The scene at the Oklahoma state capitol. People are there to protest COVID vaccine mandates.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

C'mon Darwin.

[Girard442]

1. Are they serving grape Kool-Aid?

Never mind, they don't need to.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. What's that, about 450 people? Doesn't even fill a high school auditorium.

[MustLoveBeagles]

52. They prefer Orange

[DURHAM D]

2. May they live a short and poor life.

I am so damn sick of stupid people.

[TheBlackAdder]

20. The funny tracking thing. The state and feds know everyone there based off of their phones 🤣

.

For shit and giggles, they'll track them for the next week to get a pattern of their behavior.

Hell, supermarkets do that with their shoppers, tracking what isles they are on, where they stop, how long they spend in different isles and departments.

.

[bottomofthehill]

3. I see dead people.

[Comfortably_Numb]

4. Watch this space.

[MustLoveBeagles]

55. They don't know they're dead.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Yeah! Let's protest safety measures against a pandemic by having a super-spreader event...

[chia]

6. Thinning the herd

[orleans]

7. "I'm tired of trying to convince them not to die."

Let them thin the herd. Fuck it. I’m tired of trying to convince them not to die.

Link to tweet

[Piasladic]

8. call me a bleeding heart

I don't wish anyone the sort of death/illness covid can cause. That said, may they stay away from people until they get vaccinated.

[Crunchy Frog]

34. My bleeding heart is bled dry.

[Boomerproud]

60. They are not ever going to get vaccinated or stay away from people.

[2naSalit]

9. Herd immunity takes on a whole new definition here

I'm thinking.

[roamer65]

10. 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠

I’m there, too

See me?

-Delta DeSantis.

[BComplex]

11. Come on Darwin, is right!

May they all meet themselves in hell.

[LonePirate]

12. A lot of those people will be changing their tunes in about 10 days when they're sick.

I continue to wish COVID would turn people purple or something while they are afflicted so these idiots would see how widespread this virus is.

[Ligyron]

35. And we'd know who to stay the fk away from. Nt

[BlueJac]

13. Keep it up and stay away from me.

[Scottie Mom]

14. Just hoping they cuddle up and breathe on each other.

One way to turn a red state blue!

[Deuxcents]

15. I'm about on my last nerve

With these anti vaxers. My sister was 70 on Wednesday n I did not go visit b/c my 45 n 40 year old niece n nephew are not vaxxed ..even tho my sister has pleaded with them. I’m sick of living my life avoiding people and places b/c of their selfishness. I consider myself a caring person but that’s wearing very thin. They need to be ID ‘d or separation may have to be an issue. This s a global pandemic and some just don’t care and are being reckless. I really don’t know the answer but we’re gonna be at this for a while..that, I do know.

[Initech]

16. Fucking morons!

[bluestarone]

17. CRAZY! Maybe our best way to deal with this is

Sit back and let them solve our problems. (KILL themselves plus helping Democrats win in 22)

[JCMach1]

21. When the kids start dying: a friend discussed with her pediatrician this week... She had 14 kids die

here in TX over the last couple of months.

It's not a game

[ShazzieB]

28. FOURTEEN?!

14 dead kids...

[JCMach1]

48. DFW, so big metroplex... All children ICUs are filled here

[Irish_Dem]

18. The end of America's social contract

Where citizens agree to band together for mutual benefit.
For democracy, for health, life and death issues.

[OldBaldy1701E]

40. It's been done for a while now

There is just no further way to pretend it is still there.

[GulfCoast66]

49. It started ending 50 years ago. When the Democratic Party

Started bringing people of color into that compact. Many of my fellow white never accepted that paradigm. And as they become a minority they are willing to use violence to kick people of color back out of that compact.

[Irish_Dem]

58. yes. This internal civil war we face has been a long time brewing.

It is now an undeniable reality.

[Irish_Dem]

57. Yes, it is now seen in stark reality.

We cannot deny it.

[Windy City Charlie]

22. The lengths

The lengths some people will go to keep from admitting their master Trump was wrong about the severity of COVID. No masks, no vaccinations, protesting about it. They'll literally risk killing themselves than accept Trump was wrong.

[SergeStorms]

38. The orange shithead would have died....

if he hadn't received drugs not available to the general citizenry. As it was, he demanded to be released from the hospital WAAAY too early, and everyone could see how he was laboring to breathe.

Dumb shits. Believe some assholes on Facebook rather than the foremost epidemiologists on the planet.

[Dial H For Hero]

23. Question: what is a realistic estimate of their risk from this event?

[Orangepeel]

24. Oklahoma has vaccine mandates?

[scipan]

59. Set up by the repukes

Link to tweet

?s=20

[spanone]

25. goddamn idjits

[Botany]

27. "goddamn idjits"

Viruses are always stopped by rallies of un-vaccinated older overweight white people.

I'm done with these stupid assholes. I hope they all get sick and die.

BTW Putin was very successful in helping to hurt and divide America by installing Trump.

[spanone]

29. I'm with you.

I have zero empathy for these assholes.

[Botany]

36. Not a mask to be seen.

BTW a friend who is a nurse told me that if you have C-19 and they have to intubate you and then move you
to the ICU odds are you will not be coming back.

[ItsjustMe]

26. You Cannot

Fix Stupid.

[niyad]

31. Delta-covid says, "I can."

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. FREEDUMB!!!!!!!!

[Crunchy Frog]

32. A superspreader event. Hope they succeed in getting their hospitals and morgues overrun.

[Skittles]

33. chances every one of them calls themselves "pro-life":

100%

MEANWHILE:

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/08/12/oklahoma-hospitals-at-their-limits-icu-beds-scarce-amid-covid-19-surge/5569324001/

[Demobrat]

37. If only they would just stay home

when they get sick …

[littlemissmartypants]

39. Quick reality check, Response Tweet

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Maru Kitteh]

51. Excellent graphic. I think I might put that on my locker.

[littlemissmartypants]

53. Do it!

Speaking from experience, as a retired direct care provider, intubation is physically damaging second only to extubation.

Sometimes the voice and the ability to properly swallow are permanently adversely affected by these two dangerous, but life saving procedures which aren't always successful on the first try. Not at all, like on TV.

Thanks for the reply.

[bucolic_frolic]

41. I thought it was a stage they went through

Last December, I got a lecture from an older friend that she wasn't going to stop her life or use a mask. There were places open without masks, in defiance of state order. "God's in charge," she said. "If He decides it's my time, He'll let me know."

By June she has been vaccinated. But still Trumping along otherwise.

So I thought most rational people would finally relent and get vaccinated. I guess the operational word is "rational".

[tclambert]

42. I spoke with Karma. She's busy right now, but these people are on her list.

She's been working overtime in Florida and Texas and thinks she'll have to hire more staff.

[Evolve Dammit]

43. Check in with this basket of deplorables in 12 days. Can you say "super spreader"? I knew you could.

[moonscape]

44. Tulsa city council is meeting in special

session to consider a mask mandate regardless of vaccine status! Hope it passes. Remarkkable coming out of OK.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tulsa-city-councilors-to-consider-mask-mandate-in-special-meeting/ar-AANiEVp

[Greybnk48]

45. Group hug! n/t

[marble falls]

46. Only proves they can be as deadly without guns as they are packing them at state capitol bldgs.

[Traildogbob]

47. Have y'all seen

Any of the preseason football games the last few days. Barely a mask in sight in the stands. Packed in, screaming and spewing. Gonna be a lonely Thanksgiving for so many. All trumpets I hope. Eliminate the weakest link of the herd. The really stupid of the herd. Buh-Bye now. Hurry on along. School, college games, pro games, massive travel state to state. Better get toilet paper, we gonna be deep in shit. Willfully No Vax, zero health insurance, no admittance into hospitals. Mass graves, burn remains to kill any residue of virus. Fuck em.

[Stuart G]

50. Stupid is "STUPID", LOOK AT LOTS OF STUPID PEOPLE wait is there a "MADATE" TO WEAR A "SEATBELT?

[dalton99a]

54. I hope they get to meet Jesus very soon

[rockfordfile]

56. You see why Oklahoma is so messed up.

[struggle4progress]

61. A COVID patient in OK needed a bed. The closest one was in Boise

By AUDREY DUTTON
Idaho Capital Sun
Aug 13, 2021
Updated Aug 14, 2021

... hospitalizations now are at levels unseen since January.

Souza again implored the public to get vaccinated, which significantly reduces the risk of infection and severe illness.

In the fall and winter, the original coronavirus variant spread less quickly, making hot spots flare up and then die down in one place after another. The faster spreading delta variant seems to be hitting wide swaths of the U.S. at the same time.

Souza said two patients recently admitted to St. Luke’s with COVID-19 were transported to Boise from Tillamook, Oregon, and from Oklahoma ...

https://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/national/a-covid-19-patient-in-oklahoma-needed-a-bed-the-closest-one-was-in-boise/article_549ec748-d546-5f2e-b42c-f19ae768f63a.html

[struggle4progress]

62. Mercy Hospital: Every bed is full

by: K. Querry-Thompson/KFOR
Posted: Aug 13, 2021 / 07:31 AM CDT
Updated: Aug 13, 2021 / 07:31 AM CDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A hospital in Oklahoma City says it has run out of beds as COVID-19 cases continue to climb in the state.

On Thursday, Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City announced that every bed was full.

Mother indicted on 10 charges in BB gun and taser child abuse case
In all, officials said there were 57 patients with COVID-19 in the hospital on Thursday, compared to 42 a week ago ...

https://kfor.com/news/local/mercy-hospital-every-hospital-bed-is-full-as-covid-19-cases-climb/

[struggle4progress]

63. Oklahoma parents, doctors file lawsuit to reverse ban on mask mandates

by Erika Stone, Senior Staff Writer
August 13, 2021

With COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma rising and school starting next week, a group of parents and physicians are fighting back against Senate Bill 658, which bans mask mandates in schools. The group has filed suit against state of Oklahoma and Gov. Kevin Stitt, alleging that SB 658 is unconstitutional under state law.

The plaintiffs are the Oklahoma State Medical Association, along with parents across the state, including those whose children live with serious medical conditions and are at high-risk for COVID-19. The group is considering seeking temporary injunctive relief, as other states’ plaintiffs have successfully done so while challenging policies in court.

Senate Bill 658 states that school districts may not have mask mandates — unless Governor Stitt declares a state of emergency. As of last week, Governor Stitt’s office has confirmed that despite rising COVID-19 cases across Oklahoma, he remains unmoved, with no plans to declare a statewide emergency ...

https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2021/08/13/oklahoma-parents-doctors-file-lawsuit-to-reverse-ban-on-mask-mandates/