Checking in. How's your supply of empathy?

[Stinky The Clown]

I used to have a lot of it.

When it comes to Moron-Americans, not a lot left.

[OhioChick]

1. None left n/t

[SheltieLover]

20. +1,000!

[First Speaker]

2. "Moron American" is the best description of these people I've ever heard...

...I'm going to spread it as far and wide as I can. Maybe it will stick...it should...

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Let them die, they would do it for you.

[Haggard Celine]

12. Yes they would.

[ChazII]

4. It depends

sometimes a full tank other times running on fumes. Grief is taking its toll when it comes to my empathy account. Hope that makes some sense to the reader. My son and four others passed due to the GBM tumors - like Beau Biden, Kennedy and McCain had. Two friends were taken by Covid19.

[demtenjeep]

5. I have NONE for the non-vaxed

I Have a TON for my students

[Faux pas]

6. In

the minuses

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Very little, if any more.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Still here. However,...

When it comes to The Idiocracy, I'm rapidly running out of fucks to give.

[Tadpole Raisin]

9. My empathy is leaking out as these morons have stuck me with thousands of pins and I can't plug the

holes up fast enough.

I’d use liquid glue but then I’d die from clogging up all the pores.

It’s a dilemma…

[Tbear]

10. Empathy- that's like feeling for other people

right?
I try to avoid people as much as I can.

[MLAA]

11. This says it all for me!

[hlthe2b]

13. I used to have sufficient tolerance not to judge friends with conservative backgrounds

and to be honest most of them are well educated enough not to ever have been Trumpers and they DO believe in science, medicine, vaccines and all the rest that sane people do.

But, lately, I'm having a bit of a hard time not holding them at least somewhat responsible for all the pain and damage being done by RWers in Congress, State Legislatures, and Governor's seats. And what really sets me off is when they show (feign?) ignorance about events that lead me to believe they are still getting most or all news only from Fox.

Empathy is dwindling and I haven't even gotten to the Trump-loving world-hating 40%.

[Ocelot II]

14. Not as much as I wish I had.

But it's tough these days. My empathy for the willfully unvaccinated is about used up but I do feel sorry for their kids and others who had no control over their decision. Saddest thing I read lately was about the woman who had been vaccinated and got a mild case but her two adult sons refused to be vaccinated and died within a day of each other. They were her only surviving children (until they weren't any more), and I'm sorry for her and angry at them for what they did to their mother - not for what they did to themselves, dumbasses that they were.

[nycbos]

15. Quite lacking

I used to be an empathetic person. I have zero empathy for the selfish assholes to refuse the vaccine.

[AndyS]

16. No empathy. All I have left is dick and bubblegum.

Oops, just checked and I'm out of bubblegum.

[MLAA]

28. Good one!

[applegrove]

17. Don't you think 'reducing empathy for the other' is the whole point of

this libertarian covid no mask no vax kabooki theatre of death?

[agingdem]

18. empathy gone...apathy yes...

and I wish upon them pain, suffering, and loss...

[Deuxcents]

19. Yep

I’m running on empty.

[secondwind]

21. All gone... not an ounce... Same for my pity bag, it's empty as well.

[mercuryblues]

22. I save my empathy for those who had no choice

about not being able to get the vaccine.

[spooky3]

23. I'm saving it for the Afghans trying to get out. Nt

[Lars39]

24. You still have empathy,

just not for people who are trying to kill the rest of the population.

[Hekate]

26. Depleted & benumbed. Still sending out the odd prayer for the people I love who won't vax...

Because they are irreplaceable in my heart. They swallowed the lie.

[boston bean]

27. I have some. Maybe

Because I had covid pre vaccine time and it was awful.

[Silent3]

29. Do you have a microscope I can borrow to check? n/t

[choie]

30. at level zilch

n/a

[Red Mountain]

31. Some left

but all out if they're taking up bed space that is needed for people who don't play Russian roulette.

[malaise]

32. Approaching empty

That is all

[PurgedVoter]

33. I have empathy for the poor German soldiers who died in WWII

Yes, they were Nazi pawns, but many of them had little choice and a lot of them were protecting their family and fighting for their country. The racists among them, picked hatred. I still pity them, but they earned their deaths. In all of these cases it was them or suffering elsewhere. So I regret their suffering, but at the same time, their deaths were for the greater good.

I have sympathy for the conservative idiots of the world. I wish they did not have to suffer. They probably suffered child abuse and they would be ostracized, hated and possibly killed by their spouse and community if they did not hold to their stupidity. Yet, in the final resolution, as sad as it is, you don't want Portuguese man-o-war in your child's bathing pool. I pity the damaged people who care not at all for the elderly who served and fought in WWII or your children and are happy to ignore truth and play propagating and mutating Russian roulette with their community, but I must rejoice when they go to their maker. Evolution is cruel but it has made the beautiful world that these people would destroy without a care.

[onecaliberal]

34. None left for "American Idiots"

[NurseJackie]

35. I'm as heartless as Servilia of the Junii.

[stillcool]

36. dormant.

[Funtatlaguy]

37. If you are among these, I have no f###s left for you.

Anti Vaxers
Anti maskers
Pro Insurrectionists
Pro Trumpers
Hysterical anti Biden Afghan policies

[FakeNoose]

38. I used to have a lot, but not any more

[JCMach1]

39. 0 after 3 Covid tests, 2 direct exposures to my family

And two (probably not Covid) illnesses in my family. THIS WEEK in Texas.

Please not I already have PTSD when it come to Covid after nearly dying of it last September.

[Ms. Toad]

52. I've got three tests scheduled in the next 10 days

After a willfully unvaccinated student exposed me on Saturday.

That follows my daughter and boyfriend being ill with the creepy crud (not COVID - but still disconcerting), my foster son being exposed to COVID following life-threatening surgery, and another student flaunting the mask rules (ending up positive) then lying about close contacts with about 90 students.

Fortunately, I have not yet had personal experience with actually being sick with it. I got an aggressive cancer instead.

[JCMach1]

53. I feel you Ms Toad... Yes, it sucks

I won't even bore you with the permanent stuff Covid did to my body.

But yeah, tired... Very, very tired.

Very sorry to hear about the cancer.

[Ms. Toad]

58. Crossing my fingers for you

that the effects of COVID lessen over time. Take care of yourself.

I just sent a note out to my students explaining my absence today - doing a bit of education about COVID and appeal to their sense of responsiblility for the community (explaining that I'm not required to isolate, but I am because as a vaccinated person I'm less likely to have a severe case - or even know I have it - BUT - just as infectious if I do - and encouraging them to adopt the same attitude so we can stay in person for classes this year.)

I hope it reaches them.

[BadGimp]

40. Sorry, I got nothing...

[Scrivener7]

41. None. I don't want to hear about the latest thing a moron did. I just don't care any more.

There is no sense wasting emotion on them.

What is going to happen is that Delta will rip through the population for a few months and they will get all the heartache we have tried to prevent for them. Those who survive, that is.

I just want it to happen fast.

[CrackityJones75]

42. My empathy grows

My empathy grows over yonder in the field where I plant my fucks. See how it is but a barren lot of dirt.

[0rganism]

43. Let me check - I usually keep them on hangers next to my fucks

Hmm, odd - the whole room looks empty.
Maybe over here in the corner... nope.
Well maybe some fell through the stairs... no, not seeing any there, either.
Sorry I think I'm fresh out of both. Hope you weren't looking to borrow any.

[Johonny]

44. obviously the morons are hurting lots of non-morons in the areas they live

A lot children, doctors and nurses as well as neighbors etc ... Those people I have empathy for.

[Mariana]

45. My mother can't get pain-relieving surgery done

because the hospitals are stuffed with these unvaccinated fuckers. You can imagine how I feel about them.

[roamer65]

46. It's good news for planet Earth.

Natural selection at work.

[Leith]

47. This sums it up for me

[Initech]

48. After talking to my brother yesterday, less than nil.

He is dealing with a lot of stupid people coming to the ER and it's mainly anti-vaxxers. I am not empathetic at all to these clowns.

[MyMission]

49. My supply is steady but diminished

I was recently visiting NYC where I was born and raised. Taking busses and subways to get around, they're air-conditioned but waiting on hot platforms and walking through oppressive tunnels and connectors I had empathy and respect for my fellow New Yorkers. Almost everyone was wearing a mask in the subway, and many wore them out on the streets too.

Empathy for those who aren't vaccinated, protest public health recommendations and mandates,, get sick, spread it, take up hospital resources, space and staff, not so much.

[Ms. Toad]

50. Let me see . . .

I just wished the vaccine-refusing student who exposed me over the weekend severe consequences, but not severe enough that they leave her child parentless.

The day she exposed me I threw a full on tantrum at the 3rd group of "too special to wear masks" students I encountered. I don't think they knew what hit them.

I'd say pretty darn close to zero for anyone who is not actively taking steps to minimize the damage they do to others. And that lack of empathy extends to the "Not gonna wear a mask" crowd on DU.

[scrabblequeen40]

51. I'm impressed they're okay with dying while doing what they love

but no empathy.

[Shellback Squid]

54. let me check my well.................sand

[Nevilledog]

55. Me👇

[Blue Owl]

56. Let me check...

[Xolodno]

57. Dry as well drilled 5 feet in Las Vegas.

I have both friends and family opposed to the vaccine. Only a matter of time before I have to bury one of them (who knows, I may already have with the usual excuses)...and, sad to say, I'm probably going to be a bid cold about it. After all, they were cold to me for getting vaccinated.

[SYFROYH]

59. 100%. I'm watching people I know die. Their families are suffering.

Lots of people die early from poor life decisions and I have empathy for them, too.

And COVID is a lousy and lonely way to die.

But this is such a good opportunity for the self-righteous to call them names and tell them to eff off that I wouldn't want to see that denied to them. I'm sure it brings meaning to their lives.

[leftyladyfrommo]

60. I don't want people to die if this awful stuff. So many

of these people really didn't believe it was any big deal.

I have sympathy for all the families that are decimated by this stuff.

It's just an awful situation from every angle.

That said I get angry at the idiots who are still not vaccinated.

[Hotler]

61. Behold the field in which I grow my fucks.

Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shall see that it is barren. Stolen from another DUer.

[Niagara]

62. Zero.

Behold the field where I grow my f*$ks.




I would share the meme, but I can't find it.

[SidDithers]

63. For those who choose to remain unvaccinated, it's gone...

Every day we see stories of unvaccinated people dying, and their deathbed wish is that "everyone get vaccinated".

I've got nothing left for these people. They fucked around and found out.

Now, as far as I'm concerned, it's thinning the herd. Natural fucking selection in action.

Sid

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

64. For anti-vaxxers, my empathy has been replaced by schadenfreude.