outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Ron from the afterlife: Lisa! Lisa! Can you hear me?!

Lisa: Yes Ron, oh my god, thank you!

Ron: I don't have much time.

Lisa: I miss you Ron! Ron, I love you!

Ron: Lisa...please....finish the remodeling...I don't have much time

Lisa: Ron, wait, don't go! Wait!

Ron: ...finish the remodeling...

I like how that Washington Post article (for me at least) is filled with interstitial ads for a t-shirt that says "I'm pretty confident my last words will be 'well shit, that didn't work'"

More like:

Ron from the afterlife: Lisa! Lisa! Can you hear me?!

Lisa: Yes Ron, oh my god, thank you!

Ron: I don't have much time.

Lisa: I miss you Ron! Ron, I love you!

Ron: Lisa...please....get vaccinated...I don't have much time

Lisa: Ron, wait, don't go! I need to know what tile to pick!

Ron: ...vaccinated...

Lisa: I'll finish the remodeling

Neither Ron, who died of covid-19 complications, nor Lisa had been vaccinated, Lisa said. Both had agreed they would wait longer to schedule their shots. Lisa rarely got sick and left her house only for work, and Ron, who was in charge of running the couple’s errands during the pandemic, always wore his mask and stayed away from large crowds, Lisa said.

“Both of us thought that [the vaccine] came out so fast. How could they have done so much testing on it? I was just cautious about it,” she said. “It’s not that I was against vaccines.”

The couple, who met through a Christian dating website

Lisa rarely got sick and left her house only for work, and Ron, who was in charge of running the couple’s errands during the pandemic, always wore his mask and stayed away from large crowds, Lisa said.

sorry to bring this whole thing up again, but this is pretty much an exact description of what my mom said, and says, about her and my dad's habits before they got covid

and because they got sick anyway, it proves that the whole thing is a hoax and vaccines don't work and everyone is going to get it

but sorry - it's not real people that think that. that's only a small percentage of people. the vast majority of unvaccinated people are incredibly smart people that have many good reasons for not getting vaccinated. the "total fucking christian idiot" percentage is so very small

too much attention is focused on the total fucking christian idiots. instead we need to be focused on joe carwash, who just doesn't know about medicine and can be convinced using reason and patience

and how fucking true is it that Lisa "left her house only for work" and Ron "always" wore a mask

Joe Carwash is running for the House in Ohio, iirc.

I’ve heard that one too, from an aunt - “I never really get sick”. Stupendous logic, good luck with that.

xp - Right, and did Lisa wear a mask at work, or no, because "work is safe, right"? So much left unsaid.

Going to work is surely a massive risk factor, depending on your job/ how you commute?

Various people in my family think that "just popping" somewhere is scientifically proven to be zero risk, compared with the only alternative which is shutting yourself in a crowded room full of coughing people, which is to be avoided. And if you avoid doing that you should pat yourself on the back and allow yourself a couple of 'popping out to's a day

and how fucking true is it that Lisa "left her house only for work" and Ron "always" wore a mask

you'll never know, because they've been lying for years about absolutely everything

I basically never have an upset stomach. (chugs gallon bottle of raw sewage)

I've never been on fire in my life. (douses self with kerosene and dances around wildly-flaming barrel)

"I'm a good Christian!!"

*hates poor people, everyone who isn't white*

whatever. what's the point? what is the point? there is no point. i have no point. sorry

yeah I realize how close this must hit for you, I'm sorry man

“I did what I thought was best for me,” Lisa told The Post. “Even if you don’t agree with me that I didn’t get the shot earlier, you don’t say, ‘I bet you wish you would have gotten the vaccine so your husband wouldn’t be dead.’ ”

on the contrary...

xp

oh, it's ok. i mean, i don't have to read this thread. but...it's everywhere. it's really hard to have a normal day and just not think about it. and it feels worse than just having something happen that is also happening elsewhere. like, if my dad died in an auto accident, and having to be in cars and drive in cars after that. that would be bad. but it's worse, because it's preventable and it can be stopped and there is very much a correct answer and a wrong answer (for the vast majority of people - I'm not talking about people who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons or aren't cognitively equipped to understand covid). it's really hard to just be surrounded by news all the time about people that are doing the exact same thing my parents did, and that my mom is still doing today. it's just fucking obnoxious. i really want to scream

imagine hating tucker carlson even MORE than you already do. maybe that's the best way to describe it

“I did what I thought was best for me,” Lisa told The Post. “Even if you don’t agree with me that I didn’t get the shot earlier, you don’t say, ‘I bet you wish you would have gotten the vaccine so your husband wouldn’t be dead.’

irl, the idiots just don't say anything at all to the survivor. they have nothing, and then they just go back to what they were doing like nothing happened, learning nothing at all

sorry, too real. this is what i'm like during my 1 hour of sobriety in the morning when i wake up. it's hard! not trying to harsh the mellow or anything -- i often bump this thread with total covid idiots. you have to, sometimes. or i have to, at least. to pretend it's not there is even more maddening

and the refrain to focus attention on the people that can actually change their minds, not to "waste time" on the lost covid idiots -- it makes a lot of sense on some levels. on a policy level, on a national level, for public officials, for famous people who have influence. but it's frustrating for normal people to hear that. because what can i do? what can i fucking do? does anyone ever listen to me? i can't even get my fucking mom to get vaccinated, even when i just straight up disown myself over it.

as i type that, my mom responds to my text from the other day. i hadn't spoken to her since just after, early april. i sent her stuff the other day that was basically just like "why are you doing this to me? who are you? why are you doing this to me? what the fuck is wrong with you. please. please. please." i had better arguments last year, trust me. at this point i'm just reduced to real caveman-style, grunting and rolling on the floor kind of stuff. her response:

"I am keeping a close eye on health...know to test for covid at any awareness of even a cold, know where to get early treatment meds right away, and had a positive t-cell response from lab done 2 wks ago."

keep in mind, by "keeping a close eye on health", she also means "i have a secret doctor i know through my wealthy sister that is willing to prescribe me Ivermectin"

i'm not even fucking joking

ivermectin?
youvermectin!
let's all just have a mectin!

I cut my finger one time and someone offered me a band-aid and I said no thanks and choked down a bottle of deworming pills instead

I'm so sorry, KM. That you're able to participate in the gallows humor is a healthy sign although I'm sure it doesn't make it any less terrible.

How could they have done so much testing on it?

They test it by giving it to tens of thousands of people and carefully watching what happens. They've now given it to hundreds of millions of people and watched what happened. Turns out it's very safe.

A friend told me that hours after having the AZ jab, he was sitting at the dining table, when he suddenly projectile vomited pints of black blood. Over the next 4 days, he suffered bleeding from his rectum, had blood in his semen and came up in bruises all over his body.

— Jacqui Deevoy (@JacquiDeevoy1) August 27, 2021

Bleeding from the ass, vomiting enough blood to kill you but still finding a way to bust a nut.

Life… finds a way.

perfect:

Freelance journalist (since 1985) on a mission to get the truth into the mainstream. If you have a story, please send me a private message.

I thought the same but I’m just reporting what he said.

— Jacqui Deevoy (@JacquiDeevoy1) August 27, 2021

my friend took tylenol and said he saw a vision of C Thomas Howell on horseback naked screaming "The Beatles are coming"

Why was your friend on horseback, you're not supposed to take tylenol in that situation, it says so on the bottle.

Ah grift. It's a thing, you know.

https://time.com/6092368/americas-frontline-doctors-covid-19-misinformation/

Separately, this is...quite a thread.

Friends. I have joined ivermectin groups on Facebook. They are literally shitting their pants in grocery stores. pic.twitter.com/vwvHPtjq9e

— Ryan Graney👩🏻‍🦰 (@RyanEGraney) August 26, 2021

i hope this teacher gets fired

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e2.htm?s_cid=mm7035e2_w

U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson, of Texas, died of a treatable illness because the Covid crisis left him without an available ICU bed even though he lives 3 houses down from an emergency room and 60 miles away from some of the greatest healthcare facilities in the world. pic.twitter.com/TK6sOO77ul

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) August 27, 2021

xpost It's always fuckin' Marin County.

tbf marin has highest vaccination rate in the state.

Yeah I was going to say, that was a very pleasant surprise when I realized that a couple of months back.

Just wait until they OK the vax for under 12 and that vaccination rate drops.

This response to the earlier tweet made me lol

A friend told me that hours after having the AZ jab, one of his nipples started dispensing pina colada and he couldn't stop singing the score to HMS Pinafore. Over the next 4 days he gained the ability to judge the exact weight of any vegetable just by looking at it.

— Tony (@Prague_Tony) August 27, 2021

haha

pic.twitter.com/nfAV1wCUKa

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 27, 2021

that "haha" is in response to table, not the tweet i posted. every death of an anti-vaxxer police officer is a tragedy or whatever.

But yeah, this shit is incredibly heavy and I'm more and more infuriated with anti-vaxxers every day.

We've talked about this elsewhere on ILX and previously on these threads, but the obstinate, murderous idiocy of people who believe that their opinion outweighs objective medical facts is just completely confounding to me.

It's not even THEIR opinion. Karl put it best when he talked about his father taking the opinion of "someone (not even a defined source or person) on Facebook" over the pleas of their doctors and family members.

I’ve heard that one too, from an aunt - “I never really get sick”. Stupendous logic, good luck with that.

I've never died, so obviously I am never going to.

My wife was just talking with a friend that works as a nurse in a west side ER. She said that yesterday she saw six people die of gun shot wounds, but no one dying of covid, so ... phew, right? (sighs) She said that of course there *are* people catching covid and coming in, too, but their lives are so chaotic that covid is the least of their concerns. Anyway, her takeaway was that covid is ironically the factor unifying racist idiots and the people the racist idiots hate the most, unvaxxed in the ERs, together at last.