Sad experience at the gas pump today..

[Boogiemack]

I was pumping gas at our neighborhood gas station. There was an unmasked man talking to an unmasked women about getting out of the house hoping that they soon could get the kids out of the house. Then their voices dropped and the woman said "You know this virus is going to suddenly disappear without our doing anything just like Trump said." The man replied Yeah, you know it. It's a shame that so many people believe this crap that they are selling us." She: "Don't worry, it will all be over after Jan. 20th."

As someone who has lost 5 family members to COVID including my husband, the love of my life after 50 years of a wonderful marriage, I started to say something to them. Then I thought, Why? Biden is President, the virus is raging, nothing I can say will change either. Watched them get into their respective autos and drive off. left me standing there with tears for the over 240K gone and their families that are left here to deal with the Trumpers walking among us.

[RKP5637]

1. Talking to them would do nothing. n/t

[DanieRains]

49. I Would Ask Them A Few Probing Questions Then Drop The Anvil

And show them a picture of your departed.

Stupid people like them kill the innocent.

It's ok to say it...... Especially you.

Sorry for your loss and your family.

All you can do is make a difference, just like this post did.

Thank You For Sharing.

Danie.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

53. After Biden uses every resource to get the pandemic under control --

even if it takes a year -- they'll say, "See, Trump was right. Once Biden was elected the disease disappeared like magic."

[AZ8theist]

75. You can't fix stupid....

[Soxfan58]

78. Only

If its confrontational. But I seriously avoid the maskless.

[bullimiami]

2. stunning how people are so arrogant in their ignorance.

[brush]

17. Willing ignorance. trump has done so much damage to the country.

[snowybirdie]

3. So very sorry

For your losses. It is so much to bear. Hugs!

[liberal N proud]

4. The misinformation that was sown by trump is going to make it difficult

The Biden team will have a difficult time deprograming the cult.

[Evolve Dammit]

54. That's what I keep thinking. Like an anchor around America's neck.

[kimbutgar]

5. And who knows is by January 20th one of them might be suffering from the corona virus

Karma can be a bitch.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

76. As far as I'm concerned, they deserve to get it.

It's infected and killed far more than it would have if not for them enabling the incompetent ass in the WH.

[Maraya1969]

6. One of them told me it wold end Nov 3. Well the president has been chosen

and the virus rages on.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[JI7]

7. They will see fit themselves so I agree it was best not to say anything

[pandr32]

8. I am so sorry for the losses you have to endure

...and the morons that you are bound to run into. Don't let them touch who you are or how you feel. Karma has a wide net out for them. I sure feel sorry for their children, though.
Hugs to you.

[Caliman73]

9. Sorry for all the loss you have experienced, especially your husband.

Something absolutely has to be done about right wing media. It has turned almost half the country into blithering idiots who live in an alternate, insane reality. The mental defect that has to go into a thought process where millions of people are infected, over a quarter of a million have died, hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who did not die, will live with the debilitating effects of the virus, and all of that happened because of some political gain for Democrats? To sully the otherwise wonderful legacy of Donald Trump? I mean, we worry about the mental health of people wandering around town muttering this type of conspiracy theory to themselves, but we have a ton of people who are supposedly "normal" who are saying this crap out loud!

[JudyM]

72. RW radio has to somehow be regulated or bought out, it is poisoning the country.

[Botany]

10. Be strong we have a reason to hope. We now have a man who reads poetry and listenes to experts

And I can't begin to understand your hurt either.

RTE News concludes broadcast with Biden's recitation of Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy"

Link to tweet

******
Biden, "I will spare no effort, none, or any commitment, to turn around this pandemic."

Biden Announces 12-Member Task Force for Coronavirus Response
President-elect Joe Biden said he would appoint a 12-member coronavirus task force on Monday, his first step toward fulfilling one of his biggest campaign promises -- to mount an effective response to the pandemic that has infected millions and damaged the U.S. economy.

“I will spare no effort, none, or any commitment, to turn around this pandemic,” Biden said Saturday, as he delivered his victory speech in Wilmington, Delaware. The panel will convert his coronavirus-fighting plan into an “action blueprint” that “will be built on a bedrock of science,” he added.

The task force will be co-chaired by former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler and Marcella Nunez-Smith, a professor of public health at Yale University, according to a person familiar with his plans. It will also include Ezekiel Emanuel, a former Obama administration health adviser.

The co-chairs of the task force are scheduled to brief Biden on Monday after the members are announced.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-announces-12-member-task-force-for-coronavirus-response/ar-BB1aNuCx?li=BBnb7Kz

Biden's Task Force Credentials

Copied from Wikipedia...

Dr Vivek Murthy...
Murthy completed his Internal Medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts where he also led and managed medical care teams as a faculty .

Dr. David S Kessler...
Kessler studied medicine at Harvard University, graduating with an M.D. degree in 1979. While at Harvard, Kessler obtained a J.D. degree in 1977 from the University of Chicago Law School.[1] While serving his residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, he worked as a consultant to Republican senator Orrin Hatch from Utah, particularly on issues relating to the safety of food additives, and on the regulation of cigarettes and tobacco.

Marcella Nunez-Smith...
Nunez-Smith obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Anthropology and Psychology from Swarthmore College in 1996. She attended medical school at Jefferson Medical College, graduating in 2001. Nunez-Smith was a resident in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She completed her Master of Health Science at Yale University in 2006.

Ezekiel Emanuel...
Emanuel received his M.Sc. from Exeter College, Oxford in Biochemistry. He simultaneously studied for an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Harvard University, receiving the degrees in 1988 and 1989, respectively.He was a member of the first cohort of Faculty Fellows at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard from 1987–88. Emanuel completed an internship and residency at Beth Israel Hospital in internal medicine. Subsequently, he undertook fellowships in medicine and medical oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, and is a breast oncologist.

[calimary]

27. What a great quote!

[Martin Eden]

11. "just like Trump said"

How many additional people have died because of the things Trump said and didn't say about the deadly virus sweeping our nation?

So very sorry for your loss.

[jalan48]

12. My sister had something similar happen with her Trumper neighbors. When they told her

the virus would go away after the election she told them the rest of the world would be glad to learn this.

[progree]

64. This!👆⇧ ⇧ ⇧ . It would be pretty hard for the entire world to be jointly faking this, all the

hundreds of media outlets, all the hospitals, etc. And all agreeing to all stop reporting on January 20. But RWers are such provincial goobers, so totally unaware of just about everything happening in the rest of the world.

[SheltieLover]

13. So sorry for your losses, Boogie!

We can't fix stupid. I'm glad you didn't bother to try.

[CTyankee]

14. There will always be assholes among us. I am sorry you had to go thru what you did with two of them.

I wish I could have helped you out with a few zingers, including "haven't you folks forgotten something?" then "Where are your DAMN MASKS?"

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. I'm sorry for your losses

Your right. Talking to them would've achieved nothing other than making you even more upset. Let them find out the truth for themselves.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Heard It Today, Too

Guy at the golf course. His wife is a registered nurse!
But, he thinks it's all fake.
I just said "OK, whatever. But, it's not fake." and went on my way.

[Delphinus]

18. {{{hugs}}}

I'm so sorry.

[Cary]

19. That's a perfect example of the pathology

It affects 70 million.

We must devise new ways to deal with them and contain them.

[Meowmee]

20. So sorry for the loss

Of your husband and relatives 😿

I think you were right not to bother and don’t expose yourself to maskless people etc. I recently had plumbers/ home improvement people working on some things. What a nightmare it was. Covidiot among them making fun of me wearing goggles and claiming it had not killed so many etc. I survived it in April, I still have back pain and my asthma is worse now.

[Joinfortmill]

21. So sorry for your loss.

[LudwigPastorius]

22. My neighbor still believes this. (re: virus disappearing)

He's been brainwashed. He told me plaintively, that, "I just don't know what to believe anymore", and that it "sounds real, but I don't know anyone who has had it".

Fuck Trump for preying on these, otherwise decent, people with poor reasoning skills, and fuck our bargain-basement public educational system for failing to turn out functional adults.

[tanyev]

46. One of my FB friends uses that technique.

Starts a post with “It’s so hard to know what to believe...” followed up with the latest right wing conspiracy du jour. But she doesn’t post a lot of politics, so I don’t think she’s trying to seed anything. I think she must watch enough Fox News to destroy her confidence in mainstream sources so then she wants to share her ‘wisdom’ with her unenlightened FB friends.

[yardwork]

58. I have one of those. Evangelical Christian who wants to be seen as so nice.

[Wounded Bear]

23. It was supposed to "end" on Nov 4th...

Now it's Jan 20th?

Yeah, right.

[OhioTim]

36. That's What Trump Said

just another Democratic hoax

Sorry for your loss

[JudyM]

73. Let's not forget Easter....

[Raven123]

24. I cannot imagine your personal pain losing so many family members. Stay strong.

in January they will learn what we know. The only virus that will be over is the one infecting the Presidency

[3catwoman3]

25. You showed admirable restraint.

It feels like half the country should go into cult de-programming treatment. And maybe antipsychotic meds, too.

My younger son, just turned 28, has 2 room/apartment mates, both of whom have tested +. One of the young men thought the virus was all a hoax. Interesting, in view of his job - he sells medical devices and actually masks and gowns up to go into ORs as part of his work. He is no longer a doubter.

I am so sorry to hear about your husband. We don’t know each other, so I hope it is not presumptuous to offer you a cyber hug. (((( )))).

[Hugin]

26. KnR. n/t

[OhNo-Really]

28. 😢😢😢 I'm so sad for your losses ❤️❤️❤️

I wish the media would broadcast more stories

Maybe now they will

Hugs

[lunatica]

29. Hugs to you!

The pain of losing your loved ones is so hard to bear. It’s unfair!

Those people are low information and lower intelligence if they choose to believe it’s a hoax. You did the right thing to not engage with them. You would be wasting your efforts. They don’t deserve to be acknowledged.

[wishstar]

30. But they will pivot on Jan 20th and blame Biden for dire Covid situation

because these people are in the Fox rightwing bubble just like the teapartiers that blamed Obama for the market slump and deficits and job losses he inherited. If Trump and McConnell and Repubs decide to hurt Biden and make him a one term Pres. instead of helping American people with another stimulus, our economy and unemployment will be worse by end of January and they will blame Biden and put Covid mess in his lap just as they blamed Obama in order to win back the Congress.

[madeup64]

43. This is exactly what will happen

Considering the ridiculous stuff they criticized Obama for and all the things they should have criticized Trump for this will be what happens. Hell they'll probably criticize Biden for the virus but then also criticize any steps he takes to contain it.

[patphil]

31. None are so blind as those who choose not to see.

[Turbineguy]

32. They've been lied to for 30 years

from RW hate radio and Fox News.

And it is sad really

[MontanaMama]

33. The MAGAts I know say the virus

would disappear after the election...not after the inauguration. Now that they’ve apparently changed the magic end date of the pandemic...it tells me that they’ll just blame Joe for it after January 20th. It is a cult.

[electric_blue68]

34. Aww, jeeez. So sorry for your loss. {gentle hug}

[dhol82]

35. Interesting that they have now pushed it off to January 20th.

The stop date was previously November 4th.
Wonder what date they will choose when that one doesn’t work out?

[StaunchDemocrat1957]

37. Trump should be arrested just for the lies alone he made people believe!

I hope he gets frog marched right out of the White house!

[dchill]

38. He's not a president. He's an undertaker.

[bdamomma]

63. He's

a thug/criminal.

[Ziggysmom]

39. You did the right thing

I got into it today with a trumpster saying now that a Dem will be President our guns will
be taken away. I said to him, “How many guns did you lose during Obama or Clinton’s presidency? I didn’t loose any”. He mumbled and couldn’t come up with an answer 😂

[Ziggysmom]

40. You did the right thing

I got into it today with a trumpster saying now that a Dem will be President our guns will
be taken away. I said to him, “How many guns did you lose during Obama or Clinton’s presidency? I didn’t loose any”. He mumbled and couldn’t come up with an answer 😂

[Jon King]

41. The future of Covid

Even with the Biden task force and plan, the future is likely one of 2 Americas. Blue areas and individuals where we get the virus under control and eventually with testing and vaccines, go on with life quite normally by summer 2021. And Trump areas where people continue to suffer for years and years as they refuse testing, tracing, and even vaccines. Its easy to see how in 2022 a state like NY is operating normally while a state like N. Dakota continues to be hammered by the virus. They just show no signs of learning a thing from their mistakes. The virus will just continue to circulate for years through their communities.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

42. So sorry for your loss ..sending you hugs. You did the right thing, they

..would have not listened to you and may have caused you harm. Keep safe.

Your marriage reminds me of my parents-- now in their lat 80s both doing well--they genuinely enjoy each others company, they have each other..so far covid19 hasnt taken any of my family members..but I worry for my parents, my two sons who work at medical trauma center that take in all covid19 cases; Im worried that if one parent gets sick it will be devastating for the other; they've been married for 66 yrs.

Paz.

[wildcats75]

44. Crazed Deniers

I had a similar situation recently. I was talking to a gentleman regarding doing some work at my home and the coronavirus topic came up and the first thing out of his mouth was that it would soon be gone after this years election. I live in a heavily-Republican area so it came as no surprise that he said that. I was tempted to get into as discussion about it, but knew it would be a futile attempt. In addition, a few weeks ago I was at a doctor's office and while awaiting the doctor, I was chatting with his nurse about mask wearing and sure enough, her sentiment was similar to the gentleman at my home. However, I am slated to return to that office in a few days and am hoping she is my nurse because I'll play the devil's advocate and ask her how the coronavirus pandemic is going. I'll be curious what she says. Sadly, this woman works in the healthcare industry which is a bit scary.

[jeffreyi]

45. Devastating. So sorry.

For what it's worth, I heard the same thing yesterday. A local contractor is spouting this, it must be going around on falsebook or something.

[AllaN01Bear]

47. someone on this board said once ,"proud of your ignorace arnt you?".

[blogslut]

48. You're right

What is there that can be said? It's not fair. I am so sorry.

[octoberlib]

50. I am so sorry for your losses . If they're walking around without

wearing masks and social distancing , they will soon find out how serious it is.

[jcgoldie]

51. Wait .. January 20th?

Dammit I thought it was supposed to be over after the election?!?

[sandensea]

52. You mean you didn't get the memo?

That's the new GOPee talking point, don'tchaknow.

[Woodwizard]

55. I am sorry you have been so hurt by covid

Our family takes all the precautions it is frustrating to see others brush it off.

[BigOleDummy]

56. If only....

If only it was the idiots like this who were the only ones to catch it. Sorry, I'm totally out of patience and sympathy for these people.

[yardwork]

57. I so sorry for your losses.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

59. This fake news crusade works

on people who can't think for themselves or won't.

It sucks and the Repubs eat it up, their voters are full cult members.

[bdamomma]

60. My deepest

sympathy to you that is so unfortunate.

there are 10 million cases and 239,000 + have died, this is a genocide.

[MFM008]

61. sometime I think

Evil equal willful stupidity.

[Miigwech]

62. Horrible burden for you, not yours to bear.

Others will speak for you, yes you are right, Joe is elected and will do his best to protect other Americans from the unspeakable tragedy you and your family has suffered. So sorry for your losses. Stay safe.

[captain queeg]

65. I'd almost think they were trolling you. But no, many really are that stupid

[warmfeet]

66. I work with a few tRump supporters.

I have come to understand that I do not live in the same existence, universe, whatever you want to call it, as they do. It is quite unnerving. Sometimes I feel like I am in an episode of the Twilight Zone. One of these coworkers lost a friend early on to Covid-19 - his friend is dead and he admits that, and he admits it was from this virus. He does not like to wear a mask and thinks it is all a hoax. How can that be? How can you admit that you lost a friend to this virus and at the same time refuse to wear a mask and believe it is all a hoax?



These are things I have never encountered before. I have no solution, not even a guess.

[joshcryer]

67. I'm so so sorry for your lose Boogiemack.

That is tragic. I wish you all the best.

[area51]

68. I'm so sorry for your losses.

[Dreampuff]

69. I am so sorry for your loss

They kind of contradicted what their Master said. He said it would be over November 3rd. We also have relatives who were non believers in this who have now gotten it. Thankfully, at this point, we have not lost anyone close to us, but several casual acquaintances.

[Ferrets are Cool]

70. And these are the shitheads that some are wanting us to UNIFY with.

I may be in a minority, but my response is FUCK UM. They don't want to UNIFY, they want to DOMINATE. I am not a masochist.

[Grokenstein]

71. Just the other day, someone on another forum

actually called the victims of COVID "crisis actors."

Someone like that would rather die than face reality.

[JudyM]

74. Some folks' ignorance is stunning. Yet they congratulate themselves for being 'in the know.'

I’m so sorry for your very deep loss...

[hkp11]

77. sorry for your loss

that is too many...praying for you

[StocktonNative]

79. Some people believe and propogate the ChemTrail conspiracies.

Nothing stops those knuckleheads from learning about airflow, vortices and thermodynamics. They just won't and probably refuse to understand it.

[Riverman100]

80. A few months ago when it was a lull in the virus

We were waiting to be admitted to a restaurant, when the guy behind us mentioned to his wife that he thought they were making too much of the whole virus thing. I half turned and said "Yeah just ask those (at the time) 125000 dead people". He shut up, and the lady I was with told me how proud she was of me
.

[BlueJac]

81. K&R

[The Mouth]

82. I lost my sister to it

I want to slap the crap, followed by a good tazing, of any unmasked assholes I see.

[BobTheSubgenius]

83. What a horrible way to start one's week!

I'm sorry the idiocy and boorishness of strangers blew into your life today.

[lagomorph777]

84. I'm so sorry for your losses.

At this point, my only consolation is that more MAGATS than decent people will die. They are committing suicide (and yet, we can't entirely escape their entitlement - many of our troops will fall in the battle ahead).