# Share your Covidiot stories **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 29, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854 "2020-04-29T22:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 77
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1523 "2021-12-02T17:26:04Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > We still only shop early in the morning (like when they open) to avoid the hordes of morons. [_The Marching Morons_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons) – life imitates art. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1524 "2021-12-02T17:35:17Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > [_The Marching Morons_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons) – life imitates art. Yes it does - [Idiocracy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1525 "2021-12-02T17:50:06Z")
Mentioned in my link. > The 2006 film _[Idiocracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy)_ borrows the idea of the world population becoming moronic through the stupid breeding more, but it does not have genocide or a super-clever elite. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1526 "2021-12-02T22:16:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I even posted the same link. How come both our WaPo stories are dated Dec 1, but you posted yours Nov 30 and I posted mine Dec 1? I often see WaPo stories in the evening that are dated the following day. Maybe a thing about time zones? Or maybe they just jump the gun when they publish? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1527 "2021-12-03T00:39:13Z")
Ha! I read the intro and thought “man, this sounds like Idiocracy”. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1528 "2021-12-03T01:50:52Z")
> [@Breakthrough cases among the already infected](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakthrough-cases-among-the-already-infected/955338/8): > > > [@Breakthrough cases among the already infected](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakthrough-cases-among-the-already-infected/955338/7): > > > > Two of my coworkers have had COVID twice. Once in April/May/June of 2020 and then again at some point in the last six months. > > > > > None are vaccinated and oddly enough (or maybe not) they are as certain that they can’t get it the third time as they were that they couldn’t get it the second time > > If you haven’t already, you might consider posting about this in the “Share your Covidiot stories” thread. Just a suggestion. I wasn’t going to post this here, but one of these coworkers has definitely attained Covidiot status now. She says that she doesn’t believe that she had COVID the second time. It was just a false positive. She says if she feels sick again she’s just going to assume it’s the flu and not play “your stupid games” (i.e. get tested) ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1529 "2021-12-04T02:26:44Z")
[Italian man tries to dodge Covid vaccine wearing fake arm](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/03/italian-man-tries-to-dodge-covid-vaccine-wearing-fake-arm). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1530 "2021-12-05T17:18:08Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@wguy123](#): > > > > We still only shop early in the morning (like when they open) to avoid the hordes of morons. > > [_The Marching Morons_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons) – life imitates art. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/m0xSCUuFNaM/maxresdefault.jpg "The Drop-Outs March") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xSCUuFNaM&t=0m39s) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1531 "2021-12-06T12:43:54Z")
Ironically, this one might have avoided getting caught if he’d worn a mask: > **[Man who glued lock of Gorleston vaccine centre is jailed](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-59493747)** > > The criminal damage meant 504 people could not receive vaccines. > A man who put superglue on the lock of a Covid-19 vaccination centre, preventing 504 people from getting jabs, has been jailed for 12 weeks. > Hayden Brown, 53, of Burgh Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, squirted glue into the keyhole of the centre’s door on 26 November… > He was arrested on Tuesday after being identified in footage from cameras that had been installed following two previous incidents earlier in November… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1532 "2021-12-08T15:36:15Z")
I wonder if they could cut a hole in the windows (assuming they reach to the ground) to let people in? Or would there be some building code forbidding it? And how much would be involved in getting a new door? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1533 "2021-12-08T17:05:21Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > A man who put superglue on the lock of a Covid-19 vaccination centre, preventing 504 people from getting jabs, has been jailed for 12 weeks. WTF is wrong with people like this? Why do they care if others get vaccinated? Are they going to have to put guards outside of locked clinics? What do they think they’re achieving anyway? It isn’t like the people he locked out won’t get vaccinated there or elsewhere. 12 weeks doesn’t seem like enough but I guess a deal was made. I’m concerned that we’re going to start seeing terrorism against clinics and pharmacies. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1534 "2021-12-08T18:43:35Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > WTF is wrong with people like this? Why do they care if others get vaccinated? Are they going to have to put guards outside of locked clinics? > > What do they think they’re achieving anyway? It isn’t like the people he locked out won’t get vaccinated there or elsewhere. Even on the lunatic fringe of anti-vaxxery, there is an additional more-lunatic fringe who seem to truly believe that the vaccine is an active effort to kill Americans, and who see themselves as noble warriors fighting against that. I could certainly see some of them taking it further than sabotaging a lock. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1535 "2021-12-08T19:51:07Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > see themselves as noble warriors fighting against that. I could certainly see some of them taking it further than sabotaging a lock. 30 years ago I was at a pro-choice rally in a park. An anti-choice person told me he’s ready to kill to save the life of an unborn child. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1536 "2021-12-09T11:43:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > 30 years ago I was at a pro-choice rally in a park. An anti-choice person told me he’s ready to kill to save the life of an unborn child. It wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened. > **[Barnett Slepian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Slepian)** > > Barnett Abba Slepian (April 23, 1946 – October 23, 1998) was an American physician and abortion provider who was assassinated in his home by James Charles Kopp, a militant member of the US anti-abortion movement. > Slepian was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Rochester, New York; his grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Russia. Slepian graduated from the University of Denver with a zoology degree. He then graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara medical school in 1978. > ... ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1537 "2021-12-10T14:02:36Z")
I don’t see this in a thread search, but about a week ago that guy William Hartmann in Michigan who was refusing for a while to certify Biden’s election (and who appeared in a couple of videos being a nutjob, and who was anti-vaccine), has died from Covid. [Wayne County canvasser Hartmann dies after contracting coronavirus (detroitnews.com)](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/01/wayne-county-canvasser-hartmann-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus/8819812002/) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1538 "2021-12-11T11:56:12Z")
Based on the number of anti-abortion bills that don’t include a provision for saving the life of the mother, it seems this attitude may be a bit more common now. 😕 ---
**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:** [December 11, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1539 "2021-12-11T14:54:43Z")
It’s like an '80s horror movie. If you have sex, you deserve to die. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1540 "2021-12-12T06:22:17Z")
This is from a few months ago, but I don’t recall seeing it posted here: > **[Canadians End Up In ICU After Attending ‘Covid Party’](https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2021/09/23/people-end-up-in-icu-after-attending-covid-party/?sh=236b62cf76af)** > > The party was held in the province of Alberta, which has declared a public health emergency as its hospitals struggle to cope with the surge in Covid-19 patients. > [@](#): > > An undisclosed number of people from the town of Edson in Alberta in Canada have ended up in the ICU after attending a “Covid party,” according to news reports. > > Originally reported by [_City News Edmonton_](https://edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2021/09/22/covid-party-send-edson-residents-to-edmonton-icu/), partygoers at the event held around two weeks ago had supposedly attended the gathering with the specific intention of contracting Covid-19 to achieve “natural immunity” against the SARS-CoV2 virus, with “several” of them ending up in hospital including some in ICU in Edmonton. The Forbes writer then did a bit of commentary: > [@](#): > > For what should be obvious reasons, it is not recommended to achieve ‘immunity’ to the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus via natural infection. These reasons include the risk of being hospitalized with Covid-19, dying from Covid-19, experiencing the menagerie of chronic symptoms associated with “long Covid” and also transmitting the virus to others. None of these are a risk with immunity acquired via immunization with Covid-19 vaccines, which are widely available all over Canada and are free. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1541 "2021-12-12T14:50:55Z")
I wish I could say I misheard this, but about 4:40 this morning the local news AM radio station was interviewing some physician on who said “If you’re healthy, you don’t need the booster.” ARGH. (Unfortunately, the radio’s web site is terrible, so I can’t give a cite.) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1542 "2021-12-14T12:51:25Z")
> **[Air Force discharges 27 troops for refusing Covid-19 vaccine | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/13/politics/air-force-troops-discharged-covid-19-vaccine/index.html)** > > The Air Force has discharged 27 service members for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine, spokeswoman Ann Stefanek told CNN on Monday, making these likely the first troops to be removed from the military for failure to obey the vaccine mandate. I wish I was surprised that it was so many, but I suppose I should be happy it wasn’t more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=76) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=78)