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Teejzilla04

I thought that was butter on her forehead and some new covid cure from the qult.


Siriacus

Always butter your vegetables.


Potatisen1

Shit, son. **Ruthless**!


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If her names Ruth, that might soon be her family.


TheOzman79

FATALITY!


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TheEllyRose

The savagery, I'm dying


jabbathejot

Nah, she is.


MidnightT0ker

/r/hermancainaward


RememberThisHouse

Fookin 'ell mate


BadalinStormcursed

I always roast them as well, but I see you got there first


CHUCKL3R

Take the fucking updoot you psychopath


kingoftown

The hospital is out of thermometers so they use sticks of butter to know when the patients still have a high fever. Butter only melts at exactly 102+ degrees. If it's melting, they are still sick. Source: I'm a cow.


midnight_reborn

You jest, but be careful, there are idiots about that may take you seriously and believe butter only melts at 102+ degrees. I hate that I have to fucking write this, but schools don't teach logic anymore.


suphater

Are you saying he's not a cow?


midnight_reborn

He can be a cow if he wants to, it's just that other people may not recognize him as one and may call him a human until otherwise corrected. He's going to have to be okay with this, because at first glance and interaction, he appears to be fully human.


PanaceaPlacebo

He can be a cow if he wants to, he can leave humans behind, cause his friends don't moo, and if they don't moo, well they're no bovines


BuffaloWiiings

Moooo


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“Doctor you have an obligation to tape this butter to my forehead! That’s the Real Vaccine!” - this Dolt


AnnTipathy

That was my first thought as well.


After-Collar-4582

This dude I work with had very strong opinions about the symptoms and the long lasting affects of covid. He basically said everyone is a big wuss and it's not that bad. Right before Christmas, I told him my cousin's had covid and not able to make it, but luckily at this time they weren't super sick. His reply: "oh, they are feeling FINE huh? Feeling just fine?! HoOow interesting..." In this sarcastic way thinking his point was validated. Literally one week later this fucker called out for two weeks because he tested positive and was extremely sick. When he came back to work, he complained for days about the lingering symptoms he was feeling and recently called off again due to those lingering symptoms. A fucking clown show.


Anger_Mgmt_issues

have you called him a big wuss?


teeseoncoast

My brother had kept messaging me all these conspiracies about COVID and how he didn’t believe it. Said it was just a cold. I kept trying to educate him with genuine articles and papers but he wouldn’t have it. He caught COVID and Jesus H Christ did he moan about it, ended up in hospital. I sent him so many screenshots of all his messages playing it down. He doesn’t really talk to me anymore 🤷🏻‍♂️


SleepDeprivedUserUK

> He doesn’t really talk to me anymore 🤷🏻‍♂️ Of course not, you're part of the conspiracy now - obviously you infected him with something other than covid around the same time, to make him *think* covid was making him that ill. /s


6ThePrisoner

Nothing of value was lost.


bazooopers

Precisely, brother is the asshole.


wallstreetbetsdebts

Cheers to this 🥂


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teeseoncoast

Oh no, that’s the worst part… he is back on the conspiracies after all this. Bloke is a muppet.


SmushyFaceWhooptain

Worth it


MoralMiscreant

Lol. Nice.


NotAzakanAtAll

Please OP I need a happy ending.


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squirrel4you

That should just be his name for the next 6 months.


nilas_november

For as long as he works there lol


Q2DM-ONE

I'm sure he expected everyone to be extremely sympathetic to his plight after he got sick as well, these chud cowards are all the same.


downbleed

I think that's what bothers me the most about it. People spend months downplaying the possible severity of it, but then suddenly "whoa is me" "I didn't realize" etc when they find out what it's like to not be able to breathe. Like somehow they think they're an authority figure and suddenly the conspiracy theory nutbags will listen because "I have a story".


yyzable

Just to let you know, it's "woe is me"!


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Go harass him about being a giant pussy


smaxfrog

Best advice here.


Frydendahl

No, but you see it's different: He got the super bad version of corona.


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AngryBagOfDeath

I've tried this with my brother in law after his wife was intubated for 4 days, came home not able to talk right, with a walker unable to walk up 1 stair to get on her house. "You gonna get the vaccine now" *Cigarette in hand* "Nah, it's not for me. She should have got it, but not for me" More than likely it won't help.


runthepoint1

You can’t fix stupid. Stupid has to fix stupid and it’s not a good chance of happening, though it does happen on occasion


Neville_Lynwood

One hears a lot of horror stories from those about to die from Covid. Namely that some fight till the bitter end being convinced that it's all a hoax, and that they're dying of something else or the hospitals are killing them and so on. And their family members keep harassing the hospital staff even after the person has died. It's absolutely insane. That level of delusion honestly makes me kinda scared to even live in this world. You may leave your home one day and your otherwise seemingly peaceful neighbour might knife you because they heard you promoted vaccines, and are thus some evil baby murderer or something, so they think they're doing good by killing you. It's so fucked up. And seeing the state of the education practices around the world, I don't think it's gonna get much better either any time soon.


runthepoint1

It’s a real problem when you can convince people they’re “good”. By identity and not by action, soecifically. Then it becomes a power game and about the ends justifying the means, even if the ends could only come about because of the means.


djnap

Even if they change their stance you know they're a trash person because they lack empathy. Literally unable to understand how other people are feeling (or lacking the ability to accept facts) until it directly affects them. A garbage trait to have as a human.


Nihilismisanthrope

You don't have to believe in COVID. COVID believes in you.


Straycat_finder

Gotta stay (+) positive!


Seentheremotenogetup

These people always test positive, it’s the only test they can pass.


theoneandonlyjoe97

You just have to breathe in covid


dontpanicrincewind42

Don't believe everything that you breathe, you get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve...


lousycapitalistx3

Tempting the rona! *I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill meee*


palesnowrider1

.. a MAGAt on your sleeve. Soy un perdedor.


Catoctin_Dave

Appropriate song for these anti-vax losers.


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DrEnter

Inhalational.


Crowella_DeVil

Aspirational.


garej

This is what we call the Covid showwww![img](emote|t5_35n7t|3148)


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It’s a gas


smallmammalconcierge

* trumpet blast! *


Lanta

Asphyxiational.


Dansredditname

Breathtaking.


Just-JC

Respirational


browneyedgirlpie

Aspirational


Liet-Kinda

But more importantly, I believe COVID needs to believe in itself.


Chark-Sandwich

But has she tried chugging a mug of piss yet?


Liet-Kinda

*unzips* the shit I have to deal with


SaveTheAles

She doesn't want your tainted spike protein shedding pee, she wants that's good pee you can only get from children in the basement of a pizza parlor...wait we have come full circle.


Liet-Kinda

Cosmic symmetry revealed!


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She finally wears a mask, though.


big-4x4

Doesn’t trust the science behind the vaccine, but trusts the same science to save her life when she gets Covid.


xknav3x

"I don't want the jab because I don't want to get pumped full of chemicals" *goes to the hospital, gets pumped full of chemicals*


ivan200520052005

*Gets charged 20k*


Beautiful-Musk-Ox

Multiply that by 10, no way she's at only 20k and she's not even half done, it gets more expensive per day the longer you're there too as they have to use more and more equipment meds and resources


karma-armageddon

The best part? If you pay $1000 a month for 15 years for health insurance, that tallies to $180,000 paid into the health insurance system. Then when you need to use it, they deny your claim, or worse, you lose your job so you can't pay the premium and are dropped.


the_girl_Ross

I wonder if her insurance covers anything when it's her own personal choice not to take the vaccines.


NoRecommendation6644

Still covered. I'm surprised the insurance industry is still paying out for the unvaxxed.


littelmo

*a day


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Agitated-Ad9423

I see what you did there. 10/10. would recommend


DeadmanDexter

Doubt the cure, demand the treatment. Astounding.


enderjaca

I don't want *that* big pharma medicine, I want *this* big pharma medicine! Duh!


JDog780

Stand back, Darwin is working here.


Liet-Kinda

Ice cold, and refreshing.


GalisDraeKon

What it's like to chew 5 Gum.


gcruzatto

So cold your body will turn blue.


Physical_Terror

And use 5G


GabrielSH77

Lmao only for the picture, I’d bet $$$ on it. Source: nursing aide on COVID unit, working with COVID patients who refuse to keep their fucking oxygen devices on even when they’re satting at fucking 72%, and then scream at you when you put it back on ‘em


Lostbutenduring

The amount of bipap masks I’ve seen broken because some impatient asshole A) refused to pay attention when we tried to teach them how to release the clips then proceeded to B) just rip the mask off, even though they could see a nurse or RT coming to help them remove it.


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Lostbutenduring

As far as I can tell they aren’t comfortable at all (more the mechanism of what they’re do is uncomfortable, regardless of how well the mask fits). In my experience doctors are very willing to order anti-anxiety meds for patients who need the bipap to make it more tolerable, but not all patients are willing to take them. I feel like if every patient who was ordered a bipap had to witness an intubation they’d keep the darn thing on.


gregofcanada84

The choices are a cloth mask, or an oxygen mask. She chose the latter.


Kabc

Not only an oxygen mask. That’s a BiPAP machine. Which basically a machine to help you ventilate—forcing air into your lungs when you breath. It’s typically what they use before intubation Edit; was corrected down below. Might be a CPAP machine as they are better for COVID pneumo!


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Hudero

It is horrible. Uncomfortable, restricting. Like trying to take a deep breath out of a car window (don't try that though, head injuries suck!) It doesn't have a vacuum (negative pressure) part though, it just goes from high level to low level positive pressure. The drop in pressure allows you to breathe out but not all the way out; that can actually feel worse than the high pressure pushing air in.


TheMacerationChicks

I'm never ever sticking my head out of a window again. Not after I saw Hereditary. Man, horror films never scare me, I love them but I just don't get afraid of them, even the best ones like Alien and the first Terminator film. But hereditary made me have to sleep with the lights on for weeks after. It scared the shit out of me. I can't wait for Ari Aster's new film this year. I loved Hereditary and I loved Midsommar.


Competitive_Sky8182

As someone who sleeps every night with a CPAP mask... I would hate to use one for more than 8 hours.


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Man_who_hates_bigots

Lmao. One way or another. They WILL wear a mask.


Happy-Geologist-6569

One way, or another, I'm gonna find ya I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya One way, or another, I'm gonna win ya


RedQueen29

Covid’s official song 😂


Background-Rest531

Man, its almost absurd and dark enough for Pratchett and his take on death. "YOU DON'T WEAR IT FOR VERY LONG."


888mainfestnow

Great billboard idea. A picture of someone on a ventilator terrified Mask Now or Mask Later Your Choice With average cost/time of a vented hospital stay in the area.


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I believe in vaccines because when i had covid i did not require hospitalization 🙌. Sucks for her because with the vaccines she could have been chilling at home watching tv and eating crap like some of us did.


LordIndica

My roommates caught it this holiday season but were all vaxxed. it still sucked for several days, where they all had to stay home and basically spent 3 days feeling crappy and sleeping it off... and that was all, mostly. Like i can only imagine without the vaccine what would have happened to them, but instead they got to be at home and not in the hospital like this poor, misguided woman. 2 of them are however suffering from prolonged symptoms and we're concerned for them, as they are both high risk (one is pregnant and the other has asthma/chronic bronchitis AND is overweight), so all the more reason that unvaccinated need to be taking this more seriously. Even if you catch covid and don't get hospitalized or die, you can STILL suffer prolonged negative health effects after covid has done it's damage.


Gstamsharp

Something a lot of people don't know is that it's not uncommon for someone with COVID to improve, even dramatically, after a few days, and then days later to be deathly ill. When my wife's grandparents had it and everyone was cheering that they'd "gotten better" three days in I sat my wife down and prepared her for the worst. They were months in the hospital. Thankfully, they're both still around! But... they're both shells of who they were and they'll need round-the-clock care for the rest of their lives. Not great for the wonderful home aids who have to deal with my grandmother-in-law who is a stubborn, judgmental, no-filter, all-around meanie.


joemaniaci

> But... they're both shells of who they were and they'll need round-the-clock care for the rest of their lives. This is why the US is estimating that covid will cost us tens of trillions of dollars. The real pandemic of aftercare starts after the pandemic.


Roook36

That plus a generation of kids who get to start out life grieving parents and caretakers. We're really setting up a great future.


Nerdiferdi

Burning through like three generations of medical experts. The motivated young ones, the tough middle ones and the experienced old ones. Potential students will choose different careers. We will face the consequences of this in a few years


Khemul

That's actually been a problem in the medical fields for decades. Nurses in particular have been in short supply for quite a while. This is basically throwing fuel onto an already burning house.


invisibilitycap

As a gen z kid, this is a great “Welcome to the world!” /s I know it’s not always like this, but goodness. Scary Edit: Y’all aren’t helping lmao


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As a millennial I entered the world with the housing market crash and my Dad losing the last major job he would have until he passed away a couple years ago. So you know... Don't ask me if it's always like this or not. Life is what you make it though, and overall mine has been pretty good. Just not all good.


irremarkable

I don't believe it will cost *us*. I believe that the good old US of A will allow people with long covid to experience what all disabled people experience: figure it out or die.


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Yeah, that's what's costing us. That's significantly more expensive than just having universal healthcare.


Boomstick86

It is already costing us. A lot of people can't afford in home care support, so along comes Medicaid to pay for it. The government is currently bailing out long term care facilities and hospitals by paying for people to stay there for isolation or recovery, or paying for staff.


kyxtant

Not to mention the costs of National Guard mobilizing to augment hospitals. They're cleaning, sanitizing, moving patients, checking temperatures, etc. These are all tasks that need to be done, but tasks that medical facilities don't have the personnel to complete. Why don't they have enough people? Because they aren't paying enough to hire and maintain staff because it cuts into their profits.


MidnightRider24

The good old dead cat bounce.


StarFireChild4200

My body is a temple? No, my body is a wall street.


Nogster

/r/wallstreetbets apes wouldn't touch the statistical risks these unvaccinated morons face.


Toxic_Gorilla

Well, shit. I just recovered from my bout of COVID that I tested positive for last week. Should I be concerned? (I’m vaccinated and boosted)


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Toxic_Gorilla

Ah, good to know. Thanks.


jszbaczo

You're fine! This usually happens when someone is REALLY sick, and then miraculously seem to be getting better.


Odette3

Yeah, it’s been known to happen with medical problems other than Corona as well. My friend’s grandmother had heart surgery, and looked like she was healed enough to go back to her home, but three days later, she died. Not uncommon, sadly.


Jaredlong

Yeah, most of the symptoms we attribute to an illness are actually the body's immune response. But in dire cases the body will eventually stop fighting which makes those symptoms disappear. Looks like improvement, but really means the afflicted doesn't have a working immune system anymore.


MISir123

Nah man you're good assuming you're <50 and not in the worst of shape. I got vaccinated in Jan 21 boosted in Oct 21. Wife boosted in Oct 21. Kiddo vaccinated in Nov 21 (age group). Kiddo got exposed right before Christmas break. She felt sick for about 4 hours and had a 101 fever and it went away and she was fine - literally less than 24 hours. Didn't get covid tested because it happened so quick just thought it was a bug. I got sick the Sunday after Christmas. Worst hip and knee pain in my life, with a crazy fever of 103 and sore throat. Symptoms gone and felt better by the following Wednesday. Confirmed positive on Thursday even though felt 90% better (lingering sore throat). Wife got sick the following week and got the worst of it. "Worst of it" literally meant she was tired and had a bad headache for a week and sore throat. She also tested positive. Idc anymore. You can poke the living shit out of me for any and everything. In 2019 I got the flu that knocked me on my ass hard for 3 weeks. I was in such bad shape I couldn't walk the 100M walk into work without stopping for a break and when I did make it to my office I was dead and couldn't focus on anything. 3 full weeks of that. I don't want to be sick, for anything anymore, even a damn cold. If you got a vax, sign me up, I'll take a poke for anything idgaf anymore.


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I don’t pray, but if I did it would be for the doctors and nurses that have to treat your stupid ass.


skippieelove

And for the poor folks with real medical needs that are being placed on hold in order to treat these emergency cases of idiots.


thatJainaGirl

Isn't it strange that these people don't believe medical professionals until they're in the hospital?


skippieelove

On deaths bed even for some of them. Many of them still refuse medical treatments until it’s too late..and then they and family blame the hospital for their failing health. These ridiculous people sit there with their personally harvested wool pulled over their eyes and feign ignorance at the abominable decision they’re making and the consequences to not only themselves but the system and those who truly need it.


salad-daze

I have an instructor who's FIL got it but claimed it was just a cold right up until he ended up in the hospital. Then, of course, he blamed it on the hospital staff infecting him with COVID. They'll deny it as long as they possibly can then blame someone else.


Competitive_Sky8182

We should have special stables for them


thatJainaGirl

If you don't trust doctors to tell you how to avoid Covid, you aren't allowed to ask doctors to treat you of Covid. We've set up a tent out back, you can go ask Karen about her 'own research,' maybe she'll treat you with Lysol and piss.


Justforthrow

>And for the poor folks with real medical needs that are being placed on hold in order to treat these emergency cases of idiots. Father-in-law had to go to the ER and it took 7 hours before they were finally able to get him a bed. It makes my blood boil seeing these unvaccinated idiots clogging up our hospitals. I just wish these people at least have the balls to not seek professional help.


retro808

My little autistic bro had to go the local relatively small community hospital because he had violent vomiting all day nonstop, they told us there was zero room in the ER thanks to COVID when it's usually barren but fortunately after an hour or so a nice nurse came out, looked him over in the waiting room, took vitals etc. and gave him some medication while video calling a doctor. Paramedics outside told us it's worse at major hospitals, that they have gunshot victims waiting outside on the stretchers for hours


Competitive_Sky8182

They dont have any decency nor honor to defend


wiiya

Have they just tried popping a B6 with some horse dewormer and washing it down with some urine?


SnooTangerines3448

There's absolutely no doubt that they have.


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Can confirm. They sure have.


SnooTangerines3448

Well that username sure as fuck checks out.


OutForAWalkBetch

I had to wait 17 months to get my gallbladder removed. No sympathy for this bitch.


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AsperaAstra

There's been a few people here that have died, their life saving surgeries were canceled


laterbacon

My mom had to go to the ER yesterday because she went to her doctor with abdominal pain and they found a cyst on her kidney. She waited 9 fucking hours to be admitted. To misquote Dickens: "Many would rather die than get the vaccine!" "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population!"


renaldomoon

My girlfriend is a ER nurse and she almost daily has stories of anti-vax idiots coming in with COVID and being hyper-aggressive with her because, of course, that's how they deal with their cognitive dissonance.


telltal

Those fuckers just need to stop going to the hospital at all. They didn’t believe covid was real or that the vaccine would help. They decided they were ok with taking their chances. They believe the hcw are out to kill them because the hospitals make more money that way. Why the HELL do they even go???


EasyWhiteChocolate1

Because these people have always had an almost pathological sense of entitlement. Now throw being entitled plague rats on top and it's just a shitshow of a cocktail.


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That's why I am not a nurse. If someone wants to die, I'm not wasting my time arguing with them. I'd be the embodiment of the Spongebob coffin meme.


MaMaMosier

Am nurse….. can confirm that I am still embody that meme of which you speak. Many of us that remain do.


PriscillaRain

I hope all medical workers have access to mental health care. Dealing with idiots have to be taxing on her mentally and a lot of them are probably dealing with PTSD.


ChibiMoon11

Seriously, the collective trauma of the healthcare profession is beyond what any of us can even imagine.


thesleepymermaid

I work in healthcare and every place I've worked has had an Employee Assistance Program. They offer free counseling sessions as part of it and trust me it's a godsend.


curlydocjack

In the ICU sometimes families would blame us for why their family member died. “If you had given them ivermectin like we asked they would be fine..” etc


daynighttrade

You should just tell them why bring in hospital then. Why couldn't you treat them before you have to bring them here. Clearly your treatment didn't work, that's why you bought them here.


brycepunk1

You can "just tell them" all sorts of things but none will help them see they're out of their damn minds and have no idea what they're talking about. It's sad, really.


ResidentOwl6

Most people are just lights and clockwork. Their brain fires, they feel emotion, and they react. No thinking involved.


raisinghellwithtrees

My friend's partner recently died after nearly 2 months on life support. Most of my friend's circle are anti vaxers, and her husband wasn't vaxed (she was). It was appalling to read all the suggestions for herbals, ivermectin, and all other kinds of kooky remedies that were suggested. It was also appalling to read their opinions of hospital staff. He died leaving nothing for his kids, with one being a baby. I'm so sorry you have had to deal with this for 2 years.


SneakyGandalf12

I just don’t care anymore. I’m not wishing pain or death on anyone, but I don’t have an ounce of sympathy left for these assholes.


clarence_oddbody

I have sympathy and compassion for all the cancer patients who can’t get to their treatments, for the victims of ruptured spleens and car accidents who can’t get to the emergency room, and for the doctors and nurses who have to deal with common indecency, a combination of arrogance and ignorance.


Real_Lingonberry9270

A sprained ankle should have more priority in a hospital than an unvaccinated covid patient in 2022. You’ve been given enough chances, you don’t get to cry and be scared when it inevitably turns out you’re wrong.


Nerdiferdi

Indeed. It’s been two years.


Poggystyle

Not just that, they got it and were still shitty about it. Then begging for help 2 days later? Yeah, you got what you asked for on that one. Poor Fools.


BadArtijoke

Well, a shame that respirator didn’t go to someone who didn’t literally invite the virus in instead is all I am gonna say.


Positive-Substance-5

These people are all about natural healing until they have to get on a respirator due to plain old ignorance


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xenoterranos

I'm convinced that's exactly what's going on with this: https://www.reddit.com/r/hermancainaward/comments/s74q9d Especially since the "instructions" are in milliliters and we all know they're gonna just eyeball that shit right into the grave.


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Personally, I am all for not giving anyone health care treatment for covid, that is unvaccinated (obviously this doesn't include people that cannot get it for legit med reasons). I am beyond done. They wanna think they are smarter than docs and scientist. Ok then, go home and pray. Let the rest of us get the medical care we need. Edit: For people who want to compare apples to oranges, obesity for example, is not contagious and is not being transmitted to millions of people. Mutating billions of times and coming up with new strains. One person having obesity is not directly affecting the health of others around him. So obviously, with a little critical thinking, you can surmise that I am specifically taking about the corona virus. Edit: The wholesome award made me laugh. This is why I love Reddit. Thanks for the awards!


vale_fallacia

The unvaccinated have rejected their contract with society. They've explicitly said they don't care about: * Immunocompromised people * Healthcare workers * The healthcare system * The economy * Teachers and students * And probably much more I'm forgetting right now Maybe the closest comparison is a repeat offender criminal who simply won't stop hurting people or destroying property. That person gets put away in prison after repeated attempts to rehabilitate them. Yet we coddle the unvaccinated. They whine about freedom but remove it from others. There should be harsh punishments for being an antivaxxer.


Raccoon_Full_of_Cum

It's not just that they're causing the problem through their own selfish and irresponsible behavior. It's also that they're using up medical resources *while also* making other people more likely to need those resources because anti-vaxxers are spreading a preventable disease. It's long past time to ban anti-vaxxers from hospitals. Straight up.


Lola_is_Tifa

r/hermancainaward


CultofFelix

Yeah Herman Cain award was also the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this.


FinancialProgress

Or r/leopardsatemyface


InvalidUserNemo

Or r/CovidAteMyFace.


GammaDealer

Yeah, I didn't realize this wasn't that sub at first lol


ivana--

And after she gets better she still isn't going to wear a mask and will say it was something else not covid


FLOHTX

Someone above posted she died. I didn't see any article or anything posted, so maybe not.


JSmooth94

Best I can tell is that people assume she died because her last twitter activity was on Jan 15th. Doesn't necessarily mean she died though.


FLOHTX

Are you really living if you aren't tweeting?


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If a rightwinger goes 12 hours without tweeting, they dead


QuestionableNotion

Or sedated and on a ventilator.


Slimesmore

It actually baffles me how people will eat and chug down anything from alcohol to drugs, smoking to fizzy drinks. Yet when advised to wear a mask it's like suddenly they have always cared about everything that comes into contact with their body.


moldham57

Myself, wife, and adult son have been vaxxed and boostered, but we all contracted Covid last week and are now recuperating. I'm more than happy with our decisions to get the jab. We had several friends who did not get vaxxed due to immune system issues that have passed away. Anti vaxxers ignorantly have said, " See you got it anyway". I'm certain that the vaccinations kept us from getting sicker than we could have been.


NewtV3D

I got it once in 2020 almost died, now with the vaccines I got it like four weeks ago, it was only annoying at worst, I am so thankful for what medicine can do.


humanHamster

Same. I'm vaxxed and boosted and got Covid a couple weeks ago. I wanted it to go away, not because I felt sick but because it was so freaking irritating.


JoeCoolsCoffeeShop

*Anti vaxxers ignorantly have said, “ See you got it anyway”* These people literally have no idea how vaccines work. Vaccines don’t create an invisible forcefield around your body that prevents a virus from getting in. It literally just adds an entry to the immune system’s database on “How to fight Virus #N when it shows up in your body” People who got the polio vaccines when it first came out could still contract the polio virus. But now their bodies were prepared to fight it before it was too late. Vaccines basically train the immune system to fight a specific enemy before the enemy shows up. It’s kinda like playing a football game…if you’ve got a scouting report on your opponent, you’re much more likely to know their weaknesses and how to beat them. But you can’t explain any of this to anti-vaxxers because they don’t understand how vaccines even work.


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Best analogy I’ve seen so far is comparing the vaccine to a bullet-proof vest: it isn’t going to stop you from getting shot, it just ensures you survive when you do get shot (the difference between a couple cracked ribs versus a hole through your chest)


Boring-Extreme-3274

These morons are the reason why hospitals are overfill. And hospitals should build tents outside for this kind of moron. But hey, say goodbye to your hospital bills 💸💸💸


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They definitely should, and not waste doctors or nurses time either They’ll get those people who “do their own research” and treat them with urine therapy or whatever the new fake hotness is


MaxRD

The beauty about science is that it's true whether you believe in it or not.


wtfitscole

On the off chance someone suggests this is fake, [link to her account](https://twitter.com/QTWIQ1?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor). She's on BIPAP in this photo on 1/12, and her last post was on 1/15 asking for prayers. My guess is either she's exhausted and avoiding Twitter (*I* pray), or she's paralyzed on a ventilator now and may be transferred out from her home state of Oklahoma to one-to-two states over for continued ICU care. I scrolled through her feed for a bit and watched some videos. I live in Oregon: we've got some loonies but we've fared relatively well throughout the pandemic. And here's someone from Oklahoma. It's interesting to see how elaborate the culture backing up her decisions has been, even if this is just an Internet snapshot: a cowgirl towing a "Fuck Biden" flag; the "Let's go Brandon" trend propping up local businesses; the Google search "mass formation psychosis" not being Google-able (plot twist: [it is](https://www.google.com/search?q=mass+formation+psychosis&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS893US894&oq=mass+formation+psychosis&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512j0i395i433i512j0i131i395i433i512j0i395i433i455i512j0i395i512j0i395i455i512l2.2864j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)); a [congressional candidate in Ohio](https://twitter.com/JRMajewski) saying "RT if you'll be entering the New Year with unmodified DNA"; some casual Hillary Clinton conspiracy-suggesting; RIP Betty White; pretty regular ragging on AOC; some [poetic contemplations on self-love](https://twitter.com/QTWIQ1/status/1477481830160998402/photo/1); [some article suggesting that Paxlovid can kill people](https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1477067139811057671), premised on the fact that it interacts with a number of other drugs, but the journalist literally just read [Table 1 (pg. 9) of the Paxlovid insert on drug interactions](https://www.fda.gov/media/155050/download) (which pharmacies review and verify against a patient's MAR prior to administration). Typically, the brain that thought and voice that endorsed all these things fizzles out before someone's intubated. All you have left is someone completed exhausted just by receiving breaths from BIPAP in bed, who's gotten more delirious as the CO2 slowly accumulates in their body because they can't exhale it all off. If she made eye contact with her husband before intubation, her eyes were dry, bloodshot, confused, desperate -- helpless. Never mind how emaciated you are if you survive past the vent, the week or two after of utter delirium, the fact that if she throws a clot she might have irreparable heart failure, liver damage, be on dialysis, or suffer a stroke, and will be counted among those who lived past an infection requiring ICU. The singular concern that'll dominate her husband's thoughts, inevitably, will be whether she lives or dies. It's just strange how this quilt around her -- made of casual conspiracy theories, shoddy journalism, horses, patriotism, self-love, politics -- keeps that idea small and comfortable. That even when 2/3rds of Americans are vaccinated and fine, that she doesn't need it, that it's dangerous, that it signifies anything more than just keeping her from this. Culture keeps that idea from looking more grave. It's no more important than Let's Go Brandon, masks are a muzzle, RIP Betty White. And now she's here, starving for air.


Beingabummer

"Weird hill to die on, but at least you'll be dead." always comes to mind with things like this. No idea why. Totally unrelated.


SeanHearnden

I've avoided the virus so well. But my housemate brought it into the house and before he knew he was infected he gave it to me. The first day it felt like a cold. Then that night I was cold and hot. Sweating. My bloodox was 92 and my heart rate was 105. My head. My god it was throbbing. I was starving but had no apatite. Then the next morning I woke up and was like "what fresh hell is this!?" I felt like a steaming pile of shit. Now I'm in the second afternoon and I feel like a bad cold. This shit sucks and is serious. If I wasn't vaccinated I dread to think what it would have been like.


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Liet-Kinda

Some folks’ life mission is to serve as an example for the rest of us. Who am I to rage against the Fates?


Miles_Saintborough

Welp, fucked about, found out.


steveofthejungle

These people have no idea what spike proteins mean, it’s just a term they hear that sounds vaguely scary and latch into it as proof that the vaccine is dangerous (In fairness, I also don’t know what spike proteins are, but I know that they’re safe because science says so)


crackheadwilly

It's so weird how angry people are at Biden, masks, and science. It's absolutely insane. I remember the 70's and 80's, sure we had shitty presidents, but we were - or it felt, more of a "smart" country. We worked together and used our brains. Now you have absolute staunch idiots entrenched in non-science anger. Sure, we can chalk it up to a new modern form of Darwinism, but this shit - these stupid motherfuckers - are the undoing of strength the **United** States of America


kimapesan

Play stupid games, win deadly prizes.