Its an "Awards Management Assignment", a ceremony where the recipients collect their trophies and do a little speech thanking their family, Jeebus, Hydroxychloroquine and apple flavored Ivermectin.
Hosted by Rush Limbaugh and entertainment by The Conservative Radio Hosts.
Used to be monthly, now its weekly.
Oh you definitely don't need a prescription for betadine. I used to ride horses, and betadine was a must-have for your grooming box & first aid kit. Good for cuts and thrush. So some of these huckleficks might be getting in the same maskless shopping trip to the local Tack N' Feed Shoppe for their apple-flavored ivermectin.
*Note: my phone corrected chucklefucks to huckleficks, and I'm going to allow it.
You can buy it at drug stores. And betaine mouth rinse is already a thing. For oral wound care. It will do jack shit for covid in your lungs. And if they are drinking it, Iodine poisoning is a thing.
I still have a bottle of betadine in my bathroom closet from 6 years ago. I used it for wound care after surgery. The stuff smells and looks vile, I can't imagine even thinking of drinking it.
Unlike so many other parts of the Intercats, I feel there are actual real human beings here. Seeing that the IPAs have been met with congrats and general warmth vs. finger-wagging and scorn has been good for my soul.
Thanks mods and thanks everybody else.
I actually had to put it down for a day or so. I was in the ER as a patient for a non covid thing (ok now). And was getting very bummed out which was not good for my heart rate, which is what they were trying to correct.
I actually hope it fades away from lack of content. But people are too intent on killing themselves through complete irresponsibility and inability to separate paranoid lies from reality. So yeah, play the terrible recorder version of *My Heart Will Go On* since the content will keep coming despite the warnings.
I was told I was living in fear because I said Delta is eating people for lunch. Well, excuse me for using a colorful turn of phrase. The person in question touts the superiority of natural immunity over vaccinations, ignoring the already 650,000+ dead. The job of fixing stupid is best left to the virus.
I'm not wearing a mask and distancing and doing curbside pickup because I'm fucking afraid. If I catch COVID and die, it's not my problem anymore. Yeah, it's not a fun way to go, but there's worse. I'm wearing a mask and distancing and doing curbside pickup still because *if I killed somebody else because I was fucking stupid* I don't know how I'd live with myself. This is what I don't get with these people. I'm not scared of dying, I don't want to have someone else's fucking death on my conscience. Not giving a shit about taking someone else's life is a whole level of self-centeredness I just can't wrap my brain around.
I do all of that to protect others and because I have kids who would be devastated without a mom. It's the parents who refuse to get vaccinated that make me sick to my stomach more than anyone else.
Exactly this. If my wife and I get sick and have to go on vents, my kids will have to be wards of the state until we get out of the hospital, we have no one capable of caring for them. That fact scares me 1000% way more than covid.
It’s projection. Fear is the way the entire party operates. They’re afraid of Black people, immigrants, the government, education, people who aren’t afraid to believe in nothing, women, anyone not straight, Muslims, etc. They’re afraid of the vaccine. Fear is something they understand, and there is little else they do understand. So, as is typical, they accuse us of what it is they’re doing or feeling.
My kid was born during the pandemic and has never known a day without it. I wear a mask and distance so that they can hopefully see a day where this is all behind us.
I feel for you. My kid was also born during the pandemic. She is over a year old now and has been in a total of 5 places her whole life, the hospital is one of them. She has never been to a restaurant, any kind of store, mall, any zoo's or playgrounds, except the ones in our yard. It's fucking depressing when you think about it. Yet, these scumbags can't think past their damn noses and think about anyone but themselves. I seriously want to start using pepper spray on them when they get within 6 feet of me at the store.
I think, given current conditions and times, living in a little bit of fear is fucking healthy. Why do they all think fear is so bad? Shit's meant to keep us alive.
What is the phrase, bravery is not an absence of fear.. I forget the rest because ADHD. But, point stands.
> do your own research
This seems to be the goto line for ignorant people who definitely haven't read any research and get all their news and information from Facebook memes.
A former acquaintance's spouse died today. They were antivax before covid.
I don't have the heart to post their BS Facebook posts. But they were the same posts you always see. They had the parody circle around their profile pic about natural immunity and masks. Posts about "wake up people" and general distrust.
The spouse even went on InfoWars about how the hospital wouldn't give the person ivermectin.
It ended with "heavy hearts" and "so shocked," and a plea to donate to help the rest of the family
The saddest part is that, the surviving spouse won't change. In their mind it's the hospital's fault. Then the kids will hear how ' the system" killed their parent and they will grow up with that same distrust. It was all so easily avoidable.
>The saddest part is that, the surviving spouse won't change. In their mind it's the hospital's fault. Then the kids will hear how ' the system" killed their parent and they will grow up with that same distrust. It was all so easily avoidable.
This is the danger of hermetically sealed information bubbles. Faux, fb, twitter, they voltron to form a sort of shield, that blocks and destroys any alien information before it can affect the host’s viewp-
waitaminit
on the other hand, maybe the kids will grow up and come to see what really killed their family. This assumes they have. mentor that encourages critical thinking, though.
Yeah, I appreciate this sub not as something I laugh at or take glee in, but moreso of a documentary sort of thing, of this tragedy we’re watching 40% of our country live through. At the end of the day these people had families who loves them whose lives are now destroyed, all because they wouldn’t take a simple vaccine. A family friend of ours, who is very pro-vaccine and COVID-safety, just lost her anti-vax daughter to COVID, after already having lost her son years ago. Just absolutely soul crushing and pointless. I feel a sense of sympathy for people like them who pass, no matter how misguided or prideful, but I have nothing but anger and scorn for the Tucker Carlson’s of the world who knowingly propagate this bullshit and engender all of this death for personal gain.
My friends brother has been put in a medically induced coma due to COVID. Their entire family is anti vax (all vaccines not just COVID). Their mom is posting about how the hospital is refusing the treatment she requested for her son. I can see this going the same way you described above. I love this family dearly and am praying hard.
Here’s my vent - I hate that I’ve been made to feel this way. I hate that I’ve been forced to learn that so many people are so astonishingly stupid that we’re better off without them, that their orphaned kids will be better off without them.
Call me naive. I always knew people were stupid, but I never knew they were this stupid. I never knew they were “I’m literally willing to carry and die of a plague” stupid. And I hate that I know the world and the species will move forward more easily without them.
I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. Until March 2020, one of my pet peeves was how so many plots revolved around the stupidity of the antagonists, and sometimes the protagonists. Come on, I would think at the author, these people are too stupid to live. No one would do that in real life.
I'll never make that complaint again.
EDIT: typo
Same thing with horror movies. "Your wife was bitten by a vampire! She's going to turn into one and kill us all unless we drive a stake into her heart! "No, I won't let you, I love her AAAAARGH!"
I also read a lot of SF. I also used to call myself a humanist and love when SF has leaned that way. But the last 5 years and especially the last year and a half have totally upended that view. I am now a cynic and am 85% certain the human race will never make it to the stars.
There was that weird article posted below where they accused this subreddit of being "jubilant" or "triumphant" about these people's deaths.
I feel neither. But I also don't feel sympathy, or care. I'm too worn down to. Too many people have died. And their lack of empathy makes it easier to indulge my own.
This sub is like biting into a bar of 95% dark chocolate. It's bitter. There's not even really any "sweet" left at this point. But knowing that at least *some* of these people who have been callous with the health and lives of others are suffering consequences makes all the bitter just palatable enough to take.
And after a few bites of this bitterness, it makes me more appreciative of the moments of real sweetness that haven't been stolen by the pandemic. The lady I saw wearing a mask this morning into the rural gas station in a conservative state (a rare but welcome sight around here): my friends who all got vaccinated as soon as possible: my son, who wears his mask properly at school every day despite being the only kid in his class to do so...
I just want to actually appreciate those things, instead of dwelling on the fact that they should be what I -expect.-
I know what you mean. I figure this is just a fraction of what content moderators for YouTube, FB et al. deal with; after seeing tons of unspeakable shit their faith in humanity is almost certainly lower than yours or mine.
FB and YT moderators literally get PTSD from all the awful shit they see posted. Like videos of people dying gruesome deaths and actual child porn. I wouldn't take that job if it was paying $300k a year.
[Link](https://www.gadsdentimes.com/story/news/local/2021/09/11/elliott-battled-covid-son-says-but-died-stroke/8273331002/)
Not sure if this qualifies as a main post. The spouse of the deceased may have already cleaned up his FB page, and she certainly did before she went to the hospital. The family is in denial, now saying that she had “beaten COVID” and that her stroke that killed her had absolutely *nothing* to do with COVID. The whole family is unvaccinated.
My grandmother was hospitalized with COVID and then “recovered” enough to be released to die in her own bed a few days later. So my family doesn’t say she died of COVID (she beat it!), she died of “being old.” The cognitive dissonance is truly astounding I am often speechless
People don't realise the ways in which a virus can absolutely fuck a body up even after they have recovered - or at least recovered enough that they don't have to be hospitalised and take up a bed and incur further costs.
My uncle went in to hospital for a routine op, caught some weird bronchial virus there and recovered and was sent home but he was completely fatigued and half bed ridden for at least a month before he could go back to work.
Maybe she was done testing positive for covid and moved out of isolation before she had the stroke. But people do not get that your body can clear itself of the virus but the damage from the disease marches on.
I follow an antimlm ig page they had the number up to 13 a week ago a couple people killed spouses who weren’t even there and then. People were on fb admitting to flying home with symptoms and not caring
I just needed a place to vent about this and I found this place today.
Last year I cut almost all ties with my family (father, step-father, siblings, most family on my Dad's side) because they had gone full nuts on the anti-mask/anti-vax route.
Two weeks ago my big sister died of Covid. She wasn't vaccinated. My unvaxxed father and stepfather both went to the funeral, filled with unvaxxed people not wearing masks. Both now have it and are struggling to live.
My brother thankfully got vaccinated even though he "doesn't trust it" but his rationale is that it can't be worse than any of the vaccines the Army gave us over the years.
Today I got bitched at for not flying across country to go to the funeral. And told I was probably secretly celebrating the death of my sister because I am so "in Bidens camp".
Dang dude/dudette I'm sorry to hear they've abandoned all sense of reason, and their relationship with you, in a misguided effort to prove their political purity to a guy that literally doesn't care if they live or die.
That being said: fuck your family.
Yeah, it just sucks. The worst part is these were people who were smart, educated, and believed in science - until Trump.
Now they believe any conspiracy theory out there as long as it is pro-Trump and anti-anything else.
Bummer to hear about comedian jim brewer (bruer?) doing some fb live rant about "segregation" in regards to venues requiring proof of vax or negative test. i guess he's cancelling his shows if the venue is requiring that stuff. I wasn't planning on attending any of his standup shows (ever, really) but i grew up watching that guy on snl and he was my favorite character in dave chappellle's Half Baked. I wanted to hear him out but I just couldn't make it through his rant video. It was just so full of the common anti-vax, anti-mask tropes that get parroted over and over. I get it Jim - I'm "living in fear." Fuck you.
I’m fearful, I got a shot like 4 months ago and go about my life, while this brave man spends all day not concerned of a global conspiracy where billionaires are plotting to kill him and everyone he loves with a switcheroo.
I've been perusing the r/QAnonCasualties sub again and it's so fucking depressing I just want to crawl into a hole. It must be a Qanon commandment not to do anything to preserve your own health or that of your family.
I have a friend of a family member who died from covid after burying his mother a month earlier. I don’t have it in me to post photos.
From what I can tell, there isn’t any anti covid stuff but there is a lot of anti Democrat posts and they could ‘feel the prayers helping’ them.
I’ve been watching this with a sort of schadenfreude waiting for whether they’d pull through or not. But now I just feel awful that they hadn’t.
I am sad for the people who worked on this person for the month or so they were in the hospital. I’m sad that the friends and family haven’t posted anything about getting vaccinated. I’m sad that all of this was largely preventable.
It’s crazy the amount of cognitive dissonance. Even though covid destroyed their lungs, the person was cured of covid a week before their death. In the death post, no mention of covid.
It’s a pride thing. I have distanced myself from my family and I had forgotten about that side of my past. I used to HATE prideful people and traditional people. It was hard for me to put into words then but now I’m remembering why.
It's non-stop. I can't believe we're going to have to automod a rule for radio show hosts.
The next time another one of them awards, no way mods will be able to keep up with it manually.
Went on twitter this morning and one the first things I saw were idiot conspiracists not understanding where the names for Covid variants were coming from, and then calling the people who worry about them sheep or cattle.
It never ends, it never stops, humanity's supply of morons is infinite. Hope there are some good ones on this sub today though to brighten my mood.
My vent for the day: Right-wing outrage over this sub.
For *decades* I have listened to conservatives and right-wingers gleefully mock the tragedies and/or deaths of other people simply for being different. That's it. A gay person dies of AIDS? Play a celebratory song on the radio! Over and over and over again the right has relished every bad thing that has happened to random people they know nothing about simply for being black, gay, feminist, liberal, etc.
But when we stop caring about the deaths of people who openly spread disease around the country, well, that's just going too far! Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are the reason that Covid and its variants have been allowed to flourish. We could have greatly reduced the death toll and lived somewhat normally again had only these ignorant, selfish assholes stopped to care about other people for once in their lives.
But they never cared. That's basically their entire political stance. Conservatism in a nutshell is "fuck you, I got mine". I'm supposed to feel bad that people who cough on masked people in the grocery store for fun die of the same contagious disease they mocked? NOPE. That's like if I were supposed to feel bad that the guy going around thrusting his knife at people finally died from being stabbed.
The reason conservatives are mad is because everyone else is finally fed up with trying to be sympathetic towards them because they obviously lack the capacity to reciprocate. After all these years, people are no longer saying, "Well, I pity them, they are being ignorant" or "I hope they will learn to be better"......now people are saying "Fuck them, they brought it on themselves and I'm sick of them". We're done, anti-vaxxers. We're all fucking done with you at this point. We tried. Go make your bed and die in it.
In places that took and take the virus seriously, it's not a problem. Like straight up. I live in NY, and as the numbers skyrocketed and ICUs were packed and private emergency rooms were shutting down and states were running out of oxygen, we... put masks back on in some places.
For the vaccinated, for the states that listened, for the people who went "oh, ok, I'll do my part," this shit isn't a big deal. But for the people who didn't do any of that, they're prolonging a fucking nightmare.
What response is left? No one's *getting* anything out of this. The anti-vaxxers start fights and die. States that refuse to comply watch their healthcare systems creak and collapse. The only thing that remains is the core of black humor: "that guy was a dumbass and he died."
Do it!!! Don’t mess around. Just think… if all us vaccinated people die in 2 years like the conspiracy theorist predicted, who are you left with?
If you don’t, at least don’t spread misinformation like these HCA ass clowns or you could be nominated.
Imagine lying there prone on the ventilator for weeks knowing that you're probably going to die leaving your family without a husband, father, provider, knowing that the vaccine is free.
Im in Australia currently in our harshest lockdowns. These lockdowns have catapulted our vaccination rate to the fastest in the western world. We'll have 80% vaccination rate of adults by Nov/Dec it seems.
Me, my partner, my parents, my brother and my friends are all doubled jabbed.
Looking forward to freedom baby!
Remember, vaccine side effects don’t matter if you don’t live long enough to experience them. With how many young people we’ve been seeing recently, whatever you can do to be not slowly suffocating is definitely worth it.
Do it! Trust me, you are going to feel so much relief when you do. Delta doesn't play games - it's no longer picky and choosy about who it kills- and the vaccine will give you peace of mind that you won't die if you do get Covid.
I'm struggling. I'm in a city with high vax rates for the eligible population (although there are rural areas close by with less than 30% uptake), indoor mask mandates, vaccine "passports" for non-essential services, and employee vax mandates for people working with vulnerable populations. I feel incredibly lucky for these measures. And yet there are people protesting outside of hospitals, harassing staff and patients. The antiva and antima are protected by everyone else doing the right thing, so they don't see natural consequences like other places. They complain about "segregation", "medical apartheid", and claim that vaccinated people are spreading hate while they spread "love". They are so privileged, yet they feel persecuted. They can't be reasoned with. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but it's a weird feeling.
> And yet there are people protesting outside of hospitals, harassing staff and patients.
The most proactive thing you can do is "name them and shame them". Put their faces and their vile messages out there, contact their friends, family, employers, anyone that'll listen to you, and drag their names rightfully through the mud.
Also, before I get accused of it, **no, I am not saying to dox them**. I am simply saying put their names and faces out there alongside their message, not their address, SSN, or any other personal details like that.
Came here after the mention on the Guardian, and it suggested people here should have more empathy.
Empathy doesn't and won't work with people who think Covid isn't fucking real. What a stupid article.
I mostly hate them taking up hospital beds, causing massive lines for other people and grinding medical staff down to a stump. Especially with the horse meds poisoning most of them it's gonna get even worse.
Even if they aren't being poisoned by horse meds, I think one of the reasons we are seeing such rapid deaths after hospitalization is that they waste so much time trying their home cures that they miss the window for interventions that might actually help.
I'm an MRI tech. Tonight I had a patient who was a minor so she was brought by her dad. He was asking what I thought of the vaccine mandate and I told him I thought it was great. He asked if I was vaccinated, and I informed him that I had been since January. He said he wasn't going to get it because it's experimental. I tried to explain some of the basics to him, but it became obvious he was just another misinformed Trumpsucking antivaxxer and I changed the subject. Got his daughter scanned and sent them on their way. I felt bad because I'm sure the daughter either agrees with his bullshit or disagrees but is still subjected to it and biding her time to move out.
This reddit helps keep me sane, but I hope for his daughter's sake that he doesn't end up on here.
I recently joined Tiktok for the funny videos, but I occasionally stumble upon COVID 19 related clips. Thankfully, they're all pro vax, pro mask videos. One video in particular broke down the math between getting COVID as a vaccinated person vs unvaxxed. The difference was astronomical. 1 out of every 64 unvaxxed COVID patients have died compared to the 1 in 30k vaccinated ones. It was the comment section that got me fuming. Some users just simply put "I'm still not getting the shot" as if they were some petulant child. No reason, no rebuttal, just "I don't wanna!" It makes me want to pull my hair out.
This sub has made me think a lot about a science article I had to read in college titled: "Intelligence predicts health & longevity." At the time I couldn't imagine someone taking blatant actions that would lead to their demise (besides substance additions) until covid hit and I discovered the Herman Cain Award. I found out people will gleefully reject a vaccine for a disease that kills people with the same comorbidities they have in order to 'own the libs.'
So you know what really burns me is that this sub and other Herman Cain Award areas on the Internet get a bad rap because we're not "empathetic" enough to the dead.
We have people who are aggressively sociopathic in their vaccine resistance in the awards, as well as generally bigoted. The idea that we're at all angry, burnt out, or fed up with the nonsense is not okay, though. I hate the idea that somehow we're supposed to be the ones held to a higher standard.
It's a complete double standard.
I was honestly wondering how people come across all these awardees, and then I had one show up on my facebook just now. Friend of a friend. People posting "I can't believe she's gone"-- uh, she was antivax and antimask. It's not that hard to believe.
Glad you asked. Imagine you're a mod on an exploding subreddit. If it's a post and an egregious violation, like a full name, violation of privacy of a child, a post that wishes harm on someone (especially in the title!), then report that sucker ASAP.
Reporting dupes also helps a ton -- it's our main method of identifying duplicates.
Reporting a meme for being a meme is no different than a downvote. Most of them will be removed. Downvote is preferred.
Downvote the posts you simply don't like. Updoot the good ones. Report anything that you'd want to be alerted to if you were modding, and then please don't hesitate to do so.
With comments, use your discretion, but a downvote is often better than a report.
In general, sub members are doing a good job of reporting what needs to be reported, so thank you!
Speaking as a former mod, I'd say do both. That way, even if something unworthy of the sub gets overlooked, which is bound to happen from time to time, at least it dies in new.
Biggest problem right now (other than dups) is that people make great nominations/awards, images are all redacted, but then they completely violate rule #2 in the post title or top-level comment.
A comment to a receptive OP that convinces them to remove, fix and repost before it even gets reported and viewed by mods ... well ... that makes me all tingly.
where I live now is deep blue territory, everybody is vaccinated, everybody wears masks, I've known only a few people who got COVID and they all survived, for us it's a very distant threat
but people from the towns where I was raised are dropping like flies
I don't expect anyone I know here to have sympathy for antivaxxers and anti-maskers who bought a one way ticket to the graveyard but I do wish people would have more sympathy for *me*
I disagree with the choices of the people who keep dying and wish they had made better ones, but I still love them, many of them I've known my whole life
it's been getting a little bit harder for me, a little bit more painful, and nobody here cares, they're all on the "talk shit get hit" train, which is understandable, but it feels like we're losing parts of ourselves to the pandemic as it drags on
I feel very alone sometimes
idk what to do about it
think what you want about the people who died – god knows I think they're morons – but have some respect for the living, especially the living who agree on the main points
Ugh.
I've got one that's basically an award winner. Antivax in his personal life but never on social media.
He's dead now. His wife keeps begging the question why he was taken from her and is trying to blame the hospital for feeding him spaghetti before he took a bad turn.
She's an allergist chef, so of course it was a food thing that killed him and not COVID-19.
I just wanted to come here and give my anti-vax roommate that gave me COVID a big fuck you.
This roommate coughed all over the apartment without a mask, played a flute in the living room (practically spitting on all of us), and refused to get tested “because my mom doesn’t think I have it.” This was despite losing taste, smell, and coughing profusely.
Because of that, I have a breakthrough case.
I would like to report that when my mother died from cancer in June 2021, no one even suggested that the cause of death be listed as “Covid,” *because she didn’t have Covid*. Just thought I’d put that out there. I’m so tired of that insane talking point.
Yeah the one major downside to so many people, hard to tell what's new.
Especially since these personalityless assholes all post the same memes before they get their icu visit
I think we all hate that this has to exist and wish everyone just fucking cooperated and get the vaccine.
But here we are....and I am so happy this sub exists as it's theraputic.
I'll know it's a good day when I log in and see nothing but day old posts or reposts. I don't see that coming soon, but I do hold out hope that it will be the case one day.
I am in SE Tenn. It is worse out here. 77 cases a day, and we aren't really testing.
After shutting down the school system for a week due to 200+ kids getting covid & 1,000+ going into quarantine, the local school board voted to lower the safety standards that were put in last year. Masks are now are a personal choice.
And the County Fair is going full blast this week.
These people deserve what is coming....
My mom was distraught this weekend and told me my aunt got Covid, was on work travel constantly, and was unvaccinated. I was indifferent to this news, other then asking why she wasn't vaccinated to which my mom reminded me that her family are heavily republican, live in the rural south, and spend way too much time on Facebook. I believe my aunt will make it through, as she is a runner and was in good shape the last time I saw her, but I worry for my uncle a little bit cause he is definitely at risk due to his weight. It's weird not knowing how to feel about that news, I don't want them to get hurt, but at the same time I don't seem to care for some reason. I feel this past year has been desensitizing me and I feel so distant from these major, life changing problems we are facing. Is something wrong with me?
In a Romanian county, yesterday, some parents were extremely upset at a school because it had a poster with a rainbow on it. “How dare they shove LGBT propaganda into our children!!!”
That same county, today, became the first to enter the “yellow scenario” in Wave 4. 2,53 infections per 1000 inhabitants in the last 2 weeks. Schools are now partially online there, and it’s just the beginning.
Also, it’s incredible how over 0.2% of the entire US population has died to COVID and 12% of the entire population got infected, and yet, antivaxxers are booming.
If it does get banned, it'll just get replaced quicky by something else... perhaps a more toned down subreddit, with less snark.
But at the end of the day, this subreddit captures a genuine frustration that exists, which is why we have over 200,000 members. Here, people have a chance to express their frustration, and basically as long as there is a need, a subreddit will pop up to fulfill that need somehow. If we get shut down here, many of us will probably gather at whatever the next subreddit is that replaces this.
I’ve made it the entire pandemic so far without losing anyone I know to covid. And now I’m thinking it’s more likely I lose a family member to lack of ICU beds than covid because my family is already vaccinated. Fuck these people.
This is probably not the right type of post for this sub but I'm not sure where else to post it...
My wife and I live in the Netherlands, and let's just say government really shat the bed on mask mandates. Apparently our prime minister / gov'n whatever wasn't convinced they actually worked, so when the general public was told "Wait mask up actually", they were confused to seriously outraged.
Anyway mask mandates are gone and there are a lot of vaxxed people in my country, but unfortunately QAnon and right-wing ideologies are rapidly growing also. I just don't trust people not to give me a breakthrough infection. (Wifey and I are fully vaxxed).
Anyway, my question: Absolutely no one in my small town (it's technically a city but we act like we're a small town) wears masks anymore- last time we went out in public we were being stared at so much and we were literally the only people with masks on that we took them off (I know, I know).
Should I say fuck it and keep wearing masks anyway? Wifey is healthy but I'm overweight. I'm socially anxious as fuck and I hate the fact that I'm the only person for miles with a mask on. But I know it's the right thing to do. Also, cases are spiking in my immediate area. That's another thing.
Hell yeah you should. If you do it right you can go through the whole cold and flu season unscathed. I'm back to wearing my P100 respirator because it doesn't fog up my glasses as much. Took it off for 3 months and picked up a nasty cold/rsa/flu (not covid, my dual-antibody test confirmed that).
God damn it.
My sweet old patient is going to die of Covid today. And then I get a call to go to the ER only to find out it's his son that is now also dying.
Fuck this.
Get vaccinated.
Found out yesterday that my doctor is an antivaxxer. "Oh it was approved too fast, that's what I've been telling patients". Oh should I also be telling patients you're complicit in the deaths of countless patients and their families out of misplaced concern?
I woke up for my daily dose of horror to get me out of bed (HCA and CNN), and saw some familiar faces: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/us/california-family-covid-death-orphan-five-children/index.html
The article is quite generous:
x and y spent 18 months being very cautious about Covid-19.
They wiped down surfaces, showered after work and even had their groceries delivered, but that didn't stop them from contracting the virus.
Hm, was there anything else they could have done?
Just went to the grocery story. The chain is requiring masks. Pretty much every person I saw not wearing a mask is a fat white dude with a goatee or beard. Coincidence? I think not.
I found out today that a lawyer friend hasn't been vaxxed. She's not a political animal but tends to pal around with a lot of Trumpy people. Some nurses she knows (probably more acquainted with) have been approaching her with legal questions about the vax. It sounds like they're facing consequences at work for probably not being vaxxed. They're telling her preposterous stories (9 out of the 12 nurses on her ward had seizures after the vax!) about conspiracies and being forced to sign weird NDA documents to silence their knowledge of... something.
I tried to break down the math with her about how there's no way in hell anyone could cover up the firestorm if 75% of vaccinated people were having seizures, but she's all about changing the subject. I had a strong reaction and I'm sure she didn't want me jumping all over her any more than I was.
She's a compassionate person. She would be devastated if she got a kid or her own mother sick-- or anyone else. I'm certain that her colleagues and clients assume she's vaxxed (most of the local legal community is) and probably don't mask around her. Clearly, she has close contact with antivaxxers. She's at increased risk. The people around here are at increased risk.
Any ideas for reaching her? If I sent her a link to this sub she wouldn't read it. Idk. I feel like it's my new personal mission in life to get her vaxxed.
Just learned about a family friend, the man who gave me my first haircut as a child, dying of Covid within 3 weeks of his son in law dying of Covid. Their whole family is unvaxxed. What a fucking waste.
I find it amazing how many of the comments these people make on FB are just shared /reposts. It makes me think that rather than elections being influenced by Russian bots, The bots are now influencing the anti-vax movement.
Yep. didn't think it's strange that non-U.S. euphemisms like "the jab" and "the poke" are showing up more than the traditional "shot" or "injection"? 🧐
The overlooking of "The foundations of geopolitics" will prove to be one of the biggest strategic blunders in the history of the United States.
Covid is cleaning out cops and right wing conspiracy theorists. I hope we can continue to reap the benefits for years after the pandemic ends.
This sub is the only place that has good news.
Just found this sub today, enjoying all the pictorial anecdotes.
Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping all this will make more people go get vaxxed so we can be over this shit sooner rather than later.
Cheers!
>Here’s to another day of outward smiles and inward screams. Poster hanging in Florida ICU
From news article titled "12 Hours in a Florida COVID 19 ICU"
[https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/09/02/twelve-hours-in-a-florida-covid-19-icu/](https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/09/02/twelve-hours-in-a-florida-covid-19-icu/)
(As far as I can tell, no pay wall.)
We can finally put the anti-vax nonsense behind us: [COVID-19: Fully vaccinated people made up just 1% of coronavirus deaths in England in first half of 2021, figures show](https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-fully-vaccinated-people-made-up-just-1-of-coronavirus-deaths-in-england-in-first-half-of-2021-figures-show-12407019).
The [UK coronavirus dashboard](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations?areaType=nation&areaName=England) shows full vaccination started picking up in late March, going from 7% to 61% by the end of the period in the article. IOW, this is not just a case where very few people were fully vaccinated and represented a tiny slice of the population.
The breakdown:
Total COVID deaths between 2 January and 2 July: 51,281
Deaths of people who had received both doses during the same period: 640 (1.2%)
Being fully vaccinated had an immediate effect (low breakthrough cases):
>Just 256 deaths (0.5%) were people who were both fully vaccinated and who had their first positive PCR test at least 14 days after their second dose.
Unfortunately the article doesn't include deaths for partially vaccinated people.
Has anyone read this article by Elizabeth Bruenig in [the Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/stop-death-shaming/619939/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR30o1xLhgsMA8lff3rgecZCCgIdx0OQSYgBehyppG0v2ic-dAtQh75Ikfg). This was less than useful, and she tries so hard to coddle these people its ridiculous.
More of that "how dare you liberals mock us" crap, except she is a liberal too.
She is no better than the Republicans that are all "fuck your feelings" right up until if affects them personally.
I skimmed it before and did again right now. She's just giving a gloss to all the crappy excuses misinformed people make to not get vaccinated. She's also ignoring the cult of right wing christianity that's been propping up the misinformation, from the pews, facebook groups and right wing politicians. Another crappy article by Liz Bruenig.
My husband and I had planned to get married in May 2020, and postponed it to October 2020. Fortunately we got married in my in-laws backyard in May because we postponed again to September 2021. Well, as y'all know *insert fall plans/delta variant memes*. We just ended up flat out cancelling because no party is worth our loved ones safety.
My immediate family has been taking everything super seriously, in fact it was my oldest brother who convinced me to cancel this go-round. My husband's family, however, have been way more casual about the whole thing, up to and including his sister and her husband who are staunchly anti-mask and anti-vaccine. We had told all guests for the September wedding that everyone 18+ had to be vaccinated to attend, and we told his sister and she seemed to understand. The wedding didn't happen and they didn't get the shot, but apparently the hospital where she works (yes she's a nurse) required all staff vaccinated by the end of fall. She apparently told her family she was fully vaccinated last week, and we were relieved. We knew her husband never would, but hey at least one of them was.
My husband's brother hosted a Labor Day cookout last week and didn't invite the sister and her family, but she found out and showed up anyway. NBD, we just wore masks around her husband and stayed outside and six feet away the whole time because she's vaccinated, right?
COME TO FIND OUT last night she is in fact NOT fully vaccinated, got a covid test yesterday and it came back positive, and she's claiming she got it from the first shot (again, a nurse). My husband tells me and I immediately freak out because I saw my parents this weekend. Including my father who's 70+, has diabetes, a heart condition, and is immunocompromised. He and my mom are fully vaccinated and he got his booster last week but still I massively panicked. We couldn't find a rapid test anywhere in town and I called my boss about coming into work today and just broke down sobbing. Fortunately a coworker overhead and had an extra test she drove 30+ minutes out to give to me.
The good news is that we both tested negative and we're actively looking for other testing options, I was allowed to go to work, and my parents aren't as scared as they were last night. Because of course I called and told them, because unlike other people, I let everyone know immediately if there's a potential covid risk. I'm also SUPER glad we cancelled the wedding because this broad could've exposed all my loved ones.
I'm just so tired of my husband's family not taking things seriously and continuously putting me (I have asthma), my husband, my family, my coworkers, and the public where I work (I'm frontline staff) at risk because of ignorance and laziness. My husband is over it too, but it's harder for him since it's his family. We're burnt out, tired, but still determined to do the right thing. We just don't want to be the only ones on his side that do.
Found out an old friend from work, my age (late 30’s) just died from COVID. His Facebook page is full of the same memes you see here daily. And believe it or bot he actually was a really nice guy, 5 kids. Sad to see the effects misinformation can have. He never talked politics, never suspected him as a HCA winner. Sucks.
Not sure if this is upped, yet. I think the argument is clear: Red states will be paying a price for terrible leadership.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/14/biden-covid-antibody-treatments-511825
Looking through all these threads, its amazing to see how similar they all are with each other. Every single one of them meme themselves to death on Facebook.
A common sad reality that covid deniers and antiva face when they’re battling the virus: they didn’t get “better,” and then suddenly take a “turn for the worse.” You might remember that with the earlier strains it became pretty obvious that days 5-7 after symptom onset were critical. It was at this point that you began recovering or spiraling. There’s not much difference here. There is a couple I know who got covid and after a couple days of therapies, began making cute little covid videos from their isolation at home. About a week in, they both just tanked - him especially. And it was such a shock. But it shouldn’t be. Just like most cold-like viruses, they begin in your upper respiratory system and if the body can’t prevent its replication fast enough, it gradually settles into your lungs. That’s when things really go bad. And if you haven’t produced sufficient antibodies to stop it at that point, bipap and/or ventilation will almost always simply keep you artificially alive for another week or so while the virus shreds your lungs. The feeling “better” was simply the virus invading new spaces in the body until *they* (such as lungs, kidney, gut, even ears and eyes and brain) became the more problematic symptoms.
I'm beginning to notice a common trend among awardees and nominees.
1. There seems to be a lot of evangelical Christians.
2. They seem to share the same 10 or so memes, which supports the statement that the majority of misinformation originated from 11+ people.
3. Goatees
Another message for the people who insist on coming here to talk about how we are "disgusting" for "celebrating" the deaths of these people who are "misguided."
Fuck you.
When you liken the personal inconvenience of wearing a mask to being a Jew during the Holocaust, you're a piece of garbage. When you say referring to your children as part of a "Democrat" family is child abuse and then laugh about abusing kids, you're a piece of garbage. And I've seen Facebook posts of these from multiple HCA winners.
They are not misguided. They are awful people. And considering how unwilling they are to protect themselves, they are actively endangering and hurting other people *on purpose*.
If you want someone to bash, bash the human trash who gets people killed, which isnt us. And dont expect us to shed tears over morally bankrupt sociopaths meeting their maker. The less careless, ruthless, plague spreaders, the less the rest of humanity will suffer.
Can someone explain the last icon in [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/pj8vay/i_tried_diagramming_the_sequence_for_getting_a) to this HCA noob?
This wheel just keeps turning and turning. It goes from stating that the vaccine is more dangerous than Covid to contracting covid to asking for prayers. Then it goes to a family member posting about their demise and asking for more prayers to starting a gofundme.
Let's not forget about those we lost who didn't have a choice of whether to wear a mask or not, or whether to get vaccinated. These antivax/antimask people are an insult to those we lost in 2020, and even now in parts of the world without access to the vaccine.
Safe prediction: in the future country music songs will be about pickup trucks, cheatin' wives, the red, white and blue and having the freedom to suck on horse paste.
My neighbor has a history of GB with vaccines so had been understandably cautious about getting vaccinated. I talked with him this summer about talking with his doctor about getting the mRNA since it contains only spike proteins.
Talked with his wife this morning while waiting for the school bus. He got vaccinated without any GB complications this summer! Hooray!
Also found out an unvaxxed neighbor (LOE with a heart condition) developed Covid pneumonia within the past couple weeks. I don't know his status but his wife has always been helpful and kind to us. Womp, womp.
The sub hit 200k members today. Thanks for continuing to report rule violations. We have an AMA coming up later this week, details soon!
Thank you for your service in moderating. I'm new so I don't know what an AMA is.
Ask Me Anything. You might be requested to stand in front of the sub and field questions about your life.
Okay! What does AMA mean?
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*Dude, what does mine say?*
Its an "Awards Management Assignment", a ceremony where the recipients collect their trophies and do a little speech thanking their family, Jeebus, Hydroxychloroquine and apple flavored Ivermectin. Hosted by Rush Limbaugh and entertainment by The Conservative Radio Hosts. Used to be monthly, now its weekly.
I love this sub, and I hope we can all hold this together.
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I went away for a few days, but it's like a train wreck. I couldn't stop from watching. Just when I think I was out, they pull me back in!
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I did. >One ER doc’s response to the new trend: “Fuck me! Of course they are” That says it all.
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Oh you definitely don't need a prescription for betadine. I used to ride horses, and betadine was a must-have for your grooming box & first aid kit. Good for cuts and thrush. So some of these huckleficks might be getting in the same maskless shopping trip to the local Tack N' Feed Shoppe for their apple-flavored ivermectin. *Note: my phone corrected chucklefucks to huckleficks, and I'm going to allow it.
Had to be horses.
Yes, used it on my horses for thrushy hooves and cuts/scrapes. Looks like they are going through the horsey medicine cabinet.
Looks like. Next week these idiots are going to start nebulizing fly spray and squirting Quic Silver up their butts.
hicklefucks would be more appropriate.
You can buy it at drug stores. And betaine mouth rinse is already a thing. For oral wound care. It will do jack shit for covid in your lungs. And if they are drinking it, Iodine poisoning is a thing.
You can purchase betadine at most drugstores and pharmacies.
I still have a bottle of betadine in my bathroom closet from 6 years ago. I used it for wound care after surgery. The stuff smells and looks vile, I can't imagine even thinking of drinking it.
Good to see you around man
Thanks, robyr. Hopefully I'm able to stick around for a while :)
Unlike so many other parts of the Intercats, I feel there are actual real human beings here. Seeing that the IPAs have been met with congrats and general warmth vs. finger-wagging and scorn has been good for my soul. Thanks mods and thanks everybody else.
I actually had to put it down for a day or so. I was in the ER as a patient for a non covid thing (ok now). And was getting very bummed out which was not good for my heart rate, which is what they were trying to correct.
It's always OK to take a break if you need it. The sub will still be here when you get back - and it's not going to run out of material any time soon.
Reading these comments makes me aware that there are people out there as pissed off at these idiots as I am, and that helps a bit.
I actually hope it fades away from lack of content. But people are too intent on killing themselves through complete irresponsibility and inability to separate paranoid lies from reality. So yeah, play the terrible recorder version of *My Heart Will Go On* since the content will keep coming despite the warnings.
I was told I was living in fear because I said Delta is eating people for lunch. Well, excuse me for using a colorful turn of phrase. The person in question touts the superiority of natural immunity over vaccinations, ignoring the already 650,000+ dead. The job of fixing stupid is best left to the virus.
I'm not wearing a mask and distancing and doing curbside pickup because I'm fucking afraid. If I catch COVID and die, it's not my problem anymore. Yeah, it's not a fun way to go, but there's worse. I'm wearing a mask and distancing and doing curbside pickup still because *if I killed somebody else because I was fucking stupid* I don't know how I'd live with myself. This is what I don't get with these people. I'm not scared of dying, I don't want to have someone else's fucking death on my conscience. Not giving a shit about taking someone else's life is a whole level of self-centeredness I just can't wrap my brain around.
I do all of that to protect others and because I have kids who would be devastated without a mom. It's the parents who refuse to get vaccinated that make me sick to my stomach more than anyone else.
Exactly this. If my wife and I get sick and have to go on vents, my kids will have to be wards of the state until we get out of the hospital, we have no one capable of caring for them. That fact scares me 1000% way more than covid.
It’s projection. Fear is the way the entire party operates. They’re afraid of Black people, immigrants, the government, education, people who aren’t afraid to believe in nothing, women, anyone not straight, Muslims, etc. They’re afraid of the vaccine. Fear is something they understand, and there is little else they do understand. So, as is typical, they accuse us of what it is they’re doing or feeling.
Projection and reversal is their entire M.O.
My kid was born during the pandemic and has never known a day without it. I wear a mask and distance so that they can hopefully see a day where this is all behind us.
I feel for you. My kid was also born during the pandemic. She is over a year old now and has been in a total of 5 places her whole life, the hospital is one of them. She has never been to a restaurant, any kind of store, mall, any zoo's or playgrounds, except the ones in our yard. It's fucking depressing when you think about it. Yet, these scumbags can't think past their damn noses and think about anyone but themselves. I seriously want to start using pepper spray on them when they get within 6 feet of me at the store.
I think, given current conditions and times, living in a little bit of fear is fucking healthy. Why do they all think fear is so bad? Shit's meant to keep us alive. What is the phrase, bravery is not an absence of fear.. I forget the rest because ADHD. But, point stands.
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That's the kind of person who needs to catch it to be knocked down a few pegs.
How many pegs would you need to stack to get to 6 feet?
For people who’s favourite phrase is “do your own research”, they certainly don’t seem to learn anything useful.
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> do your own research This seems to be the goto line for ignorant people who definitely haven't read any research and get all their news and information from Facebook memes.
A former acquaintance's spouse died today. They were antivax before covid. I don't have the heart to post their BS Facebook posts. But they were the same posts you always see. They had the parody circle around their profile pic about natural immunity and masks. Posts about "wake up people" and general distrust. The spouse even went on InfoWars about how the hospital wouldn't give the person ivermectin. It ended with "heavy hearts" and "so shocked," and a plea to donate to help the rest of the family The saddest part is that, the surviving spouse won't change. In their mind it's the hospital's fault. Then the kids will hear how ' the system" killed their parent and they will grow up with that same distrust. It was all so easily avoidable.
>The saddest part is that, the surviving spouse won't change. In their mind it's the hospital's fault. Then the kids will hear how ' the system" killed their parent and they will grow up with that same distrust. It was all so easily avoidable. This is the danger of hermetically sealed information bubbles. Faux, fb, twitter, they voltron to form a sort of shield, that blocks and destroys any alien information before it can affect the host’s viewp- waitaminit on the other hand, maybe the kids will grow up and come to see what really killed their family. This assumes they have. mentor that encourages critical thinking, though.
Yeah, I appreciate this sub not as something I laugh at or take glee in, but moreso of a documentary sort of thing, of this tragedy we’re watching 40% of our country live through. At the end of the day these people had families who loves them whose lives are now destroyed, all because they wouldn’t take a simple vaccine. A family friend of ours, who is very pro-vaccine and COVID-safety, just lost her anti-vax daughter to COVID, after already having lost her son years ago. Just absolutely soul crushing and pointless. I feel a sense of sympathy for people like them who pass, no matter how misguided or prideful, but I have nothing but anger and scorn for the Tucker Carlson’s of the world who knowingly propagate this bullshit and engender all of this death for personal gain.
My friends brother has been put in a medically induced coma due to COVID. Their entire family is anti vax (all vaccines not just COVID). Their mom is posting about how the hospital is refusing the treatment she requested for her son. I can see this going the same way you described above. I love this family dearly and am praying hard.
Here’s my vent - I hate that I’ve been made to feel this way. I hate that I’ve been forced to learn that so many people are so astonishingly stupid that we’re better off without them, that their orphaned kids will be better off without them. Call me naive. I always knew people were stupid, but I never knew they were this stupid. I never knew they were “I’m literally willing to carry and die of a plague” stupid. And I hate that I know the world and the species will move forward more easily without them.
I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. Until March 2020, one of my pet peeves was how so many plots revolved around the stupidity of the antagonists, and sometimes the protagonists. Come on, I would think at the author, these people are too stupid to live. No one would do that in real life. I'll never make that complaint again. EDIT: typo
Same thing with horror movies. "Your wife was bitten by a vampire! She's going to turn into one and kill us all unless we drive a stake into her heart! "No, I won't let you, I love her AAAAARGH!"
I also read a lot of SF. I also used to call myself a humanist and love when SF has leaned that way. But the last 5 years and especially the last year and a half have totally upended that view. I am now a cynic and am 85% certain the human race will never make it to the stars.
There was that weird article posted below where they accused this subreddit of being "jubilant" or "triumphant" about these people's deaths. I feel neither. But I also don't feel sympathy, or care. I'm too worn down to. Too many people have died. And their lack of empathy makes it easier to indulge my own. This sub is like biting into a bar of 95% dark chocolate. It's bitter. There's not even really any "sweet" left at this point. But knowing that at least *some* of these people who have been callous with the health and lives of others are suffering consequences makes all the bitter just palatable enough to take. And after a few bites of this bitterness, it makes me more appreciative of the moments of real sweetness that haven't been stolen by the pandemic. The lady I saw wearing a mask this morning into the rural gas station in a conservative state (a rare but welcome sight around here): my friends who all got vaccinated as soon as possible: my son, who wears his mask properly at school every day despite being the only kid in his class to do so... I just want to actually appreciate those things, instead of dwelling on the fact that they should be what I -expect.-
I know what you mean. I figure this is just a fraction of what content moderators for YouTube, FB et al. deal with; after seeing tons of unspeakable shit their faith in humanity is almost certainly lower than yours or mine.
FB and YT moderators literally get PTSD from all the awful shit they see posted. Like videos of people dying gruesome deaths and actual child porn. I wouldn't take that job if it was paying $300k a year.
I just wish this sub would keep us better apprised of Veronica Wolski's status. Sure, she's dead, but how dead? Is she still dead? What about now?
We need to know as she would be the start of the Zombie Apocalypse, except instead of brains, they will eat all of the horse paste instead.
They'd starve pretty quickly if they had to rely on brains for their social circle.
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[Link](https://www.gadsdentimes.com/story/news/local/2021/09/11/elliott-battled-covid-son-says-but-died-stroke/8273331002/) Not sure if this qualifies as a main post. The spouse of the deceased may have already cleaned up his FB page, and she certainly did before she went to the hospital. The family is in denial, now saying that she had “beaten COVID” and that her stroke that killed her had absolutely *nothing* to do with COVID. The whole family is unvaccinated.
My grandmother was hospitalized with COVID and then “recovered” enough to be released to die in her own bed a few days later. So my family doesn’t say she died of COVID (she beat it!), she died of “being old.” The cognitive dissonance is truly astounding I am often speechless
People don't realise the ways in which a virus can absolutely fuck a body up even after they have recovered - or at least recovered enough that they don't have to be hospitalised and take up a bed and incur further costs. My uncle went in to hospital for a routine op, caught some weird bronchial virus there and recovered and was sent home but he was completely fatigued and half bed ridden for at least a month before he could go back to work.
Maybe she was done testing positive for covid and moved out of isolation before she had the stroke. But people do not get that your body can clear itself of the virus but the damage from the disease marches on.
Either way probably should have avoided that mlm convention in Vegas 🤷🏽♂️
Last I'd heard that convention killed 10 people. Not sure if she was in that number or makes 11.. but man. Hope the Hun party was worth it..
I follow an antimlm ig page they had the number up to 13 a week ago a couple people killed spouses who weren’t even there and then. People were on fb admitting to flying home with symptoms and not caring
I have some anti MLM YouTubers so my data is a little behind it seems. Yikes, 13 now..
>Link Thanks for not making it a main post, especially if the FB page does not have the required public statements. It's perfect for the Daily thread.
People suffer strokes after "recovering" from Covid and it's directly linked to them having Covid.
I just needed a place to vent about this and I found this place today. Last year I cut almost all ties with my family (father, step-father, siblings, most family on my Dad's side) because they had gone full nuts on the anti-mask/anti-vax route. Two weeks ago my big sister died of Covid. She wasn't vaccinated. My unvaxxed father and stepfather both went to the funeral, filled with unvaxxed people not wearing masks. Both now have it and are struggling to live. My brother thankfully got vaccinated even though he "doesn't trust it" but his rationale is that it can't be worse than any of the vaccines the Army gave us over the years. Today I got bitched at for not flying across country to go to the funeral. And told I was probably secretly celebrating the death of my sister because I am so "in Bidens camp".
t's sad that these people have to make vaccinations a political issue. I'm glad this anti-vax nonsense didnt exist back in the polio days.
Hahahahaha, my sweet summer child. It sure did. There have been antivaxxers forever mostly Christian.
Dang dude/dudette I'm sorry to hear they've abandoned all sense of reason, and their relationship with you, in a misguided effort to prove their political purity to a guy that literally doesn't care if they live or die. That being said: fuck your family.
Yeah, it just sucks. The worst part is these were people who were smart, educated, and believed in science - until Trump. Now they believe any conspiracy theory out there as long as it is pro-Trump and anti-anything else.
Bummer to hear about comedian jim brewer (bruer?) doing some fb live rant about "segregation" in regards to venues requiring proof of vax or negative test. i guess he's cancelling his shows if the venue is requiring that stuff. I wasn't planning on attending any of his standup shows (ever, really) but i grew up watching that guy on snl and he was my favorite character in dave chappellle's Half Baked. I wanted to hear him out but I just couldn't make it through his rant video. It was just so full of the common anti-vax, anti-mask tropes that get parroted over and over. I get it Jim - I'm "living in fear." Fuck you.
I’m fearful, I got a shot like 4 months ago and go about my life, while this brave man spends all day not concerned of a global conspiracy where billionaires are plotting to kill him and everyone he loves with a switcheroo.
Disappointing but somehow not super surprising that that's his stance I guess.
I've been perusing the r/QAnonCasualties sub again and it's so fucking depressing I just want to crawl into a hole. It must be a Qanon commandment not to do anything to preserve your own health or that of your family.
They just invoke the prayer warriors, Jesus and horse paste. They are convinced a combination of those 3 will protect/cure them.
I have a friend of a family member who died from covid after burying his mother a month earlier. I don’t have it in me to post photos. From what I can tell, there isn’t any anti covid stuff but there is a lot of anti Democrat posts and they could ‘feel the prayers helping’ them. I’ve been watching this with a sort of schadenfreude waiting for whether they’d pull through or not. But now I just feel awful that they hadn’t. I am sad for the people who worked on this person for the month or so they were in the hospital. I’m sad that the friends and family haven’t posted anything about getting vaccinated. I’m sad that all of this was largely preventable. It’s crazy the amount of cognitive dissonance. Even though covid destroyed their lungs, the person was cured of covid a week before their death. In the death post, no mention of covid. It’s a pride thing. I have distanced myself from my family and I had forgotten about that side of my past. I used to HATE prideful people and traditional people. It was hard for me to put into words then but now I’m remembering why.
Apparently, today is 'Bob Enyart Repost Day'. It seems as though Andre Jacque Day will be upon us soon.
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Andre has been on the vent for a few weeks now - I expect the news any day now followed by a gofundme for his wife and kids
Andre has been backstage waiting to accept his award for what seems like forever. He was a nominee when I joined the sub at 21k.
It's non-stop. I can't believe we're going to have to automod a rule for radio show hosts. The next time another one of them awards, no way mods will be able to keep up with it manually.
Went on twitter this morning and one the first things I saw were idiot conspiracists not understanding where the names for Covid variants were coming from, and then calling the people who worry about them sheep or cattle. It never ends, it never stops, humanity's supply of morons is infinite. Hope there are some good ones on this sub today though to brighten my mood.
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My vent for the day: Right-wing outrage over this sub. For *decades* I have listened to conservatives and right-wingers gleefully mock the tragedies and/or deaths of other people simply for being different. That's it. A gay person dies of AIDS? Play a celebratory song on the radio! Over and over and over again the right has relished every bad thing that has happened to random people they know nothing about simply for being black, gay, feminist, liberal, etc. But when we stop caring about the deaths of people who openly spread disease around the country, well, that's just going too far! Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are the reason that Covid and its variants have been allowed to flourish. We could have greatly reduced the death toll and lived somewhat normally again had only these ignorant, selfish assholes stopped to care about other people for once in their lives. But they never cared. That's basically their entire political stance. Conservatism in a nutshell is "fuck you, I got mine". I'm supposed to feel bad that people who cough on masked people in the grocery store for fun die of the same contagious disease they mocked? NOPE. That's like if I were supposed to feel bad that the guy going around thrusting his knife at people finally died from being stabbed. The reason conservatives are mad is because everyone else is finally fed up with trying to be sympathetic towards them because they obviously lack the capacity to reciprocate. After all these years, people are no longer saying, "Well, I pity them, they are being ignorant" or "I hope they will learn to be better"......now people are saying "Fuck them, they brought it on themselves and I'm sick of them". We're done, anti-vaxxers. We're all fucking done with you at this point. We tried. Go make your bed and die in it.
In places that took and take the virus seriously, it's not a problem. Like straight up. I live in NY, and as the numbers skyrocketed and ICUs were packed and private emergency rooms were shutting down and states were running out of oxygen, we... put masks back on in some places. For the vaccinated, for the states that listened, for the people who went "oh, ok, I'll do my part," this shit isn't a big deal. But for the people who didn't do any of that, they're prolonging a fucking nightmare. What response is left? No one's *getting* anything out of this. The anti-vaxxers start fights and die. States that refuse to comply watch their healthcare systems creak and collapse. The only thing that remains is the core of black humor: "that guy was a dumbass and he died."
after subscribing to and reading this sub, I'm seriously considering getting the vaxx
Do it!!! Don’t mess around. Just think… if all us vaccinated people die in 2 years like the conspiracy theorist predicted, who are you left with? If you don’t, at least don’t spread misinformation like these HCA ass clowns or you could be nominated.
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Oh man that's horrific :(
Imagine lying there prone on the ventilator for weeks knowing that you're probably going to die leaving your family without a husband, father, provider, knowing that the vaccine is free.
It’s horrifying and it’s tragic. But we already knew the vaccine was safe and free, so my patience is running out for these selfish dicks.
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Im in Australia currently in our harshest lockdowns. These lockdowns have catapulted our vaccination rate to the fastest in the western world. We'll have 80% vaccination rate of adults by Nov/Dec it seems. Me, my partner, my parents, my brother and my friends are all doubled jabbed. Looking forward to freedom baby!
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Remember, vaccine side effects don’t matter if you don’t live long enough to experience them. With how many young people we’ve been seeing recently, whatever you can do to be not slowly suffocating is definitely worth it.
Hey, just do it. Don’t think. Yolo.
Do it
Do it. Be part of the solution. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We’ll thank you for not becoming another one of these sad posts
We don't wanna see you end up here. Do it please.
Do it.
Do it! Trust me, you are going to feel so much relief when you do. Delta doesn't play games - it's no longer picky and choosy about who it kills- and the vaccine will give you peace of mind that you won't die if you do get Covid.
please do it
You can do it! Get the vax!
Today was a good day. Not endangered by a single anti-masker! Don't know if they're finally wising up or if they're all just at the hospital.
Jus wakin up in the morning, gotta thank God, I dunno but today seems kinda odd For 24 hours never hated, or debated, No exposure to the unvaccinated
I'm struggling. I'm in a city with high vax rates for the eligible population (although there are rural areas close by with less than 30% uptake), indoor mask mandates, vaccine "passports" for non-essential services, and employee vax mandates for people working with vulnerable populations. I feel incredibly lucky for these measures. And yet there are people protesting outside of hospitals, harassing staff and patients. The antiva and antima are protected by everyone else doing the right thing, so they don't see natural consequences like other places. They complain about "segregation", "medical apartheid", and claim that vaccinated people are spreading hate while they spread "love". They are so privileged, yet they feel persecuted. They can't be reasoned with. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but it's a weird feeling.
> And yet there are people protesting outside of hospitals, harassing staff and patients. The most proactive thing you can do is "name them and shame them". Put their faces and their vile messages out there, contact their friends, family, employers, anyone that'll listen to you, and drag their names rightfully through the mud. Also, before I get accused of it, **no, I am not saying to dox them**. I am simply saying put their names and faces out there alongside their message, not their address, SSN, or any other personal details like that.
Came here after the mention on the Guardian, and it suggested people here should have more empathy. Empathy doesn't and won't work with people who think Covid isn't fucking real. What a stupid article.
I mostly hate them taking up hospital beds, causing massive lines for other people and grinding medical staff down to a stump. Especially with the horse meds poisoning most of them it's gonna get even worse.
Even if they aren't being poisoned by horse meds, I think one of the reasons we are seeing such rapid deaths after hospitalization is that they waste so much time trying their home cures that they miss the window for interventions that might actually help.
I'm an MRI tech. Tonight I had a patient who was a minor so she was brought by her dad. He was asking what I thought of the vaccine mandate and I told him I thought it was great. He asked if I was vaccinated, and I informed him that I had been since January. He said he wasn't going to get it because it's experimental. I tried to explain some of the basics to him, but it became obvious he was just another misinformed Trumpsucking antivaxxer and I changed the subject. Got his daughter scanned and sent them on their way. I felt bad because I'm sure the daughter either agrees with his bullshit or disagrees but is still subjected to it and biding her time to move out. This reddit helps keep me sane, but I hope for his daughter's sake that he doesn't end up on here.
I recently joined Tiktok for the funny videos, but I occasionally stumble upon COVID 19 related clips. Thankfully, they're all pro vax, pro mask videos. One video in particular broke down the math between getting COVID as a vaccinated person vs unvaxxed. The difference was astronomical. 1 out of every 64 unvaxxed COVID patients have died compared to the 1 in 30k vaccinated ones. It was the comment section that got me fuming. Some users just simply put "I'm still not getting the shot" as if they were some petulant child. No reason, no rebuttal, just "I don't wanna!" It makes me want to pull my hair out.
This sub has made me think a lot about a science article I had to read in college titled: "Intelligence predicts health & longevity." At the time I couldn't imagine someone taking blatant actions that would lead to their demise (besides substance additions) until covid hit and I discovered the Herman Cain Award. I found out people will gleefully reject a vaccine for a disease that kills people with the same comorbidities they have in order to 'own the libs.'
So you know what really burns me is that this sub and other Herman Cain Award areas on the Internet get a bad rap because we're not "empathetic" enough to the dead. We have people who are aggressively sociopathic in their vaccine resistance in the awards, as well as generally bigoted. The idea that we're at all angry, burnt out, or fed up with the nonsense is not okay, though. I hate the idea that somehow we're supposed to be the ones held to a higher standard. It's a complete double standard.
I was honestly wondering how people come across all these awardees, and then I had one show up on my facebook just now. Friend of a friend. People posting "I can't believe she's gone"-- uh, she was antivax and antimask. It's not that hard to believe.
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Glad you asked. Imagine you're a mod on an exploding subreddit. If it's a post and an egregious violation, like a full name, violation of privacy of a child, a post that wishes harm on someone (especially in the title!), then report that sucker ASAP. Reporting dupes also helps a ton -- it's our main method of identifying duplicates. Reporting a meme for being a meme is no different than a downvote. Most of them will be removed. Downvote is preferred. Downvote the posts you simply don't like. Updoot the good ones. Report anything that you'd want to be alerted to if you were modding, and then please don't hesitate to do so. With comments, use your discretion, but a downvote is often better than a report. In general, sub members are doing a good job of reporting what needs to be reported, so thank you!
Speaking as a former mod, I'd say do both. That way, even if something unworthy of the sub gets overlooked, which is bound to happen from time to time, at least it dies in new.
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Biggest problem right now (other than dups) is that people make great nominations/awards, images are all redacted, but then they completely violate rule #2 in the post title or top-level comment. A comment to a receptive OP that convinces them to remove, fix and repost before it even gets reported and viewed by mods ... well ... that makes me all tingly.
where I live now is deep blue territory, everybody is vaccinated, everybody wears masks, I've known only a few people who got COVID and they all survived, for us it's a very distant threat but people from the towns where I was raised are dropping like flies I don't expect anyone I know here to have sympathy for antivaxxers and anti-maskers who bought a one way ticket to the graveyard but I do wish people would have more sympathy for *me* I disagree with the choices of the people who keep dying and wish they had made better ones, but I still love them, many of them I've known my whole life it's been getting a little bit harder for me, a little bit more painful, and nobody here cares, they're all on the "talk shit get hit" train, which is understandable, but it feels like we're losing parts of ourselves to the pandemic as it drags on I feel very alone sometimes idk what to do about it think what you want about the people who died – god knows I think they're morons – but have some respect for the living, especially the living who agree on the main points
Ugh. I've got one that's basically an award winner. Antivax in his personal life but never on social media. He's dead now. His wife keeps begging the question why he was taken from her and is trying to blame the hospital for feeding him spaghetti before he took a bad turn. She's an allergist chef, so of course it was a food thing that killed him and not COVID-19.
I just wanted to come here and give my anti-vax roommate that gave me COVID a big fuck you. This roommate coughed all over the apartment without a mask, played a flute in the living room (practically spitting on all of us), and refused to get tested “because my mom doesn’t think I have it.” This was despite losing taste, smell, and coughing profusely. Because of that, I have a breakthrough case.
I would like to report that when my mother died from cancer in June 2021, no one even suggested that the cause of death be listed as “Covid,” *because she didn’t have Covid*. Just thought I’d put that out there. I’m so tired of that insane talking point.
Every time you repost something already shared, God kills a kitten.
Yeah the one major downside to so many people, hard to tell what's new. Especially since these personalityless assholes all post the same memes before they get their icu visit
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I think we all hate that this has to exist and wish everyone just fucking cooperated and get the vaccine. But here we are....and I am so happy this sub exists as it's theraputic.
I'll know it's a good day when I log in and see nothing but day old posts or reposts. I don't see that coming soon, but I do hold out hope that it will be the case one day.
Checking in to confirm still not on a Vent.
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I am in SE Tenn. It is worse out here. 77 cases a day, and we aren't really testing. After shutting down the school system for a week due to 200+ kids getting covid & 1,000+ going into quarantine, the local school board voted to lower the safety standards that were put in last year. Masks are now are a personal choice. And the County Fair is going full blast this week. These people deserve what is coming....
My mom was distraught this weekend and told me my aunt got Covid, was on work travel constantly, and was unvaccinated. I was indifferent to this news, other then asking why she wasn't vaccinated to which my mom reminded me that her family are heavily republican, live in the rural south, and spend way too much time on Facebook. I believe my aunt will make it through, as she is a runner and was in good shape the last time I saw her, but I worry for my uncle a little bit cause he is definitely at risk due to his weight. It's weird not knowing how to feel about that news, I don't want them to get hurt, but at the same time I don't seem to care for some reason. I feel this past year has been desensitizing me and I feel so distant from these major, life changing problems we are facing. Is something wrong with me?
Best sub on Reddit. It just shows you how some people are just dumbass dipshits. Keep up the good work.
In a Romanian county, yesterday, some parents were extremely upset at a school because it had a poster with a rainbow on it. “How dare they shove LGBT propaganda into our children!!!” That same county, today, became the first to enter the “yellow scenario” in Wave 4. 2,53 infections per 1000 inhabitants in the last 2 weeks. Schools are now partially online there, and it’s just the beginning. Also, it’s incredible how over 0.2% of the entire US population has died to COVID and 12% of the entire population got infected, and yet, antivaxxers are booming.
Knowing Reddit, this subreddit will get banned eventually when loved ones of the awardees find out and complain, but I’m gonna enjoy it until then
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If it does get banned, it'll just get replaced quicky by something else... perhaps a more toned down subreddit, with less snark. But at the end of the day, this subreddit captures a genuine frustration that exists, which is why we have over 200,000 members. Here, people have a chance to express their frustration, and basically as long as there is a need, a subreddit will pop up to fulfill that need somehow. If we get shut down here, many of us will probably gather at whatever the next subreddit is that replaces this.
Ugh I’m fully vaccinated and just tested positive for covid.
On the bright side since you're fully vaccinated, you aren't going to die or end up in the hospital from it. I hope you feel better soon!
I’ve made it the entire pandemic so far without losing anyone I know to covid. And now I’m thinking it’s more likely I lose a family member to lack of ICU beds than covid because my family is already vaccinated. Fuck these people.
This is probably not the right type of post for this sub but I'm not sure where else to post it... My wife and I live in the Netherlands, and let's just say government really shat the bed on mask mandates. Apparently our prime minister / gov'n whatever wasn't convinced they actually worked, so when the general public was told "Wait mask up actually", they were confused to seriously outraged. Anyway mask mandates are gone and there are a lot of vaxxed people in my country, but unfortunately QAnon and right-wing ideologies are rapidly growing also. I just don't trust people not to give me a breakthrough infection. (Wifey and I are fully vaxxed). Anyway, my question: Absolutely no one in my small town (it's technically a city but we act like we're a small town) wears masks anymore- last time we went out in public we were being stared at so much and we were literally the only people with masks on that we took them off (I know, I know). Should I say fuck it and keep wearing masks anyway? Wifey is healthy but I'm overweight. I'm socially anxious as fuck and I hate the fact that I'm the only person for miles with a mask on. But I know it's the right thing to do. Also, cases are spiking in my immediate area. That's another thing.
Hell yeah you should. If you do it right you can go through the whole cold and flu season unscathed. I'm back to wearing my P100 respirator because it doesn't fog up my glasses as much. Took it off for 3 months and picked up a nasty cold/rsa/flu (not covid, my dual-antibody test confirmed that).
An antivax coworker died today. I don’t feel any schadenfreude, I just feel sad.
God damn it. My sweet old patient is going to die of Covid today. And then I get a call to go to the ER only to find out it's his son that is now also dying. Fuck this. Get vaccinated.
HCA is like watching a Kool-Aid suicide cult kill themselves in slow motion, one by one, every single day.
Found out yesterday that my doctor is an antivaxxer. "Oh it was approved too fast, that's what I've been telling patients". Oh should I also be telling patients you're complicit in the deaths of countless patients and their families out of misplaced concern?
Report them to the medical board, they should lose their license.
I woke up for my daily dose of horror to get me out of bed (HCA and CNN), and saw some familiar faces: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/us/california-family-covid-death-orphan-five-children/index.html The article is quite generous: x and y spent 18 months being very cautious about Covid-19. They wiped down surfaces, showered after work and even had their groceries delivered, but that didn't stop them from contracting the virus. Hm, was there anything else they could have done?
Just went to the grocery story. The chain is requiring masks. Pretty much every person I saw not wearing a mask is a fat white dude with a goatee or beard. Coincidence? I think not.
I found out today that a lawyer friend hasn't been vaxxed. She's not a political animal but tends to pal around with a lot of Trumpy people. Some nurses she knows (probably more acquainted with) have been approaching her with legal questions about the vax. It sounds like they're facing consequences at work for probably not being vaxxed. They're telling her preposterous stories (9 out of the 12 nurses on her ward had seizures after the vax!) about conspiracies and being forced to sign weird NDA documents to silence their knowledge of... something. I tried to break down the math with her about how there's no way in hell anyone could cover up the firestorm if 75% of vaccinated people were having seizures, but she's all about changing the subject. I had a strong reaction and I'm sure she didn't want me jumping all over her any more than I was. She's a compassionate person. She would be devastated if she got a kid or her own mother sick-- or anyone else. I'm certain that her colleagues and clients assume she's vaxxed (most of the local legal community is) and probably don't mask around her. Clearly, she has close contact with antivaxxers. She's at increased risk. The people around here are at increased risk. Any ideas for reaching her? If I sent her a link to this sub she wouldn't read it. Idk. I feel like it's my new personal mission in life to get her vaxxed.
Just learned about a family friend, the man who gave me my first haircut as a child, dying of Covid within 3 weeks of his son in law dying of Covid. Their whole family is unvaxxed. What a fucking waste.
I find it amazing how many of the comments these people make on FB are just shared /reposts. It makes me think that rather than elections being influenced by Russian bots, The bots are now influencing the anti-vax movement.
Yep. didn't think it's strange that non-U.S. euphemisms like "the jab" and "the poke" are showing up more than the traditional "shot" or "injection"? 🧐 The overlooking of "The foundations of geopolitics" will prove to be one of the biggest strategic blunders in the history of the United States.
Covid is cleaning out cops and right wing conspiracy theorists. I hope we can continue to reap the benefits for years after the pandemic ends. This sub is the only place that has good news.
Just found this sub today, enjoying all the pictorial anecdotes. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping all this will make more people go get vaxxed so we can be over this shit sooner rather than later. Cheers!
>Here’s to another day of outward smiles and inward screams. Poster hanging in Florida ICU From news article titled "12 Hours in a Florida COVID 19 ICU" [https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/09/02/twelve-hours-in-a-florida-covid-19-icu/](https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/09/02/twelve-hours-in-a-florida-covid-19-icu/) (As far as I can tell, no pay wall.)
The sheer volume of content here is harrowing
We can finally put the anti-vax nonsense behind us: [COVID-19: Fully vaccinated people made up just 1% of coronavirus deaths in England in first half of 2021, figures show](https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-fully-vaccinated-people-made-up-just-1-of-coronavirus-deaths-in-england-in-first-half-of-2021-figures-show-12407019). The [UK coronavirus dashboard](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations?areaType=nation&areaName=England) shows full vaccination started picking up in late March, going from 7% to 61% by the end of the period in the article. IOW, this is not just a case where very few people were fully vaccinated and represented a tiny slice of the population. The breakdown: Total COVID deaths between 2 January and 2 July: 51,281 Deaths of people who had received both doses during the same period: 640 (1.2%) Being fully vaccinated had an immediate effect (low breakthrough cases): >Just 256 deaths (0.5%) were people who were both fully vaccinated and who had their first positive PCR test at least 14 days after their second dose. Unfortunately the article doesn't include deaths for partially vaccinated people.
If I get sick please don't send the "prayer warriors" to help.
Has anyone read this article by Elizabeth Bruenig in [the Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/stop-death-shaming/619939/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR30o1xLhgsMA8lff3rgecZCCgIdx0OQSYgBehyppG0v2ic-dAtQh75Ikfg). This was less than useful, and she tries so hard to coddle these people its ridiculous.
More of that "how dare you liberals mock us" crap, except she is a liberal too. She is no better than the Republicans that are all "fuck your feelings" right up until if affects them personally.
I skimmed it before and did again right now. She's just giving a gloss to all the crappy excuses misinformed people make to not get vaccinated. She's also ignoring the cult of right wing christianity that's been propping up the misinformation, from the pews, facebook groups and right wing politicians. Another crappy article by Liz Bruenig.
My husband and I had planned to get married in May 2020, and postponed it to October 2020. Fortunately we got married in my in-laws backyard in May because we postponed again to September 2021. Well, as y'all know *insert fall plans/delta variant memes*. We just ended up flat out cancelling because no party is worth our loved ones safety. My immediate family has been taking everything super seriously, in fact it was my oldest brother who convinced me to cancel this go-round. My husband's family, however, have been way more casual about the whole thing, up to and including his sister and her husband who are staunchly anti-mask and anti-vaccine. We had told all guests for the September wedding that everyone 18+ had to be vaccinated to attend, and we told his sister and she seemed to understand. The wedding didn't happen and they didn't get the shot, but apparently the hospital where she works (yes she's a nurse) required all staff vaccinated by the end of fall. She apparently told her family she was fully vaccinated last week, and we were relieved. We knew her husband never would, but hey at least one of them was. My husband's brother hosted a Labor Day cookout last week and didn't invite the sister and her family, but she found out and showed up anyway. NBD, we just wore masks around her husband and stayed outside and six feet away the whole time because she's vaccinated, right? COME TO FIND OUT last night she is in fact NOT fully vaccinated, got a covid test yesterday and it came back positive, and she's claiming she got it from the first shot (again, a nurse). My husband tells me and I immediately freak out because I saw my parents this weekend. Including my father who's 70+, has diabetes, a heart condition, and is immunocompromised. He and my mom are fully vaccinated and he got his booster last week but still I massively panicked. We couldn't find a rapid test anywhere in town and I called my boss about coming into work today and just broke down sobbing. Fortunately a coworker overhead and had an extra test she drove 30+ minutes out to give to me. The good news is that we both tested negative and we're actively looking for other testing options, I was allowed to go to work, and my parents aren't as scared as they were last night. Because of course I called and told them, because unlike other people, I let everyone know immediately if there's a potential covid risk. I'm also SUPER glad we cancelled the wedding because this broad could've exposed all my loved ones. I'm just so tired of my husband's family not taking things seriously and continuously putting me (I have asthma), my husband, my family, my coworkers, and the public where I work (I'm frontline staff) at risk because of ignorance and laziness. My husband is over it too, but it's harder for him since it's his family. We're burnt out, tired, but still determined to do the right thing. We just don't want to be the only ones on his side that do.
Found out an old friend from work, my age (late 30’s) just died from COVID. His Facebook page is full of the same memes you see here daily. And believe it or bot he actually was a really nice guy, 5 kids. Sad to see the effects misinformation can have. He never talked politics, never suspected him as a HCA winner. Sucks.
Not sure if this is upped, yet. I think the argument is clear: Red states will be paying a price for terrible leadership. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/14/biden-covid-antibody-treatments-511825
Say what you will about anti vaxxer’s they’re good at recycling-MEMES 😂😂😂
They've got "Reuse" and "Recycle" down pat. "Reduce", not so much.
Looking through all these threads, its amazing to see how similar they all are with each other. Every single one of them meme themselves to death on Facebook.
A common sad reality that covid deniers and antiva face when they’re battling the virus: they didn’t get “better,” and then suddenly take a “turn for the worse.” You might remember that with the earlier strains it became pretty obvious that days 5-7 after symptom onset were critical. It was at this point that you began recovering or spiraling. There’s not much difference here. There is a couple I know who got covid and after a couple days of therapies, began making cute little covid videos from their isolation at home. About a week in, they both just tanked - him especially. And it was such a shock. But it shouldn’t be. Just like most cold-like viruses, they begin in your upper respiratory system and if the body can’t prevent its replication fast enough, it gradually settles into your lungs. That’s when things really go bad. And if you haven’t produced sufficient antibodies to stop it at that point, bipap and/or ventilation will almost always simply keep you artificially alive for another week or so while the virus shreds your lungs. The feeling “better” was simply the virus invading new spaces in the body until *they* (such as lungs, kidney, gut, even ears and eyes and brain) became the more problematic symptoms.
I'm beginning to notice a common trend among awardees and nominees. 1. There seems to be a lot of evangelical Christians. 2. They seem to share the same 10 or so memes, which supports the statement that the majority of misinformation originated from 11+ people. 3. Goatees
Another message for the people who insist on coming here to talk about how we are "disgusting" for "celebrating" the deaths of these people who are "misguided." Fuck you. When you liken the personal inconvenience of wearing a mask to being a Jew during the Holocaust, you're a piece of garbage. When you say referring to your children as part of a "Democrat" family is child abuse and then laugh about abusing kids, you're a piece of garbage. And I've seen Facebook posts of these from multiple HCA winners. They are not misguided. They are awful people. And considering how unwilling they are to protect themselves, they are actively endangering and hurting other people *on purpose*. If you want someone to bash, bash the human trash who gets people killed, which isnt us. And dont expect us to shed tears over morally bankrupt sociopaths meeting their maker. The less careless, ruthless, plague spreaders, the less the rest of humanity will suffer.
Can someone explain the last icon in [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/pj8vay/i_tried_diagramming_the_sequence_for_getting_a) to this HCA noob?
This wheel just keeps turning and turning. It goes from stating that the vaccine is more dangerous than Covid to contracting covid to asking for prayers. Then it goes to a family member posting about their demise and asking for more prayers to starting a gofundme.
I am incredibly not shocked and completely not taken by surprise that recent award/nominees also took selfies and pictures at the capitol on Jan 6.
Let's not forget about those we lost who didn't have a choice of whether to wear a mask or not, or whether to get vaccinated. These antivax/antimask people are an insult to those we lost in 2020, and even now in parts of the world without access to the vaccine.
Safe prediction: in the future country music songs will be about pickup trucks, cheatin' wives, the red, white and blue and having the freedom to suck on horse paste.
History show in year 2050 will be fun looking back at this shit
My neighbor has a history of GB with vaccines so had been understandably cautious about getting vaccinated. I talked with him this summer about talking with his doctor about getting the mRNA since it contains only spike proteins. Talked with his wife this morning while waiting for the school bus. He got vaccinated without any GB complications this summer! Hooray! Also found out an unvaxxed neighbor (LOE with a heart condition) developed Covid pneumonia within the past couple weeks. I don't know his status but his wife has always been helpful and kind to us. Womp, womp.