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How can you reach these people (Original Post) USAFRetired_Liberal Aug 2021 OP
they don't think they will GET Covid Skittles Aug 2021 #1
You can do nothing for them. You just have to learn to among them. Watch your back! Chainfire Aug 2021 #2
Keep reminding them that 99 percent of covid people in the hospital are unvaxxed Blues Heron Aug 2021 #3
I agree -misanthroptimist Aug 2021 #4
There are some people who throughout their whole lives Tadpole Raisin Aug 2021 #5
Too bad if he dies PJMcK Aug 2021 #6
Some FReaky examples Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2021 #7

Skittles

(153,150 posts)
1. they don't think they will GET Covid
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 03:35 PM
Aug 2021

and they absolutely do not care about anyone else

they're a CULT

there really is no reasoning with them

Blues Heron

(5,931 posts)
3. Keep reminding them that 99 percent of covid people in the hospital are unvaxxed
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 03:37 PM
Aug 2021

Let their rusty mental gears grind that little factoid.

-misanthroptimist

(810 posts)
4. I agree
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 03:40 PM
Aug 2021

No amount of logic, fact, friendliness, compassion, or anything else will reach these people.

That leads to the question, "What do we do?" I'm trying to come up with non-ugly answers to that question. So far, it's not going well.

Tadpole Raisin

(972 posts)
5. There are some people who throughout their whole lives
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 03:50 PM
Aug 2021

Will only learn things the hard way, repeatedly!

It could be as silly as insisting they won’t fall asleep every night watching TV or as deadly as denying a disease or a hurricane.

“The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.”
J. R. R. Tolkien

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,998 posts)
7. Some FReaky examples
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 04:00 PM
Aug 2021
The Delta variant is slowing office reopenings. It could slow the recovery, too
CNN ^ | 08/05/2021 | Matt Egan


The “Delta Variant”? Do they mean the annual summer cold? People are STUPID!
4 posted on 2021-08-05, by upsdriver

Actually, I think Americans got ahead of the plan when restrictions were lifted. People started filling ballparks and going to concerts, things were feeling a lot more “normal.” The “Delta Variant” was invented to slow “normal” down.
9 posted on 2021-08-05, by JennysCool

Now that auto accident fatalities are about to exceed Covid deaths, the CDC has to step in and stop auto travel “to keep us safe”...
15 posted on 2021-08-05, by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)

I’m waiting for the double dog deadly Cyrillic Я variant once we run out of Greek and Latin letters.
20 posted on 2021-08-05, by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)

They don’t even have a way of testing for Delta. They’re just saying “Delta.”
26 posted on 2021-08-05, by //ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)

As if a flu shot is not a vaccine:
Anyone that thought they got a vaccine is an idiot. It was the equivalent of a flu shot.
33 posted on 2021-08-05, by cp124 (Family and friends, pay to play government.)


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