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 refuses to take responsibility for her father’s death.
I’ll honor Reddit’s blacking out of this woman’s name, but I’ll just note that she is a Tarrant County precinct chair for the local Republican Party. (That is the home of Fort Worth, and the third largest county in Texas.) She was also a delegate to the Texas State Republican Convention. This one might be a crank, but she is one deeply involved in local organizing.
A picture is worth 1,000 words. Or in this case, all the words.
I feel for any worker—flight attendant, hospital staff, retail staff—that have to enforce basic common-sense pandemic protection measures with assholes like these screaming at them.
They think this is such a gotcha, but really, they’re the ones who suddenly want to change the rules. What they really want is “my body, my choice, your body, also my choice.” Because if they were being consistent, then yes, they would have to concede on choice. “Oh, now that I think about it, yeah, it sucks when the government tells me what to do.”
Of course, these same people aren’t losing their minds over seat belts. They’re not crying about government forcing them to have smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Thanks to Donald Trump, basic lifesaving measures were politicized, and now we’re in a place where 2,500 people are still dying daily despite a vaccine that dramatically reduces chances of serious illness.
If there are demons behind that COVID “screen,” why not take the vaccine, thus exposing the demons to the world?
It’s genuinely amazing all the ways COVID is out to get them—China, Democrats, Fauci, demons—yet they won’t take the one simple countermeasure that would thwart those dastardly plans.
Who is this mysterious “Maxwell”? I was distracted by the new variant so I must’ve totally missed the thing that was all over the news, as a sequel to that other thing that was all over the news as well, culminating in a suspicious jail room suicide.
Darn you, Biden and media, for not focusing on the nation’s real problem!
On a more serious note, it is quite fascinating seeing them pick up bits and pieces of real news, and then trying to shoehorn them into their nonsense worldview.
At first I thought, “I guess she was warned!” But then read the comments …
She (and her friends) think that it’s the vaccine that is killing all those people!
She wonders how something is rationalized in a Supreme Court decision.
Hmmm. How can one figure out a court’s rationale? Such a mystery. If only there was a place they wrote out their reasoning. We might even call it a “decision.”
Sigh. No amount of “doing your own research” will ever answer this question.
Fun fact: Stew Peters was booted off Spotify for COVID misinformation. It’s this guy:
He’s very reputable. Tells it like it is!
That video is a story of a doctor who “rescues patients” from hospitals. I fully support anyone who takes out the idiots from hospitals, freeing the beds for those who didn’t get sick on purpose.
Using up those beds and resources will kill many more people in the next few years ahead, and not even from COVID:
But it is another wave, one that’s starting to trickle in but is still a long way from cresting, that Serrao worries about most. He fears that the delayed diagnoses of various cancers and other chronic, life-threatening illnesses — the result of Covid-19’s disruption to routine checkups and screenings — will be the next crisis that overwhelms the US health system.
The anti-vaxxers aren’t just killing themselves. They are a menace to everyone.
But … they’re also killing themselves. Her father is in the hospital with COVID, but she won’t say that and doesn’t reference the situation until the next screenshot, when he dies three weeks later.
And of course, it’s not her fault for not vaccinating. Her father is the victim of a “curse” cast by the “fake Beijing Biden administration” specifically targeting the unvaccinated.
How does she explain the fact that the virus pre-dated the Biden administration by a year? She doesn’t, of course. I guess that’s the “Beijing” part.
Weird, that her all-powerful, all-knowing God couldn’t overcome the fake administration “curse.” She even bled the blood of Jesus over her family, which is so fucking disgusting, what is wrong with these people? I mean, there are some beautiful religious traditions. Fantasizing about Jesus bleeding out on you and your family isn’t one of them.
Screaming and breaking shit is a great way to silence that little voice whispering in the back of her head that is saying, “Maybe it wasn’t the vaccinated dying in this pandemic ...”
Breaking shit sure beats looking inward, and wondering whether one’s choices might’ve had disastrous consequences. Like killing dad.
Zero mention of COVID, of course.
Literally looks like health care to me. Desperate health care. Like they threw everything they could to try and save his life, as opposed to “killing” him.
If they wanted to kill him, one simple syringe would’ve done the trick. And that hospital bed would be quickly freed for the next supposed victim.
What does she think health care looks like? A Band-Aid, an ice pack, and a kiss on the owie?
Finally mentions COVID, but doesn’t connect it to her father’s death, of course. The is the anti-vaxxer equivalent of “my ‘friend’ is having an issue.”
How does this even make sense? The government is trying to KEEP YOU from having symptoms, and the vaccine is the best way to do that! Why? Because sure, most people won’t have a serious illness, but for the small percentage that do, you are so fucked. So rather than risk being in that group, it’s best to not be part of that group.
Furthermore, once you’re in a hospital, you’re out of the government’s hands. It’s not “the government” that is keeping ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and urine out of hospital treatment protocols. It’s the scientific and medical communities that have researched those treatments and found them ineffective. They’re also not treating COVID with leeches and baby aspirin.
If people want their magical treatments, they are free to set up alternative clinics at their favorite megachurches. There, they can gather prayer warriors to their hearts’ content, and pump people up with chlorox and urine while shining UV lights up their nether regions. I mean, they can go nuts with whatever their lord savior Donald Trump prescribes, and no one will give two shits.