many as 100,000) unnecessary deaths occur as a result of that policy, they should ABSOLUTELY be prosecuted for negligent homicide for every death that was caused by their policies!
But if the deaths are all fake, no prosecution. And if the deaths don’t matter because “screw old people”, no prosecution. People need to wake up and decide whether they want to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that reality isn’t real or whether they want to fight for the prosecution of those responsible for pumping up the deaths far beyond where they’d be if we had responsible leaders leading with rational policies.