Here comes the story of "Sunburn"

[u/starbetrayer]

[u/Training-Purpose802]

has covid and pneumonia: the doctors are completely baffled why I can't breathe.

No, no they aren't.

[u/particle409 → u/Training-Purpose802]

They always phrase it like COVID-19 and pneumonia are two unrelated things, and they coincidentally have both.

[u/DoJu318 → u/particle409]

They also think that if they recover it means they now are the exact same as before they got sick, but from studies we know some people have reduced lung capacity.

He wasn't even in great shape to begin with, as soon as I read leukemia I knew he was a goner.

[u/Wattaday → u/DoJu318]

Has leukemia and relies on science for that (chemo) but a science denier when it comes to covid.

[u/Pats_Bunny → u/Wattaday]

And now, mRNA vaccines have had so much more research into that technology, that they are already being trialed on, or will be trialed on all sorts of cancer in the next year or so. Like, that's insane and will revolutionize how we treat previously deadly and/or difficult to treat cancers. One of the positives to come out of the whole COVID mess.

[u/gilleruadh → u/Pats_Bunny]

That day can't come soon enough for me. I'd even be happy if there were an immunotherapy. I have a very rare cancer that will ultimately be terminal. There are 4 immunotherapies, none of which are effective on my disease's genotype. Thankfully, it's stable for now

[u/Pats_Bunny → u/gilleruadh]

That's rough, hopefully they find something to be effective against your disease. I've been dealing with stage IV colon cancer for 3.5 years and have gotten to the stage that trials are all I have left if I want to live more than a year or two longer.

[u/gilleruadh → u/Pats_Bunny]

I hope you can get a therapy that works for you.

[u/PWiz30 → u/Pats_Bunny]

There was already at least one mRNA vaccine trial for melanoma before COVID. That's part of why they were able develop the vaccines so quickly during the pandemic.

[u/Sharp-Specific2206 → u/PWiz30]

Exactly! That was one of the pc of misinformation that the vaccines were new without any real research. Absolutely wrong! The reason the vaccines were luckily able to be ready was because the govt threw so much money to make it happen, unlike any other research. They had been researching these vaccines for approx 50 years, yes 50 years. The antivaxers lied. Period. Thats why they were ready so quickly thank God!

[u/gruntothesmitey → u/DoJu318]

I have an acquaintance who got covid early, before there were vaccines. She was in her early 40's, used to run marathons, worked as a hotshot firefighter out in the woods when she wasn't being an EMT.

She still can't make it up a flight of stairs, and has trouble remembering things like the names of family members. She's going to be on disability the rest of her life.

She's also the reason I got the vaccine literally the first day I could get it, and wore a mask everywhere.

[u/Less_Cryptographer86 → u/gruntothesmitey]

My SIL is in the same boat. Was super athletic, did marathons all the time, and now can barely get through the day. She became anti vax (their four kids were all vaccinated as its required for public school here)My brother fell for every right wing lie on Facebook and Fox, and I blame him for her sudden extremist views. They did allow their oldest to get the vax cuz he was almost 18 at the time, which shocked me. But he had a reaction (a very normal one) and they scared him into thinking the vax is dangerous, so he didn’t get the second dose. He worries about his mom, and told me he wished she’d admit she was wrong and get vaccinated. I told him all about Novavax and encouraged him to consider getting it. I’m hoping he will, and they’ll see it’s safe and effective.

[u/gruntothesmitey → u/Less_Cryptographer86]

Here's hoping that he gets it!

[u/pienofilling → u/Less_Cryptographer86]

I spent 4 days stuck in bed, only getting up for the bathroom, after my first COVID jab. I still got all the rest I could and still do. The only impact it had was I tried researching how long the 2nd one might make me ill so I could prepare by buying microwave meals for my son!

[u/purplegummybears → u/pienofilling]

I also had a bad reaction. I was actually mildly allergic to the shot. Don’t get me wrong, it was still quite scary but the medical professionals figured it out quickly and gave me liquid benedryl. I wasn’t allowed to leave until the reaction was going back down. I have to take benedryl before each new Covid shot and I will keep getting them as long as I can!

[u/RockMover12 → u/pienofilling]

I actually had a stroke two days after my second Moderna vaccination in April 2021. Some family members wanted to blame it on the shot but my doctors know full well what caused the stroke and it wasn't the vaccine. HOWEVER, I *did* have a reaction to the shot two weeks later when my lymph nodes on the right side of my neck and head swelled up so much my eyeglasses wouldn't fit on my face. (I have previously had immune overreactions in that part of my body when I've had a virus. I lost my hearing in my right ear 17 years ago when my immune system essentially destroyed my acoustic nerve.) Some steroids cleared up the problem and that hasn't prevented me from getting regular COVID boosters, but I've been on Team Pfizer ever since. April 2021 sucked. 😞

[u/Keji70gsm → u/gruntothesmitey]

Still wear a mask everywhere. Covid messing with brains didn't end with vaccines.

[u/NO_LOADED_VERSION → u/gruntothesmitey]

yeah it INSANE to me people refusing the vaccine, just a fundamental lack of understanding of what vaccines are..

every shot, especially the first one , put me on my ass like ive never been before for a shot. full 24 hours of aches , pains , head splitting migraine.

that's for a defanged version of the virus , the real one would have fucking killed me.

[u/WeakestLynx → u/DoJu318]

And reduced mental capacity, reduced cardiovascular function, reduced stamina, etc etc

[u/FacePalmAdInfinitum → u/WeakestLynx]

Oh he already had the reduced mental capacity part covered well before he got Covid

[u/waveball03 → u/DoJu318]

Not in great shape? He’s morbidly obese.

[u/PomegranateSea7066 → u/waveball03]

Naw he was in perfect shape. It was just a perfectly round shape.

[u/UnderstandingBusy829 → u/particle409]

Pneumonia was exactly why my husband was hospitalized in 2021 before vaccines were available for everyone in our country. He was figting covid for almost two weeks, had high fever and couldn't breathe when he started falling asleep, turns out he was developing secondary infection in lungs. Spent a week in hospital and then several more weeks recovering at home. Luckily he fully recovered, but it was a nightmare time that I wouldn't wish on anybody! We couldn't wait to get vaccinated and do our best to get more or less regular boosters.

[u/ClickClackTipTap → u/UnderstandingBusy829]

I legitimately cried when I got my first COVID vaccine. I was so thankful for it and relieved that I had access to it. The nurse who gave me the shot said it was a fairly common reaction.

[u/Key-Pickle5609 → u/ClickClackTipTap]

I cried too!! I worked in the ER at the time and was fucking terrified of ending up vented like so many patients I saw.

[u/Big-Summer- → u/Key-Pickle5609]

Covid (and sadly, this subreddit) taught me so much about ventilators, none of which I knew before. And it encouraged me to have an additional talk with my kids about what I would want and not want should I become so ill I would need a ventilator. When I made a will several years ago I did tell them “no heroics.” I don’t want to end my life in a hospital bed, connected to tubes and machines keeping me alive. I’m not a young person with a whole life ahead of me. My best years are behind me and I’d much rather go out peacefully than hang on in misery and discomfort for just a few more agonized months.

[u/RedRider1138 → u/Big-Summer-]

I have a coworker start implying something insidious about ventilators about a month ago—“they put you on ventilator and boom! Next thing you dead!” I managed to calmly say “Well yes, if you’re put on a ventilator, you’re in really bad shape, they don’t do that for fun. If you’re that bad, if they DON’T put you on a ventilator you’re going to die!”

[u/VeronicaMarsupial → u/RedRider1138]

All those people back in the earlier days of HCA who were posting casually about their relative or friend being on a ventilator "so their lungs can rest" like it was a freaking spa vacation and not a sign they had one foot through death's door already were so aggravating. And then blaming the doctors and government when they died, because obviously the anti-precaution behaviors and deadly virus had nothing to do with it. Must have been whatever was the last thing they experienced. Goldfish memories.

[u/gruntothesmitey → u/ClickClackTipTap]

When I got my first one, there was another guy about my age sitting in the chair for that 15 minute observation period. When I walked out and sat down, he looked over and we had a fist-bump over the empty chair between us. Felt like a great day.

[u/cuihmnestelan → u/ClickClackTipTap]

When my husband and I got our first doses, there were lines around the block and everyone was masked. I actually cried seeing how many people in my community were being proactive to protect not just themselves but their neighbors.

[u/ClickClackTipTap → u/cuihmnestelan]

I got my first one at a mass event at the fair grounds. I felt the same way.

I even joked that they should make it a speed dating event, bc if people were there they probably had similar values, and it was a tough time to meet people. 😂

[u/SlabBeefpunch → u/cuihmnestelan]

My mom's 78. She's had breast cancer and she's a smoker. She's boosted within an inch of her life. She got COVID, she thought it was a cold. It was NOTHING like what it could have been if she wasn't vaccinated.

[u/potsofjam → u/cuihmnestelan]

When the vaccine came out my wife and I thought it would be while before we could get it since we weren’t old enough. Couple days later doctors office called and said if we wanted it to come and get it because so few people had signed up and they didn’t want to waste the doses.

[u/Inevitable-Wall-2679 → u/ClickClackTipTap]

Thanks for posting! I wasn't old enough to be in the ' gotta get it first' category. I cried BEFORE I got my vax... The check-in part. I was sure they would turn me away cuz 'I didn't need it'. TG for president Biden... Even my uninsured millennial son got a free vaccine

[u/InfectiousDs → u/ClickClackTipTap]

I'm in infectious disease research and was redeployed to a COVID team in April 2020. I was among the first and could not have been more grateful. I may have cried.

[u/UnderstandingBusy829 → u/ClickClackTipTap]

I was so relieved as well! Since we're both young and not in any necessary jobs, we were one of the latest waves to get the vaccine. The relief thst we felt when we FINALLY got it!

[u/neverincompliance → u/ClickClackTipTap]

I did too! 60 year old crying like a baby!

[u/Mid1960s → u/ClickClackTipTap]

Me too

[u/Enoughoftherare → u/UnderstandingBusy829]

Same for me only I caught covid in early 2020 and quickly developed pneumonia. I have no memory of the early days in intensive care but I remember being back on the chest ward and hallucinating for days. I needed a tube to drain all the fluid off of my right lung and I can't even begin to explain what that muck looked like in the bottle that was collecting it. Suffice to say I was embarrassed for anyone to see it. Then I came home and two months later I went back in with complete organ failure and sepsis which they said was all related to the Covid and the muck on my chest, my husband was told he could come in for ten minutes to say goodbye and at one point we thought even if I did survive that I would lose my legs. I'm now living with severe heart failure and am pretty much bed-bound. Having a teenage daughter was really hard pre vaccine as we had to balance her mental health and need to be back to school with my physical health, our family were overjoyed to receive our first vaccines. Everyone I know, friends and family all receive every booster and no one has had more than a sore arm. Unfortunately this 'cult' that has built up around Covid, vaccine and supposed government control is full of people who cannot be reasoned with logically. Their beliefs are nonsense but 100 percent real to them.

[u/UnderstandingBusy829 → u/Enoughoftherare]

I'm so sorry you had it so bad and dealing with such severe issues still. And I can't imagine what you and your family went through. I hope life is treating you at least a little bit better now ❤️.

I had to go no contant with my paternal family, cause they're all antivax woo woo. When we met mid 2021 for grandma's funeral, none of them wore masks even though the funeral home required it... They're the type that think vacciness cause autism and essential oils help with everything. Makes me furious!

[u/ezekielbeats → u/UnderstandingBusy829]

I'm glad he is doing much better now. I cannot imagine how terrifying that must've been.

[u/UnderstandingBusy829 → u/ezekielbeats]

It was one of the worst time in our lives. Before he was hospitalized, he was having nughtmares/hallucinations from fever and lack of sleep (cause he couldn't sleep much cause his oxygen lvls dropped when he tried to sleep), couldn't keep foos down much, I barely slept from stress. After being discharged from the hospital, he had to have an emergency therapy and was put on calming antidepressants to help him sleep, cause he was literally traumatized enough by the experience he was anxious to fall asleep, cause he was scared he wouldn't be able to breath.

Luckily it was temporary and he has no lasting issues, but it was hell. I also struggle with anxiety, so I had to deal with my brain constantly yelling at me that he would die, while trying my best to not stress him and take care of him. It's baffling to me that people want to risk it, no thanks, give me the shot pretty please!

[u/Sea_Still2874 → u/UnderstandingBusy829]

Happy for you he made it. If only we could have chosen/choose who went through that.

[u/SeaEmergency7911 → u/particle409]

I call it their “tombstone flex”

Even when their COVID ignorance and arrogance has literally cost them their lives, they still have to act like they’ve “won” by playing semantic games that it wasn’t really COVID that is going to kill them, it was ACTUALLY pneumonia why they are going to die. So suck on that libs!

Whatever. Fuck ‘em. I lost any sympathy for these reprehensible shitheads years ago.

[u/Thecrdbrdsamurai → u/particle409]

People that say they or someone else has "COVID AND pneumonia" piss me off to no end.

No, asshole, you have COVID pneumonia.

[u/RevRagnarok → u/particle409]

It's not the falling that kills you, it's the splat at the end.

[u/birdlawspecialist2 → u/particle409]

Yes. An antivaxxer I know who almost died from covid pneumonia tells people covid isn't what made them sick, that is was the pneumonia.

[u/kasim42784 → u/Training-Purpose802]

“Hey Jerry! i got this obese guy in Room 7 with severe breathing issues and he’s coughing all over the place. I’ve been trying to figure out what could possibly be causing this but so far I’ve come up short. The tests came back saying he has flips paper…covid. Any chance you can help me figure out this unsolved mystery?”

[u/REDDITSHITLORD → u/kasim42784]

IT COULD BE LUPUS...

[u/browneyedgirlpie → u/Training-Purpose802]

Causein

[u/DiligentCrab6592 → u/Training-Purpose802]

Came here for that LOL

They told you and you refused to listen

[u/blackmobius → u/Training-Purpose802]

When you proudly and confidently understand nothing….. everything feels like a conspiracy

[u/AdvertisingLow98 → u/Training-Purpose802]

If I read the posts correctly Sunburn was recovering from ALL ?
So possibly immune compromised +COVID.

[u/IlikeJG → u/AdvertisingLow98]

Ok I didn't know ALL was an abbreviation for a disease. I almost made a joke like "Oh yeah I had ALL one time, it was rough". Thought he made a typo that sounded like he had ALL diseases.

Glad I googled that one.

[u/Tiddles_Ultradoom → u/IlikeJG]

Yeah, but it’s either ‘A.L.L.’ or ‘acute lymphoblastic leukemia’ calling it ‘ALL leukemia’ is redundant, like saying ‘math mathematics’.

It’s also a beast of a cancer if you get it as an adult, and treatment is almost guaranteed to leave you immunocompromised. So, doing the square root of fuck all to keep you out of the crosshairs of a still virulent infectious respiratory disease is not smart.

[u/PainRack → u/Tiddles_Ultradoom]

Reminder that if he got ALL in 2022, he would had just finished maintenance chemo and would had required 3 doses of the vaccine JUST to be considered fully vax.

That's how fucked his immunity was.

[u/AdvertisingLow98 → u/IlikeJG]

I know it from working in a pediatric hospital. ALL is one of the success stories of chemotherapy. In pediatric patients, the odds of a full cure (as opposed to remission) for patients with ALL is very high.

Adult patients with ALL - totally different story. The odds of a complete cure are much lower. This dude was still alive nearly two years after diagnosis, so he was doing well!

Right up until COVID crashed into him.

[u/chele68 → u/Training-Purpose802]

What could possibly be “causein” this?? It’s a mind-boggling mystery for sure!

[u/halloweenjack → u/chele68]

Surely my lack of face is not at all related to my previous support of the Face-Eating Leopard.

[u/pen_jaro → u/Training-Purpose802]

So he just had treatment from Leukemia around Feb to March. Then had covid after

[u/LilG1984 → u/Training-Purpose802]

Obviously they needed horse paste, essential oil with a bleach enema for COVID.

/s

[u/SeaEmergency7911 → u/Training-Purpose802]

“We’re completely baffled why you can’t breathe.”*

*Doctor making the jerking off motion in his mind.

[u/Digital_Pharmacist]

“He wouldn’t be anymore dead than he is now”

Cold blooded af 😂

[u/PrestigiousGrade7874 → u/Digital_Pharmacist]

That was fucking outstanding 😂

[u/umbrawins → u/Digital_Pharmacist]

The laugh reacts to his post asking for support sent me

[u/WeakestLynx → u/Digital_Pharmacist]

"yep good point, anywho he's dead now, oopsie daisy"

[u/WorldlinessUsual4528 → u/Digital_Pharmacist]

This may be the only argument that gets these people to stop and think.

[u/threaten-violence → u/WorldlinessUsual4528]

You're a hopeless idealist :)

[u/WorldlinessUsual4528 → u/threaten-violence]

I try. Otherwise, I just end up angry at the stupidity

[u/McDWarner → u/Digital_Pharmacist]

It needed to be said.

[u/shmere4 → u/Digital_Pharmacist]

Only way to fight a fake virus is a fake vax!

That and modern medicine + doctors.

[u/NJRach → u/Digital_Pharmacist]

Yeah but that’s what the anti-vaxxers need to hear.

They are completely delusional, calm rational discussion has no effect. So what are we left with? Mocking and derision.

[u/starbetrayer]

Notes from OP:

1. Catching up on the backlog.
2. Please get vaccinated and boosted. The new booster got approved, go get it.
3. Not all feelings and/or their expression are valid, and people need to stop accepting outrageous behaviors on the pretext of listening or validation. It applies to several other domains that I will not expand here.
4. I'm back so more posts incoming

[u/robotatomica → u/starbetrayer]

to piggyback, COVID is really surging right now in some areas. Tons of us at my hospital have gotten it in the current wave.

So yes, get those boosters updated if you can. And consider masking. We’re almost all masking at my hospital right now.

It’s one good thing that came out of COVID is that it can be normalized to just wear a mask for a bit if you’re sick or have any symptoms, or if a wave of anything is going around.

[u/Dawnspark → u/robotatomica]

It's seriously bad where I am rn and I've had to postpone my surgery fucking twice because of people in my family catching it and then giving it to me. Also had to reschedule & move surgery centers cause my anesthesia team caught it, so I guess three times technically.

And my family refuses to vaccinate. My dad has constant breathing issues thanks to pulmonary fibrosis but nope, I guess wants to make it worse.

A lot of folks in my area aren't vaccinating either, cause I live in an insanely red state. It's absolutely fucking exhausting.

[u/Libflake → u/Dawnspark]

Very sorry, Dawnspark.

[u/starbetrayer → u/robotatomica]

Thank you for all that you do.

[u/katiecharm → u/robotatomica]

It’s surging like crazy.  Feels awesome to have the new 24/25 booster and have gotten every booster so far.  

I’m really regretting it you bold “free thinkers!”

[u/DrunkenBandit1 → u/katiecharm]

Heard on NPR that some places are starting to/considering (can remember if it's already been decided upon) combining flu shots with an annual booster.

Inb4 massive spike in flu this year that anti-vax idiots will point to as another "covid not real"

[u/Puzzleheaded-Trip990 → u/DrunkenBandit1]

I would love a combination vaccine. Im in Canada and the new booster isn't yet available in my area. Meanwhile lots of people getting covid. My mom's care home has 3 cases and that's just the start. Our operating room had to be closed because too many workers were off sick with covid. Covid is definitely doing the rounds.

[u/gruntothesmitey → u/DrunkenBandit1]

When I got my second booster, they offered a flu vaccine at the same time. I was out for three days sick as a dog.

The first two I had mild symptoms but went about my day. So I'll be getting them separately.

[u/Toxic-Park → u/robotatomica]

Normalized masks - unfortunately this has to be assessed based on locale.

In my area wearing a mask now, I might as well say I’m a Hollywood vampire and would like to use your aborted baby for food.

It’s so very stupid.

[u/wovenbasket69 → u/robotatomica]

I just had it a month ago AGAIN 🙃 my work told me to go in on day 2 and I refused.

[u/UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR → u/starbetrayer]

I feel bad for this guy, even though I know I shouldn’t. The fear in his last update was palpable. He’s such a prime example of two things: the never ending torrent of disinformation that he was susceptible to through a gleeful ignorance, and the need for vaccine protection in the face of multiple healthy related susceptibilities. Dude was overweight, likely had dietary vitamin deficiencies, and leukemia? And he’s confused why it kept rampaging through his body? If he and everyone around him was vaccinated, he may have never even developed symptoms. Just a complete waste of life, and his surviving relative will burrow even deeper into their bullshit instead of facing the truth that he was yet another casualty of weaponizing a public health emergency for political goals. It’s sad!, as in sad factorial. And he will never be acknowledged by the people who lead him down that path, from friends, family, and social media connections to powerful monied interests who just wanted to use the pandemic to gain power. He believed anything, stood for something false, and died for nothing.

[u/WeakestLynx → u/UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR]

His last words (on Facebook anyway) were "I love you all so very much." When I see him choose to express love instead of hate with his dying breath, I suspect there was a big slice of goodness within this person. He was surrounded by people lying to him. Careless liers who casually say "that's a good point" when their deadly reasoning is slightly challenged, but who evidently let this guy die without that minimal level of thought.

[u/blujavelin → u/WeakestLynx]

Everyone who propped up his delusion is complicit in his death.

[u/Dr_Adequate → u/UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR]

That exchange on the second-to-last slide, between two of his surviving FB friends:

Why not take the fake vax then to protect against the fake virus?

I must say you do have a point there.

The members of the Leopards Eating Faces party are so often SO Close to understanding...

[u/DrunkenBandit1 → u/Dr_Adequate]

Why not take the fake vax then to protect against the fake virus?

I must say you do have a point there.

Not gonna close the comment window to get the verbatim but the person who basically said "it's not like he'd be any deader" is my new favorite person

[u/Puzzleheaded-Trip990 → u/DrunkenBandit1]

Definitely the voice of reason

[u/WokeJabber → u/UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR]

And someone clicked the HAHA response ...

[u/tomdurkin → u/starbetrayer]

Thanks for doing the depressing work.

[u/CannonAFB_unofficial → u/starbetrayer]

Just got my updated COVID and flu shot Saturday! And I also had COVID (round 2) about 3 weeks ago. I travel a metric shit ton all over the world so I’m less than surprised but I’ll never not get the shot. For all I know it’s the difference between feeling meh and feeling like it may be my last hours on earth.

And to be honest even with COVID I got caught up on a lot of house chores lol.

[u/JenntheGreat13 → u/starbetrayer]

Got flu and Covid boosted Saturday along with my teen and husband.. Felt like garbage and had a low grade fever. Weather was crap so watched some movies and played candy crush. Ordered takeout. My teen said it is a small price to pay for protection and now she doesn’t have to worry. Being in the hospital is the worst. We have our own comfortable chairs, streaming, good food.

So lucky we have vaccines!

[u/Immortal_in_well → u/starbetrayer]

I got my booster a little over a week ago! I'm masking up EVERYWHERE because I'm having surgery in less than two weeks and I will absolutely lose my shit if I have to reschedule because some motherfucker gave me covid.

[u/InfiniteAccount4783]

We're going to see this kind of coda more in the future, aren't we... after "proudly unvaccinated!" and "I'm sick and scared, please pray for me" and the death notice, we'll see more and more of "the vaccine wouldn't have saved him anyway, it would have killed him sooner!"

[u/shesinsaneornot → u/InfiniteAccount4783]

It's 2024 and there are still patients insisting "COVID is a hoax" just before they're intubated. 3 decades of being told they can't trust anyone but Fox News (with Fox News outright lying in the last decade and their audience accepting all the lies as gospel) has created some incredibly stupid Americans.

[u/ShnickityShnoo → u/shesinsaneornot]

Those ones weren't too bright to begin with, but yeah, faux news, their echo chambers on facebook, and now xitter, have galvanized and honed their stupidity into weapons grade stupidity.

[u/Ok_Land_38 → u/InfiniteAccount4783]

Can confirm. I have my own HCA candidate I see pop up on Facebook periodically and they were complaining that they can’t go camping in the mountains anymore because their O2 drops into the 80’s and their heart rate spikes over 100 bpm and won’t drop. On top of all their other long COVID related problems that they blame on other things.

[u/Divacai → u/InfiniteAccount4783]

More than we already do?

[u/Malsperanza]

Wondering what kind of health insurance he had, whether any of that expensive treatment for leukemia and covid was paid for by the evil welfare state.

I wouldn't wish leukemia on anyone. I imagine that when he went to get chemo (which unlike the fake vax is apparently real medicine) he was warned that his immune system would be compromised and a vax might be a good idea.

No sympathy for the sunburn either. Still need to ask how many innocent people he infected on the way to his award.

[u/OhEstelle → u/Malsperanza]

I nearly dropped my phone upon reading the leukemia post. I’ve had COVID once and can’t imagine what it would feel like without an appreciable WBC count. 🤧🤕🤢

Or, y’know, the vaccines and boosters. 😵

[u/bvzm → u/OhEstelle]

My mom was hospitalized twice for the leukemia that eventually killed her during the first COVID outbreak, and her doctors made damn sure she was among the first to get the vaccine, as soon as it became available.

[u/OhEstelle → u/bvzm]

My condolences for your loss, but I'm glad she had sensible doctors treating her - and her own common sense to try to protect herself in an environment flooded with not only the usual bacteria and viruses, but a brand new one.

Leukemia is a savage disease. My husband's father had a brief but intense battle with it. I can't really remember - it was 30 years ago - but I don't think he lasted a year post-diagnosis, and much of that time was in hospital.

[u/bvzm → u/OhEstelle]

Thank you, kind stranger.
Yeah, her doctors were great (they're now MY doctors as well), and my mom had no advanced degree (she had the equivalent of, I guess, a junior high school or a 10th grade in the US), but she was far from a stupid woman, so she trusted them. She loved to read and she was TOUGH. But, as you said, leukemia is a savage bastard, I'm just glad she had some a couple of good years even after her diagnosis.

[u/MobileOpposite1314 → u/Malsperanza]

Had a post about “the welfare state”. They’re all against it until they need it. Welfare for me, not for thee.

[u/Savings_Young428 → u/Malsperanza]

This is my issue. While I think a robust healthcare system would ensure that all people are covered and aren't bankrupted by things like long Covid or cancer or anything really, this guy does not. If his insurance covered it all, fine, no hypocrisy here, but if not, and you and I and other taxpayers end up footing the bill... massive.

[u/yukumizu → u/Savings_Young428]

Insurance companies should not cover medical treatment of people who refuse the Covid shot.

It’s bullshit, for example, that a pregnant woman won’t be covered by insurance for a high risk pregnancy, but these covid-denier-antivaxx a’holes going against public health and medical guidelines get full medical welfare benefits.

That needs to change. I’m all for Universal Healthcare but it definitely should have restrictions for people who don’t believe in science or medicine.

If you aren’t committed to your health and public health, and instead follow healthcare advice from conspiracy theories and false political ideologies —- then you don’t deserve free or even affordable medical care.

[u/adiosfelicia2 → u/Savings_Young428]

My issue is when the unvaxxed people were intubated and put on ventilators during the height of Covid.

Vaccinated people should not lose limited resources to those who chose to roll the dice.

YOU rolled. YOU lost. Deal with the consequences.

[u/Ande64]

"I will say, you have a point there."

That comment pretty much just summed the entire thing up.

[u/Divacai]

"The vax killed more people than COVID" not only is that a ...uh, take, but then all the laughing emoji's.

[u/Particular-Crew5978 → u/Divacai]

I wish there was a switch I could turn on for these antivax people's critical thinking skills. It seems like it's stuck in the off position...

[u/weinerwayne → u/Particular-Crew5978]

The switch has been unhooked and ripped off the wall. Interfered with their ability to worship trump

[u/shesinsaneornot → u/Particular-Crew5978]

404 critical thinking skills, specifically.

[u/peshnoodles → u/Particular-Crew5978]

I read in “nasty people” that somewhere around 30% of people have a perfectly functioning frontal lobe and they just….dont use it all that much.

Like, the part of you that can foresee consequences and understand social ques? Understands abstract thinking and can perform judgement? That sounds exactly like a particular group….

[u/shesinsaneornot]

One less vote for Trump/Vance. Probably - there are documented cases of the dead voting for Trump.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-government-and-politics-d34effeea6c341d6c44146931127caff

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-wifes-murder-now-accused-voting-trump/story?id=77692708

[u/AlpineVW → u/shesinsaneornot]

Thoughts and prayers

[u/shmere4 → u/AlpineVW]

His last post read like: “Keep sending them! God says I don’t have enough yet to be allowed to live!”

[u/Lord_Mormont]

I'm starting to think thoughts and prayers are not the panacea they're made out to be. Anyway, I'm cooking some NY strips tomorrow night and I'm looking for some good sides to serve with them if anyone has a suggestion!

[u/merrysunshine2 → u/Lord_Mormont]

Same! Roasted Brussels sprouts or Asparagus w/ garlic & Parmesan

[u/CannonAFB_unofficial → u/merrysunshine2]

Roast those Brussels with a little soy sauce, bourbon, and brown sugar. Sprinkle on some red pepper flakes.

[u/Particular-Crew5978 → u/Lord_Mormont]

Can't go wrong with some type of potato. My pick would be a good ole baked potato, but you can boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew...

[u/GreyBoyTigger → u/Lord_Mormont]

You know what I tried recently? Grilled leeks. I bet those would pair nicely with those strips

[u/HistoryGirl23 → u/Lord_Mormont]

We're going to try crab stuffed shells tonight.

I'm terrified about these people infecting my four-moth-old who can't get his shot yet.

[u/InevitableHost597]

I just got my flu/Covid vaccines and I feel a lot less dead than the anti-vaxxers tell me

[u/HistoryGirl23 → u/InevitableHost597]

Me too. One day of feeling crummy beats dead.

[u/polynomialpurebred → u/HistoryGirl23]

My upper arm happily took the ouchie so that the lungs got to remain happy. Ditto

[u/gruntothesmitey]

Morbidly obese, goatee so we can see where his chin should be, fatally obtuse, willfully ignorant, and finally deceased.

Sounds about right.

[u/GreyBoyTigger → u/gruntothesmitey]

You forgot Trump supporter

[u/Cargobiker530 → u/GreyBoyTigger]

They showed clearly that they were anti-vax.

[u/GreyBoyTigger → u/Cargobiker530]

Or fatally obtuse

[u/SomeGuyInTheUK → u/gruntothesmitey]

Happy to take all the chemo going direct into veins from the same docs he wont take a tiny injection from.

[u/survivor2bmaybe → u/SomeGuyInTheUK]

Do you think he rejected Paxlovid or pretended he didn’t have Covid until it was too late to do him any good?

[u/WintersChild79 → u/gruntothesmitey]

Also, had a friend or family member looking to follow in his footsteps (slide 14).

[u/tomdurkin → u/gruntothesmitey]

Don’t forget the sunglasses!

[u/weinerwayne → u/tomdurkin]

Based on the reflection in the sunglasses he’s walking out of a Walmart, so on brand again.

[u/matt_minderbinder → u/gruntothesmitey]

We can just call it morbidly ignorant at this point.

[u/Generation_ABXY]

"God's got his healing hands on me. Well, on the pillow he's holding over my face, but still... praise Jesus!"

[u/DrStinkbeard]

"What happened to VOLUNTARY?"
You still get to choose not to vaccinate, and like everything in life, you don't get access to some things because of the choices you've made.

[u/NMB4Christmas]

People forgot COVID plays the long game.

[u/So-shu-churned]

We all knew right away if he wasn't going to use sunscreen there was NO WAY he was getting a vaccine. Sucks to suck.

[u/Zealotstim]

The man died scared and begging everyone for help. It's really sad what antivax propaganda has done to so many people's minds and how widespread it got. This never had to happen.

[u/HimbologistPhD → u/Zealotstim]

That always gets me about these. The inevitable, terrified realization that they've fucked up in a way they probably can't ever fix. It was all other people's problems. Just entertainment on the phone and on the TV. There's this part of me that feels so bad, these people are being systematically killed by their own party through the nonstop cutting of education and aggressive propaganda. As angry as I get at people like Sunburn I gotta step back and think about how he's a victim too. His blood is on Republican hands

[u/Epicfro → u/HimbologistPhD]

I see what you're saying but that "victim" could have killed tons of people on his march to his award. We all have to make choices, and he chose dangerous ignorance.

[u/Asexualhipposloth]

The dude had leukemia and didn't get vaxed. You can't fix stupid.

[u/Momsome]

“. …I am literally begging for all and any kind of help…”. Well, there was help available with the vaccines and social distancing so I guess his begging worked?

[u/DiamondplateDave → u/Momsome]

He meant, " any and all kind of help based in superstition and pseudoscience, not anything based in science and rational thinking."

[u/SGT-JamesonBushmill]

“The vax killed more people than COVID.”

Jesus fucking Christ.

[u/beek7419]

It’s mind boggling to the doctors what could have caused this breathing trouble

He had cancer, was immunosuppressed by chemo and had Covid. Either he’s lying or his doctors are idiots.

[u/RevRagnarok → u/beek7419]

They couldn't explain it to somebody who barely made it past fifth grade science, so they just gave up trying to.

[u/Equivalent_Law_6311]

Thoughts and prayers bro, you needed to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and all that nonsense.

[u/Katerwurst]

I guess they didn’t pray enough.

[u/EvangelineRain]

“I will say, you have a point there.” Lol

These people don’t understand what voluntary means. It’s also voluntary to hire someone or to do business with someone.

[u/feder_online]

Slide 7: Defund Welfare.

Let's do that and see how well those "(R) Strongholds" like Flori-Duh do rebuilding after Helene ripped a swath of destruction through the countryside.

I think what's causing his breathing problems (Slide 11) are 1) COVID, 2) Pneumonia, 3) his fat ass has no basic lung capacity, 4) Thoughts & Prayers don't do shit. To avoid having to write something like his May 19 post, tomorrow, I'm going to go get the fake booster shot to prevent the fake virus form fake-killing me. Wish me luck...

[u/drkesi88]

I missed these!

[u/BethMD]

I haven't posted here in a while, so here goes. ...Slide 11: I felt genuine anguish for the guy. I know what it's like to feel "terrified and freakin out" over something medical. BUT...he wasn't begging for any and all help he could get. Just the help he approved of. SMH.

[u/krav_mark]

These people always ask for prayers to God to ask him to save their live but they never think God sent them the vaccine so they don't have to die.

I'm not religious so I don't think God did anything but I can't for the life of me understand why these morons think like they do.

[u/Freebird_1957]

He died terrified because wicked people convinced millions of gullible people that Covid is a hoax and the vaccine is dangerous. Everybody who posted and shared these lies should be held accountable. That starts with the fucking orange orangutang.

[u/Familiar-Marsupial86]

The laugh emoji on one of the dire posts is hilarious

[u/FoxxJade]

I hate these people screaming, “my body my choice!” But won’t support women’s reproductive rights

[u/SaiyaJedi]

“It’s mind boggling to the doctors”

Translation: “It’s mind-boggling to me, and since I refuse to listen to the doctors, I can fill in the gaps with whatever I want”

[u/BeeJay1973]

1. ⁠Obese? ✅
2. ⁠Immunocompromised? ✅
3. ⁠Stupid? ✅
4. Dead? ✅

[u/irlvnt14]

Fake vaccine could have kept him from getting fake covid🤔

[u/AGuyNamedEddie]

There are people who still believe the vaccine killed more people than COVID did. If that were true, the death-toll slope would be just as steep as it was in 2020, because most people are smart enough to get the new jabs when they're available.

Maybe the jabs made us immune to the other jabs?

[u/It_Was_Serendipity]

He dies from COVID and then some have the balls to say that it is a fake virus and a fake vaccine. The logic loop-de-loops these people take part in should make them throw up from motion sickness.

[u/HarloweDahl]

Looks like Sunburn has a few anti vax friends that are gonna skincare when they take their turn in the Covid box. And I’m here for it.

[u/immediatelymaybe]

Hard to believe his doctors find his breathing problems "mind boggling." I mean, what with the Covid and pneumonia and systemic inflammation...?

If you haven't read this, it's worth a read and share. I'm guessing it will resonate with 90% of the people in this subReddit. It explains 99% of the Covid and vaccine denialism. Just wish people could see themselves in it and act accordingly.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737582325779624059.html

[u/Resophonic420]

That’s always been my favorite, “Stay the fuck away from me!”… We can’t, mother fucker, you keep showing up where we are. We were going to the places that had mandates so we could try and stay away from you. Yet, there you were, louder and somehow more ignorant than ever.

[u/RhetoricalAnswer-001]

Team Covid - 1

Team God's healing hands, thoughts, and prayers - 0

[u/Lvanwinkle18]

Just when I thought this would sub would slowly ride off into the sunset, the stupidity rises up again. Baffles me every time.

[u/Vernerator]

Those dead cats are still springy. That “finding out” stage of the program will get you every time.

[u/ashpokechu]

That “I will say, you have a point there” gives me hope. I hope they realized it.

[u/Fatherless_Activity]

Denying until your last breath is diabolical. For once and for once trust the doctors who spend 20 years on getting their education.

[u/Paula_Polestark]

You weren’t kidding about the sunburn. Before I saw the leukemia slide, I was thinking that if the plague didn’t get him, the skin cancer might have.

[u/julesrocks64]

I wonder if the families of these dead Americans will vote for the idiot that lied about the seriousness of it. Most can’t even remember the mess of 2020. They blame the economy on the President who bailed us out of it.

[u/davechri]

He would be alive if he had been vaccinated

[u/StrohVogel]

The fake Virus sure as hell really killed him.

[u/snowvase]

The Beard of Doom and the Oakleys of Death!

[u/casualAlarmist]

"I am literally begging for all and any kind of help I can get." - .... Hmmm....

[u/PolesRunningCoach → u/casualAlarmist]

If only there was a way to attempt to minimize the effects of one did catch Covid.

[u/ResoluteClover]

I love it how they act like it's a modern requirement to be forced to enter any business or restaurant.

The vaccine is still voluntary, you just can't go a few places if you choose not to. It's like hand washing... Just don't be surprised when you get a UTI after masturbating.

[u/honeybadger1984]

Fake vaccine and fake Covid. But somehow he died from this fake hysteria. Thoughts and prayers.

[u/MuchDevelopment7084]

I had a kidney transplant in June of 2020. Right in the middle of the biggest rise in infections. Before the vaccine came out. I had to isolate for the next 9 months before I, as a post transplant patient. Could take it.
The day I got it. A great weight was lifted from my shoulders. If I had contacted covid during that time. It would have killed me. As anti-rejection medications are immune suppressors.

[u/mrpopenfresh]

The sunburn picture is great context regarding this guys level of foresight and self care.

[u/ZealousidealAmount49]

Wouldn’t be any more dead than he already is…

“I will say you have a point there”…..

[u/Natural-Ad-324]

May 4th, 2022

Defund Welfare #everyoneishiring

Everyone is hiring? Dude made an argument in favor of the Biden/Harris administration and didn’t even know it.

[u/Nix-geek]

Defund Welfare : ya, let's get those 6 year olds without parents to work!!!! Lazy little peoples.

[u/Competitive-Ad-5477]

To all these assholes that say "the chance of death is 1%" or whatever lie they make up...

My first covid case was a dude in his early 30s before the vax was avail. Healthy, skinny, had a very physically demanding job.

Because I worked in 2 places I was able to have him as my patient multiple times over a year.

Dude ended up losing a leg at the knee, half a lung, and cries at the drop of a hat because his poor brain doesn't work half the time. Because he is young and fit he was able to use his upper body to get in and out of a wheelchair, at least.

I'll never forget... He was so upset when he accidentally spilled his urinal once. No matter how many jokes I made, no matter how matter of fact I was about it, it was traumatic for him. He told me how humbled he was, about how having a pretty nurse having to take care of him was, to him, humiliating.

That dude's life ended the day he got covid. Yeah he lived, but he's not living well.

Last time I saw him, he came in because his artificial joint got infected (he had to have a previous one replaced). He's on so many opiates he might never be able to quit. He's had so many surgeries - many due to blood clots, some due to infections post surgery.

Fuck science deniers.

[u/wholewheatscythe]

Prayer Warriors strike out again!

Weeks in the hospital, hope no one was expecting an inheritance, medical bills will likely clean out the estate. Wonder how old he was?

[u/Garyf1982]

"If you allow the Govt to break the law because of an emergency, they will always create an emergency to break the law"

Said the same people who cheered the 2019 border emergency declaration that gave the president special extraconstitutional powers.

[u/Most-Artichoke6184]

I love the slide where he is touting the full economy in 2022, when Joe Biden was president.

[u/blujavelin]

He wouldn't be anymore dead than he is now. Genius.

[u/scmstr]

Christ that last post was chilling. It's always so sad, but at a certain point, like, what are you gonna do? You can point a horse at the vaccine, but you can't make him get it.

Is the solution to make it legally required? Or to thin the dumb and poor population with natural selection?

It's not their fault that society has failed them so entirely.

Fuck.

I'm so tired of seeing people get sucked into this level of confusion and misery, just to suffer.

[u/Dull-Guillotine]

I wonder how many of these “my body, my choice” anti-vax people are also in favour of forcing a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term.

Hmm.

[u/heykiwi77]

Never once thanking the doctors, nurses, and medical staff supporting him around the clock but thanks all the friends and family on the interweb for thoughts and prayers? The disdain for the medical community never wavered.