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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy husband's cousin's wife died of Covid today.
You guessed it...they're Trumpers from Ohio. Not vaccinated. I know this story isn't news but I am just so damned ANGRY. She was in her late 50's. AARGH!!!
mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)n/t
blm
(113,112 posts)I would try to feel sympathy, but, my anger would probably show as a serious face carefully trying not to explode.
I'm angry more than anything else right now.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)it isn't helpful to cultivate and nurture it. We cannot control other people, we can only control ourselves. As a Buddhist, I imagine asking the Dalai Lama to take me by the hand and help me to see what he sees.
Clash City Rocker
(3,402 posts)mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)Hope they will see the light!
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)toward every last rotten SOB with a big megaphone, casting doubt if not outright hostility upon the idea of vaccination. They are absolutely responsible for the deaths of so many.
mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)Trump's base is dwindling by the minute.
TeslaNova
(275 posts)mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)Casady1
(2,133 posts)78% of the unvaxed thinks their personal freedom is more important than public health. Where does this kind of selfishness come from. Can we say Reagan.
Quakerfriend
(5,455 posts)My husband, who is vaxxed & boosted, has been asked to pick up his unvaxxed cousin + family from the airport when they fly in from Florida tomorrow
. 😡
I told him to order an Uber for them!
We currently have 6 in the family with Covid- all vaxxed and doing ok.
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)arranging transportation for them. Let them deal with the consequences of not getting vaccinated on their own. If they have a problem with that, then your husband will know they do not give 2 sh!ts about him nor anyone else they come in contact with.
mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)We were not close with them but some of our other family members are devastated.
So sorry for all of your family members who are ill...hope they come through it with ease.
LoisB
(7,239 posts)sorry for your loss but she made that choice. Maybe your cousin-in-law will wake up.
We were not close...I am just astounded and angry at all the willful ignorance.
Initech
(100,108 posts)I'm heavily convinced that the percentage of the population who are not going to get the vaccine are voluntarily killing themselves. And they will die before they will admit that they are wrong about any of this. And there's a definite cross section of MAGA voters and anti-vaxxers.
Lucky Luciano
(11,264 posts)Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)My cousin's husband and mother died from Covid-19. Entire household got it. None of them vaccinated. Her mother was in her 80's and in poor health. Three recovered but one of them has been in and out of the hospital since - in very poor health, the virus didn't do him any favors.
And, they recently sent me a photo of two of them together, in a crowed grocery store, no masks, hugging a stranger dressed up for the holidays in a costume.
Still not vaccinated.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)Called them home. God's will. Off to be with Jesus.
Though by far the most galling thing to hear them say?
It was their time.
Yep. They said that.
Like the pandemic had nothing to do with it. Like not being vaccinated had nothing to do with it. Like Covid-19 was incidental to it all.
My mind is still reeling.
I still can't wrap my head around it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)someone they know/knew was hospitalized or died from Covid. Horrible holocaust.
RIP.
calimary
(81,527 posts)I suspect well reach the point where EVERYBODY , every last one of us, knows someone who died of COVID. Maybe also someone close. A family member or dear friend or neighbor or schoolmate.
Its coming, if indeed it isnt already here.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,059 posts)We probably all do. My cousin's wife died a few months ago, and she was a nurse. The fact that they lived in rural Georgia explains everything.