couple thought covid was political game now he is dead

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/09/06/covid-firefighter-death-affil-pkg-vpx.kvvu

Nevada mother Christina Lowe is urging others to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after losing her husband to the virus, saying they thought the virus was a "political game."

[Blue Owl]

1. Calling Herman Cain...

[malaise]

6. Cained

Licks sharing

[Maru Kitteh]

10. Jeebers that's effin creepy!

Oh well. He's a dead fucker now, isn't he. Everything Trump touches . . . .

[Blue Owl]

13. The best thing about that was Stephen Colbert's parody ad...

[XanaDUer2]

2. A fire fighter, dad, husband

thought this was a game.

There are no word s

[Demovictory9]

3. Yeah..1st responder should know better..may he rip

[winstars]

4. Charlie Darwin is a funny guy sometimes...

[XanaDUer2]

5. his wife is now vaccinated

and educating her community. So something good will come out of this needless sadness. Now his boys have no one to take them fishing

[Demovictory9]

7. glad one parent lived

[ALBliberal]

8. She's the real deal. Probably the best testimony i

have heard from a survivor. Unapologetically campaigning for vaccination. No hedging. No weasel wording. Thanks so much for posting. I will be sharing.

[roamer65]

9. Less CO2 emissions.

[lagomorph777]

11. It is. They played for the losing team.

[Caliman73]

12. Curious as to WHY they thought it was a "political game".

FYI, everything is political. Politics is about the activities around governing, setting up society, and the distribution of resources. Public Health is most certainly about politics just as the distribution of firefighting and law enforcement resources.

Now, if she means that COVID-19 is a partisan issue, then again, WHY would they have thought that? Where did they get their information?

As far as I know, ONE political party has created the environment where a public health issue was turned into a partisan issue. One Party, the Democratic party has been trying to disseminate the facts found by health experts. The other party, the Republican party, has been making the issue about affiliation, fomenting protests against wearing protective coverings to stop the spread and against vaccination.

It is sad that the husband died. The worst part of the situation is that it was almost completely preventable except that ONE SIDE, the Republicans, made it so that there was some kind of rational choice between following the advice of experts, and NOT.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. I want to know how people rationalized the sickness and deaths of

hundreds upon hundreds of thousands around the world if it was all supposedly about TFG? It makes NO SENSE AT ALL.

[llmart]

15. They can rationalize it because it's only real if it happens to them or someone they care about.

[Caliman73]

16. I don't think that they rationalize it. They likely compartmentalize it.

There is a saying out there that I will butcher, "One death is tragic, 1000 deaths are a statistic". I think that it means that there is a level of death where people will not integrate it. For example, something like 100,000 people die every year from tobacco related illnesses and another 150,000 die every year from medical accidents including medication accidents.

Also, remember that right wing propaganda outlets have been sowing doubt about the levels of death being reported. People are saying that the vaccine is killing more people than the virus (even though the virus was killing people way before the vaccines were ready). They are seeing, on their "news" outlets, that the numbers are being "over reported" and the government is lying.