I'm embarrassed by my Covid-19 reaction

[zipplewrath]

An old employee with whom I worked several years ago has contracted COVID-19. She's in the hospital on a ventilator. It's not looking good. She is and always was a RWNJ, and I'd often leave her desk (she was the area secretary) when she'd start one of her Trump rants by saying I had a meeting. But she'd had a hard life, and her son is in a wheel chair from an injury sustained by being run over by a suspect (he was a cop).

I'm pretty sure she was actually vaccinated, but she had many grand children and I'm sure was surrounded in her life by the vaccine hesitant. And my first thought was that was tragic. And my second thought was that her son really needed her to pull through, because he isn't doing well on his own. But my third disgusting thought was, "well, one less Trump voter".

I don't wish her ill, but I'm losing my empathy for those that are most resistant and hostile to the efforts to end this pandemic because predominately they don't want the Biden administration, nor the country, to succeed. It's not that I want them to die, it's that I can't really see it as tragic. It's the "stupid is as stupid does" concept.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Sorry about your friend, but I'd bet she was not fully vaccinated with Moderna or Pfizer

Because almost no such people are ending up on ventilators, let alone dying.

For the sake of her son, I hope she makes it.

I understand this feeling, but personally I'm reserving 'not caring if they die' for non-vaccinated people who've tried publicly (or on social media) to dissuade others from getting it. THOSE people are evil enough in my book to really have no sympathy.

Vaccinated Trump voters who aren't telling others not to take it ... I hope they stay healthy.

[zipplewrath]

2. She wasn't in the best of health

She's had her own health issues over the years. (as have I). She should have been more careful than she was, because some of us really can't take the risk of "break through" infections. I've known a few people that have had break through infections, they were all "less than careful". I've been masking and limiting social exposure in large/close numbers. I really think than until more people are vaccinated, we all have to be more careful.

[Xoan]

3. It's like being in a war ...

and lacking empathy for traitors who get caught.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. She's the one who nurtured those kids into the hateful ideology that will kill her.

She sowed these seeds with aplomb, and now she will reap.

Also, just because she had health conditions, that is in no way indicative that she was vaccinated. The morgues and graveyards are FULL of thousands upon thousands just like her that felt Dr. TikTok and Tucker Carlson were better sources of health information - because libs.