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gulliver

(13,186 posts)
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 10:41 PM Jul 2021

Imagine how dumb you'd feel if you caught COVID when you didn't have to.

How stupid is that? It's a disease that's no fun...at best. You test positive; your doctor tells you to quarantine; you feel like crap. And you realize you've been entered in the lottery for long haul COVID or the ICU or the cemetery. And you have to tell your family because you exposed them too.

And all you had to do to keep yourself out of that is get a couple of free shots that most Americans have gotten safely with no worries and no problems. You catch COVID when you didn't have to and you're, well, a loser.

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VarryOn

(2,343 posts)
2. My antivaxxer in-laws...
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 10:51 PM
Jul 2021

we're both found positive this weekend. My son, who was with them all last week, tested positive today. He's 8 years old. Thankfully, you wouldn't know he was positive.

Rhiannon12866

(205,632 posts)
13. That's the height of irresponsibility! A big reason to get the vaccine is to protect family!
Fri Jul 9, 2021, 03:51 AM
Jul 2021

Especially young children.

KentuckyWoman

(6,688 posts)
4. I hope they all live long enough to feel dumb and
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 10:58 PM
Jul 2021

don't make orphans of a nurse's children in the process.

These people are a scourge ....

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
5. and imagine being the people who have to treat these dumbasses when they are hospitalized
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 11:30 PM
Jul 2021

I think that would be hard too.

rpannier

(24,330 posts)
9. I was watching news out of Australia
Fri Jul 9, 2021, 01:43 AM
Jul 2021

Duerte of the Philippines said, if there was a shortage of beds and refused to get the shot, they would dump you back on the street
I'm kind of with that (Considering the dumbasses here in Japan that won't get vaccinated)

yonder

(9,668 posts)
6. A great post. "Ya caught it, but didn't have to."
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 11:51 PM
Jul 2021

So simple, so easy but they're too busy taking it to the libtards to see.

wnylib

(21,510 posts)
8. Several months ago, before vaccines and Delta,
Fri Jul 9, 2021, 01:34 AM
Jul 2021

I encountered a covid denier in a local 7/11 store. I did not know her but the employees and a few customers who are neighbors of mine did.

The denier was walking around the store with her mask pulled down, sipping coffee and eating a doughnut. She overheard me asking a cashier if they enforce the mask rule or allow people to remove them inside. She got very verbally aggressive with me, demanding to know if I was talking about her. She insisted that covid was just the flu and no big deal. The whole time I was cashing out, she stood next to me, ridiculing my mask.

I just learned that she is one of the people in this area hospitalized with Delta. I am not surprised. If I were a better person, I would pity her ignorance.

NJCher

(35,691 posts)
10. I am chuckling at your last sentence
Fri Jul 9, 2021, 01:49 AM
Jul 2021

It’s only logical. Not even karma. No mask ergo Covid.

My brother lives in one of those states where they didn’t mask up much so I wasn’t shocked when I saw 85% of that state’s new cases were delta. In my state where everyone still wears them, it’s 15% of new cases are delta.

wnylib

(21,510 posts)
11. I'm in NY state, but in a very rural county
Fri Jul 9, 2021, 02:03 AM
Jul 2021

except for two small cities and a handful of villages. At best, it's a purple county, with Dem mayors but GOP state and federal representatives.

Currently, just half of all eligible people are vaccinated. That means that less than half of the total population is. About 75% of seniors are vaccinated. They raise the overall average since many other adults are ignoring the vaccine.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,354 posts)
15. But, hey, at least Bill Gates can't track me from space, ...
Fri Jul 9, 2021, 05:21 AM
Jul 2021

... and I ain't turned into some gol-danged magnet.

(disclaimer: got my second shot of mangetism in April)

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