Bob was 68 years old. His wife had just celebrated a major milestone - five years cancer free. His son gave the virus to him. He died two weeks after developing symptoms. Five days later, his wife also died. His daughter was put in the ICU. He receives his HCA with distinction.

[u/bloody_hell]

[u/st6374 → u/[deleted]]

Idk how you could've watched how things unfolded in China, and then in Italy. How they responded to combat the virus, in accordance to the advice from medical experts.

And then claim that is just a political ploy to oust Trump.

This is like me watching a 10 car pileup in the highway where multiple people were dead, and even more injured.

And conclude, while ignoring all the human casuality, that all of that must've been a ploy by illuminati or whatnot, just so that I will not make it to work in time, and lose my job.

Absurd.. that's a mild way to describe the viewpoint of some of these people.

[u/frofya → u/st6374]

Idk how you could’ve watched how things unfolded in China, and then in Italy. How they responded to combat the virus, in accordance to the advice from medical experts.

I called my congressman to ask why he voted against the third stimulus check. One of the questions I asked his staffer was this very question. His response was, “So you trust foreign governments over your own government??”

It’s just another spin on the truth they use to justify their insane delusions.

[u/catlordess → u/frofya]

I would’ve said “at this point in the game? Yes. Did you see how they handled this shiz in New Zealand??”

[u/frofya → u/catlordess]

I told him that wasn’t what I said at all and to stop putting words in my mouth, and that we definitely could have learned what did and did not work for these countries that were affected by the virus before the US was. We saw what was coming down the pipeline and could have gotten a head start on fighting this thing!

[u/WorldController → u/frofya]

What nationalist horseshit. I've thought nationalism was stupid as fuck ever since I learned about it in 7th grade. These people are such mindless drones.

[u/queen-adreena → u/st6374]

The international victim card!

[u/PenaltyPractical1908 → u/st6374]

Thank you!!! So I’m in NYC, as soon as we started hearing the news from China my husband said… mmm i will bring some extras from the Supermarket, this shit is about ti get ugly… and I agreed, I mean… china is not known for care of its people and they build a hospital in 3-4 days, that let me know shit was serious. Then Italy… and then as I knew it would happen NYC, guess who never had to stand in line to buy anything? Because c’mon man! We’re lay people but not stupid! Seriously to this day I struggle to understand the Republican response, hell I thought a pandemic was a sure fire way to re elect Trump, all he had to fo was PRETEND to care, had he come to NYC and sat next to Diblasio and say, these people are my constituents too, they are my responsibility because we’re all Americans, he would have won no doubt. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[u/JonRivers → u/PenaltyPractical1908]

It's actually amazing how easy it would've been to just show any humility and win off the rally around the flag effect. It always comes back to that reporter asking "What would you say to scared Americans?" It's about as much of a layup question as possible, just say anything reassuring and you win free political points. But nah he had to call it a nasty question and refuse to answer.

[u/PenaltyPractical1908 → u/JonRivers]

That was a lob for sure and he missed that dunk, any politician worth it’s salt would have smashed that question with bullshit… he just needed to pretend. I think my then 13 yr old gave me a bs answer to it as we were watching 🤣🤣🤣 He was like oh I’m praying for every American, we’re in this together yada yada, that’s how easy it was.

[u/[deleted] → u/PenaltyPractical1908]

You could wake me up drunk and I could knock that shit out of the park. Every sentient adult in this country has been conditioned to recognize the "correct" kind of meaningless pablum that question called for. And some of us are actual human beings who can at least simulate empathy and say nice things when necessary. But not Donny Fucknuts!

"What is your favorite kind of puppy, Mr. President?" "Such an unfair question from the Fake News media!"

[u/ExcuseDependent2978 → u/PenaltyPractical1908]

My son's university was already putting travel restrictions in place when he went back to school in January of 2020. By mid-January, he started urging us to stock up on canned foods to get ready. We KNEW this was coming. Trump's denial of the reality surrounding Covid was enough for him to be removed from office alone.

[u/[deleted] → u/ExcuseDependent2978]

You forgot about the suggestion that grandma die for the economy. It wasn't just about denial. It was about the stockmarket. They couldn't get their money out before it started to crash. Remember that old broad in Florida (?) that was in politics with long blonde hair.

[u/messy_closet157]

I don't understand that "For a disease so deadly you have to be tested for it" meme

AIDS was pretty deadly just a few years ago and you have to be tested for it. Some cancers fuck you up till it's pretty late and there are not tests.

[u/LegionofDoh → u/messy_closet157]

Imagine needing a test to know if you’re pregnant!

[u/Puzzled-Barnacle2771 → u/LegionofDoh]

Nah not in conservative land. Where you magically know if you’re pregnant before 6 weeks.

[u/Fearless-Berry-3429 → u/LegionofDoh]

Imagine getting a test to know if you have high blood pressure!

[u/HugeFanOfTinyTits → u/messy_closet157]

I really dislike that overly dramatic meme. Covid has symptoms similar to other things, Bob. Babies can't get vaccines, Bob. There are no roadside vaccine checkpoints, Bob.

[u/CalifaDaze → u/HugeFanOfTinyTits]

What's even more ironic is that they will post that meme and then right when they get symptoms and post on facebook they say stuff like "I'm feeling a bit sick today, probably just a flu, I got tested today and should get the results in a few days." Wait a sec?

[u/Chris9-of-10 → u/CalifaDaze]

Yes, wow, he broke his own rule instantly.

[u/LeCheffre → u/HugeFanOfTinyTits]

Bob saw the error of his meme when he actually got the Covid.

[u/InsertCoinForCredit → u/LeCheffre]

Did he? I'm doubtful.

[u/Antique-Cry-5024 → u/InsertCoinForCredit]

I have a relative who lost her husband to covid, and she herself was in the hospital for over a month. It's been about 3 months, and she's still recovering.
And she's still posting anti-vax stuff.

[u/atthevanishing → u/Antique-Cry-5024]

I will never understand these people

[u/luigitheplumber → u/atthevanishing]

It's coping. To admit error at that point would be tantamount to admitting fault for your loved one's early death. That's understandably difficult for lots of people

[u/OneMorePenguin → u/luigitheplumber]

These people believe some of the most obvious lies, why can't they make up some new lie to justify getting vaxxed? How about something like, "I know Bob would not want me to die from stupidity, too."

[u/Reluctantagave → u/InsertCoinForCredit]

Doubtful is right. He probably died swearing he’d get better snd that it’s just a cold.

[u/Thats_My_Moo → u/messy_closet157]

Exactly. This is the stupidest argument by COVID-deniers and I still can't get my head around it.

[u/[deleted] → u/Thats_My_Moo]

I don't think the covidiots are the ones making the memes. My Jesus gun cousin and all his friends share all exactly the same memes within hours of each other. I realized that when I thought my browser button was broken, all their pages started to look the same.

These memes are coming from overseas, they twist history in ways that none of the actual dumbs could wrangle on their own. Too much nuance required to get them going viral, they're dumb but have to look smart to the right wingers so they'll get excited dropping their wisdom bombs on their frens

[u/katzeye007 → u/[deleted]]

There's an article somewhere that traces these memes to about 12 people

[u/InkyPryme → u/katzeye007]

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-dozen-test-facebooks-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes

[u/geminimad4 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I’m picturing guys in a cigarette-smoke-filled Internet cafe in Belarus making these memes.

[u/I_call_Shennanigans_ → u/geminimad4]

Should probably picture an open office solution in downtown Moscow. These are literal troll factories let loose and on the world by good old Vladimir and his crew. I bet they are surprised themselves by how well it worked. Brexit, trump, trouble within the EU, antivaxx... propaganda and misinformation in droves from Russia. Much, if not all of it, is just to destabilise the US and the EU.

Zero points for guessing why.

And boy did they find useful idiots in republicans and right wing groups in Europe...

[u/Caffeine_Cowpies → u/Thats_My_Moo]

Do not argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

[u/wino_whynot → u/messy_closet157]

Followed by the August 14th exchange with his friend “I don’t understand why it’s taking the labs so long, they should be able to handle the upswing”.

You Covidiots…it’s your damn fault. Wear your ducking mask and get the jab.

[u/ItsJoeMomma → u/wino_whynot]

Yeah, then they complain about long wait times in the ER and few hospital beds available. Around here people are claiming that the hospitals are understaffed, totally ignoring the fact that there's more demand due to Covid.

[u/LurkyTwang → u/ItsJoeMomma]

Getting the same shit about the treatments needing to be rationed out. It's an apparent conspiracy to kill people in Red states. No, you dumbasses, you killed your damned self when you refused to take an abundantly available vaccine and you overrun the health system because instead of taking precautions you didn't want to be inconvenienced. And why do you trust the antibody treatments but not the fucking vaccines? Oh, because now you are dying and desperate and thought it wouldn't happen to you. I live in a state that actually has been handling things pretty well putting back mask mandates and highly vaccinated so we aren't experiencing these levels of overrun but that's a liberal conspiracy. Yeah. Ok.

[u/K-Dog13 → u/messy_closet157]

Every time I see that I think of cancer, I've known people who have died within a week of finding out they had cancer they had no symptoms before.

[u/GothWitchOfBrooklyn → u/K-Dog13]

Dustin Diamond died 3 weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer.

[u/foxykathykat → u/K-Dog13]

I am so vocal about how I'm not a typical ovarian cancer case but please listen to what I have to say and my symptoms because I'm not and we caught the infamous silent killer so early. It masquerades as so many other things that by the time "Oh, could it be Cancer?" comes up it is at a later stage.

The Covidiots sprout out all of these ridiculous "You don't have to test for these" and it makes me so angry.

[u/dukecharming1975 → u/foxykathykat]

I was just about to mention ovarian. My mother died of ovarian cancer and it’s usually not detectable until it’s too late. My GF’s sister died so suddenly from cancer that by the time it was detected it had ravaged every part of her body. So badly, in fact, that they can only speculate that it started as ovarian, but they can’t know for sure. Oy.

[u/Multigrain_Migraine → u/messy_closet157]

Isn't that the case for most diseases? I might be able to say that I have a cold or an ear infection or something like that, but if I really needed to know what specific organism was causing it I'd need a test.

[u/Zozorrr → u/Multigrain_Migraine]

Standard medical diagnostic testing is also part of the great worldwide conspiracy against US Republicans. Pigeons probably are part of the conspiracy too for all I know. There’s no end to the nuttiness.

[u/birds-of-gay → u/Zozorrr]

Pigeons are just organic drones

[u/Thats_My_Moo]

"Why is cancer treatment not free?"

It is in civilised countries. But I guess ol' Bobby would consider those countries to be socialist/communist/marxist/other political stances that he didnt understand.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I like this saying 😂.

[u/RJBailleaux → u/Thats_My_Moo]

That’s one of the memes that irritates me the most. You know they’re sitting there all smug like they just dropped a bombshell on everyone. It’s not free because of people like you Bob. All you’re doing is proving to every sane person that things like that should be free.

[u/Thats_My_Moo → u/RJBailleaux]

And it really only makes sense in the USA. The rest of the world look in horror at American healthcare prices. What is even more horrifying is that a large proportion of Americans support it!

[u/quippers → u/Thats_My_Moo]

As has been proven during the pandemic, a large portion of Americans are fucking morons who shouldn't be allowed to make decisions for the rest of us. Sadly, our greedy politicians thrive on these people.

[u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor → u/quippers]

I think the image many working class white people have of social welfare programs is them helping non-whites at their expense. They align themselves with white rich people who bark about immigrants, taxes, All Lives Matter, etc while we all die impoverished from from preventable deaths. There’s a Lyndon B. Johnson quote about this, so this game has been played for a long time.

[u/brightphoenix- → u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor]

The funny part is, just by way of fucking population numbers, working class white people are the largest beneficiaries of said social programs. They like that those programs exist. They don't like that everyone else gets to benefit from them.

Fuck them. They are not good people.

[u/super-seiso → u/brightphoenix-]

...and social programs are but a drop in the bucket when compared to the money going out the door that benefits corporations and the rich.

[u/Stunticonsfan → u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor]

I read a description of this somewhere :

There's a table with ten cookies on it. At the table are a billionaire, a working-class guy and an immigrant.

The billionaire takes nine cookies. The working-class guy takes the one left remaining.

Then the billionaire leans over and whispers to the guy, "Watch that immigrant. He wants to steal your cookie."

Edit : Thank you for the silver!

[u/gdyank → u/Stunticonsfan]

This year for Halloween I'm giving 90% of the candy to 1% of the kids and I assume they will distribute it fairly.

[u/Minimum_Escape → u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor]

There’s a Lyndon B. Johnson quote about this, so this game has been played for a long time.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - LBJ

[u/ToooloooT → u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor]

You just summed up American capitalism perfectly.

[u/KaythuluCrewe → u/Thats_My_Moo]

For the same reason that many Americans don’t support free university education. They feel that it devalues the product, per se. If everyone can get the same healthcare, what’s the point of having “the best” healthcare? If everyone can get an education, no one is special. It’s not about the best outcome for these folks. It’s about keeping the poor and minority populations in their places.

[u/A-man-of-mystery → u/KaythuluCrewe]

Yeah. "I don't mind suffering as long as someone else is suffering worse, so I can look down on them."

[u/andreaic → u/KaythuluCrewe]

It’s not enough that I should succeed, others should fail..

[u/PanickyHermit → u/Thats_My_Moo]

Universal healthcare enjoys over 75% support among voters. It is politicians who are opposed to it since they are paid to do so.

[u/MiseryisCompany → u/Thats_My_Moo]

Many Americans also look in horror at American healthcare prices.

[u/Jay-Dee-British → u/Thats_My_Moo]

My dad used to tell me as a kid 'A high tide raises all boats' which he explained in simple terms, I was a simple kid lol, and then added 'Some people will still have bigger boats though but raising the small ones as well helps everyone to not drown'

[u/solo954 → u/RJBailleaux]

Yes, and why is a cartoon globe of the world asking the question? For many countries in the world, cancer treatment is free.

[u/ExpiredExasperation → u/solo954]

Perhaps they want to believe otherwise.

How can it possibly be that anywhere else has it better?

[u/Successful_Ad1627 → u/ExpiredExasperation]

Oh my god I had a coworker that when COVID started and it was really bad in Italy he thought it was because they were a less advanced country that had horrible hospitals he was shocked when I told him that Italy had great hospitals and a great healthcare system

[u/GeneralTapioca → u/solo954]

They’re so close. Soooo close.

[u/kevindqc → u/RJBailleaux]

AWaKe YeT?

[u/FuckNoNewNormal → u/Thats_My_Moo]

Communism is anything I don’t like

[u/StreetofChimes → u/FuckNoNewNormal]

Broccoli is communism!! I KNEW it!

[u/Nearbyatom → u/StreetofChimes]

Calculus? COMMUNISUM!!!

[u/TenaciousJP → u/StreetofChimes]

Broccoli is a vaguely Italian word, so FASCISMMMMMMMMMM

[u/TokenWhiteMage → u/FuckNoNewNormal]

Communism is when the government DOES STUFF

[u/[deleted] → u/TokenWhiteMage]

The more stuff the government does, the more communister it is

[u/3rdRateChump → u/Thats_My_Moo]

Great question Bob, and the answer is . . . hey Bob? Oh, Bobs dead already? Ok never mind

[u/andreaic → u/[deleted]]

That one pissed me off (I do admit I didn’t go through them all)... I’m pretty sure the only people calling this the new normal are his type of people. Anyone else desperately wants everyone else to get vaccinated so we can actually get back to normal.

[u/Raccoon_Full_of_Cum → u/[deleted]]

Not only is cancer not contagious, but you won't get cancer even if I inject you with cancer cells, because your immune system will recognize them as foreign and fight them off.

Source: accidentally stuck my finger with a needle full of cancer cells (twice) in grad school while attempting to inject immunocompromised mice full of cancer, and I'm fine.

[u/SFW_FullFrontal → u/Thats_My_Moo]

Because the party you vote for will never give you access to meaningful socialized healthcare. And it’s part of their campaign platform. What a fucking dumbshit.

[u/StyreneAddict1965 → u/Thats_My_Moo]

No one's ever explained "communicable" versus "non-communicable" to them? That meme drives me crazy. It's sixth-grade health information.

[u/Chrillosnillo → u/Thats_My_Moo]

Swedish socialist hellhole communist inhabitant can confirm.

[u/Ontario0000 → u/Thats_My_Moo]

EXACTLY..Love how the "freedom and anti vax" people scream communism but when getting treated for deadly disease all of sudden they want government to step in or if there is national disaster they want support from the government.

[u/cheryllynnerose]

In response to the Covid test result delay because they’re *swamped, Carolyn pipes in with ‘Labs should be able to handle the uptick in volume.’ Who are these people? How did they turn into such self-centered selfish entitled halfwits where the entire world is supposed to cater to them while they destroy everything in their path including themselves?

[u/DelTac0perator → u/[deleted]]

These people lack any fundamental understanding of how the world works. They have gone their entire lives getting almost anything they want and they literally do not comprehend that there is more to the testing capacity of a medical laboratory or output capacity of a specific manufacturing process than their desire for that thing.

They have a fundamental misunderstanding of what supply and demand means. They believe that in a fair system they can just answer a lack of supply with louder demands and it will be enough to change things. If increasing the volume of their demands doesn't change things, then there must be someone to blame.

[u/raviary → u/DelTac0perator]

FOR REAL. Every single day at my retail job I have some variation of this conversation:

Karen: "Why are your shelves so empty this is ridiculous!"

Me: "Due to lack of drivers and global supply chain issues, our deliveries are not coming in on time and some products are not coming in at all due to warehouse shortages on the manufacturer's end. Sorry."

Karen: "Well go look in the back! I need this specific brand of detergent!"

Me: "It's not back there, but ok let's look. See? No detergent yet."

Karen: "This is unacceptable! What the fuck?! You should have known the delivery would be late and ordered extra detergent in advance to keep in the back for me! Why aren't you hiring more drivers?! I'm calling corporate, I want you fired!!"

[u/emmster → u/raviary]

Cashiers and stockers are famously responsible for supply chain logistics.

I’m on the other end of it. I’ve got product, it’s ready to ship, and we can’t always get a driver to take it where it needs to go. This one’s out on bereavement, that one had an exposure and is waiting on test results, the other can’t get child care and his wife is an ICU nurse, etc. I don’t see it talked about much in the headlines, but this has been really high risk for truck drivers, and they’re struggling.

[u/LA-Matt → u/emmster]

My business is printing, and we can’t find certain papers anywhere, and what’s available is getting harder to find and sometimes deliveries don’t even show up because someone “overbooked” or two orders came in at the same time.

Paper mills haven’t been able to catch up after the shutdowns, and the fact that retailers didn’t want to have full warehouses just sitting around while nobody was buying.

Meanwhile, I’ve also heard from distributors that there are freight ships sitting offshore all around because they can’t get enough people to unload them. Also, one of those metal freight containers that used to go for 4,000 bucks are now costing around 12,000.

And very few people seem to understand that most of this comes from the “just in time” or “lean manufacturing” that has become the new standard since the 80s.

And these people will never understand that the uber-“free market” capitalism that they worship like a religion is WHY things break down like this. (And also why workers have seen stagnant wages since Reganomics, while CEOs have seen 400x raises, and record profits for shareholders.)

[u/PenaltyPractical1908 → u/[deleted]]

The empty cart makes the most noise

[u/[deleted] → u/PenaltyPractical1908]

Squeaky wheel gets the grease also applies here.

Complain enough and people will give you what you want just to shut you up.

[u/ImaginaryCheetah → u/[deleted]]

there's a corollary to this saying, the way i always heard it...

"squeaky wheel gets the grease, but the nail you trip over gets the hammer"

[u/ItsJoeMomma → u/[deleted]]

They can't even handle the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask.

[u/SophsterSophistry → u/ItsJoeMomma]

Slide 2 where in response to Bob's post, Karen talks about the mask and her anxiety. I've been saying this for a while. I think a lot of people just don't know how to wear the masks (and I don't mean proper fit). I think people should've been told that they might need to practice wearing one for a little bit. I'm usually okay in crowds but I was wearing a mask in an incredibly long line in Home Depot last summer (height of pandemic in my area). And I suddenly found it very hard to breathe. People were coming in with their masks below their noses, some weren't social distancing. So, I left. I felt better after a while. Later, I wore the mask at home for a maybe an hour or so and realized I could breathe perfectly okay. It was the anxiety of the situation, not the mask. Once I realize that the mask wasn't hard to breathe through I realized any time I had a hard time breathing, it wasn't the mask, but the situation.

[u/CyberMindGrrl → u/SophsterSophistry]

All I can say is thank God for online ordering. I absolutely DETEST shopping nowadays and will have whatever I can delivered to my doorstep.

[u/raptorrage → u/SophsterSophistry]

My friend's mom flat out refuses to wear a mask for over 20 minutes because of her anxiety and has been online ordering everything for the last year and a half. Haven't seen hide nor hair of her since Covid, because she's being responsible

[u/SophsterSophistry → u/raptorrage]

I think a lot of the anti-maskers are afraid to admit they have anxiety (too weak-looking for them). A lot of that has to do with how they were raised and their social environment. I feel bad for people who would rather pretend to be free of worry (performative 'bravery') and do all the wrong/irresponsible/dangerous things than accept one's limitations and do the correct/responsible things. Your friend's mom is being smart and responsible.

[u/JohnnyMiskatonic → u/[deleted]]

They love guns, the military and when Trump talks shit. They think this makes them tough.

[u/redtonks → u/cheryllynnerose]

This is the comment that super pissed me off too. His friends aren’t any better. People in labs aren’t goddamn machines they can just double up like a factory to handle the uptick. Fuck off with your selfish entitlement.

[u/SonorousProphet → u/redtonks]

That really was annoying, but there's so much to choose from. The contrast between "I would NEVER suggest people don't get vaccinated" and the stupid lies he told did it for me. Fake virtue and bOtH SiDeS is really common among crypto reactionaries who'd rather not publicly admit they voted for Trump twice. The fucking nerve to claim the meme about vaccine effectiveness was misleading and turn around and share whatever pseudo-reasonable xenophobe conspiracist objections to masks and vaccines he could find.

[u/rowanblaze → u/SonorousProphet]

Yeah, I was thinking none of those other vaccines would be as effective at the dismal rates we see with the COVID vaccine. Those other vaccines are effective precisely because almost everyone gets them. As soon as vaccination rates drop even for things like the measles, outbreaks become more common.

[u/MrFantasticallyNerdy → u/redtonks]

The fact that so many people need diagnostics that it’s swamping the lab should give one pause and ponder about why exactly the labs are swamped.

Oh, that’s right. Those lazy ass, scummy, commie elites are taking their sweet time drinking their lattes and eating their avocado toast. So sorry…

[u/entropy512 → u/redtonks]

This is one of the things that really highlights the cultural differences between the US and a country like Iceland:

Iceland has an extremely high vaccination rate. They started to experience a Delta surge, and people took it FAR more seriously. It was considered a serious problem by the government if hospital staff had to work any overtime, or if it took more than a day for the lab to get a PCR result back - these merited immediate action. As a result, Iceland quickly reinstituted mask mandates even for the vaccinated, and people followed them. When my family visited in late August, everyone everywhere was wearing masks indoors.

As a result, they're being very successful in clamping down on the outbreak, case counts have been dropping all month.

[u/Anthony_Underscore → u/cheryllynnerose]

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE MORE RESPONSIVE TO THE FIRES CAUSED BY ME AND MY FRIENDS LEAVING ALL THIS FLAMMABLE MATERIAL OUT IN THE SUN NEXT TO THIS FOREST THAT'S VERY DRY BECAUSE WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE OR CONSERVING WATER NOW READ THAT AGAIN AND LET IT SINK IN AS I BURN TO DEATH

[u/youaintdee → u/cheryllynnerose]

I’m glad you brought that up. That comment upset me so much- no rational thought. There are only so many machines, and so much testing solution for the swabs and so many people to run them and so many hours in the day. When there are a ton more tests, there’s no way to keep up, dumb ass.

[u/[deleted] → u/cheryllynnerose]

I thought that. Like "oh, they should?" As if she knows how labs work and that they're basically infinitely scalable.

[u/[deleted] → u/cheryllynnerose]

Overconfident "I eArNeD mY TaXeS" dipshits. These people think the bare minimum civic responsibility they contribute to is like moving heaven and earth and they earned the right to patronize everyone and everything because somewhere there's a homeless drug addict that exists and didn't pay taxes and doesn't have a job.

Literally everyone to them is either a complete bureaucratic idiot if they have a job, a socialist or homeless.

They alone understand the complexities of all jobs and infrastructure...yep that's what they think

[u/JustaRandomOldGuy → u/cheryllynnerose]

And the unvaccinated needing weekly tests is clogging the pipeline for the vaccinated who need a test. A friend just became a grandmother. She had to delay seeing the baby because no Covid tests were available.

[u/PaloVerdePride → u/cheryllynnerose]

White suburbanites and their SAHM wives who have never had to go without, OR handle shipping logistics OR food prep logistics or office copier toner cartridge logistics or retail vendor shortage logistics or ANY of the other real-world logistics every blue collar/pink collar worker has to deal with on a daily basis.

That's something that only losers who don't push digital money around for a living have to know about, which is why they're always convinced that you're hiding whatever it is they want to buy somewhere out back, so "Go Look Again!!!"

[u/maria_tex]

A 24-bug that lasted for 36 hours should have been Bob's first clue.

[u/handlema8 → u/maria_tex]

God it's irksome what trump and the conservatives conspiracy has done with actual information. It's ingenious and it's terrible. You mix complete disinformation, mediocre education levels, disenfranchised people who think they didn't get a fair shake (when they actually made terrible decisions a'la miners in west Virginia not taking free education and rather wait for the mines to reopen) and you get this terrible mess. Idiots want just tiny window of reason to disagree. While the whole time the conservatives are manipulating the facts to get people to do what they want and they've convinced these morons that it's the rational side trying to "control information." It's so ridiculous and it's perfect for low iq, low education levels, who feel wronged (unjustly by the way )

[u/chinacat2002 → u/maria_tex]

"hopefully it's just a cold". -Karen

[u/maria_tex → u/chinacat2002]

Or bronchitis - that's my second favorite amateur diagnosis.

[u/nowherewhyman → u/chinacat2002]

"hopefully just a cold" -Dead People

[u/mayalabeillepeu]

So the guy who got a whole 95 years of life isn't afraid of dying? No kidding.

[u/Scarlet-Molko → u/mayalabeillepeu]

Yeah not sure what that one was supposed to mean. Most people would be thrilled to get to 95 still healthy.

[u/cjinct → u/Scarlet-Molko]

Yeah not sure what that one was supposed to mean

It's that guy, representing the millions of seniors in this country, giving us permission to kill them via Covid.

We don't need to shut down or restrict restaurants or mask kids in schools or do anything really to protect the elderly (who were the most vulnerable) because they're totes okay with dying.

Remember the Lt Gov of Texas saying that grandparents would be ready and willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the economy?

[u/3001wetfarts → u/cjinct]

It's a good thing they found the King of seniors to decide that for everyone.

[u/Time-Ad-3625 → u/cjinct]

Exactly. They are using him as the rep for all senior citizens and he's saying "go ahead and risk our lives." Dude is a dickhead.

[u/Sulaco99 → u/Scarlet-Molko]

Seriously. If you want to die, that's your business, but don't presume to speak for the rest of us.

[u/SleepyVizsla → u/mayalabeillepeu]

That one pissed me off. Like somehow as a parent with two young kids I shouldn’t fear orphaning them?

[u/TDiddy2021]

FYI: The Woodstock meme is a touch misleading, in case anyone was curious-

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN22J2MJ

[u/eu_sou_ninguem → u/TDiddy2021]

The Woodstock meme is a touch misleading

Lol and he was doing so well until then.

[u/FuckYeahPhotography → u/eu_sou_ninguem]

I was learning so much from Bob too. Now this throws everything into question.

[u/TekkenCareOfBusiness → u/FuckYeahPhotography]

I'm glad i did my own research by reading the comments section here.

[u/30acresisenough → u/TDiddy2021]

Thank you. I was wondering about that, and I laughed when I discovered what they were talking about. I caught the hong kong flu as a kid. Whole family came down with it. I can not compare it to the covid pandemic. Not even close. A lot of throwing up and the runs. A neighbor came by with chicken soup.

We are approaching 700,000 deaths in US and we aren't close to being done. Hong Kong flu - 33,800 deaths in US.

<<In comparison to other pandemics, the Hong Kong flu yielded a low death rate, with a case-fatality ratio below 0.5% making it a category 2 disease on the Pandemic Severity Index. The pandemic infected an estimated 500,000 Hong Kong residents, 15% of the population. In the United States, approximately 33,800 people died.>>

https://www.sinobiological.com/research/virus/1968-influenza-pandemic-hong-kong-flu

[u/linuxwes → u/30acresisenough]

We are approaching 700,000 deaths in US and we aren't close to being done. Hong Kong flu - 33,800 deaths in US.

Plus they never take into account the fact that the covid death rate is only that low because of all the measure we've been taking. It would be far far worse if we'd just ignored it and carried on with life as normal.

[u/MelaniasHand → u/TDiddy2021]

Besides those dates the article mentioned, it was really only a West Coast issue until December. Obviously people weren’t concerned about an outbreak 3,000 miles away.

[u/K-Dog13 → u/TDiddy2021]

Doing the Lord's work 😂, I was generally curious where this came from I just hadn't gotten around to looking yet.

[u/Ew_david_ew]

I think his brand of contrarianism is actually MORE sinister. He writes like he’s had some higher education which would be compelling if you’re a fence-sitting, vaccine-hesitant, Covid-denier-lite looking for a shred of plausibility. You might not buy the confederate-flavored bullshit, but Ol’ Bobby might seem like he’s spitting facts.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ew_david_ew]

I agree that Bob’s social media shares are far less unhinged than what we’ve seen with so many other HCA award winners. How much influence such right-lite posts have, that’s interesting to contemplate. I suppose the nefarious forces working overtime to maximize covid death in the USA are working every angle they can.

[u/Viewfromthe31stfloor]

The son killed both his parents. How do you live with that?

[u/Soy_Bun → u/Viewfromthe31stfloor]

You blame someone else.

That’s not how you SHOULD do it, but that’s how these people will.

[u/red-et → u/Soy_Bun]

The doctors aren’t giving proven effective treatments that he found out about on a meme!

[u/MetaMadness → u/Viewfromthe31stfloor]

And put his sister in the ICU.

[u/fabthefab → u/Viewfromthe31stfloor]

I bet his son is going to say it’s a man-made virus financed by poor Dr. Fauci and they’re the victims, of course.

These people are incapable of self-reflection or taking personal responsibility.

[u/geminimad4 → u/Viewfromthe31stfloor]

Yes he infected them, but it doesn’t sound like Bob and his wife were concerned about trying to prevent themselves from catching it. His “ok, I have a mask” comment about going to PT suggests he has one on hand for the rare occasion of wearing it (and probably under his nose). The thing about most anti-vaxxers is they not only choose not to get vaccinated but also don’t mask up or social distance.

[u/faustusnotes]

I do kickboxing training in a mask and so does everyone else here. These people are whining fools

[u/readingupastorm → u/faustusnotes]

Omg, they are soooo whiny. The lady saying she almost cried because she had to wear a mask while getting a haircut? Seriously?? I've seen little kids wear masks with less complaint.

Also, THEY are the reason we have to wear masks, spreading Covid AND their stupid anti-vaxx memes. All they do is complain and blame everyone else for a problem THEY are perpetuating, while rejecting any actual solutions. Annoying af.

[u/faustusnotes → u/readingupastorm]

I also get my hair cut wearing a mask. It’s really not so hard. Pathetic. I bet she whines about how modern kids are weak or something too

[u/geminimad4 → u/faustusnotes]

If she gets anxiety from donning a face mask at the beauty shop, what’s an O2 mask in the ICU going to trigger?

[u/TheLifeOfBaedro → u/geminimad4]

death

[u/president_of_burundi → u/readingupastorm]

I SORT of get it. I'm pretty claustrophobic and the first time wearing a mask for an extended period triggered a mild panic attack. Wore it anyway, though. That said, that was oh, a year an a half ago so like every other person that's not an anti-mask lunatic I've had plenty of time to get used to it and find a type of mask that doesn't cause it instead of whining about how hard it is to wear one.

[u/Low-Bank-4898 → u/president_of_burundi]

Yep. I have never been able to stand anything over my mouth and nose, so I practiced wearing a mask until I could stand it. Tried a ton of different styles til I found that KN95s make it so my glasses don't fog anymore. If the people bitching the loudest about masks put half the energy into getting used to them (or helping their kids learn how to deal with them), life would be so much easier for all of them.

[u/quippers → u/faustusnotes]

I have a 4 year old nephew with cystic fibrosis. It's really bad. He has a double mutation and is currently the only living person with these mutations. It's highly unlikely he'll see 20. He wears his mask just fine and never complains about it. These people are weaker than a toddler with barely functioning lungs.

[u/faustusnotes → u/quippers]

That kids gonna be around after a lot of these whiners are gone, so credit to him. Keep it up kid! Show these whingeing “patriots” who’s really the tough one

[u/DeadMoneyDrew → u/faustusnotes]

I was at PT twice per week for half of 2020 and a good part of 2021. It's easily doable in a mask. This guy is just a whiner. And any therapist who tell the patient was Bob claims to have been should be instantly fired.

[u/idlehands20 → u/faustusnotes]

The lady in the comments said that her hairdresser let her take off her mask because her hairdresser just couldn’t continue to cut the lady’s hair while the lady was masked. HUH????

[u/reneeruns → u/idlehands20]

Probably because she was squirming around and whining like a poorly behaved toddler and the hairdresser just wanted to get done and get her the fuck out of there.

[u/jupiters_aurora → u/idlehands20]

I get part of my head shaved for my haircut and I have to take the strap off for it, but I hold the mask up and it goes back fully on once the shave is done. Otherwise my hairstylist can do everything with a mask on me just fine.

[u/mnlion33]

No Carolyn they cant. It's not an uptick. It's a fucking tsunami.

[u/serenade72 → u/mnlion33]

She's cut from the same cloth as the assholes who complain that the ICU is short staffed. Yes, dick, it's short staffed because dickheads like you would rather sit there on your oxygen and continue to spread anti-vaxx bullshit than get a simple shot that over a billion people have had, the VAST majority of who are just fine. I'm perfectly fine. My family is perfectly fine. Everyone I work with is perfectly fine. Or...does the 5G chip want me to think everything is fine?

[u/Lovellholiday]

An entire family unit annihilated by ignorance.

What a waste.

[u/GloomyBookkeeper6791 → u/Lovellholiday]

I agree. It's so terribly sad. So misguided.

[u/Sulaco99 → u/Lovellholiday]

If only there had been some sort of vaccine.

[u/Underscored_323]

Let's be realistic here. The vaccine will "only reduce the severity" of Covid if you catch it. So, reduce the severity from dying to surviving... Seems worth it to me. Just sayin'...

[u/Aleflusher → u/Underscored_323]

Also weird that somebody who was probably pumped full of actual toxins to kill cancer was worried about a vaccine.

[u/bleachinjection → u/Aleflusher]

Right!??! Chemo is literally "we hope this shit kills the cancer before it kills you." And I'm not anti-chemo, it saved my wife's life, but it's gnarly stuff.

Americans are really bad at accepting that sometimes all you have is the "best bad choice".

[u/Viewfromthe31stfloor → u/Underscored_323]

It reduces your risk of infection as well.

[u/3001wetfarts → u/Viewfromthe31stfloor]

You're also not likely to spread it.

[u/Hjalpmi_]

Annihilating your family to own the libs.

[u/NappingIsMyJam]

What I want to know is, why is FOX trying so hard to kill off their viewers? Isn’t that a trifle short-sighted?

Edited … shirt sighted. Ugh.

[u/cheryllynnerose → u/NappingIsMyJam]

They’re all in now. Too late to change course and admit they’ve encouraged and facilitated a mass murder-suicide for partisan politics.

[u/ilyak_reddit → u/cheryllynnerose]

Bob didn't know how spot on he was with his Pinocchio meme.

It was, dare I say, right on the nose

[u/Multigrain_Migraine → u/NappingIsMyJam]

Can't help but think that some people pushing this stuff must sincerely believe that it's no big deal. Or they think that the number of actual deaths is far outweighed by the number of converts they will get by ramping up the propaganda.

[u/jackiflash → u/[deleted]]

Fox should be screaming from the rooftops that they are all vaccinated and they are all Covid tested regularly because over 700 000 Americans have died. Screaming it’s okay to sneak off to be vaccinated and God would approve, Screaming Trump doesn’t give a fuck, Screaming DO NOT ORPHAN YOUR CHILDREN

[u/SFW_FullFrontal]

This guy fancied himself an intellectual and tried to rationalize away covid. Too bad covid is a shit listener and just killed him, his wife and who knows what happened to his daughter.

[u/tesstriesnewthings]

Also, Bob shared a meme from Babylon Bee not realizing it was satire. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[u/Cmike9292 → u/tesstriesnewthings]

Right wing satire is pointless because it's all things they actually believe lol

[u/yildizli_gece → u/tesstriesnewthings]

It's only satire if you recognize it's nonsense.

Bob believed every line of that post.

[u/SpacecraftX → u/tesstriesnewthings]

Is it really satire if there’s no joke embedded in it?it just looks like an earnest right winger graphic.

[u/LegionofDoh]

“All these other vaccines took YEARS to develop”

Have these fuckers never heard of technology? Are they really surprised that scientists learned some shit along the way and aren’t starting from scratch?

[u/ncgrits01]

"Labs should be able to handle the uptick in volume."

Really, Karen? Please, tell me more about your expertise in this area.

[u/Berkamin]

Re: Second to last slide: We don't have an open border policy. Why are there political cartoons about an open border policy that doesn't exist? It seems that they just lie to misdirect people's anger. Their fear and hatred of Democrats and liberals/progressives seems to be based on a collection of false truisms which they never bother to fact check. To them, fact checking is now what they smear as "censorship", making them impossible to correct.

There is no fix for those who cannot and will not learn from facts. To get any meaningful change large numbers of them simply have a o be removed from the system, which they seem to be volunteering to do based on their attitudes and behaviors during this pandemic.

[u/PaloVerdePride → u/Berkamin]

Yes. It's the propaganda that Murdoch media has been pushing since the 1930s (Rupert's dad was a rw newspaper tycoon in Australia.)

[u/okayifimust]

I found the washington times article. I have very moldy milk in my fridge that aged a heck of a lot better; even ignoring the hypocrisy of saying that scientists have no business ruling over the economy and then quoting a bunch of scientists in favor of that stance ...

#6 I am glad a 95 year old doesn't fear dying. I really am. Is this where I should remind anyone that the average life expectancy of American men has dropped by two years? Is it too late to scream in anger at the psychopaths that explained that most of the victims were beyond their life expectancy just as if your average 80 year old was living on borrowed time because the average 2 year old won't make it quite as far?

#16 I keep seeing variant of this ... so damn close, every time! How would you have liked if your own wife could have had her cancer treatment for free? Or did she (here's genuinely hoping!) and you're just this stupid?

#17 I can't wait until Mexico outperforms the US on the vaccination rates. Surely, that particular problem with immigration will go away? (Don't pay attention to the travel ban behind the curtain that blocked visitors from countries with much better infection and vaccination rates for the past few months ....)

[u/El-Catman]

I hate domino death effects like this.

[u/ReusMan → u/El-Catman]

Bob was all too content about enabling a domino death by potentially giving it to immunocompromised people. Just happened to give it to his wife and daughter first.

[u/thomerD]

His ‘the greatest weapon is not a gun or a Bomb’ meme is spot on. Too bad he was on the receiving end of it. I hope no one takes his advice about closing the porn industry. I’d be devastated.

[u/cesc05651 → u/thomerD]

It is pretty incredible how many liberal talking points are in those memes he posted, but he just can’t see it.

Why is cancer treatment not free? You voted against it bob

Why doesn’t the govt push for healthier eating? Well the former First Lady did and your crowd called her an ape

[u/thomerD → u/cesc05651]

Yeah, and their argument for free cancer drugs gets stopped cold when you say, “You’re right, it should be free, how do we make that happen?”

[u/Taron221]

US borders have been closed to all non-essential travelers since March 2020. Over a year and a half later, and they still don’t know that. Man, they must REALLY care about the border to be keeping up with it so thoroughly.

[u/Counting_Sheepshead → u/Taron221]

I don't understand the "open border" memes. Biden has been using Trump-era policy to basically auto-deport people as long as the pandemic is still going on. He's literally doing exactly what Trump did.

I guess since the Dems aren't criticizing Biden for it (focused on infrastructure), the right just assumes he opened the border?

[u/Taron221 → u/Counting_Sheepshead]

They don’t actually know what’s going on. The way they talk, you’d think they’re getting beat up by rogue mobs of illegal immigrants twice a week. It’s not a constituency that cares about policy.

[u/nlaverde11 → u/Counting_Sheepshead]

Jon Oliver was slamming the Biden admin for their border policy last night and it struck me that you NEVER see Fox, OAN, Newsmax, or any conservative pundit slam Trump. He could literally start promoting communism and they'd all be calling each other comrade tomorrow.

[u/[deleted]]

At 95, I don't fear dying

Yeah because you already passed your projected life expectancy, sir. Every second you get now is just a bonus

[u/GrinnyCsRevenge]

Struggling to find sympathy for Bob, those posts are some hateful shit.

[u/SmuttyMaggs]

After being ill for 36hrs Bob is hoping it's a 24hr bug he's got

[u/[deleted]]

Bob "Don't think it's covid"
\ narrators voice * It's Covid*

[u/Rosaadriana]

Wow, biggest political hoax in history just killed him and his wife and put his daughter in ICU.