Asked...and answered

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[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[niyad]

2. KNR

[The Magistrate]

3. Cold But Fair, Sir

[Tadpole Raisin]

4. Absolute truth!

Cognitive dissonance is alive and well in the Republican Party.

[TNNurse]

5. I do not think it is cold.

I think it is appropriate care for the people who have refused to believe people with actual knowledge.

[MontanaMama]

6. 100 THIS.

There should be no resources freely given to these people. If they require care then let them pay for it.

[Rebl2]

7. No worries

They will pay one way or another.

[3Hotdogs]

8. Set up them tents. Then induct the pastors into the military.

Post them inside the tents to pray for the recovery of the dopes they duped into not getting vaccines.

[KS Toronado]

9. Hospital beds for Democrats, tents for reQublicOns should be the norm.

[rurallib]

10. attendees at the tents should include state governors and legislators

They should be there to see what pain and suffering they cause.

[KS Toronado]

11. And to bestow their thoughts & prayers on the sick

so people will see how worthless T's & P's are against covid

[Marcuse]

12. Belief in alternative COVID facts logically requires treatment by alternative COVID hospitals.

[Lonestarblue]

13. Anti-vaxxers do believe in doctors and medicine.

They’ve just allowed disinformation and politics to get in the way of common sense. Not a one of them would choose to go to a pastor to pray away a severe tooth ache. They would get to the dentist quickly. Nor would those having a heart attack or various forms of cancer refuse treatment.

There’s a strong correlation between those who refuse to be vaccinated and those who identify as Republicans. Too many of them see not being vaccinated from a political point of view: it means that they have the power to preventing Biden from claiming success against the virus, and it is a means of thumbing their noses at liberals who want everyone who can to be vaccinated. Those two effects seem to be worth continuing to damage the country and getting Covid and dying.

I do not include minority communities in this category because I suspect there’s a lot of disinformation there, such as whether the shots are free. I remember reading somewhere recently that some minorities thought they would be charged. And my other question would be whether minority communities have enough vaccine sites and sites that are accessible by public transportation.

[smb]

24. I Am Reminded Of The Observation...

...that preachers who claim "miracle healings" always have exhibits of discarded crutches and walkers but never any prosthetic limbs or glass eyes....

[malaise]

14. I think they should staff the tents with

crisis actors

[reACTIONary]

21. +10 Good One nt

[BioProfRP]

15. Who do we want to be?

I've been mulling this over some time, much of which has me saying, "screw that bastards and let them suffocate in their own disease..." But when I reflect, I wonder who that makes me. It is the trumplicans who are cruel and happy to see the libs suffer and die. When NYC was slammed in spring 2020, the idea that those New Yorkers were dying was happy news to the trumpers who thought COVID was not just nothing to worry about, but was actually a good thing if it was killing liberals and people of color.

Now that it is killing the conservatives due to their ignorance/religion/tribalism etc... should we think that is a good thing?

Who does that make us?

I have totally run out of patience for the unvaccinated, but I want to be part of a group that thinks that *everybody* should be treated to the best of our ability. Otherwise, we aren't any better than them.

[Farmer-Rick]

16. Yeah, didn't some Trump staffer in the first days of the pandemic

suggest it was only minorities dying, and that's one of the reasons why Trump did nothing to stop the spread?

Sigh, I really despise them and don't want to be like them by wishing death on people I don't know. But I have no sympathy for them when they get sick and die.

It's a very tight row to hoe.

[ShazzieB]

19. I agree.

I'm plenty disgusted with the antimasking, antivaxxing covidiots, and I understand where these sentiments are coming from, but I can't get behind them, for the reasons you've articulated.

In addition, I think these types of comments display a massive lack of understanding of how medical ethics work.

Maybe I'm a bit idealistic, but I always thought being a health care professional meant caring for those who need care, period, not just picking and choosing who to care for, based on some sort of "deservability" criteria. The minute someone is denied care because the reason they are in need of it is deemed to negate their "deserving" it, we will all be in very deep trouble. That is not a world I want to live in.

[crickets]

20. Thank you for saying this.

I agree - I am furious at the anti-vaxxers, but I don't want to be so angry that I become just as callous and uncaring as those who have angered me.

[reACTIONary]

22. Its. A. Joke. nt.

[calimary]

17. Why don't they all just relocate to Mar-a-Lago?

‘Cuz the individual they trust most ardently lives there.

Hey, maybe they already are? Could that explain why Florida has the worst COVID numbers in the country?

Hey (as THEY’D say, themselves), “I’m just asking questions…”

[keithbvadu2]

18. And treated with hydroxychloroquine, bleach, Lysol, a UV light rectally, and some horse medicine.

And treated with hydroxychloroquine, bleach, Lysol, a UV light rectally, and some horse medicine.

Plus a hefty dose of 'blood of Christ'.

[Neema]

23. Let Dr. Google take care of them, since they all know better than

doctors with years of training and experience.

[Demobrat]

25. I don't think anti-vaxxers should be denied care.

But I also don’t think others who need it should be denied care so an anti-vaxxer can get it

Do I want stroke and accident victims to be turned away from hospitals because sick anti-vaxxers have taken all the beds? No.

If I had to pick - and somebody does - it would be the anti-vaxxer who was turned away, not the stroke victim.

[dianaredwing]

26. And I would bet

if it does come to a triage type situation that a great many of the anti vaxxers have a lesser chance of survival than other sick and injured people and would be put on stablilizing status onlly.

I guess none of these people watched MASH.

[Beartracks]

27. "Everything I Need to Know About Treating COVID-19, I Learned From Facebook."

That can be printed on their name badge.

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[orangecrush]

28. Kick and rec

[Blue Owl]

29. K&R

[burrowowl]

30. Good rplique from Audra!