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. Another woman took her advice from fart jokes, then died alone begging for her priest to visit.
Live by the meme, die by the meme.
If you need regular checkups after cancer treatment, and still need to get tested after cancer treatment, and still need to watch your health after cancer treatment, and if you still get hospitalized after cancer treatment, then the only logical conclusion is that you’re being conned. Couldn’t possibly be anything else!
This meme obviously falls apart at “still get hospitalized.” Most vaccinated don’t.
I BET YOU AREN’T AS RACIST AS ME, AND IF YOU ARE, I BET YOU WON’T ANNOUNCE IT PUBLICLY.
Screen grab was cut off. Bottom image is an Asian girl. The full text is “Blaming her [white girl] for slavery, is like blaming her [Asian girl] for Pearl Harbor.”
Of course, no one is blaming the white girl or any white person for slavery. This is the part they refuse to understand. Discussing the legacy and effects of institutionalized racism doesn’t mean someone is at fault. Refusing to help dismantle those racist power structures? That's another story.
I’ll use this as an opportunity to pitch my podcast this week as we had an actual professor of critical race theory, Ian Haney Lopez, discuss how rich conservatives have used race to peel away poor noncollege white people from the Democratic Party, and how we can win them back.
Oh oh oh, this was always a stupid meme, but no one has more effectively destroyed it than A Citizen did in this comment earlier this week:
Farts getting through underwear just shows that masks work. Well, that underwear works - gasses get through, part particulates do not. Your pants are protected. Hydrogen sulfide, the chemical responsible for most of the smell from farts is about 0.47 nanometers wide. Respiratory droplets are about 5-10 micrometers wide. That's 5000 to 10000 nanometers or 10000 to 20000 times the size of a hydrogen sulfide molecule. If a COVID droplet were the size of the Empire State Building, a hydrogen sulfide molecule would be the size of a ping pong hall. It's saying a fence around the elephant sanctuary can't work because fruit flies can get through.
Brilliant!
It literally is the government’s job to protect us. The preamble to the Constitution—that thing they pretend to cite but have never read—explicitly states so:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Emphasis mine. And in case someone is confused about what “welfare” means, the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “the health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group.”
So yes, it absolutely is the government’s job to keep us safe.
Or are they going to now argue that there should be no southern border, and anyone should be allowed to freely cross, because “liberty”?
Stupid and false.
I didn’t know this, but lung issues present in the body as back pain. Her falling could’ve been from lower blood oxygen levels. So the hospital didn’t ignore her back pain, it immediately zeroed in one one of the causes of that back pain. But she’s bought into the whole “hospitals categorize everyone as COVID for the loot” conspiracies.
Also, given how hospitals send people home with mild cases of COVID, the fact they admitted her meant they found serious damage. They likely explained that to her, but Dr. Facebook had already prepped her for what she assumed were lies.
AND SHE LEFT THE HOSPITAL.
Both on Feb. 3 and 5 she was begging people to call her priest to go give her last rites. She was begging people to help her, and apparently no one was responding. These posts are no longer online, but the laughing emojis and comments were apparently trolls from a Facebook group that tracks these cases (they had gotten there before the Reddit posting). The reality is that she was dying alone, begging people to respond, and hearing crickets in response.
Her fear is visceral, isn’t it? She was a horrible, racist, rancid human being. And still, this cuts. Slowly losing life, and realizing that no one is interested in being there for you, has to be among the worst ways to go.
At least no one pretended she would give the shirt off her back to anyone who asked. Her pre-troll posts got little engagement. She didn’t have a family. She died begging for friends, yet no one even bothered to call her church for her. And when she landed in a place where people did try to help her, she left against their advice because she couldn’t breathe they didn’t treat her back pain in pursuit of that sweet, sweet COVID money.
To be fair, many people do have problems with the nasal cannula. Apparently, nurses often have to sedate patients for them to tolerate the high-flow oxygen being pumped in. But the alternative is hypoxia and death. It’s clear which path she took.
Look, the world is better off with one less idiot racist, one who had seemingly alienated people around her. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not sad.
Just don’t blame her. She had to accept responsibility for her bad choices.