# My sister, a pro hoax believer, has Covid **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [July 19, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770 "2020-07-19T21:27:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/21 "2020-07-19T23:15:10Z")
Just wondering, @wolfpup, did you know what that picture was when you posted it? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/22 "2020-07-19T23:15:13Z")
I appreciate that. However linking Jews with causing plagues has rarely ended well in our history. And with hashtags specifically attacking Jews on Twitter this last weeks, among many antisemitic incidents over the last months, it’s kind of the equivalent of saying “I don’t see color” around issues of race. Unfortunately the context about Jews being attacked can’t be taken out of the equation, no matter how innocently. I do appreciate your response and thank you for it. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/23 "2020-07-19T23:21:36Z")
I bet this Amish fellow is reading Gone Girl. Now _that’s_ a good book! ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/24 "2020-07-19T23:37:06Z")
There’s a scene in the Jewish comedy western The Frisco Kid, where an orthodox rabbi from Poland sees some Amish men from a distance. He is delighted and rushes toward them shouting in Yiddish. They say ‘Thy German is strange. Speak thou English?’ ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/25 "2020-07-20T00:21:03Z")
Looks like some people could use a hug! Unfortunately the alt-reich has co-opted the 90s chatspeak for hug so I will never surround a persons name with any sort of brackety-delimiter again. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/26 "2020-07-20T01:14:21Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Unfortunately the alt-reich has co-opted the 90s chatspeak for hug so I will never surround a persons name with any sort of brackety-delimiter again. Huh? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/27 "2020-07-20T01:20:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Huh? 😕 ((( ))) was often used to mean “hugs” Now it is often used by alt-righters to suggest the presence of a Jewish conspiracy. The parentheses suggest an ominous echo of the words enclosed therein. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/28 "2020-07-20T01:27:15Z")
Oh my God. We can even hug virtually as well as IRL. Disturbing. I’ll have to add snake wrangling at the Cowboy Church down on the highway as the weirdest ritual ever. You won’t die of COVID just snake venom. Win-win. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/29 "2020-07-20T01:34:13Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > ((( ))) was often used to mean “hugs” > > Now it is often used by alt-righters to suggest the presence of a Jewish conspiracy. The parentheses suggest an ominous echo of the words enclosed therein. That makes no sense. As with my aloha shirts, I shan’t allow them to co-opt hugs. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/30 "2020-07-20T01:46:47Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > There’s a scene in the Jewish comedy western The Frisco Kid, where an orthodox rabbi from Poland sees some Amish men from a distance. He is delighted and rushes toward them shouting in Yiddish. They say ‘Thy German is strange. Speak thou English?’ we absolutely love that movie - we will joke when we chase something like one of the cats ‘I don’t want to hurt you, I just want to make you kosher’ =) ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/31 "2020-07-20T01:51:35Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > One person told her to hire an attorney and sue the Democrats, especially the governor of Washington. They are the reason this hoax if making people sick. Her son in law told her to avoid going to a hospital, they are being paid to let people die. Jesus FUCK. . .are we still paying the leaded gasoline IQ tax, somehow? I despair in the face of such. . .not even stupidity, but. . . faulty wiring, I guess? I just . . .wow. Sometimes I wonder if we should loosen up the liability laws and take the warning labels off of things. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/32 "2020-07-20T01:57:25Z")
Yes, it is a really profound sort of stupid. (ha-ha… it’s the DEEP STATE. Hmm-hmm hmmmm.) Profoundly, alarmingly fucking stupid, and as so, dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/33 "2020-07-20T03:24:19Z")
Where is Yakima Valley? Get outside of greater seattle and the ignorant redneck factor goes up faster than a covid outbreak in Texas. Seattle has had a bit of a spike since the BLM protests started but fingers crossed looks to be flattening. And bit of a spike means from a dozen or couple of dozen new cases per day to over 400. I watch the UW testing website: [UW Virology COVID-19 Dashboard](http://depts.washington.edu/labmed/covid19/) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/34 "2020-07-20T06:23:40Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > ((( ))) was often used to mean “hugs” > > Now it is often used by alt-righters to suggest the presence of a Jewish conspiracy. The parentheses suggest an ominous echo of the words enclosed therein. But ((( ))) is also being used by Jews themselves to surround their own names (often seen in twitter posts, for example), the “take back” the symbol. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/35 "2020-07-20T08:40:24Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > What’s the book? Need answer fast! It [appears to be](http://web.archive.org/web/20111005194154/http://aron-hasfarim.co.il/product.asp?productid=5166) the “complete book of selichot [penitential poems/prayers], in the Polish tradition and that of the majority of congregations in Israel and the diaspora, along with the [???] foundations of penitence, rules of selichoth, order on the loosening of vows, and order on atonement” (or something along those lines) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/36 "2020-07-20T11:21:10Z")
This is a very strange thread. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/37 "2020-07-20T15:35:52Z")
You’re not new around here… ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/38 "2020-07-20T15:47:13Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > However linking Jews with causing plagues Not to speak for @wolfpup, but I didn’t see anything tying Jews to causing a plague in his post, I saw a post about a lunatic swinging a chicken over his head. > [@wolfpup](#): > > It was a joke, and personally I’m an equal-opportunity critic of all silly religious rituals, especially those that are sometimes allowed to take priority over science and reason and sometimes over life itself. Well said. > [@DocCathode](#): > > Would you like to accuse us of killing Christian children and using their blood to make matzoh next? … > [@Dr.Crap](#): > > I bet this Amish fellow is reading Gone Girl. Now _that’s_ a good book! I laughed much louder than I should have in my practically empty office building… ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/39 "2020-07-20T16:00:14Z")
FWIW, Yakima is in Eastern Washington state. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770/40 "2020-07-20T16:21:46Z")
I won’t hijack this thread further on this point, especially with someone who thinks interjecting the descriptor “lunatic” supports honest discussion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-a-pro-hoax-believer-has-covid/915770.md?page=3)