This series documents stories from the Herman Cain Awards subreddit, tracking the COVID mis- and disinformation on Facebook that is leading to so many deaths. Today’s cautionary tale is quite frankly unbelievable.
These stories tend to become background noise: the same memes, the same stupid arguments, the same lies. And then, every once in a while, one punches through the din and genuinely shocks. Today is one of those days.
“I can infect other people and kill them because of my choices, but don’t you dare accuse me of being a murderer because I have reasons.”
ISIS suicide bomber is actually a good analogy!
Just a collage of the usual anti-vaxxer nonsense.
SHE GOT COVID ON PURPOSE.
She’s happy about this!
And really, it shouldn’t be that shocking, given how they run around saying, “It’s no worse than the flu!” And they don’t even mean the flu when they say that. They mean the common cold. Because the flu feels like death. And no one ever wanted something because “it feels just like death!”
She won’t take the CDC’s advice for vaccinating, but she thinks the agency has a “radar” that, what, is keeping her safe now?
Meanwhile, she has severe and lingering headache, diarrhea, a “productive” cough, congestion, and nausea, so nothing to see here. It was “a rough go.” But it’s also “minor and unobtrusive.”
Selfish, stupid, and both. Yup.
What’s interesting here is that she isn’t in the typical conservative bubble. She’s getting pushback from some friends and family, so that’s why her vaccination status is such a touchy subject for her.
Polio vaccine is effective because it has universal uptake, and thus has eradicated the virus altogether.
I know this is a touchy subject, and incredibly controversial, but I’m certainly ready to open stuff back up more broadly given that the bulk of people affected are the unvaxxed. I will still wear my mask in crowded spaces with poor ventilation to be neighborly and to protect myself from getting sick (it’s been nice these last two years being mostly illness-free), but at this point, the bulk of the affected have placed themselves in that position. We can only protect the stupid for so long.
And yes, I know and empathize with those who cannot take the vaccine for genuine medical reasons, but our entire society cannot continue to be locked down for edge cases. KN95 masks are readily available now and offer great protection, and avoiding crowds is still an option. But politically, we cannot continue with the status quo. It’ll kill Democrats in November. Those of us who have done everything to protect ourselves and our neighborhood cannot perpetually carry the burden of mitigation measures.
(Flame away.)
Ten days in, after bragging about how mild things were and how she was on the mend, she’s starting to get restless.
There was plenty of wisdom available that could've avoided her this mess. But she wasn't all over that stuff.
I love “#Truth,” and right below, “False.”
You'd think they would delete these posts out of embarrassment. But nope.
It’s interesting to see her continue to shit-post against vaccines while at the same time begging people for “wisdom” on how to handle the disease.
COVID didn’t pick on her. She picked COVID. Opened the door. Begged it to enter. And COVID was like, “Uh, okay! If that’s what you really want,” and she was like, “Yes, please, give it to me!”
There was enthusiastic consent.
Also, there is nothing “mostly normal” with that chest x-ray diagnostic.
Meanwhile, Poland has a higher COVID death rate than even the United States. Her Polish genes don’t mean squat.
Correct.
It’s medical science.
Was there confusion about this?
She is literally camped out outside an ER because a chest x-ray found the first signs of COVID pneumonia, and she’s still trying to justify her vaccine refusal!
I HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH! HOW DARE SOMEONE ELSE DISAGREE WITH ME!
The fact that she’s struggling with COVID should’ve spurred some self-reflection. Instead, she digs digs digs ever deeper.
Her “mild case” has progressed to the point where she can’t even talk without gasping for air.
Still very defensive about her vaccination status. Of course, her “choice” has literally laid her up for 16 days, so scared that she’s left her small town and is staying in a place with a hospital, for easy access if necessary. It’s getting very hard to defend that choice. It’s much easier to lash out at people for questioning it.
I like the nurse’s honesty.
Why wouldn’t they prioritize the care of responsible people in a crowded and overwhelmed ER? What she doesn’t seem to realize is that choices have consequences—whether it’s potentially infecting others around you, getting a severe COVID illness, or forcing overworked health care providers to triage their patient care.
See? Her comments are certainly different than what we usually see in this series. Usually it’s 100% agreement that Ivermectin is the solution and hospitals kill people on purpose for some sweet, sweet CDC cash. Here, there is pushback. She has smart friends.
Yet she continues to defend herself. She argues that everyone should “have the choice to do what they feel is best for their body without fear of reprisal or negative judgment.”
Well, she’s certainly experiencing “reprisal,” and people are certainly going to judge the stupidity of her decision, given the very obvious severe consequences of it.
I wonder when she figured out that vaccination lowered the severity of the symptoms. It couldn’t have happened before she intentionally got infected, could it?
#Truth
Feels like a shift, right?
If only she had apologize for her “choice” that has prolonged and worsened the severity of this pandemic. That’s what’s killing nurses, figuratively and literally.
Oh boy, the cruel COVID dead-cat bounce.
Is there any other disease that toys with its victims the way COVID does? Brutal.
Tempting the COVID fates in this way is never wise.
If you look up the definition of the word “irony,” you’ll get this meme she posted a month before her willful infection:
Oh boy.
Anyway, that was the last we knew of this story when it was originally posted on Reddit. But there was an update today, as her daughter has entered the fray.
The message she received reads:
Hello, I’m friends with your mother. And what I want to say may upset you. Want your mother to get better take her off Remsdevir [sic] as fast as humanly possible.
The daughter’s response:
Seriously fuck yourself you fucking asshole.
Word.
Her son also joins the fray.
Seems like their mother was truly isolated, since both her kids are firmly in the reality-based science camp.
Facebook doctors are the worst. Her poor family, having to personally experience the toxic effects of this massive mis- and disinformation machine hell-bent on killing off thousands of their own adherents.
This explains how overly sensitive she was to criticisms about her vaccine refusal—her family was likely on her case about it. So avoidable, and so tragic.
I am grateful for her children speaking up. Something good has to come out of this senseless misery.