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Michael Collins Morton

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Writer seeking to uphold essential human values. UK native currently residing in PNW. Married to Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social Varied examples from a lifetime of writing https://mcollinsmorton.blogspot.com/

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · May 11

The world of 2019, the world as it was before Covid-19 took hold, is gone forever. Wishful thinking and playacting will not bring it back. We are now living in a world of unrestrained disease, a world in which strong, uncompromising measures of caution and safety are urgently necessary.

#COVID19

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 2h

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When everything falls apart, and the empire of debt comes down on our heads, the billionaires will take their extreme wealth and run, leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 4h

When it happens, most people (including most "experts") will be "surprised," in spite of it having been clear for a long time that capitalism is on extremely shaky ground.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 9h

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 9h

I believe that every human life has an absolute value, and is worthy of being shielded from harm. That belief is reason enough for me to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, to avoid being an enabler of illness and mortality.

#COVID19 #respirator

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 7

Every public gathering without respirator masks, whether happening indoors or outdoors, increases the rampant spread of airborne Covid-19.

Every public gathering without respirator masks results in extreme harm, causing further instances of infection, illness, and mortality.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Aug 22

As things stand now, it is unmistakably clear that our corrupt leaders have no intention of trying to save us from the life-threatening harm of uncontrolled Covid-19. Therefore, if we value our own well-being, we must shoulder the ongoing burden of trying to save ourselves.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jul 4

Nothing is "more important" than resisting the uncontrolled spread of Covid-19.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jul 3

For too many people, there is always something that is "more important" than actively resisting the uncontrolled spread of Covid-19. Those people fail to understand that, in the long term, unless Covid-19 is brought under control, nothing else is going to matter.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jul 26

The ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 is becoming an increasingly dangerous situation. As long as deliberate negligence and irrational denial continue to prevail, with no action being taken to enforce necessary standards of public safety, general conditions can only get immeasurably worse.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 10h

Enabling the spread of Covid-19 by refusing to wear a respirator mask is a form of extreme brutality, resulting in ongoing instances of illness, mortality, and suffering. Millions have perished worldwide from Covid-19, and millions more will perish, because most people choose denial and negligence.

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 12h

Don’t compromise your beliefs and health to be accepted by someone who’s uncomfortable with you masking. 😷 They’re showing you they’ll also be uncomfortable with your future disability. You’ll still end up rejected when sick and dependent on people who’ve shown you they’re already not there for you.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 11h

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 11h

With Covid-19 out of control everywhere and few people wearing respirator masks, the human community has become a ship of fools, recklessly sailing toward an inevitable outcome of collective destruction.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 13h

Harsh truth, not "hyperbole." Refusing to wear a respirator mask during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 means refusing to care about the collective well-being of the human community. Refusing to wear a respirator mask is an overt expression of support for mass illness and excess mortality.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · May 4

The deliberate absence of respirator masks in medical settings while Covid-19, a fatal airborne disease, is spreading everywhere, constitutes one of the worst moral scandals of our time. Countless patients have perished, and will continue to perish, as a result of willful negligence.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 15h

Genocide must never be forgiven or forgotten. The leaders and citizens of Israel must be held to account for the mass murder of tens of thousands of men, women, and children in Gaza.

#Israel #Gaza #genocide

Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 4d

If the world fails to hold Israel accountable for actions of genocide in Gaza, there will never be true peace in the Middle East.

#Israel #Gaza #genocide

Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 15h

Doctors and nurses who refuse to wear respirator masks during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 are callously displaying a deliberate lack of concern for the safety of patients.

#COVID19 #pandemic #doctors #nurses #respirator

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 15h

It was intended to be "bold." It also happens to be the absolute truth. Any person who refuses to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 is on the wrong side of human morality.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 3

The longer that Covid-19 is allowed to spread without any control, causing increasing amounts of mass illness and excess mortality, the less prospect there is of collective human survival.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jul 3

How long will it be until uncontrolled Covid-19 achieves total victory?

How long will it be until unrestrained contagion becomes fatally overwhelming?

How long will it be until the increasing weight of infection, illness, and mortality causes the final downfall of the human community?

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jul 20

No one ever fully recovers from an infection of Covid-19. Symptoms may fade, but ongoing harm continues within the body. If repeated infections happen, the harm is increased.

To avoid infection and the harm that results, wear a respirator mask in all situations of potential contagion.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jul 26

It is profoundly disturbing that at least 27 million people (with the true number likely being much higher) have perished from Covid-19 since 2020, and yet, most members of the human community do not appear to care at all.

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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 16h

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Flynn is too hip to say this aloud but, over cappuccinos, he told me he wanted you all to have a good start to the week & hopes you are having a cozy autumn.

If you'd like to take Flynn home with you, he is ready & waiting in the shop!

"Fox in Glasses with Scarf and Coat | Cute Fox Watercolor Illustration" Sticker for Sale by AngelaMarieArt

Flynn the fox, one of my recurring characters, is depicted here adjusting his trademark red glasses. I used watercolor pencils and pen for this minimal, cozy drawing. This design is on multiple items,...

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 16h

The ones boasting of peace are the ones responsible for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The world must hold all those accountable for the horrors witnessed and war crimes committed over the past two years.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Sep 10

So-called leftists who refuse to wear respirator masks in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 are no better than the worst fascist.

#COVID19 #respirator

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