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Today out in Hagerstown, more and more truckers with The People's Convoy have complained about becoming sick with a bad cough. One streamer, OTR Survival, ended up going to an urgent care, and described the illness as getting hit by a bus.
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hatrack
(59,584 posts)Guess I'll go curl up in a ball and cry now.
Hugin
(33,135 posts)FAFO.
We should start a pool on when the first ambulance with a Poople's Convoy member gets blocked by the Poople's Convoy.
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)I feel so owned.
No I don't.
Botany
(70,501 posts)And now they are seeking science based medical care?
schadenfreude
[ˈSHädənˌfroidə]
pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.
"a business that thrives on schadenfreude"
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts).
Let me talk to their coach.
They shouldn't play with COVID, else they'll get served back.
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tanyev
(42,552 posts)Yeah, we got a Covid Convoy
Ain't she a messed up sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't no mask gonna get in our way
We gonna spread this Covid
'Cross the USA
FREEDUMB!!1ione!!i
Farmer-Rick
(10,163 posts)I can hear it playing in my head.
Who knew Covid was still spreading....oh wait..... isn't their whole thing about doing away with protections from Covid? So, they know COVID is spreading......
COVID Convoy.....spread this Covid across the USA......Convoy.....
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)and it'll be perfect.
ananda
(28,858 posts)!!!
brooklynite
(94,518 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Maybe its time to head back home.
EYESORE 9001
(25,932 posts)I wont feel pwned until theyre all on ventilators.
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)GB_RN
(2,350 posts)Literally. December 14, 2007 at around 1930 hours (730 pm for you non medical/military people). Let me tell you, from personal experience, a run-in with an 18 wheeler is not a fun experience. The guy drifted into my lane, hit my left rear quarter panel, spun me so that I slammed into the front of him and he shoved me at least* a quarter mile up the highway before we stopped. My window blew out in my face, and I was staring into the grill and headlights. The post and door got crushed into my shoulder, pushed into the interior of the car a good six inches.
Only reason Im alive is because we were on concrete and not asphalt: If it had been asphalt, my car would have flipped as the right front tire blew and the steel rim was being pushed sideways on the road and on asphalt, it would have dug in. As it was on concrete, the steel rim was just throwing up sparks, which is what alerted the truck driver that I was even there to begin with, as hed never even felt the impact with my car (a Honda Civic).
I still have PTSD around those goddamned things on occasion.
*We dont know for sure how far, but it had to be at minimum that far as we were at highway speed, it took a while before he noticed we were there, and then he had to slow and stop a rig loaded with long, 18 pvc pipes for water mains.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Me too. My son was just barely three at the time. When asked about joining a lottery ticket pool, I tell people theres no point in me buying tickets as I used up all my luck that night! 😂
Ouch.
Yep, you were very fortunate.
I always remember a news story about a wheelchair bound guy who got caught up on the front bumper of a truck while moving across a sidewalk cutout and not being seen as the vehicle was leaving a parking lot. He was shoved along on a terror-coaster ride for several miles until someone in a passing vehicle was able to alert the driver of the truck about the unwilling passenger. Miraculously, he wasn't seriously injured.
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)Like that guy, I wasnt really injured, except for a sore shoulder. Although thats seemingly coming back to haunt me now. 🙄
My now, ex-brother-in-law, somehow had window glass in his boxer shorts! Dont ask me how that happened. 😂
Yes, it does.
Not to get too far away from the profound irony of the thread topic and into an, I'll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours.
While avoiding hitting a large animal, I spun my vehicle through at least a complete 720 in a very wide and grass covered median. I don't know how it didn't flip. Three of the tires had been pulled off of their rims, but, the fourth was still intact and inflated. When I was disassembling the wreckage to determine if anything was salvageable, I found that inside that still rimmed tire was around ten #s of dirt and gravel.
I was looking at it saying to myself, "Hooow?" To this day, I still SMDH.
Thats definitely strange!
Hugin
(33,135 posts)When in doubt, use science as an excuse.
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)We may not understand how/why (yet), but physics works every time.
As the great Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson said, The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. 😁
TygrBright
(20,759 posts)If I had been wearing a seatbelt, I would have been strawberry jam.
As it was, I was thrown over to the passenger side of the front seat, and although the driver's side was well-mashed, the semi just pushed it along until its brakes kicked in.
I figured that was my one-in-a-kajillion weird survival chance incident and I have worn a seatbelt ever since.
But yeah, I get a little PTSD around the big rigs too, especially on the interstate when they're all around me.
reminiscently,
Bright
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)If my grandfather had still been alive, I would have told him that I think I might have some small appreciation for what it must have felt like when his planes bombardier took over flight controls from him and all he could do was sit there as flak went off or fighters flew by to strafe his B-25 - he was a bomber pilot in WW2: Absolutely no control over your situation. Hell, at least the gunners could shoot back. All he could do was sit there until the bombs dropped and he got control back.
Most terrified Ive ever been. No control. Nothing I could do but sit there and watch.
TygrBright
(20,759 posts)Lucky to be alive!
The closest we ever came to something like that was a battle between a Toyota Corolla and a deer.
It was the middle of the night, driving home from Chicago with 4 people, including myself. I didn't even see it, just felt a bump, and the car started shaking as I tried to steer it to a halt.
One of the front weels was ripped right off off the car (something called an A-frame, if I recall correctly), which made steering difficult at 70 mph.
The deer was totalled. One of its legs was ripped off and ended up jammed up into the engine compartment.
We didn't suffer a scratch, though.
Deer are bad enough. I'm not ready to take on any Semis.
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)Hated that. Dont like seeing animals get hit, and I really hate being the one who did it. ☹️
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)...my wife used to kill birds (with a rock and slingshot)`and cook them for food. Aparently, they taste like chicken, but there's not much meat on them.
Today, she feels sorry for the birds.
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)Never killed a deer (as I never saw any while I was out - go figure), but did kill a few birds. Yeah, dove* tastes like chicken. Wouldnt do it now unless I had to for food.
*Incidentally, Ive eaten alligator, and it tastes like chicken. Does everything taste like chicken or does chicken taste like everything else? Lol
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)...her ancestors are famous for their cattle rustling.
Every family grouping was alloted one cow a week.
She doesn't come from a vegetarian culture...lol.
Where's the beef?
Kali
(55,007 posts)thanks for that, I like watching how cattle are worked around the world. that looked a little chaotic but it often gets that way for us too. LOL
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)
the ability of her ancestors to support cattle in the valley had something to do with the presence of salt. At least according to historians. Ive never seen this fully explained, though.
Kali
(55,007 posts)and I thought it might be salt. they can live without it but they do better and sure enjoy it. it can be an important management tool.
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)...there's something that I've been wondering about for sone time, now.
Why does the rooster not sing?
The hen sings in the afternoon, sings in the morning, but the rooster never sings.
Why does the rooster not sing?
My sister and her fella were driving home, and a semi hit her car, knocked her into a barrier. Truck didn't bother to slow down or stop.
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)The driver probably didn't even know he'd hit her vehicle. As big as those damned things are, bumping a car is nothing in terms of making the driver feel something. For a car on the other hand, even a "slight" bump can send you careening.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)Luckily she and her boyfriend were okay. Scary.
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)Totaled my car, too. Glad they were OK. Not many people are able to walk away from an encounter with an 18 wheeler.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)Glad you lived to tell about it.
There is a post in DU Lounge, cilla4progress was asking for advice from accident survivors. Maybe she'd like to hear your story.
niyad
(113,279 posts)completely freaked out. And the state patrol did absolutely nothing about it.
Trooper wanted to write me up as being at fault at first. I was like, Are you fucking kidding me!?!?
In the end, he decided he wasnt writing any tickets. But that was better than writing me up when I knew the guy had come over into me, and not vice-versa.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)But I don't think the Covid convoy drivers need to worry about damage to something they've never had.
Why are there so many willfully stupid people out there who would rather believe pure unadulterated horseshit than thruth? The stupidity is like its own plague.
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)but they don't have to worry about that, either!
Are you feeling better?
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)my daughter works at a dialysis clinic and mentioned that they are getting many new younger patients with kidney failure. She suspects they had Covid.
I am feeling much better, thanks for asking
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)Because lies that reinforce what wed like to hear are more comfortable than the truth which often isnt pretty.
Thats why we often tell someone/ourselves little white lies; we dont want to hurt their feelings and/or make ourselves uncomfortable in the process. Unfortunately, that habit grows into covering up bigger things that people need to see.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)their frontal lobes. Way too many children wearing adult clothes.
Before your reply, I have read that people believe what they want to, and believe what reinforces their beliefs, but geez, thinking JFK Jr is alive, some of the crazy things the truck drivers believe, how do they even have a worldview those ideas support?
GB_RN
(2,350 posts)That's the only thing I can come up with as to your last question: Shared, mass delusion. And within the confines of said delusion(s), comfort in ignoring reality.
RainCaster
(10,869 posts)Or chug some bleach.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)wnylib
(21,438 posts)a good enough supply of Ivermectin between them to cover everyone.
But if they start going into local hospitals in large numbers, the locals will not be too happy about their presence.
OTOH, while they are in the hospital, their abandoned trucks could be towed away. Guess that's one way to clear them out.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)by targeting mainly unvaccinated unmasked hard working salt of the earth "real Americans" with COVID. COVID doesn't take down quite as many vaccinated people because that's how the globalists designed it.
Emile
(22,707 posts)to be outraged at themselves!
AZLD4Candidate
(5,688 posts)Siwsan
(26,260 posts)They posted an already long list of truckers who caught Covid, a few weeks back. And both sites are pretty good about finding these casses.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,688 posts)You sure showed me a thing or two about a thing or two.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,955 posts)Response to kpete (Original post)
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Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Drink you piss, take your ivermectin, snort some Clorox and stand in front of a very bright light source.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Oh so now they want help from science
Initech
(100,068 posts)Succumbing to the very disease that they're calling a hoax and refusing to get vaccinated for! Bravo!
This is a failure so grand that it requires the John Oliver laugh:
Joe Nation
(962 posts)You just can't beat karma.
wryter2000
(46,039 posts)In a crowded hotel room with no masks.
Rabrrrrrr
(58,349 posts)They have owned more than I ever thought possible. Their intellectual and moral superiority as they die in defiance of scientific conspiracy and libtard snowflakiness is beyond owning.
They've all really put me in my spot.
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)hope they all die!
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)czarjak
(11,269 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)Ivermectin can help them get rid of any worms or intestinal lining. Thoughts and prayers
lame54
(35,287 posts)Clinics have they driven by that offer free vaccine shots?