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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsreading an article about someone dying of covid i always wonder if they've been vaccinated
or not
sometimes i look for clues and try to figure it out before the article says they were or were not.
i've become more judgy and bitchy than i've ever been during the course of this pandemic because an individual's personal shit choice has a huge fallout effect when they spread their covid and end up killing someone else
the following were my clues & (assumptions):
clue: article in indystar (not vaxxed)
clue: a couple who are getting ready for their november wedding and the groom tests positive. (?)
clue: he's a reserve officer for police dept (not vaxxed)
clue: in indiana (not vaxxed)
clue: he collapsed, unresponsive, not breathing (not vaxxed)
clue: he was really into cars (?)
clue: fiancé says he loved: "just helping people get into the car community and learn about cars and just become compassionate about them.
("compassionate" ALERT ALERT. it's either a typo or fiancé doesn't know what the word compassionate means and how it is different from the word passionate. i'm assuming it is not a typo and that fiancé, based on her choice of words, is not vaxxed and thereby assume he was not vaxxed)
clue: a few years ago he was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease (toss up; maybe he was afraid to get vaxxed because of that disease or maybe because of the disease he did get vaxxed)
clue: because of the disease he was considered at high risk for having complications if he ever got covid (vaxxed. or would he be that stupid not to get the vaccine?)
clue: fiancé declined to say if he was vaccinated or not (not vaxxed!!!)
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2021/11/01/jeff-boost-lee-indianapolis-man-dies-coronavirus-9-days-before-wedding/6198644001/
and yet, even in all my bitchy judginess, i feel very bad for these two people and what happened to them
Best_man23
(4,907 posts)Earlier this year when the vaccines were rolled out, I had sympathy as while I was waiting my turn to get called, that was the time I when was the most frightened.
Since about the June-July time frame, I no longer have sympathy for any person who refuses the vaccine because they say: "they're doing their own research" or "they don't want to be tracked by the Government" (while holding a cellphone), or "the vaccine impedes their freedumb".
I now tell such people, continue your disbelief of science and your refusal of the vaccine, and you or your family member(s) may well end up on this Reddit forum.
(a very busy subreddit)
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/
The Herman Cain Freedom Award.
Qualifications for nomination:
Public declaration of one's anti-mask, anti-vaxx, or Covid-hoax views.
Admission to hospital for Covid.
Qualifications for award:
Award is granted upon the nominee's release from their Earthly shackles.
(the fine print)
Nominees / recipients must have a history of PUBLIC statements that are anti-vaxx, anti-mask, etc.
The statements must have been made public prior to the person's receiving hospital care.
"Public Statements" include media appearances / interviews, social media posts, opinion pieces in print media, etc. Post-hospitalization second-hand statements made by friends / relatives do not count.
Suffering the consequences of believing Covid misinformation is not sufficient to merit a nomination / award.
Propagation of Covid misinformation, or public declaration of being anti-vaxx / anti mask is necessary.
All pictures and names must be redacted unless the person is a public figure (e.g. Herman Cain).
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/oy3yot/the_herman_cain_freedom_award_discussion/