This is disgusting - UPDATE

[DURHAM D]

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Reports from rural Kansas, where Covid-19 cases are rising, along with some threats and animosity towards health professionals.

“People want to blame something, and they can’t blame a virus that is too small to be seen, so they blame people like me,” one doctor says.

Fredonia, Kansas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredonia,_Kansas

Population ~ 2,200

UPDATE: This story is being reported on MSNBC TV right now.

[Lars39]

1. These idiots really don't believe in Germ Theory.

We're going to have to marginalize them somehow until the country is better educated.

[empedocles]

2. Some animal types have not evolved to the Information Age, to better adapt to

changing conditions in their environments.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. Yes.

KY

[empedocles]

25. .

[Bluepinky]

26. That's great! Love it!

[Mariana]

3. A lot of people are showing who they really are during this pandemic.

We're learning that some of our neighbors are truly horrible people.

[Pobeka]

4. These gullible folks take their social cues from their "leaders".

Trump, McConnell, Fox News are more directly to blame. They know better, but exploit the gullible for simple power grabs to enrich themselves.

Leadership matters.

We have a far weaker country right now because of a failure of leadership.

Russia couldn't be more pleased.

[mshasta]

5. all trumps snake mouth

that poising this people minds and hearts, when he started the virus is fake, we dont have cases, it will go away, dont ware a mask, open the restaurants, democrats are killing the economy, cases will go down by summer, fake , fake,

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[Wounded Bear]

7. I'm waiting for all of the "why didn't they warn us?" bullshit...

[CaptYossarian]

16. In the past, I've used the analogy of the end scene from The Planet of the Apes with

Climate Change, but this year there's a Venn diagram forming with the pandemic. The words that Heston shouts as he's riding up to the Statue of Liberty really stick with me. It's a great symbol, since these people don't want to "lose their freedom".

That Venn just may end up becoming a mere circle when all is said and not done (by 45). Having the first 7 months of Operation Twerp Speed didn't help. Neither did the irreplaceable misinformation that saturates their feeble minds.

[Caliman73]

8. Idiots.

There is ONE person who is most to blame. Trump, then the idiot politicians who followed him down the road of denial and anti-mask sentiment are second on the list.

This is not a medical problem in the sense that professionals are to blame. This is a public health policy issue. We had a chance to get this under control, and IT WAS/IS POSSIBLE, but when you have an entire party out there fighting against the science and the public health experts, then you/we are going to lose.

Medical professionals deserve nothing but our support and praise for what they are trying to deal with.

[dalton99a]

9. +1. Cultists worship and emulate their leader

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. Biden should annouce a special day to celebrate health care workers and doctors, nurses.

[PatrickforO]

10. OMG. They are blaming doctors? Hey, I have an idea! How about blaming

Trump?

It is his failure that thus far cost nearly 300,000 American lives.

[NurseJackie]

11. We haven't seen anything yet. Stand by! Just wait until the anti-vax crowd gets rolling.

They're already starting to rev their engines here.

[OneGrassRoot]

22. Exactly...

I saw one say today she "won't be raped by a needle."

OMFG

[NurseJackie]

23. They have high-pressure needle-free injection "guns".

[DallasNE]

12. This Can Be Laid At The Feet Of Donald Trump

He is solely responsible for the anti-maskers and thus half of the spread of the disease. Trump is the greatest mass murderer since Pol Pot.

[fierywoman]

14. This.

[dalton99a]

24. +1. A president could have saved or killed lives. Trump chose to kill.

[Greybnk48]

15. Freedonia and Heartland are in Southern Wisconsin (dark red).

That's where the two guys in the pickup truck were from that tested positive in the clip. They were caring for and elderly (90's) relative who's probably dead by now.

The podunks in every state are going to kill us all, including the podunk sherriffs like the guy ranting about his freedumb in the school gym.

[Captain Zero]

17. Ignorance has a price too.

nt

[Hulk]

18. Visited a friend in Wichita last June/july..

Was never so glad to get out of a place as I was when I left there.

My old buddy is a red neck tRump cult member...and hardly anyone wore a mask. I made the mistake of joining him to his "hangout"....BIG mistake. Half the peeps looked like meth heads, and NOBODY wore a mask. Hugging and handshaking like no Covid in their lives.

I can only imagine how many of those clowns caught it by now.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. She's a much bigger person than I am. I'd totally just walk away.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. Thousands of counties like this one will see case explosions after the holidays.

It's almost a given considering the upcoming Christmas shopping, parties, church celebrations and family gatherings....and then there is New Years.

This situation is almost entirely the fault of American right-wing media in concert with the GOP's primary goal of supporting business growth rather than public safety and well-being.


KY rant done........

[crickets]

27. You rant is a good one, right on point. nt