They simply Can't believe they are dying

[yuiyoshida]

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[maxsolomon]

1. I want to be empathetic to their distress.

but after 8 months of WFH, carry-out food, no contact with my relatives, scrupulous social distancing, and 100% masking, only to see my fellow citizens fuck it all up with adult-onset oppositional defiance disorder, well...

i have empathy for the staff that have to live this over and over.

[moonscape]

22. My emotions are all over the place on this. Like you, I've been meticulous

and covid would have a hard time finding me. The sacrifice is real and wearying and I vacillate between aching for their stupidity and having raw anger over it.

But yeah, the health care workers are amazing. Beyond heroes.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Some of these patients would rather believe they have lung cancer

than admit covid19 is real and they have it.

[Moostache]

3. I have nothing but loathing for them...

My mother's passing was marred by COVID-19 restrictions...she died without my ever getting to give her a last hug, or kiss her cheek or tell her IN PERSON it was OK to let go, that she had fought as hard and longer than anyone could imagine...ALL GONE BECAUSE OF A RAGING PANDEMIC THAT IS AS REAL AS IT GETS FOR ME - FOREVER NOW...

Fuck them.
I'm glad that they die in anger and hate instead of peace and love. They fucking deserve it.
Their relatives and like-minded fools all deserve worse.

To deny reality, even as reality is ending your existence is a special kind of stupid that actually DOES hurt...now take away these people's ICU beds and throw them in the parking lots to suffocate and die and use the bed space for the innocent victims of this scourge...but waste no resources on the jackass brigade.

I am sickened by the pain this has caused me, my family and the fact that it won't ever end, or go away or be made whole and then to hear of these morons it is just too much. FUCK THEM!

[malaise]

8. Ditto

No sympathy here

[lunatica]

23. What I don't get is

why the fuck they even go to hospitals if they think it’s all a hoax? Just die at home! Let someone else use the hospital bed.

You’d think hospitals and caretakers are out hunting house to house to find them and force them to get treatment!

[malaise]

25. To spread the hoax

Bangs head

[joshcryer]

17. I feel you.

This is tragic all around.

[onlyadream]

21. That's horrible.

I'm sorry that you didn't get to say good-bye properly. Such a cluster-fuck.

[JI7]

47. Agree, Fuck THem . Why are they in the hospital where they think all these doctors and nurses and

others are in on some conspiracy . Fucking selfish assholes expect people to treat them while treating them like shit

[Neema]

51. The energy they spend justifying their selfishness,

denying science and god-damn common sense, and slavishly defending the murderously failed leadership of their orange god could power cities. I feel nothing but contempt for them at this point.

My mother died too this summer (not of covid). We were not close but it still is awful not to be able to gather with my family.

My business, which I started in the throes of the last big recession and managed to make it thrive anyway, is now barely surviving. I’m really fucking good at what I do but it just so happens that my clients are all in industries hit hardest by the pandemic.

A big life change I planned for this year is now on indefinite hold because of the pandemic and my loss of income. And when you’re my age, you don’t have a lot of runway left to make big life changes.

So yeah, fuck their “but this can’t be real.” Their cult thinking is destroying this country, and I have zero fucks to spare for them. I’m saving what I have left for the medical professionals who have to treat them and the rest of us who are suffering due to their belligerent ignorance.

[pandr32]

4. They were conned

What a way to find out. We sane people have been making that claim loudly, but they chose to believe we were lying because of our politics.
Meanwhile all of us have to deal with the consequences.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. They let themselves be conned

[lagomorph777]

14. I wonder what their epitaphs will be...

"COVID is a hoax!"

"I'm not sick!"

[JI7]

48. They aren't Victims considering all the evidence out there.

[lame54]

5. Trump didn't shoot me on 5th ave

[JuJuYoshida]

6. play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[smb]

9. Famous Last Words

[mchill]

16. And we thought this was just a exaggerated funny

[coti]

45. I'll say it again....

Satire is dead.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

10. My question is do their families now believe that it's real?

[IronLionZion]

11. If Native American tribes and Dems can survive this pandemic

the Dakotas might start electing Dems to the Senate and House again.

I suspect that may have played a factor in some other hard hit states like Arizona, Georgia, etc.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. It's hopeless, just give up on them

They cannot be brought back to sanity. I doubt they'll accept a vaccine. They'll think it a Democratic Mind Control plot to make them vote against Republicans. This is the logic of the Salem Witch trials - an alternative reality, and explanation that has no basis in fact. With people like them, the virus as an element of natural selection, a pruning out of loud, social people who don't hunker down during obvious widespread illness and fatalities.

Which is my long-winded way of saying there's nothing you can do about it.

[SharonAnn]

28. My SD wing-nut cousins are hopeless. Don't waste your time on them.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, can get through to them that opposes their cultish beliefs.

[yuiyoshida]

33. in Japanese there is a term

Shogani しょうがない


Shoganai is an important word in Japanese. It can be translated "it can't be helped." It's often used to describe Japanese culture, thinking and values. Shoganai is essentially a philosophy. It says that if something is out of your control it's better to quickly accept it and move on.

[gratuitous]

36. I'm sorely tempted to do just that

But I'm willing to take another hack at the problem. The original post mentions how these people are dying full of hatred and anger, and I think that goes for at least some of their surviving friends and relatives, being full of hatred and anger. I know I've been wrong at times in my life, and while I might not have appreciated it at first, I remember the folks who gently (or strenuously) tried to re-orient my thinking more in line with my principles and ethic.

I don't know that there's one magic phrase, but I'd remind the grieving survivors that in 2010, it was Democrats and Democrats only who tried to get universal health insurance to the American people, and force insurance companies not to deny coverage for "pre-existing conditions." It's been the Republicans who have tried mightily since then for 10 years to strip coverage away from our citizens. If a survivor is filled with hatred and anger, please consider for a moment who you should be properly mad at.

[MontanaMama]

13. And we're supposed to listen to these covidiots

and find common ground with them? No. Not happening.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. Why are we even wasting precious medical resources on them?

They thinks it's a hoax? Fine, go home and don't bother us. If you die from a hoax, well, too bad.

[AllaN01Bear]

18. a lot of people feel they are imune from everything, they arnt.

[mchill]

19. Doesn't this make sense if they are part of a cult?

[Roy Rolling]

20. "Fools scoff"

It's everywhere you look. It's the fools who mock and ignore good advice. They have their reward in mocking others. That's all there is.

[Aussie105]

24. It's a cult.

Somehow, cult leader Trump has activated the inability to believe the virus is real, or that he is a mega-liar.

Throw in the adult-onset oppositional defiance disorder, ie the 'You are not the boss of me!' thinking, and you have perfect volunteers for COVID deaths. I guess the anger and hate comes from finding out you have been duped bigly.
Too late by then, unfortunately.

Something about America that makes it fertile ground for cultism - be it based on religion, the worship of money, a single person or fame.
No idea where it stems from though. Lack of critical thinking skills? The education system? The fake comfort of putting your existence and future in the hands of someone else?

Great term that, 'adult-onset oppositional defiance disorder' - describes the situation perfectly.

[Quixote1818]

37. This is what came to mind for me too. They are stuck in the cult mindset to the bitter end. nt

[aggiesal]

26. I'm sorry, but the Dakota's voted for who? ...

Continue voting in (R)'s all you want, but don't tell the rest of us, it's a hoax.

You chose NOT to believe what we are telling you, because you made it political,
while we made it a healthy hazard, life threatening situation.

[SharonAnn]

29. They don't believe people are really dying from Covid-19 or have long-term health consequences

[aggiesal]

31. We call them CovIDIOTS! n/t

[dlk]

27. Propaganda is powerful, destructive and we are seeing it destroying large segments of our population

I don’t know how we can get a handle on it.

[yuiyoshida]

34. i do ...get RID oF FOX NEWS

MAYEBE that's a step in the right direction.

[MustLoveBeagles]

49. Don't forget hate radio

[OverBurn]

30. Not one little fuck given to the deniers, my heart goes out to the sick ones that believed it's real

and still got sick. It all goes back to the top, the orange asshole is responsible for a 100,000+ lives, no other way around it.

[muntrv]

32. No sympathy for these covidiots. They chose to live in

their denials. They made their beds, now sleep in then.

[bobalew]

35. We are experiencing a major Extinction event of the nation's Stupid....

May they all croak of abject denial. Good Riddance, I say... They get what they deserve...

[LanternWaste]

38. Death by ignorance is not an epitaph I'd want on my tombstone.

I really do feel bad for these people... over the past thirty years, they've given up rational thought in favor of simplistic, right-wing branding, and are paying the ultimate price for a choice so poorly made, yet so easily avoided.

[alittlelark]

39. Wetiko is spreading faster than Covid.

[Crunchy Frog]

40. At least they won't be voting again.

[FakeNoose]

41. We need to start making nominations for the Honorary Darwin Awards

It's going to be a bumper crop for 2020

[yankeepants]

42. 500,000 at Sturgis, SD Rally unmasked and Bevved up. Surprised?

[Hestia]

43. Well, they could change diagnosis and the make the patients insurance pay for it all

I mean, if they don't *believe*, well, then, okay, here you go...

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

44. Well, if they can still believe in Trump as they die from wounds he inflicted,

there is no hope for any of them.

[Martin Eden]

46. The ravages of Trumpism ...

First their minds, then their bodies.

[GulfCoast66]

50. Fuck them. I don't care. And do you? Really.

I may well get it and die. As might the wife. But I have done my level best to keep myself, and more importantly, others safe.

If that fails, well, they don’t call it a pandemic for nothing. And with out everyone on board we are bound to fail.

[live love laugh]

52. So. Fucking. Stupid. They're right they CovHid. The hidden facts are killing them. nt

[lindysalsagal]

53. Some day their kids will grow up and realize Mom needlessly died of Fatally Stupid.

Talk about parental neglect.