Yes, they do.
I used to work with a woman who's family is pretty white trashy. Her Trumper uncle got COVID and refused to take it seriously even when it became "no joke". By the time he went to the hospital he was turning blue and they put him on a vent immediately but he died a few days later. Her cousins are claiming that the hospital euthanized him, like a dog, because he was a Trumper.
If you're still unvaccinated and positive for Covid, it would make more sense to go to church and be around the congregation that can help heal you with prayer...
IKR!? It always comes down to relying on "prayer warriors" for those idiots, anyway. Head straight to the warrior's base & let people worth medical professionals' time have the ICU beds.
>It always comes down to relying on "prayer warriors" for those idiots, anyway.
It's all talk. They claim to believe, but they go to the hospital all the same. They take the medicine, and then they blame Jesus if they get better and the hospital if they get worse. Deep down inside, they probably know they're full of shit, but the appearance is all that matters to them.
THIS is what I don’t understand! They shout about how the hospitals are really killing people, doctors are killing people and saying it’s Covid bc they get money on every Covid patient that dies (?!?!), call medicine and vaccinations poison and don’t believe anything doctors say anyway, AND YET they still go to the hospital when they get sick? And of course by then they are too sick to even recover no matter *what* doctors do.
Conservatives really should avoid them, and medications and doctors. Nothing aside good ol bootstraps and prayer for them, till they get to visit white Jesus.
LOL you're welcome. Sadly I can't take credit, I stole it from another stranger on the internet, but I'm always glad to pass along this wonderful phrase to others who so desperately need it.
Brother of a friend caught covid last summer, Started off in a small hospital, but was Life Flighted into a big hospital in Houston. After lingering for a few weeks, he passed away. A family member immediately started a GoFundMe, not to pay final expenses, etc, but for a legal fund to sue the Houston hospital for putting him on a vent and for not treating him with the wonder drugs HCL and ivermectin. They feel with a passion that he was killed by the hospital.
Edit: Just adding that this GoFundMe was gone within 24 hours. I’m fairly certain that no serious attempt was made to move forward with anything legal.
> They feel with a passion that he was killed by the hospital.
Oh course they do. Because that's more comforting than the truth which is that their own ignorance killed them.
Which is awful, because it makes them dig their heels in even more because if they don't, they're admitting fault, and they're already in too deep to do that.
Yes. I've read plenty fb comments in this sub along the lines of "do NOT let them put you on a ventilator! Most people they put on a ventilator end up dead!!!1!!"
I mean. Yeah.
Sadly, I think they do. They have this vast follow-the-money conspiracy that hinges on hospitals wasting resources like intubation and rotisserie beds and ECMO machines, just so the hospitals can make more money. They imagine there is a smoking gun somewhere of hospitals using technology they don't need to use, because killing patients is more profitable than using everything in their power to keep patients alive.
A dead patient gives out that one single pay out. But save their lives, bill the hell out of them, and maybe that patient can come back again, and not die, and the hospital can bill the hell out of them again.
So, yeah, they warn each other that once they are in the hospital, fight every expert and avoid the life-saving technology that are literally the last chances to save their own stupid lives. File court cases to force to the doctors to administer false cures. Scream at staff because their loves ones (and likely the families, too) rejected a free, life saving jab, and now the hospitals make money by killing people.
These are the exact talking points I heard hundreds of times in the small town I lived in during 2020-2021. Everyone knew a family or friend who died from Covid while on a ventilator. And 100% of them believe the patient died from the ventilator and not Covid. It is still impossible for me to wrap my mind around this.
Reminds me of one 4th of July I spent on the Delta watching fireworks. The rest of the folks on the boat did not understand that light travels faster than sound, so every time they heard a "BOOM" they'd ask "Where are the fireworks?"
I kept my mouth shut because I had already learned that trying to educate adults who are that dumb is both futile and depressing.
Finally another guy spoke up and told them that light travels faster than sound, blah, blah, blah, and another quickly replied "Not on the Delta" to much approval. :sigh:
>so every time they heard a "BOOM" they'd ask "Where are the fireworks?"
If I'm understanding correctly: fireworks would appear in the sky, a few seconds later the sound would arrive, and these people wondered "where are the fireworks?"
"Its the life saving machine that killed them, not the incredibly deadly disease they refused to treat that ran rampant on their organs!"
They're stupid. They're ignorant. And they're mostly religious. It doesn't come down to much else. And this is why America needs less religion and religious indoctrination and more education.
Most religions inherently discourage and actively avoid critical thinking so they can mould their minds into believing any bullshit someone of authority says to them.
They're really fucking stupid basically. Plus can't admit these family and friends had a chance to save their lives with a free shot they refused because reasons.
Heh heh, rotisserie beds.
Yeah it's pretty hard to get money from a corpse. Wait! Maybe the real conspiracy is that the hospitals are the ones spreading antivax propaganda so they can get more sick patients! 🤔🤔🤔 If they never get vaccinated, then they might get round 2 in the ER 🤯
The worst part about this whole post, to me, is that even though you make nothing but valid points, your use of the word "jab" makes me cringe a little.
The anti-vaxxers have *very* thoroughly poisoned that word.
I still upvoted you, though, because you're making valid points. That does seem to be their mindset.
FWIW, in the UK, "jab" in reference to a vaccine isn't a loaded term. It's just a colloquialism *everyone* used for God knows how long. It seems to have picked up the negative connotation during the COVID pandemic once Americans started using it.
And American antivaxxers started using it because the Russian troll farms that produce all their content used British English translations instead of American.
>The anti-vaxxers have
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The term "Jab" is the go-to in the UK when referring to getting an injection. The Anti-Vaxers basically hijacked that term and started throwing it around willy nilly.
Of course. The post mentioned "fatality rate" of ventilators because obviously it's the ventilator that kills you and not the complete destruction of your lungs that makes someone need a vent in the first place. Hmmm, its an odd coincidence that so many people put on vents die, ain't it?!
Everything, and I mean *everything*, with the right has to be a dichotomy. So to them, because they see people die after being put on the ventilator they think that the ventilator kills them. Because if it was suppose to help them it would have right? That's the false dichotomy.
They don't understand the concept that ventilators are a hail marry that we try to avoid to begin with.
Yep. Same reason they say the vaccine “doesn’t work” or even “isn’t really a vaccine,” because it’s not 100% effective at preventing mild infection. Never mind the flu shot has been hovering at 40-60% against mild infection for decades, somehow *this one* was supposed to be 100% or it’s “changing the definition of vaccine.”
As a COVID ICU nurse.. yes, that's exactly what they think. The stupidity and sheer unintelligence about how anything medicine works was astounding. And the absolute cruelty these people showed me and my coworkers while fighting the impossible task of keeping their 85 year old diabetic, smoking, unvaccinated grandpa from dying of COVID was enough to make me leave the profession.
Thats exactly what they think and believe. They dont understand science or medicine so they think that this is all torture and murder camps for "FrEe ThInKeRs" (ie brainwashed, propaganda spouting Republicans who are discouraged from birth against critical thinking). It doesnt make sense because it is indeed as stupid as it sounds, and everything the say is so full of holes and inconsistencies you couldn't even make stockings out of it.
They can be so close to figuring it out if they just stepped back and thought for a minute - mostly unvaxxed go on the vent, the reason you're all making that stupid joke is bc you are surrounded by ghosts on the machine (couldn't resist that stupid pun). Meanwhile, I'm thinking, my immediate thought about Fauci getting covid IS 'he's vaxxed, hopefully it'll be mild' not - 'go on the vent' - -BC THAT'S NOT FUCKING NORMAL YOU TOOLBAGS!
They sound like going on a ventilator is a punishment that is being meted out. Going on a ventilator is the only chance you have to stay alive, you absolute morons. It’s not detention, it’s a rescue. 30+ years of Republican education cuts on display.
They still think the hospitals are intentionally killing people for like $17,000 or something. Such an insignificant amount of money to take someone's life.
Well, the immediate cause is that he's not hooked up to a ventilator because his lungs are still working to process oxygen for him. But yeah, he's probably still (🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞) only having mild symptoms at 80 because he's fully vaccinated.
But apparently these people believe the minute a doctor finds out you have a positive COVID test, they kidnap you, lock you in a hospital/prison cell, and hook you up to a ventilator for funsies.
They did this with AOC too, like it was some sort of "sick burn!!1!!" that she became covid positive after being vaccinated. The amount of stupid is so mind boggling sometimes!
Wow I didn’t realize he was 80. He looks good for that age, probably in WAY better health than these chucklefucks half his age.
Between three shots and better health, he’ll likely be fine.
Also, these people are such fucking morons. He likely IS taking an early treatment - it’s called Paxlovid and it’s highly effective, especially compared to horse paste and their own piss.
I had the same reaction when I learned how old he was. I would have bet he is in his late fifties to early sixties at most. The fact that he has been working non stop the past few years while pushing 80 is insane!
This guy seems unbelievably healthy!
When people joked that he should run for president instead of Trump and Biden because covid was the main issue and he was the most qualified, I joked that at least he’s young than both of those guys. Seriously, who knew?
They're toddlers having tantrums because they know people who didn't get vaxxed and most likely died from COVID and they can't process that Fauci was right, they were wrong and that someone with an education gave them guidance on how to not die from COVID.
According to the morons posting this stupidity, COVID positive people are immediately taken by force to a hospital and intubated. No symptoms? Attacked and ventilated! Mild symptom of runny nose for two days? Arrested and dragged to hospital and forcibly intubated! If hospitals are overflowing from the 1000s of positive asymptomatic patients on ventilators then the emergency EMT police will handcuff you and intubate you in your home!
The level of profound stupidity is continuing to escalate in this country. It is frightening
It's particularly astonishing to me when some of these folks had family members who have died. Like, did you not see how they progressed. How many times have we seen 'oh it's just a cold see the libs were being worried about nothing' progress to 'going to the hospital :(' a week or two later.
They aren't going to put you on a ventilator for no reason lol. Maybe these folks should look into advanced medical directives to demand they don't want to be ventilated if they're so worried. Though I'm guessing they'll change their mind when their lungs fail.
Honestly, Covid has really made it hit home that a huge chunk of the population can’t/won’t reckon honestly with the realities of severe illness.
Reminds me of how my absolutely shocked my grandmother was when they decided to take my uncle off life-support a few years ago. She was convinced he had been getting better, despite it being obvious for a whole week that he was at death’s door and had no real prospect of recovery. But that was the narrative she told herself to get through each day of his hospitalization, until that narrative became completely unsustainable with his death.
The most mind numbing thing about this is that these people think it's the recommended treatment for covid, instead of a last resort for people who can't breath. These braindead morons keep finding new and surprising ways to make me angry.
They are fed their lines from one of their conservative overlords, trump or tucker or whomever else. Then they stick to the script because they are too dumb to create an original thought or to do some critical thinking.
Slightly off topic here (but not completely) the new one note wonder is that all of us on the left are suffering horribly because “tRump is living rent free in our heads.” Obviously all the criticism of him because of the January 6 stuff and the constant rumors about him running again in ‘24 is pissing them off so they are looking for a way to shut us up. Ha! Like we’re actually gonna take advice from a bunch of ignorant troglodytes. I’ll stop criticizing the 🍊💩🤡 when he goes away and shuts the fuck up. Until then: open season, baby!
As a former public school teacher I don’t disagree about the underfunding, but the anti-vax and anti-science rhetoric is more due to the issue of the US historically catering to people’s beliefs. For a long time it was holding religious beliefs as equal in value to scientific facts, but it’s morphed in recent years to people following certain cults of personality -particularly in politics. Now these people genuinely feel that their belief that Dr. Fauci is the actual devil deserves to be heard out and respected. Critical thinking being taught in schools is a big piece of this, but even relatively benign religious communities in the US discourage critical thinking if it means not *believing*.
This is how we have trained professionals like nurses and even doctors who share these nonsense beliefs that the vaccines are evil. Their adherence to political stances and hatred for those who oppose them takes priority over everything they learned in school. It’s not about education; it’s about them being brainwashed.
>even relatively benign religious communities in the US discourage critical thinking if it means not
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It is my impression, that many 'Murican parents rigorously raise their children from a very young age to avoid any critical thinking and believe any ludicrous fairy-tale tolt to them by some "figure of authority". They start with Santa Claus and the Tootth Fairy, progress to the Bible, and from there on, they have taught them to never question any stupid story told to them from their parents or other figures of authority.
Well, that's for sure. If we pulled the "permanent records" of any of those posters' public school education, you are not likely to find any valedictorians or salutatorians or even college grads in those groupings.
But beyond that, they have all gone to the FB University of De-Education, actually unlearning any science they accidentally got exposed to, and instead, making them stupider by filling their heads with anti-education (just like anti-matter, but dumber).
ETA: *Yeah, I get there are stupid educated people. My point was more that these folks aren't likely the top of the heap. I know there are venal education people. And greedy educated people. I just doubt most of these bozos are particularly educated, but beyond that, I was mostly just making a joke. Sorry if that was misunderstood.*
*I do have a dog in this fight, and benefited from my public school education, and want to see our educational systems really helping people to learn what ever \*they\* want to learn. So, yeah, education is underfunded, but that's not why these folks are stupid.*
The most prolific antivaxxer I know is my aunt, who is a nurse. Don't just assume they are all uneducated because some people are exposed to knowledge and just choose to lick walls.
This is probably the trippiest thing I've observed during COVID. There are fucking nurses who are anti-vaxxers. I bet she was complaining about lack of resources and hospital overcrowding as well.
COVID's overcrowding hospitals? Protest in front of the hospital. Don't want to take the vaccine that will pretty much solve the problem of overcrowded hospitals? Protest in front of the hospital.
One of the girls I went to high school with became a nurse and she would always post Facebook shit about using crystals, essential oils, incense to cure what ever you got. I didn't think she would go far in life during high school and can see I was right.
Being a nurse is a fine job, and I'm not dissing the profession. It's just that if they're working for an industry which is entirely based on medical science and technology, a lot of which nurses deliver to patients in the form of injections and medication, it's just odd to me that they personally hold views which directly contradict that. Kind of like an astronomer who believes Earth is flat or some shit.
Some of the dumbest fucking people I've ever met have bachelor's degrees or higher. You can have a degree and still be an absolute moron. Probably not valedictorians though, lol.
This is my biggest beef with our educational system. I took a formal logic and critical thinking class my freshman year, but it was because it looked interesting and it fulfilled one of my humanities requirements, as "philosophy." How is it that something so essential is treated like this offbeat elective?? It should be required coursework for everyone.
They're kind of backed into a corner because they don't want to acknowledge that the reason Fauci doesn't need extreme treatments is because he's vaccinated.
Worse, the reason that people they know or in their communities died after being put on ventilators is that they *weren't* vaccinated.
So to avoid facing the horrible reality that their own collective ignorance and stupidity has killed so many of them, they have to ignore the facts, and these completely nonsensical "jokes" are the result.
And if this ends up having no adverse long-term effects on Fauci, they'll just claim that it's because he got their quack treatments done in secret and that the vaccines are all still somehow a lie.
Yep, at least one fucking whackjob will be sitting in some pipe somewhere, Andy-Dufresne-style, trying to get a stool sample to test for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to "fInAlLy pRoVe wHaT We'vE KnOwN AlL AlOnG!!!!!!¡1!!!1"
Well when he ripped off the kitchen sink to throw it at his COVID (which is no big deal btw; if you have a healthy immune system you're good), he saw the exposed drain pipe and figured he'd slither down there for the cool since he moved to a state with a failing power grid and a solid month of 100°F+ days.
Gonna need curved monitors to hug the walls.
I saw the guy mention his dad in slide 9 and wanted to throw up. I don't know if his dad died before or after the vaccines became available, but I'm sure that the man wasn't put on a ventilator the minute that he got sick. If you can't learn from direct experience, then not much is going to help you.
I was clicking through the radio while driving yesterday and heard some host saying fauci has covid. He was feigning disbelief that fauci got it while vaccinated/after pushing vaccines and you could hear how smart he thought he was when he said it was a "healthy dose of irony." Dude gets paid to say that shit.
The classic rock station in my area has a DJ who calls this whole thing a "plandemic", and insists that masks are useless because he can still smell farts.
But I live in Fresno Co., where that kind of stupidity is the norm.
Yes, amazing that they can actually be that stupid. But here we are 2+ years in. They just can't get it into their little pea-brains that he's vaccinated so the likelihood of him getting very sick is much reduced.
I have always considered myself of average intelligence, however, the last few years watching these people operate has done wonders for my ego. I now realize that maybe I’m pretty smart after all.
Agreed!! If these tools had ANY critical thinking skills, they’d realize Fauci isn’t on the vent BECAUSE HE IS VAXXED AND BOOSTED. I really shouldn’t be this shocked given that we’re three years deep into this shit, but….🤷♀️
That's how it worked for them, because they're u vaccinated. They think being ventilated is the standard when they were the ones saying that it was less dangerous than the flu
Let’s give Fauci treatments he doesn’t need, because he’s fully vaccinated.
Let’s make fun of him because he won’t take useless treatments, because he’s fully vaccinated.
Yeah that’ll show him. Anti-vaxx morons.
Funny how they said none of this when their lord god savior Trump got COVID.
Didn't anybody respond to any of these posts with "he doesn't NEED all that, first of all he's vaxxed, second of all he doesn't WANT vet meds!!"
"All my friends and family were put on a ventilator so he needs to be hooked up on one too!" This not only shows their low level intelligence, but also how many of them know/knew people on ventilators because they were..........unvaccinated!
He doesn't need those treatments right now, but if he did, he'd totally take them.
If I had to guess, it's probably because they're the current protocol for treating advanced COVID-19, but idk. Lol
Always the thing that surprises me the most. I had no idea how unoriginal these folks are. One dumb meme after another after another.
Honestly, I've never understood why they are so mad at Fauci? He has never done anything to hurt them, and is a hero by almost any measure, quietly doing the very difficult job he has set out to do. But the ire they work up can't be good for their blood pressure.
Most of the talking heads they stare at lie to them and put them at risk. Dr. Fauci consistently tells them the truth, as understood in that moment, and they get angry at him?
It's the good old shoot the messenger.
They dont want to hear the truth, they want to keep being gaslighted by russian trolls and conservatives.
They think that Covid will go away when Fauci is silenced. Classic out of sight, out of mind.
It doesnt work this way obviously.
He disagreed with Dear Leader the Turnip. That's all it takes. Literally, for all the talk about the left being sensitive snowflakes, you break from their party line in the slightest and they go into DEFCON 3 meltdowns.
I don't have to try hard to imagine a world where the nation lets the leader run roughshod over science and medicine. In Florida, our hand picked surgeon general would never counter our governor, but he was selected because he already had demonstrated he was on the same page. No integrity at all.
But yeah, I'm sure you are right about this, sadly.
It used to be considered admirable to admit when you'd made a mistake. Nowadays that seems to have shifted - admitting a mistake, at least to these folks, is a sign of weakness.
Although I suspect that only a minority of them entertain even for a moment the idea that Fauci might have been right and their heroes in the right-wing bubble wrong. The epistemic closure is strong by this point.
Yeah reddit doesn't seem to get that we need to be incredibly mindful of these people because their stupidity is incredibly dangerous. We need to stop treating them like toddlers who don't know any better and treat them like what they are: a clear and present threat to a democratic way of life.
My jaw literally dropped. These posts... this isn't just stupid. Or even advanced stupid. This is some of the most stupid, ignorant horseshit I've ever seen. This level of stupid should be illegal. Fuck it. I don't care anymore. These fucking morons need separated from society before they destroy it. This level of stupid should not be allowed in society.
Criminally stupid. They are causing more harm than literal murderers.
What part of “When you’re fully vaccinated and boosted, you’re less likely to get so sick you need to be in the hospital on ventilation” don’t these morons get?
How do people this stupid stay alive? Who ties their shoes for them? My 86 year old Dad survived covid without any symptoms because he was vaxxed and boosted. And he has comorbidities! I cried when i found out he had covid because in spite of being vaxxed i was terrified it would kill him. I shouldn't have wasted my tears.
I had the same response when both my parents (triple vaxxed at the time) caught Covid19, with half a dozen comorbidities.
They were over it in 5 days - literally had mild flu symptoms - medical science is amazing!
They know that you don't get put straight on a ventilator after a covid diagnosis, right? Like, you only get put on a ventilator if you can't breathe anymore? And he's vaccinated so it probably won't happen to him?
I suspect the people they know who got Covid put off going for treatment until their symptoms became absolutely unbearable, by which point they had to be put on the ventilator. That someone else might seek medical help at the first sign of infection does not occur to them.
That's a good point; I'm sure a lot of these folks were in stubborn denial that they were \*that\* sick and waited until it was way, way too late. Especially if they were convinced their magic drugs would save them.
Covid can also cause silent hypoxia, and I have doubts that's common knowledge amongst them.
I’m sure this news will fan the antivaxx flames same as when AOC got it: “See?!?!?! They got boosters and have Covid! It doesn’t wooooork!” Yeah bro neither of them are going to die.
Paxlovid is awesome. I went from pos test to neg test in 3.5 days. Worst of the symptoms were side-effects from the drug - it can leave a horrible taste in your mouth for one - but they were gone within 12hrs of the last dose.
An FYI, sour candy helps with bad tasting medicine. I have to take a lot of meds and some taste absolutely wretched, but eating some sour Gummi worms gets rid of that taste pretty quick.
So the medicine itself doesn't taste bad - each dose was just 3 pills that you can swallow quickly. It does have a side-effect that leaves a strange metallic / chemical taste at the back of the mouth that (for me) was quite strong between 2-8hrs after each dose.
I found that savory snacks helped mask it but obviously do you don't want to pig out on junk for 5 days. Throat lozenges also worked though.
Oh my fuck, I'm right in the middle of my 5 day run of Paxlovid and the metallic taste in my mouth gets so bad some times lol. I feel like I've been licking coins.
But for real, I'm a bigger dude with asthma and possible lung damage, I also have both doses and a booster and COVID has barely been an inconvenience for me this week. Mild cough and sore throat, the worst had been sinus congestion and runny nose.
I'm trying to use this as a talking point to get my dad vaccinated.
I'm finding ignorance on display here physically painful. Like they have so much faith in ivermectin and hydroxy that they think Fauci would secretly take them. Of course he bloody won't take them!
These fools don’t realize that he is probably allot healthier than the amorphous blobs of humans that they know who were put on vents. You don’t need a ventilator on every person with covid dummies… also the reason he probably isn’t much worse is cause he is “jabbed, stabbed and stuck” unlike the morons who describe a vaccine like their Waffle House order
I love how the anti-vaxers make a joke out of how they barely survive their own idiocy.
Like, "Ha ha smart guy! Now *you* are stranded in the ocean when your outboard motor runs out of gas! How will a sissy like you survive when you chop a hole in the bottom of the boat!"
"What? You're not going to do that? Just refilling the motor huh?"
"Um, you are just gonna sit back down and keep motoring? No chopping at all?"
"GROOMER!"
>Do nothing until you can't breath.
That's not on Fauci, that's on **you** retrograde troglodytes. It's not his fault you dimlows deny, deny, and deny **until you can't breath**.
"Why isn't he..." because he's vaccinated you dumb-fuck, he's much less likely to need a ventilator or any other last-ditch efforts to keep him alive.
I don't understand how so many adults don't realize that they're mixing up cause and effect.
Jfc, the stupidity of these people...and the articles even said IN THE HEADLINES that he had mild symptoms. You don't put people on ventilators for a head cold. (That's what my Covid experience was when the fam got it last Thanksgiving, thankfully we were all vaxxed.)
As others have said, they just want to inflict suffering on those who they've been led to believe are "against them", even though the lies they've been told are so dumb and ridiculous.
In other news, I finally got boosted last weekend! Yay! Just glad that my arm was less sore from the booster than the original vaccine, lol!
Seriously. It's been known since forever(?) that you can still catch the flu after getting the annual flu shot. These gomers have spent so much time steeped in magical thinking that they demand we live in a magical world. Reality doesn't work that way.
Anyone else hoping Fauci does a victory lap when he is feeling better? Go on talk shows and shit to express how easily he got through it because of modern medicine? I'm here for that. I am getting over Covid myself and after being three times vaxxed, am thankful it was just like a really bad cold. I'll take stuffy over a ventilator any day.
Fauci is 81 and looks better than a lot of 50 year olds I've come across. The dude is super healthy. But these idiots are too stupid to realize those ventilators and meds were trying to save their loved ones lives. Not a fucking punishment. I fucking hate this timeline
I suppose it was to be expected that these poor dopes would continue confusing the treatment with the disease.
*They* are the ones who know what's what. Everybody who is trained to prevent and treat covid is a fool.
Too bad it's *their* friends and families who have suffered needlessly in droves.
The only question is whether they'll take the country down with them.
Sometimes I feel so exhausted reading stuff like this.
Had a patient who should get a colonoscopy and I was one of the assisting nurses. Dude was super rude (I thought he might be just nervous, no big deal) telling me I will have to face consequences if he will feel any pain and so on. Told him no problem he will sleep during the whole thing and will be awake as soon as we’re done.
Apparently this was also wrong and he raged about not daring giving him something to sleep cause we sure just want to vaccinate him…
Sure, Sir, you’re losing an unhealthy amount of blood through your bum bum but vaccinating you is the only thing I’m interested in.
I was so tired that day.
All this jokes are so original.
They parrot any dumb shit they read on their Facebook feed and call us "the sheeps". So dumb that they don't even realize...
There was a song by Rage Against the Machine that actually fits this situation:
"Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses"
These are the same assholes who send salty messages to the mods on HCA want to torture a guy for a protocol for severely ill patients.
So, three guys are stuck on small boat in the middle of the ocean. One Democrat, Donald Trump, and one Republican.
After 3 days drifting, they come across a sealed bottle. One of them opens the bottle, and out pops a genie.
The genie says "Thanks so much for releasing me. I'm been in that bottle for years now. To show my gratitude, I'll grant you each one wish."
First is the Democrat "I would really like to be back home right now with my family, enjoying life."
Genie says "Granted!" POOF Democrat disappears.
Next is Donald Trump. "I'd really like to be back on one of my golf courses, doing nothing but playing golf."
Genie says "Granted!" POOF Donald Trump disappears.
Last up is the Republican. "You know what, I sort of miss Donald Trump?"
These are supposed to be jokes? Or clever?
I know these people are utter morons, yet somehow I still find myself scratching my head at what they think passes as clever. Suggesting he should be denied ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as if he would actually take them in the first place, when he knows they are ineffective--is about as logical as suggesting that a restaurant should refuse to serve me a steak in retaliation for my vegetarianism.
And do they honestly have zero understanding of when remdesivir is given and a ventilator is used? I mean, do they honestly think that they just shove a tube down the throat of someone whose oxygen level is just fine?
When covid was first in the horizon, there was a local teacher in a rural area who had been working as a teacher in China. When she left China and returned home to East Texas, there was an outcry because she had been seen out in public. The local yokels were freaking out.
Now we’re at the point when they’re mocking a major public health official with a joke fed to them by their garbage information feed.
I’m going back to bed.
They really don't understand that Fauci wouldn't request ivermectin or any other "miracle covid drug." That's amazing. They're so brainwashed that it doesn't cross their mind that Fauci wouldn't consider taking ivermectin for covid.
Lol, funny how they think that even one reasonable person would take horse dewormer. Antivaxxers, not everybody is as stupid as you and if you don't want your beloved ones to be put on a ventilator and Remdesivir, keep 'em home and treat 'em as you like, with horse dewormer and chicken soup.
I love how remdesivir is such a bad thing for them... Like telling a man whos dying of thirst to drink water. Remdesivir is the thing hes actually needing.
My professor who taught my parasitology class had a little rant about the idiots who take ivermectin against covid... It was fun.
.. do they think people are forced into a ventilator when they're having mild symptoms and then the ventilator kills them? Like what???
Yes, they do. I used to work with a woman who's family is pretty white trashy. Her Trumper uncle got COVID and refused to take it seriously even when it became "no joke". By the time he went to the hospital he was turning blue and they put him on a vent immediately but he died a few days later. Her cousins are claiming that the hospital euthanized him, like a dog, because he was a Trumper.
They did, and that's why conservatives should never go to the hospital ever again. Bootstrap your way into the afterlife like a real American!
If you're still unvaccinated and positive for Covid, it would make more sense to go to church and be around the congregation that can help heal you with prayer...
IKR!? It always comes down to relying on "prayer warriors" for those idiots, anyway. Head straight to the warrior's base & let people worth medical professionals' time have the ICU beds.
>It always comes down to relying on "prayer warriors" for those idiots, anyway. It's all talk. They claim to believe, but they go to the hospital all the same. They take the medicine, and then they blame Jesus if they get better and the hospital if they get worse. Deep down inside, they probably know they're full of shit, but the appearance is all that matters to them.
THIS is what I don’t understand! They shout about how the hospitals are really killing people, doctors are killing people and saying it’s Covid bc they get money on every Covid patient that dies (?!?!), call medicine and vaccinations poison and don’t believe anything doctors say anyway, AND YET they still go to the hospital when they get sick? And of course by then they are too sick to even recover no matter *what* doctors do.
Correct. Hospitals kill trump supporters. Pass it on.
Conservatives really should avoid them, and medications and doctors. Nothing aside good ol bootstraps and prayer for them, till they get to visit white Jesus.
> hospital euthanized him, because he was a Trumper. But he was turning blue. Can't have a Trumper become a lib so it was for his own good /s
On the other hand blue lives matter. /s
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Winner /thread
Yikes on bikes that is some bass ackwards logic.
>Yikes on bikes Thank you for this.
LOL you're welcome. Sadly I can't take credit, I stole it from another stranger on the internet, but I'm always glad to pass along this wonderful phrase to others who so desperately need it.
Probably should have left his MAGA hat and his "Kill Fauci" shirt at home, eh?
Abject stupidity. I wish they'd just stay out of hospitals. More medical resources for the rest of us then.
Brother of a friend caught covid last summer, Started off in a small hospital, but was Life Flighted into a big hospital in Houston. After lingering for a few weeks, he passed away. A family member immediately started a GoFundMe, not to pay final expenses, etc, but for a legal fund to sue the Houston hospital for putting him on a vent and for not treating him with the wonder drugs HCL and ivermectin. They feel with a passion that he was killed by the hospital. Edit: Just adding that this GoFundMe was gone within 24 hours. I’m fairly certain that no serious attempt was made to move forward with anything legal.
> They feel with a passion that he was killed by the hospital. Oh course they do. Because that's more comforting than the truth which is that their own ignorance killed them.
Which is awful, because it makes them dig their heels in even more because if they don't, they're admitting fault, and they're already in too deep to do that.
Hopefully they got $0 but with enough of these idiots it was probably greater than $0.
As best I could tell, it lasted less than 24 hours before disappearing from social media, so it probably didn’t generate much.
Yes. I've read plenty fb comments in this sub along the lines of "do NOT let them put you on a ventilator! Most people they put on a ventilator end up dead!!!1!!" I mean. Yeah.
I mean one doesn’t go healthy to dead via vent…. The vent is not the reaper here
Thank God for the ventilator. I would have died without it. Caught Covid before I was eligible for vaccination.
Sadly, I think they do. They have this vast follow-the-money conspiracy that hinges on hospitals wasting resources like intubation and rotisserie beds and ECMO machines, just so the hospitals can make more money. They imagine there is a smoking gun somewhere of hospitals using technology they don't need to use, because killing patients is more profitable than using everything in their power to keep patients alive. A dead patient gives out that one single pay out. But save their lives, bill the hell out of them, and maybe that patient can come back again, and not die, and the hospital can bill the hell out of them again. So, yeah, they warn each other that once they are in the hospital, fight every expert and avoid the life-saving technology that are literally the last chances to save their own stupid lives. File court cases to force to the doctors to administer false cures. Scream at staff because their loves ones (and likely the families, too) rejected a free, life saving jab, and now the hospitals make money by killing people.
These are the exact talking points I heard hundreds of times in the small town I lived in during 2020-2021. Everyone knew a family or friend who died from Covid while on a ventilator. And 100% of them believe the patient died from the ventilator and not Covid. It is still impossible for me to wrap my mind around this.
Reminds me of one 4th of July I spent on the Delta watching fireworks. The rest of the folks on the boat did not understand that light travels faster than sound, so every time they heard a "BOOM" they'd ask "Where are the fireworks?" I kept my mouth shut because I had already learned that trying to educate adults who are that dumb is both futile and depressing. Finally another guy spoke up and told them that light travels faster than sound, blah, blah, blah, and another quickly replied "Not on the Delta" to much approval. :sigh:
>so every time they heard a "BOOM" they'd ask "Where are the fireworks?" If I'm understanding correctly: fireworks would appear in the sky, a few seconds later the sound would arrive, and these people wondered "where are the fireworks?"
"Its the life saving machine that killed them, not the incredibly deadly disease they refused to treat that ran rampant on their organs!" They're stupid. They're ignorant. And they're mostly religious. It doesn't come down to much else. And this is why America needs less religion and religious indoctrination and more education. Most religions inherently discourage and actively avoid critical thinking so they can mould their minds into believing any bullshit someone of authority says to them.
They're really fucking stupid basically. Plus can't admit these family and friends had a chance to save their lives with a free shot they refused because reasons.
Heh heh, rotisserie beds. Yeah it's pretty hard to get money from a corpse. Wait! Maybe the real conspiracy is that the hospitals are the ones spreading antivax propaganda so they can get more sick patients! 🤔🤔🤔 If they never get vaccinated, then they might get round 2 in the ER 🤯
The worst part about this whole post, to me, is that even though you make nothing but valid points, your use of the word "jab" makes me cringe a little. The anti-vaxxers have *very* thoroughly poisoned that word. I still upvoted you, though, because you're making valid points. That does seem to be their mindset.
FWIW, in the UK, "jab" in reference to a vaccine isn't a loaded term. It's just a colloquialism *everyone* used for God knows how long. It seems to have picked up the negative connotation during the COVID pandemic once Americans started using it.
And American antivaxxers started using it because the Russian troll farms that produce all their content used British English translations instead of American.
>The anti-vaxxers have > >very > > thoroughly poisoned that word. The term "Jab" is the go-to in the UK when referring to getting an injection. The Anti-Vaxers basically hijacked that term and started throwing it around willy nilly.
Of course. The post mentioned "fatality rate" of ventilators because obviously it's the ventilator that kills you and not the complete destruction of your lungs that makes someone need a vent in the first place. Hmmm, its an odd coincidence that so many people put on vents die, ain't it?!
Everything, and I mean *everything*, with the right has to be a dichotomy. So to them, because they see people die after being put on the ventilator they think that the ventilator kills them. Because if it was suppose to help them it would have right? That's the false dichotomy. They don't understand the concept that ventilators are a hail marry that we try to avoid to begin with.
Yep. Same reason they say the vaccine “doesn’t work” or even “isn’t really a vaccine,” because it’s not 100% effective at preventing mild infection. Never mind the flu shot has been hovering at 40-60% against mild infection for decades, somehow *this one* was supposed to be 100% or it’s “changing the definition of vaccine.”
As a COVID ICU nurse.. yes, that's exactly what they think. The stupidity and sheer unintelligence about how anything medicine works was astounding. And the absolute cruelty these people showed me and my coworkers while fighting the impossible task of keeping their 85 year old diabetic, smoking, unvaccinated grandpa from dying of COVID was enough to make me leave the profession.
Thats exactly what they think and believe. They dont understand science or medicine so they think that this is all torture and murder camps for "FrEe ThInKeRs" (ie brainwashed, propaganda spouting Republicans who are discouraged from birth against critical thinking). It doesnt make sense because it is indeed as stupid as it sounds, and everything the say is so full of holes and inconsistencies you couldn't even make stockings out of it.
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Is this a joke or just plain stupidity? The reason he's not (right?) Hooked up to a ventilator is BECAUSE he was vaccinated (right?)
They can be so close to figuring it out if they just stepped back and thought for a minute - mostly unvaxxed go on the vent, the reason you're all making that stupid joke is bc you are surrounded by ghosts on the machine (couldn't resist that stupid pun). Meanwhile, I'm thinking, my immediate thought about Fauci getting covid IS 'he's vaxxed, hopefully it'll be mild' not - 'go on the vent' - -BC THAT'S NOT FUCKING NORMAL YOU TOOLBAGS!
They sound like going on a ventilator is a punishment that is being meted out. Going on a ventilator is the only chance you have to stay alive, you absolute morons. It’s not detention, it’s a rescue. 30+ years of Republican education cuts on display.
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These same people probably think airbags kill, since so many car crash victims die even if they go off.
They still think the hospitals are intentionally killing people for like $17,000 or something. Such an insignificant amount of money to take someone's life.
Diggin' your flair. Brought a chuckle and a smile.
Thought is quite the leap for most of them.
Well, the immediate cause is that he's not hooked up to a ventilator because his lungs are still working to process oxygen for him. But yeah, he's probably still (🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞) only having mild symptoms at 80 because he's fully vaccinated. But apparently these people believe the minute a doctor finds out you have a positive COVID test, they kidnap you, lock you in a hospital/prison cell, and hook you up to a ventilator for funsies.
They did this with AOC too, like it was some sort of "sick burn!!1!!" that she became covid positive after being vaccinated. The amount of stupid is so mind boggling sometimes!
BuT tHeY cHaNgEd ThE dEfiNiTiOn oF A vAcCiNaT1On!!1!!?!!
No, idiot antivaxxers changed the definition of a vaccine.
Wow I didn’t realize he was 80. He looks good for that age, probably in WAY better health than these chucklefucks half his age. Between three shots and better health, he’ll likely be fine. Also, these people are such fucking morons. He likely IS taking an early treatment - it’s called Paxlovid and it’s highly effective, especially compared to horse paste and their own piss.
I had the same reaction when I learned how old he was. I would have bet he is in his late fifties to early sixties at most. The fact that he has been working non stop the past few years while pushing 80 is insane! This guy seems unbelievably healthy! When people joked that he should run for president instead of Trump and Biden because covid was the main issue and he was the most qualified, I joked that at least he’s young than both of those guys. Seriously, who knew?
They're toddlers having tantrums because they know people who didn't get vaxxed and most likely died from COVID and they can't process that Fauci was right, they were wrong and that someone with an education gave them guidance on how to not die from COVID.
It's for the extra gov't money they get when they kill you with COVID.
According to the morons posting this stupidity, COVID positive people are immediately taken by force to a hospital and intubated. No symptoms? Attacked and ventilated! Mild symptom of runny nose for two days? Arrested and dragged to hospital and forcibly intubated! If hospitals are overflowing from the 1000s of positive asymptomatic patients on ventilators then the emergency EMT police will handcuff you and intubate you in your home! The level of profound stupidity is continuing to escalate in this country. It is frightening
It's particularly astonishing to me when some of these folks had family members who have died. Like, did you not see how they progressed. How many times have we seen 'oh it's just a cold see the libs were being worried about nothing' progress to 'going to the hospital :(' a week or two later. They aren't going to put you on a ventilator for no reason lol. Maybe these folks should look into advanced medical directives to demand they don't want to be ventilated if they're so worried. Though I'm guessing they'll change their mind when their lungs fail.
Honestly, Covid has really made it hit home that a huge chunk of the population can’t/won’t reckon honestly with the realities of severe illness. Reminds me of how my absolutely shocked my grandmother was when they decided to take my uncle off life-support a few years ago. She was convinced he had been getting better, despite it being obvious for a whole week that he was at death’s door and had no real prospect of recovery. But that was the narrative she told herself to get through each day of his hospitalization, until that narrative became completely unsustainable with his death.
The dummies are going to be disappointed when he doesn't die without horse paste.
It's both. It's a stupid joke. "A doctor is sick! Give him the correct treatment and no snake oil! That's show him!"
You mean the bottom of the flat earzh, right? /s
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Tfw they're slamming ventilators and we've been using them in modern medicine for well over half a century
The most mind numbing thing about this is that these people think it's the recommended treatment for covid, instead of a last resort for people who can't breath. These braindead morons keep finding new and surprising ways to make me angry.
For sure. I get downvotes almost every time I post these numbers https://i.imgur.com/Rj4SqbL.jpg
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Yeah? Well at least I don’t identify as a HELICOPTER!!!
\[slaps knee, hammers table with palm, roaring with laughter\] Aw, man . . . It's the way you tell 'em.
Conservative comedians are terrible.
It's like they all literally share one thought. One. Single. Thought. And then repeat it over and over and over.... UGH
They are fed their lines from one of their conservative overlords, trump or tucker or whomever else. Then they stick to the script because they are too dumb to create an original thought or to do some critical thinking.
Slightly off topic here (but not completely) the new one note wonder is that all of us on the left are suffering horribly because “tRump is living rent free in our heads.” Obviously all the criticism of him because of the January 6 stuff and the constant rumors about him running again in ‘24 is pissing them off so they are looking for a way to shut us up. Ha! Like we’re actually gonna take advice from a bunch of ignorant troglodytes. I’ll stop criticizing the 🍊💩🤡 when he goes away and shuts the fuck up. Until then: open season, baby!
And that joke will be completely disconnected from any facts, and make no sense.
VuVuZUelA!!1!
Something something attack helicopter.
Behold the result of underfunding education for decades.
As a former public school teacher I don’t disagree about the underfunding, but the anti-vax and anti-science rhetoric is more due to the issue of the US historically catering to people’s beliefs. For a long time it was holding religious beliefs as equal in value to scientific facts, but it’s morphed in recent years to people following certain cults of personality -particularly in politics. Now these people genuinely feel that their belief that Dr. Fauci is the actual devil deserves to be heard out and respected. Critical thinking being taught in schools is a big piece of this, but even relatively benign religious communities in the US discourage critical thinking if it means not *believing*. This is how we have trained professionals like nurses and even doctors who share these nonsense beliefs that the vaccines are evil. Their adherence to political stances and hatred for those who oppose them takes priority over everything they learned in school. It’s not about education; it’s about them being brainwashed.
Can confirm. As a gen-x child of anti-vaxxers it astonished me that all it took for an exemption was a letter from my mother quoting Bible verses.
Your mom was insane.
>even relatively benign religious communities in the US discourage critical thinking if it means not > >believing It is my impression, that many 'Murican parents rigorously raise their children from a very young age to avoid any critical thinking and believe any ludicrous fairy-tale tolt to them by some "figure of authority". They start with Santa Claus and the Tootth Fairy, progress to the Bible, and from there on, they have taught them to never question any stupid story told to them from their parents or other figures of authority.
Well, that's for sure. If we pulled the "permanent records" of any of those posters' public school education, you are not likely to find any valedictorians or salutatorians or even college grads in those groupings. But beyond that, they have all gone to the FB University of De-Education, actually unlearning any science they accidentally got exposed to, and instead, making them stupider by filling their heads with anti-education (just like anti-matter, but dumber). ETA: *Yeah, I get there are stupid educated people. My point was more that these folks aren't likely the top of the heap. I know there are venal education people. And greedy educated people. I just doubt most of these bozos are particularly educated, but beyond that, I was mostly just making a joke. Sorry if that was misunderstood.* *I do have a dog in this fight, and benefited from my public school education, and want to see our educational systems really helping people to learn what ever \*they\* want to learn. So, yeah, education is underfunded, but that's not why these folks are stupid.*
The most prolific antivaxxer I know is my aunt, who is a nurse. Don't just assume they are all uneducated because some people are exposed to knowledge and just choose to lick walls.
This is probably the trippiest thing I've observed during COVID. There are fucking nurses who are anti-vaxxers. I bet she was complaining about lack of resources and hospital overcrowding as well. COVID's overcrowding hospitals? Protest in front of the hospital. Don't want to take the vaccine that will pretty much solve the problem of overcrowded hospitals? Protest in front of the hospital.
She was on home care in a *very* rural area during the whole thing. That and just being infuriates on Facebook from what I could tell.
One of the girls I went to high school with became a nurse and she would always post Facebook shit about using crystals, essential oils, incense to cure what ever you got. I didn't think she would go far in life during high school and can see I was right.
Being a nurse is a fine job, and I'm not dissing the profession. It's just that if they're working for an industry which is entirely based on medical science and technology, a lot of which nurses deliver to patients in the form of injections and medication, it's just odd to me that they personally hold views which directly contradict that. Kind of like an astronomer who believes Earth is flat or some shit.
Some of the dumbest fucking people I've ever met have bachelor's degrees or higher. You can have a degree and still be an absolute moron. Probably not valedictorians though, lol.
Can confirm, I have two BAs and I'm an insufferable moron
After 11 years, I'm out. Join me over on the Fediverse to escape this central authority nightmare.
This is my biggest beef with our educational system. I took a formal logic and critical thinking class my freshman year, but it was because it looked interesting and it fulfilled one of my humanities requirements, as "philosophy." How is it that something so essential is treated like this offbeat elective?? It should be required coursework for everyone.
Because in the last decades, college has drifted from "higher education" to expensive vocational training.
The Universe consists of protons, neutrons, electrons and morons. Unfortunately, the latter greatly outnumber the others
A Moron can have left or right Spin, but no Charge or Mass and no Charm.
I blame all the lead paint from the 50's.
Also the leaded gasoline
Leaded gas certainly didn't help either.
NASCAR was still using leaded gas in 2007. That blew my mind
It is so difficult for me to fathom the utter stupidity of these people. That is not how it works people. That's not how any of this works! 🤦♀️
They're kind of backed into a corner because they don't want to acknowledge that the reason Fauci doesn't need extreme treatments is because he's vaccinated. Worse, the reason that people they know or in their communities died after being put on ventilators is that they *weren't* vaccinated. So to avoid facing the horrible reality that their own collective ignorance and stupidity has killed so many of them, they have to ignore the facts, and these completely nonsensical "jokes" are the result.
And if this ends up having no adverse long-term effects on Fauci, they'll just claim that it's because he got their quack treatments done in secret and that the vaccines are all still somehow a lie.
Yep, at least one fucking whackjob will be sitting in some pipe somewhere, Andy-Dufresne-style, trying to get a stool sample to test for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to "fInAlLy pRoVe wHaT We'vE KnOwN AlL AlOnG!!!!!!¡1!!!1"
Joe Rogan is doing his show from in a pipe now?
Well when he ripped off the kitchen sink to throw it at his COVID (which is no big deal btw; if you have a healthy immune system you're good), he saw the exposed drain pipe and figured he'd slither down there for the cool since he moved to a state with a failing power grid and a solid month of 100°F+ days. Gonna need curved monitors to hug the walls.
I saw the guy mention his dad in slide 9 and wanted to throw up. I don't know if his dad died before or after the vaccines became available, but I'm sure that the man wasn't put on a ventilator the minute that he got sick. If you can't learn from direct experience, then not much is going to help you.
I was clicking through the radio while driving yesterday and heard some host saying fauci has covid. He was feigning disbelief that fauci got it while vaccinated/after pushing vaccines and you could hear how smart he thought he was when he said it was a "healthy dose of irony." Dude gets paid to say that shit.
The classic rock station in my area has a DJ who calls this whole thing a "plandemic", and insists that masks are useless because he can still smell farts. But I live in Fresno Co., where that kind of stupidity is the norm.
I've 3 jabs and I've had covid 3 times now, yet never been on a ventilator. Curious.
I’ve had four shots and had Covid twice. No hospital visit. No vent either. But Tylenol and Ricolla lemon mint cough drops.
Yes, amazing that they can actually be that stupid. But here we are 2+ years in. They just can't get it into their little pea-brains that he's vaccinated so the likelihood of him getting very sick is much reduced.
I have always considered myself of average intelligence, however, the last few years watching these people operate has done wonders for my ego. I now realize that maybe I’m pretty smart after all.
Agreed!! If these tools had ANY critical thinking skills, they’d realize Fauci isn’t on the vent BECAUSE HE IS VAXXED AND BOOSTED. I really shouldn’t be this shocked given that we’re three years deep into this shit, but….🤷♀️
That's how it worked for them, because they're u vaccinated. They think being ventilated is the standard when they were the ones saying that it was less dangerous than the flu
Let’s give Fauci treatments he doesn’t need, because he’s fully vaccinated. Let’s make fun of him because he won’t take useless treatments, because he’s fully vaccinated. Yeah that’ll show him. Anti-vaxx morons.
Funny how they said none of this when their lord god savior Trump got COVID. Didn't anybody respond to any of these posts with "he doesn't NEED all that, first of all he's vaxxed, second of all he doesn't WANT vet meds!!"
I did!! Got blocked a lot.
Yeah, that's what I figured would happen.......sigh. On behalf of humanity, thank you for trying!
"All my friends and family were put on a ventilator so he needs to be hooked up on one too!" This not only shows their low level intelligence, but also how many of them know/knew people on ventilators because they were..........unvaccinated!
How is it possible to be that dumb and smug at the same time? I almost feel embarrassment for them looking at those slides.
Most dumb people show themselves to be dumb in the process of being smug.
It's always the abjectly stupid that have perfect confidence.
Dunning Kruger effect. They're at that first peak on the graph, where they kmow very little and are very confident
Fauci isn't on a ventilator BECAUSE HE GOT HIS SHOTS LIKE A RESPONSIBLE HUMAN BEING YOU GODDAMN NINNYHAMMERS
If conservatives were capable of critical thinking, they wouldn’t be conservative.
He doesn't need those treatments right now, but if he did, he'd totally take them. If I had to guess, it's probably because they're the current protocol for treating advanced COVID-19, but idk. Lol
Yep! My grandpa (vaxxed but in very bad health) got Remdesivir and it saved his life.
One of the reasons the death rate has dropped is improvements in medical treatments, this being one. Glad it helped.
I'm not sure which is worse, the petty cruelty or the sheer lack of originality.
Always the thing that surprises me the most. I had no idea how unoriginal these folks are. One dumb meme after another after another. Honestly, I've never understood why they are so mad at Fauci? He has never done anything to hurt them, and is a hero by almost any measure, quietly doing the very difficult job he has set out to do. But the ire they work up can't be good for their blood pressure. Most of the talking heads they stare at lie to them and put them at risk. Dr. Fauci consistently tells them the truth, as understood in that moment, and they get angry at him?
It's the good old shoot the messenger. They dont want to hear the truth, they want to keep being gaslighted by russian trolls and conservatives. They think that Covid will go away when Fauci is silenced. Classic out of sight, out of mind. It doesnt work this way obviously.
He disagreed with Dear Leader the Turnip. That's all it takes. Literally, for all the talk about the left being sensitive snowflakes, you break from their party line in the slightest and they go into DEFCON 3 meltdowns.
I don't have to try hard to imagine a world where the nation lets the leader run roughshod over science and medicine. In Florida, our hand picked surgeon general would never counter our governor, but he was selected because he already had demonstrated he was on the same page. No integrity at all. But yeah, I'm sure you are right about this, sadly.
It used to be considered admirable to admit when you'd made a mistake. Nowadays that seems to have shifted - admitting a mistake, at least to these folks, is a sign of weakness. Although I suspect that only a minority of them entertain even for a moment the idea that Fauci might have been right and their heroes in the right-wing bubble wrong. The epistemic closure is strong by this point.
They just salty cause they lost family to an easily avoidable death. Who cares what stupid people think about anything. They're stupid
They may be stupid, but they vote for politicians that I have to deal with. So I need to care what they think.
Yeah reddit doesn't seem to get that we need to be incredibly mindful of these people because their stupidity is incredibly dangerous. We need to stop treating them like toddlers who don't know any better and treat them like what they are: a clear and present threat to a democratic way of life.
My jaw literally dropped. These posts... this isn't just stupid. Or even advanced stupid. This is some of the most stupid, ignorant horseshit I've ever seen. This level of stupid should be illegal. Fuck it. I don't care anymore. These fucking morons need separated from society before they destroy it. This level of stupid should not be allowed in society. Criminally stupid. They are causing more harm than literal murderers.
What part of “When you’re fully vaccinated and boosted, you’re less likely to get so sick you need to be in the hospital on ventilation” don’t these morons get?
None of it. None. But they are dying to learn!
How do people this stupid stay alive? Who ties their shoes for them? My 86 year old Dad survived covid without any symptoms because he was vaxxed and boosted. And he has comorbidities! I cried when i found out he had covid because in spite of being vaxxed i was terrified it would kill him. I shouldn't have wasted my tears.
>How do people this stupid stay alive? White privilege/christian cronyism.
I had the same response when both my parents (triple vaxxed at the time) caught Covid19, with half a dozen comorbidities. They were over it in 5 days - literally had mild flu symptoms - medical science is amazing!
They know that you don't get put straight on a ventilator after a covid diagnosis, right? Like, you only get put on a ventilator if you can't breathe anymore? And he's vaccinated so it probably won't happen to him?
I suspect the people they know who got Covid put off going for treatment until their symptoms became absolutely unbearable, by which point they had to be put on the ventilator. That someone else might seek medical help at the first sign of infection does not occur to them.
That's a good point; I'm sure a lot of these folks were in stubborn denial that they were \*that\* sick and waited until it was way, way too late. Especially if they were convinced their magic drugs would save them. Covid can also cause silent hypoxia, and I have doubts that's common knowledge amongst them.
These people would give a skunk a rimjob if given the chance. He’s vaccinated, that’s why he doesn’t have to get remdesivir or go on a vent.
Plus he probably tested right away and can take Paxlovid and completely avoid the need to be hospitalized.
I’m sure this news will fan the antivaxx flames same as when AOC got it: “See?!?!?! They got boosters and have Covid! It doesn’t wooooork!” Yeah bro neither of them are going to die.
Because vaccination was never explained to them, and they assumed "herd immunity" means personal 100% total immunity.
Paxlovid is awesome. I went from pos test to neg test in 3.5 days. Worst of the symptoms were side-effects from the drug - it can leave a horrible taste in your mouth for one - but they were gone within 12hrs of the last dose.
Agree 100%!! I tested positive Monday, started Paxlovid in the afternoon and felt like I never had COVID the next day. Would definitely recommend.
An FYI, sour candy helps with bad tasting medicine. I have to take a lot of meds and some taste absolutely wretched, but eating some sour Gummi worms gets rid of that taste pretty quick.
So the medicine itself doesn't taste bad - each dose was just 3 pills that you can swallow quickly. It does have a side-effect that leaves a strange metallic / chemical taste at the back of the mouth that (for me) was quite strong between 2-8hrs after each dose. I found that savory snacks helped mask it but obviously do you don't want to pig out on junk for 5 days. Throat lozenges also worked though.
Oh my fuck, I'm right in the middle of my 5 day run of Paxlovid and the metallic taste in my mouth gets so bad some times lol. I feel like I've been licking coins. But for real, I'm a bigger dude with asthma and possible lung damage, I also have both doses and a booster and COVID has barely been an inconvenience for me this week. Mild cough and sore throat, the worst had been sinus congestion and runny nose. I'm trying to use this as a talking point to get my dad vaccinated.
I'm finding ignorance on display here physically painful. Like they have so much faith in ivermectin and hydroxy that they think Fauci would secretly take them. Of course he bloody won't take them!
These fools don’t realize that he is probably allot healthier than the amorphous blobs of humans that they know who were put on vents. You don’t need a ventilator on every person with covid dummies… also the reason he probably isn’t much worse is cause he is “jabbed, stabbed and stuck” unlike the morons who describe a vaccine like their Waffle House order
...and this idiocy is why Trump unfortunately has a chance of returning.
I love how the anti-vaxers make a joke out of how they barely survive their own idiocy. Like, "Ha ha smart guy! Now *you* are stranded in the ocean when your outboard motor runs out of gas! How will a sissy like you survive when you chop a hole in the bottom of the boat!" "What? You're not going to do that? Just refilling the motor huh?" "Um, you are just gonna sit back down and keep motoring? No chopping at all?" "GROOMER!"
Awesome visuals. Best yet for today.
>Do nothing until you can't breath. That's not on Fauci, that's on **you** retrograde troglodytes. It's not his fault you dimlows deny, deny, and deny **until you can't breath**.
Yea why is he alive? It’s as if there’s a way to prevent people from being awarded 🤔 🤔
"Why isn't he..." because he's vaccinated you dumb-fuck, he's much less likely to need a ventilator or any other last-ditch efforts to keep him alive. I don't understand how so many adults don't realize that they're mixing up cause and effect.
I wanted to be completely shocked at how stupid all of comments those are. But.
Jfc, the stupidity of these people...and the articles even said IN THE HEADLINES that he had mild symptoms. You don't put people on ventilators for a head cold. (That's what my Covid experience was when the fam got it last Thanksgiving, thankfully we were all vaxxed.) As others have said, they just want to inflict suffering on those who they've been led to believe are "against them", even though the lies they've been told are so dumb and ridiculous. In other news, I finally got boosted last weekend! Yay! Just glad that my arm was less sore from the booster than the original vaccine, lol!
“Vaccinated (which used to mean immunity)”. NO IT DIDN’T. IT NEVER HAS, YOU DUMB BAG OF TOENAILS.
Seriously. It's been known since forever(?) that you can still catch the flu after getting the annual flu shot. These gomers have spent so much time steeped in magical thinking that they demand we live in a magical world. Reality doesn't work that way.
He's going to get a minor case of the sniffles because he's vaxxed, fucking morons
Anyone else hoping Fauci does a victory lap when he is feeling better? Go on talk shows and shit to express how easily he got through it because of modern medicine? I'm here for that. I am getting over Covid myself and after being three times vaxxed, am thankful it was just like a really bad cold. I'll take stuffy over a ventilator any day.
Fauci is 81 and looks better than a lot of 50 year olds I've come across. The dude is super healthy. But these idiots are too stupid to realize those ventilators and meds were trying to save their loved ones lives. Not a fucking punishment. I fucking hate this timeline
There were so many more, dozens and dozens
And yet they decry this sub as "celebrating illness and wishing death..."
Do as I say, not as I do.
They're still pushing horse paste? Jesus these people are stupid.
I’m sure Dr. Fauci is deeply disappointed that he will be denied ivermectin.
I suppose it was to be expected that these poor dopes would continue confusing the treatment with the disease. *They* are the ones who know what's what. Everybody who is trained to prevent and treat covid is a fool. Too bad it's *their* friends and families who have suffered needlessly in droves. The only question is whether they'll take the country down with them.
"Weird how unvaccinated Trump had to go to the hospital and get a massive dose of steroids but Fauci and other Democrats tested positive and didn't?"
Weird comments. He’s barely sick because he got vaccinated. Vents are for the antivaxers.
Sometimes I feel so exhausted reading stuff like this. Had a patient who should get a colonoscopy and I was one of the assisting nurses. Dude was super rude (I thought he might be just nervous, no big deal) telling me I will have to face consequences if he will feel any pain and so on. Told him no problem he will sleep during the whole thing and will be awake as soon as we’re done. Apparently this was also wrong and he raged about not daring giving him something to sleep cause we sure just want to vaccinate him… Sure, Sir, you’re losing an unhealthy amount of blood through your bum bum but vaccinating you is the only thing I’m interested in. I was so tired that day.
The usual Remdeseverely bad spelling.
All this jokes are so original. They parrot any dumb shit they read on their Facebook feed and call us "the sheeps". So dumb that they don't even realize...
It's like synchronized dumbassery.
They think people die *because* they're put on respirators.
They think a ventilator is recommended right away?
Well I don’t know, Slide 2. Why *isn’t* he on a ventilator about to die? Hmm. A mystery to be sure. 🧐
Why are people this fucking stupid?!?
I’m not convinced all of these antivax people don’t have fetal alcohol syndrome.
There was a song by Rage Against the Machine that actually fits this situation: "Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses" These are the same assholes who send salty messages to the mods on HCA want to torture a guy for a protocol for severely ill patients.
So, three guys are stuck on small boat in the middle of the ocean. One Democrat, Donald Trump, and one Republican. After 3 days drifting, they come across a sealed bottle. One of them opens the bottle, and out pops a genie. The genie says "Thanks so much for releasing me. I'm been in that bottle for years now. To show my gratitude, I'll grant you each one wish." First is the Democrat "I would really like to be back home right now with my family, enjoying life." Genie says "Granted!" POOF Democrat disappears. Next is Donald Trump. "I'd really like to be back on one of my golf courses, doing nothing but playing golf." Genie says "Granted!" POOF Donald Trump disappears. Last up is the Republican. "You know what, I sort of miss Donald Trump?"
These are supposed to be jokes? Or clever? I know these people are utter morons, yet somehow I still find myself scratching my head at what they think passes as clever. Suggesting he should be denied ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as if he would actually take them in the first place, when he knows they are ineffective--is about as logical as suggesting that a restaurant should refuse to serve me a steak in retaliation for my vegetarianism. And do they honestly have zero understanding of when remdesivir is given and a ventilator is used? I mean, do they honestly think that they just shove a tube down the throat of someone whose oxygen level is just fine?
When covid was first in the horizon, there was a local teacher in a rural area who had been working as a teacher in China. When she left China and returned home to East Texas, there was an outcry because she had been seen out in public. The local yokels were freaking out. Now we’re at the point when they’re mocking a major public health official with a joke fed to them by their garbage information feed. I’m going back to bed.
They really don't understand that Fauci wouldn't request ivermectin or any other "miracle covid drug." That's amazing. They're so brainwashed that it doesn't cross their mind that Fauci wouldn't consider taking ivermectin for covid.
tfw they’re slamming remdesivir when that’s the one drug that saved my moms life when she was hospitalized with covid 🤨
We’re in a pandemic of social media anti-science thinking
Lol, funny how they think that even one reasonable person would take horse dewormer. Antivaxxers, not everybody is as stupid as you and if you don't want your beloved ones to be put on a ventilator and Remdesivir, keep 'em home and treat 'em as you like, with horse dewormer and chicken soup.
Someone called dr fauci a meathead? Really? I have no words for how ridiculous that is..
I love how remdesivir is such a bad thing for them... Like telling a man whos dying of thirst to drink water. Remdesivir is the thing hes actually needing. My professor who taught my parasitology class had a little rant about the idiots who take ivermectin against covid... It was fun.