I'm a real estate photographer...this happens yesterday...

[Ferrets are Cool]

Shot a very nice home for an elderly home owner. She tells me that the only reason she is selling is because she lost her husband to covid in December. "I just don't know why he got it. We didn't go anywhere but to church". I just gave her my condolences for her loss and went about my work.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Simple answer: God obviously hates her...

[LymphocyteLover]

16. LOL! Would have been hilarious to see her reaction to that

[Hekate]

31. An old lady whose husband died horribly. Yeah, that's a barrel of laughs, for sure

SMH

[shrike3]

45. Unbelievable, isn't it?

[Dial H For Hero]

43. You would find someone telling an elderly widow that her husband is dead because God hates her

“hilarious”? That speaks very poorly of you.

There are videos of the Fred Phelps cult crashing funerals and telling the mourners that God hates their deceased loved ones. Do you ROFL at those as well?

[LymphocyteLover]

53. Yes, obviously I'm a terrible person who wants to make old ladies cry

Not.

It just struck me as a funny line. GMAFB.

[Dial H For Hero]

55. Actually, you said it would be "hilarious to see her reaction".

[LymphocyteLover]

58. I would never do that in real life.

FFS.

[Dial H For Hero]

59. I didn't say you would; someone doing so to her face (in "real life") could face rather severe

personal consequences. Please answer this, though: Suppose you were to see her reaction to such a statement on your computer at home. You're alone, no one is watching. Would you (as you asserted you would) find it "hilarious"? If the answer is "no", then why in the world did you state that you would?

[EYESORE 9001]

2. So...you're telling me...

that a highly transmissible virus doesn’t have the common decency to stay outside the house of gawd?

[aggiesal]

21. If she believes in GOD, and GOD supplied all the medical professionals ...

telling her this virus is deadly, then she chose not to believe in GOD
and instead believe an anti-GOD like Pendejo45.

Another Irony Deficient person.

[Escurumbele]

50. There is a joke just like that, I will try to tell it

There is a flood.
A man's house is almost under water, he is standing on the roof and yells "god, please help me".
A boat comes to his rescue but the man says "go away, god will help me"
A helicopter comes to his rescue but the man again says "go away, god will help me"
Another boat comes to his rescue but the man again says "go away, god will help me"
Now the man is drowning and he cries "god, why didn't you help me?"
god tells the man, "I sent you two boats and a helicopter, what else did you want me to do?"

I know is is not very funny, but it fits the story. Ignorance makes people think that in "the house of god" they will be protected. Don't they know god (if it exists) doesn't stop pandemic, doesn't stop wars, crimes, etc.?

[SoCalDavidS]

3. The Lord Works In Mysterious Ways nt

[captain queeg]

4. Glad you kept your mouth shut

If she hasn’t figured it out yet she never will.

[MiHale]

5. Yet she probably prays everyday...

Looking for answers, hoping for just the right one to quell her anxiety.

[Ferrets are Cool]

61. I'm only that cold

in my heart. I felt badly for her even though I was appalled at their actions.
Anti-vaxxers, not so much.

[davsand]

6. Sounds like she's still processing it all.

The loss of a spouse really does rattle a lot of folks pretty hard. My mom is 91 and she STILL says, "WE" all the time. Dad died in 2008...

Expressing your sympathies and moving on was probably the kindest thing you could have done.



Laura

[shrike3]

10. Thanks for your sensitive response.

Losing a spouse is devastating at any age.

[sprinkleeninow]

32. Losing a spouse screws you up, Christian believer or not.

I have first hand experience.

[shrike3]

42. I'm sorry for your loss.

And yes, it causes a major tailspin.

[sprinkleeninow]

68. ♥️

[davsand]

60. I'm so sorry.

My sympathies to you on your loss.

[sprinkleeninow]

67. Thank you for caring. It happened in 2019. Cardiac arrest. Boom. Gone.

This year is the roughest so far. Trying not to fall apart.

[redstatebluegirl]

12. Thanks for this, losing a spouse is really hard to process.

I don't think we have to be mean all the time, this poor woman is most likely lost right now.

[Treefrog]

14. We really don't have to be mean at all, do we?

[pazzyanne]

20. + 1 nt

[shrike3]

44. Thank you to everyone on this part of the thread for their sensitive responses.

[wyn borkins]

7. OR, Or, or...

You might have missed her wry smile, innocently displaying that she had been vaccinated - but failed to have her 'past' husband get his shot.

[getagrip_already]

8. we don't go anywhere....

Except church and choir, the supermarket, walmart, bridge games/bingo, and the occasional trump rally.

Nowhere really we could have gotten sick.

[Throck]

9. So they went to church and not grocery shopping?

[Mariana]

40. Groceries can be delivered.

Most, and maybe all of the churches in my area did online services, and still do. Maybe their preacher wouldn't do that.

[Towlie]

11. If someone asks what the "banging your head on a brick wall" smiley is for, I'll point them here.

 
?

[lark]

13. Stupidity most definitely killed many thousands of Americans.

Some really did their best, but these idiots thinking church would be an exception just throw me. Sadly, I know my mom and dad would have almost certainly been like that if they were alive during this. If they survived, they definitely would have gotten vaccines however.

[NoMoreRepugs]

15. My God-loving a/c guy and palm trimmer are both dead from Covid and my lawn guy - HUGE GODguy is on

a respirator. Somebody is NOT listening it seems.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. All Prayers Are Answered

Nearly always, the answer is no.

[NoMoreRepugs]

27. Hence the lottery keeps rolling over again and again.

[Ferrets are Cool]

62. Well, it's a lottery, depending on whatcha ask for.

[keithbvadu2]

17. They went to the wrong church.

COVID 19 is destroyed and gone?

That nice man blew it away in April…

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland

Feel safer/better now?

Of course he wants us to send him lots of money.

https://i.imgur.com/s7A6VaB.mp4

[PCIntern]

18. Having nothing to do with this pandemic,

My long-time staff member, a devout Baptist, wept uncontrollably when her friend died of an inevitably terminal disease and wondered aloud how it could happen because she prayed so hard for her.

I kept silent.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. See Post 22

[PCIntern]

52. Yes. All in keeping with "God's Plan"...

Plan 9 From Outer Space.

[liberal_mama]

24. My Grandmother, a very religious woman, died of cancer when my Dad was 11 years old in 1958

When I was born in 1968, my dad was a full blown atheist. He said he prayed hard every day that his mother would live. I guess he had no more faith after she died.

[sprinkleeninow]

34. They pray God's will be done, and then they don't like it.

[aggiesal]

19. Sorry for her loss, but the word COVIDIOT comes to mind. n/t

[DFW]

25. "I don't know why he died"

"That truck he stepped in front of wasn't even speeding."

[liberal_mama]

26. It's sad that she lost her husband, but why did she think it would be safe to go to church?

It must have been one of those "faith over fear" churches.

[Warpy]

28. They really think god will protect them

and there is not much you can do about them beyond sending the public health people around saying it's get the shots or be confined in a quarantine jail they will not like until they unbend and get the damned shots. That's not going to happen.

Likely this old gal will never realize what killed her husband.

[SYFROYH]

29. Maybe her church maintained 6 feet distances and required masks.

What's with the fuckin judgment toward someone who lost a spouse?

[ChazII]

37. The two churches I attended had strict

policies on wearing masks and staying 6 feet apart. St. Stephen's has only one service and only 40 people were allowed to be in the sanctuary. My other church FBCScottsdale had a larger sanctuary and people sat every pew with only four people per pew.

At St. Stephen's Episcopal masks are still required if a person wishes to attend the service. Now that many members have had two shots the number allowed at the service is 60. It is a very small parish so families know one another.

We are also still wearing masks at FBCScottsdale.

Both churches also used technology such as Zoom and YouTube for services and still do.

[IronLionZion]

30. There are a lot of assumptions on this thread

as in they must have been indoors maskless when we don't know that. We're assuming that the church folks are spreading COVID around but I bet there is a lot of variance in following guidelines.

If they are bigoted conservative church types who gathered indoors maskless, then I would tell them COVID is the rapture and they were left behind.

[Hekate]

33. There's a lot of malice in this thread

SMH

[phylny]

36. Our church, under tremendous pressure to stay open, had online

services and closed down our building for over a year. Other area churches are being sued by people who attended them and got Covid.

One of our pastors explained that when church is “open,” many people feel compelled to attend. He said he would not be able to live with himself if someone got Covid from attending our church.

Incidentally, he got Covid from one of his kids, and is still suffering long-haul effects. He improved after being fully vaccinated, but had a recent setback.

[shrike3]

57. Just about every church, synagogue and mosque went virtual in our area.

Most did it voluntarily. Would have been irresponsible otherwise.

[The Mouth]

39. Thanks

And Heakte, too.

We don't know; maybe they were vaccinated, and socially distanced at church.

Pretty terrible to assume they were ignorant maskhole anti-vaxxers, and even if they were, people being snide about someone else losing a spouse suck.

[shrike3]

49. It does suck, any loss.

No matter what the person's political opinions may be, when there's a death in the family all of that goes out the window. Most everyone has someone who loves them.

And losing a spouse can be like losing an arm, especially if the marriage spanned decades. There's a reason many elderly widows and widowers follow each other.

[Mariana]

46. Please don't lie. No one said they went to church maskless.

It's been well known since the early days of the pandemic that the most risky places for the general public to be are churches and bars.

[IronLionZion]

51. Plenty are assuming they got it from church

when we don't know that. They could easily have gotten it from visitors in their own home. Either way, it's in poor taste to make fun of someone losing a loved one.

I've been avoiding churches and bars and am still masking indoors long after being fully vaccinated.

[RockRaven]

35. They're all the protagonist in that old unfunny joke about the guy on his roof during a flood

who turns down a rescue from a boat, and a helicopter, etc saying God will save him, but dies in the flood, and in Heaven asks God WTF, and God replies that he sent a boat, and a helicopter, etc.

If you believe there's a God who made everything, knows everything, controls everything, then that God made all the scientists and public health officials too, and gifted them their intellect and knowledge. Maybe stop resisting the rescue which God is sending you or you're gonna end up in Heaven asking God WTF.

[Mariana]

38. Churches are pestholes. nt.

[The Mouth]

41. The last one I went to was very much a bastion of social justice

and caring for the poor. Quit because I don't believe, but they created and put into place some incredibly and effective programs that have helped the most vulnerable. And I'm about as much of an anti-theist as one can be.

[Mariana]

48. That's wonderful, but doesn't have anything to do with my post.

It's been known since the earliest days of the pandemic that in-person church services and activities are particularly high risk for spreading Covid-19.

[The Mouth]

54. No doubt

but you aren't the original poster, so I will damned well respond where and when I wish. Make an original post if you want to censure people who deign to interfere with your omnipotence.

Being an *any* group is dumb in most circumstances in a pandemic.

[Mariana]

56. "Being an *any* group is dumb in most circumstances in a pandemic."

Exactly. Churches are pestholes.

[Karadeniz]

47. Ah, ignorance! Years ago, I was doing kitten admission at the humane society. A middle aged

woman brought in a litter, stating that the litter was a biological impossibility... the mother was their pet cat who had NEVER been outside, indoors only so she hadn't been spayed. Not being big on immaculate conceptions, but recognizing blind faith in her powers of containment, I merely commented that perhaps a spay might be a good idea. She was skeptical... after all, kitty NEVER got outside to be exposed to other cats, being inside only with her equally indoor only brother!!!!!! I couldn't bear to explain to this "innocent" that cats might be ignorant as to the moral and societal taboos attached to incest. Yikes!!!

[Ferrets are Cool]

63. OMG

I'm sorry, but I laughed out loud after reading the bottom of your post.

[Karadeniz]

64. Gee, do you think that level of ignorance became a Trumpista?

[Crunchy Frog]

65. Speaking from experience, I don't know how anyone deals with a cat who's in heat all the time.

Of course, this kitty had her brother to help her out.

[Ferrets are Cool]

66. Oniichan!!!!!!!!!!!