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Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination

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Re: Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination

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Post by tzs »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #17
MattGaiser wrote: post #6

Stories like this happen going on since the beginning of the pandemic. I’m shocked at the number of people who casually skip over the body bags and refrigerated trailers to declare COVID to be vastly overblown.

Check out the content in https://reddit.com/r/COVIDAteMyFace It’s morbid, for sure, but eye opening (ignore the distasteful comments sections, focus on the post content; posted to provide some semblance of insight into the unvaccinated’s take on COVID after unsuccessful outcomes). My ~90 year old grandmother refuses to get vaccinated due to misinformation on a major news network. She asked me if I get my flu shot, an…

A lot of the posts on COVIDAteMyFace (and the more general LeopardsAteMyFace) consist of a series of someone's social media comments where they repeat all the usual COVID conspiracy theories and misinformation (and often insults directed toward all of us stupid sheeple who get vaccinated and wear masks) followed by a social media post where they say they have COVID and need prayers, followed by a social media post from a family member or friend asking for more prayers because the person is now on a ventilator and not doing well, finally followed by family or friends posting that the person has died and listing a GoFundMe page to help pay the bills and mortgage and such for the spouse and children left behind.

This last part, the frequent GoFundMe requests, raises a question--do these people not have life insurance?

I haven't seen any conspiracy theories or other misinformation about how life insurance is a sheeple thing or a commie plot or satanic etc, so I wouldn't expect there to be any particular correlation between the kind of person who ends up on COVIDAteMyFace and the kind of person who does not have life insurance.

Re: Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination

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Post by tzs »

akudha wrote: post #26
MattGaiser wrote: post #6

Stories like this happen going on since the beginning of the pandemic. I’m shocked at the number of people who casually skip over the body bags and refrigerated trailers to declare COVID to be vastly overblown.

I have family in CA. I am concerned about the recall election. As bad as the situation is today, it might get worse if a republican replaces Newsom, which looks like a possibility :(

I came across this striking graph showing COVID rates per 100k over the course of the pandemic so far in the US broken down by county voter distribution in the 2020 election [1]. It is striking how different COVID rates have been between Republican counties and Democrat counties.

I found this on Reddit. It claims to by from the NY Times and the MIT Election Lab, but I can't find the original so do not know if that attribution is accurate.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/bQFbGVL.png

Re: Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination

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Post by belltaco »

Huwyt_Nashi_065 wrote: post #30
toomuchtodo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out the content in https://reddit.com/r/COVIDAteMyFace It’s morbid, for sure, but eye opening (ignore the distasteful comments sections, focus on the post content; posted to provide some semblance of insight into the unvaccinated’s take on COVID after unsuccessful outcomes). My ~90 year old grandmother refuses to get vaccinated due to misinformation on a major news network. She asked me if I get my flu shot, an…

In fairness, there's no shortage of schadenfreude in the opposing echo chambers too. Plenty of obnoxious vaccine advocates suffering untimely deaths, miscarriages, strokes, etc.

Source? What does plenty mean? Like a dozen?

Re: Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination

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Post by MattGaiser »

tzs wrote: post #31
toomuchtodo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out the content in https://reddit.com/r/COVIDAteMyFace It’s morbid, for sure, but eye opening (ignore the distasteful comments sections, focus on the post content; posted to provide some semblance of insight into the unvaccinated’s take on COVID after unsuccessful outcomes). My ~90 year old grandmother refuses to get vaccinated due to misinformation on a major news network. She asked me if I get my flu shot, an…

A lot of the posts on COVIDAteMyFace (and the more general LeopardsAteMyFace) consist of a series of someone's social media comments where they repeat all the usual COVID conspiracy theories and misinformation (and often insults directed toward all of us stupid sheeple who get vaccinated and wear masks) followed by a social media post where they say they have COVID and need prayers, followed by a social media post fr…

I suspect the correlation is whether you plan with your brain or plan with your gut.

Re: Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination

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Post by rsynnott »

> Deaths in Del Norte County from COVID-19 have more than doubled in recent weeks, from 10 on Aug. 15 to 22 on Friday. Four people died in a single day, officials said.

Apparently there are 27,000 people in Del Norte County. That's a terrifyingly high rate (about 1/day) now that vaccination of the elderly should now largely be done.

In Ireland we have five million people and a persistently high rate of covid (~2k cases/day). Since over-65s were done, deaths have typically been 1-3 per day; the difference, I suppose, is that virtually all over-65s took the vaccine.

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