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I had an acquaintance pass away from COVID recently. She was fairly young and in good shape. She wasn't a raging, obnoxious COVID denier, but her husband didn't seem to place much stock in it and I don't think they got their shots. He's heartbroken, and she leaves behind two sons as well as friends and family. It's pretty tragic that this one stupid mistake took a person who was kind and sweet from the world.
Seeing that over and over and over again... there is no amount of money you could pay me to work in that field right now.
Compared to actually causing more deaths, simple mockery seems rather mild.
I'm not bored of questions, I'm bored of unsubstantiated claims.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...
This is entirely conspiratorial. Subscribers are subscribed to this not through some advertising campaign, but because they already believed those people deserved to die.
>"Subscribers are subscribed to this not through some advertising campaign"
Perhaps the subreddit grew entirely organically, but it does show up on r/Popular and r/All. It is entirely reasonable to think that a significant number of redditors saw it, wound up subscribing, and after being there for a while they have learned to dehumanize the people that get showcased there. Whereas before they were probably anti-anti-vaxxer but probably not giddy about seeing them suffer because of it.
You're attempting to insert agency to account for natural repercussions of how we live our lives and the nearly 750k deaths we've already seen. That's what is conspiratorial.
> It creates an atmosphere that reinforces the idea that these people "had it coming" so to speak.
People are just posting what they believe. They believe that death after spamming facebook about the so-called danger is come-uppance.
> after being there for a while they have learned to dehumanize the people that get showcased there
I'm sorry, but I face an almost impenetrably large barrier to the belief that your average American (judging based on Reddit demographics and content of the sub) has to go through a process of dehumanization. Most people get up, try to avoid eye contact with the massive homeless population, ignore news about our empire droning children, grab some lunch, try not to think about us having the largest prison population in the world, and then call it a day.
The single defining political moment of my, and many other Americans lives, has been 9/11. The bloodthirst in the aftermath is that only political consensus I've ever seen. How does one reconcile higher covid mortality rates than 9/11 with calls to reopen Fuddruckers regardless of the outcomes? It appears this subreddit is one of many answers.
Just like Darwin awards don't just mock the dead in general, they mock people dying doing crazy dangerous things that they should know will kill them.
I am once again reminded of my favorite Dril tweet "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: 'theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron'".
Loudly proclaiming ignorance (usually ideologically driven) of modern medicine while actively endangering those around you and then facing the consequences of your actions is a totally different beast than making a decision about your body (or affirming something about your body) and societal pressure around that decision fueling depression and resulting in suicide.
HCA is much more similar to looking at posts made by people who drive drunk celebrating their inability to drive sober and then that person dying in a single person car accident.
Really gross take.
[1] https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312?lang=en
'What we do here is pretty terrible... BUT it is entirely the fault of the people we dehumanize. THEY are the ones who are responsible and we will continue to do what we do because THEY continue to do what they do.'
This has nothing to do with whether or not some made a smart choice. I never once said or implied I wasn't offended at the process that lead to it. You just made that up, really I have no idea why.
My point has always been and remains: It is not okay to make fun of someone dying. I do not care the reason of the death.
If you lose someone close how would you feel if people stared harassing you over the death of your loved one because someone wanted some fake internet points on reddit?
Its the left that wants to continue the narrative and pretend the pandemic is a bigger deal than it really is, that we can only survive with the big wise government who knows whats best for all of us. No burn out necessary, the left is just being overly dramatic to point fingers. Just open up if you're serious, its mostly the right who'll die.
That's a surprisingly persuasive argument to convince someone on the left in advocacy of ending the mandates.