Conservative wife warns fellow conservatives laughing at Covid19 after husband gets ill

[tulipsandroses]

Her Facebook Friends Asked If Anyone Was Actually Sick. She Had an Answer.

The only thing that should have been different about the first Friday in March was the apple crisp. Heaven Frilot didn’t usually cook at the end of the workweek, instead letting her family snack on leftovers — a roast or pork chops she’d made earlier, maybe — or order pizza. But her 10-year-old son, Ethan, was having a friend over that night, and her husband, Mark, a lawyer, was coming off a crushing week of arbitration. She would bake an apple crisp.

Then Mark Frilot — 45 years old, “never, ever sick,” came home with a fever.

In the haze of days that followed, Frilot, a 43-year-old oil-and-gas analyst, occupied one world, the rest of her community in Kenner, Louisiana, another. She saw her friends making jokes on social media about the coronavirus — eye-roll emojis, Fox News talking points, Rush Limbaugh quotes writing off the threat. And then one person asked if anyone really had this thing.

Frilot had an answer to that.

“I have been seeing a lot of posts about people taking this virus lightly and joking about it,” she began in a Facebook post. “Mark has tested positive for the coronavirus.”
[link:https://www.yahoo.com/news/her-facebook-friends-asked-anyone-121508662.html|

[tulipsandroses]

1. I just wonder what they think of their president who was lying to them?

Will they still vote for him? All in the name of owning the libs or whatever bullshit excuse they have for supporting Trump. He has now put you, his very supporters, you the people that have been cheering him on, he has put your lives and the lives of your loved ones in danger. What do you think of him now? I would really like to ask these folks that question.

[Blue_true]

5. Seems like that part of LA still love him.

They tend to be well off. The woman who the story was about is a longterm oil industry analyst and her sick husband is a corporate attorney.

[misanthrope]

7. I'd be more surprised if they didn't vote for Trump again

Very familiar with the local culture and the story captured it well. Our society generally views attorneys as being pretty smart but his political blindness and perspective on science doesn't reflect as much.

[grantcart]

2. Louisiana is exploding in cases

Withe Mardi Gras and a weak state government it could soon pass WA and compete with NY & CA with total number of deaths.

LA hospital system could be swamped in 3 weeks.

Edited to add that they suspect that he became infected at a Mardi Gras parade, incredibly reckless.

[misanthrope]

8. Not surprising at all

You don't know how people here lose their minds over Mardi Gras. Many feel it's as important as life itself.

I watched people going into those crowds at the parades and just shook my head. I knew COVID-19 was on its way and wondered how many there might not see next Mardi Gras.

[RussBLib]

3. As long as we have people like this

We will never beat this thing.

[C_U_L8R]

4. It only matters when it happens to them

We've seen the same 'realization' from republicans again and again. They really need to wake the fuck up.

[GaYellowDawg]

6. EXACTLY!!

If it doesn't happen to me, it doesn't matter. We are going to suck as a country until that attitude becomes socially unacceptable.

[Roland99]

11. This! So much this!

A conservative says, "It hasn't happened to me, so I don't care." A liberal says, "It shouldn't happen to anyone, that's why I care."

[TeamPooka]

9. They only have empathy for other white Christian conservatives

[Maru Kitteh]

10. What if dear husband Mark hadn't been positive? Would she have spoken up?

Yeah, we all know the answer to that one.