COVID death celebration evokes memories of HIV death celebration

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116. Schadenfreude is a natural human emotion...

...usually springing from one's sense that justice long denied has been dispensed.

Before scolding people, you should take the following into consideration: most of us have spent the past two years doing everything right. We have masked up and locked down. We have missed birthdays, graduations, weddings, vacations, what have you--all for the common good. Of those who lost loved ones, the luckiest of us got to watch them die through a sheet of glass. Some of us had to do it over Zoom. Most of us just got a phone call. Those of us in the business of medicine have watched our colleagues be abused, assaulted, and then burn the fuck out.

Meanwhile, while we're making sacrifices to get things back to normal, a certain group of dipshits are hellbent on making sure nothing we have given up these past two years has made the slightest bit of difference.

So, I dunno. It's pretty easy to understand why people wouldn't be completely sympathetic when one of these selfish pricks dies. How that's in any way similar to religious zealots and homophobes grave dancing on HIV victims because they have very specific ideas about how people should be allowed to love each other is completely and utterly beyond me.