Cry me a river. When I was in the ER coughing up blood, none of them offered me any fancy treatments free of charge. When my friend’s husband died of it none of them held her hand because he was dying alone and she couldn’t even be at his side and couldn’t even give him a decent funeral. My ex’s wife was sick for nearly a month and he was laid off and they didn’t know how they were going to pay the bills but none of them offered them as much as a free pizza even after he got sick too. When the restaurant my daughter worked at closed and my son couldn’t do his normal construction work and they had to struggle to make ends meet no one offered them a job.
The big name antivaxxers and maskholes don’t give a shit about me and my family, so I don’t give a shit about theirs.
And as for them changing their minds and becoming vaccine promoters, wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up faster.
What’s escaped multiple posters is that wishing death and disability on people makes you look bad.
The targets of death wishes and their adherents just circle their wagons, and others on the fringe of comprehension will likely conclude that you’re unhinged.
But this is an obscure message board for the anointed, so flail away.
I don’t think that’s escaped us at all. I know it makes me look bad, and I don’t care. That’s because I also know that my actions WRT Covid serve to protect the people I hate from this disease. I change my life, inconvenience myself, take vaccines that make me feel ill, all of which protect them.
They protect me too, but I’m not harming them to benefit myself, unlike every anti-vaxxer and anti-masker. Every single one of those selfish bastards are endangering others for their own misguided benefit. It is entirely about them making their own lives “better” at the expense of others who may get sick and die. They KNOW that their choices increase the numbers of dead and they don’t fucking care, because they believe the choice benefits them.
I don’t care if I look bad here and I don’t care if anyone here thinks I’m “unhinged” for feeling the way I do. I don’t walk around yelling about how I hope these people die of COVID. I don’t even talk about it in real life. It just makes me feel good inside when I see that one of them has it.
Count me as someone who thinks they would be more useful in death than they were in life. Some people seem to have been born to serve as object lessons as a result of bad decisions.
I just want to clarify. The monoclonal antibodies such as regeneron are available and FREE for everyone. They need to be used within 48 hours of testing positive and they are not suitable for those who need to be hospitalized. If you or a loved one tests positive and has mild symptoms but risk factors for disease you need to try to get treated.
This site: COVID-19 Treatments | HHS/ASPR has a telephone number to call as well as a link to where monoclonal antibodies are available.
Again, these antibodies are out there, they are free and they are grossly underutilized. Do not be afraid to insist on them even if your primary physician doesn’t know how to get them or does not think you need them. Often you can directly contact the infusion site and they will screen you and arrange treatment if appropriate.
Much as I dislike the policies of the governor, his getting regeneron was medically appropriate and follows CDC recommendations.
None of my parents, siblings, nor their spouses are vaccinated. Several of them have had COVID, and I’ll admit that each time somebody gets sick there is a part of me that hopes it gets bad enough to convince the rest that this is serious and worth getting vaccinated. No such luck, they were all mild cases reinforcing their, “COVID is no big deal and the media and government are hyping it for $$$$$$$” narrative.
I’d be glad they were only mildly ill any other time. As it is I’m hoping for “sufficiently bad to scare some folks, but nothing permanent”.
Well, the media probably is actually making mint off the pandemic as far as getting people to consume lots of news. What they are not doing is pretending it’s a big deal when it’s not, that’s the conspiracy theory.
The government obviously is not making money off the pandemic, but precision and logic is not the forte of the panicked conspiracy theory.
The same people paying for the free vaccines. You and I and all taxpayers. I wonder if the anti ax people realize that they are paying for vaccines for other people and not getting their own benefits.
And also let me say that I don’t wish death on anybody. However, those governors who are banning mask mandates in schools against the recommendation of the CDC and against the wishes of the school districts should be liable for any child or staff member who gets sick or dies. I would like to be able to see them criminally prosecuted or at least sued.
