Don't snicker at the 'Herman Cain Award.' Recipients died of misinformation, not COVID

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Aug. 30, 2020, Herman Cain tweeted: “It looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be.”

Or at least his official Twitter account did. Because Cain had died of COVID-19 about a month before at the age of 74. The former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City was diagnosed nine days after attending a rally for Donald Trump’s reelection in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he and many attendees gathered indoors and notably refused to wear masks as the pandemic raged.

In the days after his death, the internet latched onto the irony of Cain’s demise as a result of his own imprudence, leading to the creation of the “Herman Cain Award” message board on the popular website Reddit. The progeny of the notorious Darwin Award is posthumously given to people who “have made public declaration of their anti-mask, anti-vax, or COVID-hoax views, followed by admission to hospital for COVID.”

With about 438,000 members in this Reddit community, there is certainly no lack of audience for sardonic schadenfreude. But it begs a pressing moral question: Should these nominees deserve our sympathy rather than our ridicule?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-t-snicker-herman-cain-110000779.html

[Glamrock]

1. I disagree

They didn't die of misinformation, they died of malevolent, virulent, grinning ignorance.

[RockRaven]

2. They died of hate and "owning the libs"

When people wallow in and propagate politicized bullshit, they aren't victims of the misinformation. They purposely chose that information silo, they are victims of that decision, which is their own.

[crud]

3. Give me liberal tears or give me death

[Zambero]

4. Or willful ignorance

[dixiechiken1]

5. NO.

That is my answer to the "moral question" of whether the nominees deserve sympathy rather than ridicule.

I don't care anymore. If they die, they die. Freedom isn't free and actions have consequences.

[Jirel]

6. Nope, no sympathy.

These idiots killed themselves through
* years of ignoring science in school and considering it a waste of time;
* believing in garbage from the hate that spews from evangelical yaps, to conspiracy theories, to anything uttered by Agent Orange, no matter how laughable or deranged;
* having no compassion, accountability, or conscience to protect others; and
* rejecting reality even as they are dying.

Screw them all. Let’s get to herd immunity by letting them wipe themselves out.

[world wide wally]

7. Just natural consequences

[YP_Yooper]

8. I'd offer pity to the dead, ridicule and condemnation to those alive still continuing to believe

as in,"a cause for regret or disappointment"
Example: "it's a pity you didn't listen to science first"

[Skittles]

9. nonsense

they have access to the same information we do, they just choose to believe bullshit