COVID death celebration evokes memories of HIV death celebration

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20. I am having a difficult time feeling sorry for them.

I cannot feel any sympathy for people who knew what they were doing was harmful, but made the choice to do it anyway.

Ignorance is not an excuse. Factual information about vaccines, masks, and viruses is almost literally at our fingertips, but they seek out information that confirms their fears and doubts and refuse to let go of their beliefs, even doubling down when confronted.

They have threatened medical staff, supermarket employees, airline pilots and stewardesses, and countless other essential workers for calmly trying to enforce rules designed to keep customers and employees safe. They have threatened school board members with being shot if they enforce mask mandates to protect children.

By their choice not to mask, distance, or vaccinate they are killing and maiming people they have never met, never mind people they know and love. They are testing positive and still choosing to be near people who are immunocompromised. They are putting our doctors, nurses, and paramedics under unbearable strain, and depriving cancer patients, accident victims, and countless other people with serious medical problems of the care they need.

It is a shame they died, but they had opportunities to make the right choice and willfully chose to make the choice to be disease vectors.