A short story of hubris in 2020

Jul 11, 2024 3:03 PM

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“View more obituaries.” Don’t mind if I do.

2 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 2

good for him, but I am still sorry for all the ppl he gave the disease before he passed.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

As a Lib Cuck, I feel very "owned" right about now. Guess I'll go breathe some oxygen and cope.

2 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 3

We need to come up with something else that makes them think the best way to "own" us is by dying...

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That shit killed my Mom. I wasn't pleased to find a fricken bag of Hydrocloriqine in her nightstand. Trump supporter of course. Wtf do people see in that POS?

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

most - "he hates who I hate" some - (much less) "the liberals are communists who will destroy the world if we let them and must be stopped at all costs"

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Honestly, it was very patriotic of him to die on July 4th.

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Dying of COVID so we can keep everything open so rich people could make a little more money is the most patriotic thing you can do as a republican.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

He exercised his rights. He could have listened to people smarter than him and keep exercising his rights, but he made a choise.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

"It's all a hoax!" "These people are just actors!" "It's just the flu!" "People die all the time!"

Yea, and the flu decimated entire villages and towns killing tens of millions before we even understood it. But explaining to people who think themselves as medical professionals has about as much usefulness as fucking a brick wall.

2 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

"Oh shit, those were load-bearing lungs"

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

Used the leroy extensively in cartography classes in the (gulp) early 70's. You'd have gotten dinged for blob on the O, ha ha.

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

You're awesome!!

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 5

I've never seen a more perfect reaction gif

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The funny thing is I didn't think COVID was that bad in the beginning but I still played it safe, like I didn't wear a mask much but I also didn't go to crowded places and I switched to online shopping for food. And I was fine. (When I actually read up on COVID I wore that mask like it was a holy relic wording off vampires

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Yup. I rarely wore a mask because I rarely went out. No contact > masked contact > social distanced no mask contact > regular contact

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I still wear a mask indoors at gatherings - so, classes, supermarket, work, public transport. I don't outdoors or at friend's places when there's few people because that turned out to be important for me socially. Every time I think of stopping at work, for example, another wave hits. A colleague lost 70% of the vision in one eye. I can deal with being the only one, haven't got a cold in two years.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Good deal. I still see people here and there wearing masks. I assume they have their reasons, so I give them a wide berth. My youngest just had pneumonia. I was avoiding everywhere until I knew we were cleared. I didn't mask up because we simply weren't around people.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I avoided any and all indoor meetings and outdoor crowds for a long time, because a friend of mine has a progressive muscle paralysis, affecting her breathing, too, and I wanted to keep seeing her (masked, outdoors). Then I moved away and had to make new friends, build a network, so that's when I switched to what I'm still doing now. I get that not everyone sees the same trade-offs I do, I'm still surprised so few people wear masks. Best cost-benefit ratio, imho.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

From swimming pool to improving the gene pool.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Didn't even make it to 40.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Didn't even make it April to August...

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Turns out, diseases still exist even if you don't believe in them.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Is it bad of me not to be sad for him? He most likely infected others before he died.

2 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 3

We have more information in retrospect. Only N95s and distancing were effective. These masks were rarely available except for healthcare workers, and distancing was poorly communicated. There was a time we were allowing for cloth masks, made from old clothes, poorly worn, to be worn in close proximity with others, which were very ineffective but projected safety. I pity everyone who is poorly informed and die as a consequence.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

he made his choice with knowledge of the possible outcomes. So no, he doesn't need sympathy.

2 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

I am still sad. He and a lot of other people will never get the chance to change their minds. And yes, they probably took out a lot of others on the way.

2 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 3

Id say "I wouldn't mind because his death would've taught others a valuable lesson" but it became clear VERY quickly that everyone attached their identity to "not wearing masks" that no deaths could convince them otherwise, between parents saying that they don't regret anything after their kids die or wives/husbands having maskless parties while their loved one are literally gasping for air over zoom, there is LITERALLY no hope. Many of the people who died waited until they were at deaths door

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Before realizing "oh shit, I want the shot!" And "I don't like this at all". Despite this, no one around them learned.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I mean be sad about that, the others he infected. If willfully ignorant people selfishly ignore advice during a pandemic and die, too bad. There's so much in this world to be sad for, I'll direct my tears somewhere worthwhile, there's loads to choose from.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Nope. He was given information about his own safety. He chose to disregard it and died. That's natural selection. Humanity is stronger without him.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Nope!

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Only two months younger than me, appears to be less fat than me, and yet, I'm still here, never caught COVID, wore a mask, and am vaccinated. Oops. Guess I bought into the hype of not dying.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

my favorite 1/2

2 years ago | Likes 149 Dislikes 2

pity!

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The mildly infuriating part of that? Cops counted dying from covid as a line of duty death, even if it was directly connected to a refusal to vaccinate.

2 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 0

covid deaths was the highest cause of death among police last I checked as well

2 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Should have killed more police so issues could have been fixed

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

look, the issue is, it would have to decimate like 92% of the police force to solve the issues we want solved.

And losing that many police would cause an issue. As much as I dont like them, their threat of violence is currently keeping republicans from just wholesale slaughtering anyone they dont like out in the open.

For now.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He must be one of those "good cops" I always hear about .

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

He's dead. And the only good cop...

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Schedenfreude

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It’s „Schadenfreude“, but yes, you’re right ☺️

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well dammit. But well, better learn late than never I guess.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It’s just suicide with extra steps.

2 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Those extra steps are what keeps Christians from going to hell while arriving to heaven ahead of schedule.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It’s murder+suicide with extra steps - the negative consequences to not protecting against covid extend well beyond yourself.

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

r/hermancaineawards

2 years ago | Likes 791 Dislikes 3

This was my favourite site: https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/

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2 years ago | Likes 75 Dislikes 0

v

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

and this guy died on the 4th of July, what a patriot

2 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 0

That man was a legend, the Pokemon speech imo elevated him to unintentional satireist of the highest order.

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Did I miss something? Is it funny? This sounds funny, I'm in.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

absolutely amazing. "I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jV_11_q6Hc

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Awww shuckey duckey

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

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r/darwinawards

2 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 4

No. Endangering others is an automatic disqualification.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't go to that sub unless you like watching people die in uploaded clips

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Joke for the old ones: r/montgomerywards

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I know, let's order a heroin kit!

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Joke for Gotham citizens: Batman’swards

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"bUt CoViD wAs A hOaX!"

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

As a lib, I feel owned.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

As someone who has COVID (again), wear. a. fucking. mask.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

no IV

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Forty years ago, I got a mild virus. Like many who got COVID, and many who got sars1 15 years ago, I never recovered, and have missed out on my whole life. There is no prospect of a cure (have read about a thousand papers at this point) in under two decades at best. Vaccination isn't very good at preventing this. It started out at 50% protection from long COVID. And got worse. Even as we accepted that vaccines were literally the only thing we were willing to do, and repeated waves

2 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 13

Crash through the population disabling some that got lucky the first time. Wearing a mask and avoiding exposure is about all you can do to reduce your risk of becoming undead.

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 10

I live in Tx. Our local ERs now have a 8-10 hour wait. HIPPA is also out the window due to no exam rooms being empty. You’re lucky to get a chair in the hallway. All due to those asshats who either don’t believe in the ‘plandemic” or just won’t get vaccinated due to the supposed long term effects. My own elderly mother has missed out on care ‘cause she just could get seen. Kidney stones. I no longer have any sympathy for them. I’m on dialysis myself. The clinic got winnowed by Covid and it’s/1

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Yeah my sister died from surgical complications cause every fucking nurse, doctor, etc was all taken up by the plague rats. I feel for those who did everything they could to avoid catching it, but the ones who waved their bare ass around daring the 'mild flu'? Fuck those guys. You wanted to buy into survival of the fittest? Well guess what, you weren't fit. Buh-bye. Stop wasting resources that needy people actually deserve.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I so sorry for your loss.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Having only just caught Covid for the first time, I have no idea why these morons wouldn't take it more seriously. I have a mild case and it sucks out loud. I will never forgive these idiots for dragging it into their bullshit culture wars.

2 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

Because that means allowing others to tell them what to do, and those useless shits don't accept that- They are allowed to tell you what to do, you are not allowed to tell them what to do.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Man I also just got it for the first time and I am suffering! They aren't kidding when they talk about how important it is to rest.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wild how many people posted their ignorance and how it led directly to their deaths.

Mostly Conservatives; the only loss was the other folks they killed by spreading COVID.

2 years ago | Likes 373 Dislikes 22

They were HAPPY to take some along with them. The scariest shit I heard from them was how they'd rather die "and go to heaven" than wear a mask or get vaccinated.

2 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

Yet another reason why religion is toxic. There's nothing after this, so stop being cunts to everyone else.

2 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 2

if there is something after this and a just deity, living right is enough; in any other circumstance your worldly acts are irrelevant dead

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Even if there were a diety, its morality could be so foreign to us that it could be unknowable. There's no point in trying to appease one moral code or the other. Just be yourself. We should try to be the best us we can be, while helping others to do the same.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Herman Cain

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

COVID killed more Republicans than the amount of votes they lost in some counties. It's pretty much the reason trump lost in 2020

2 years ago | Likes 116 Dislikes 9

It was a damn shame it didn't wipe out far more.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

If Trump hadn't insisted that COVID was a hoax made up by his enemies, he might have had enough voters to legitimately win in 2020.

2 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

Good. May they keep dying of preventable illnesses.

2 years ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 11

Or bleach, or horse parasite medicine, or... Well anything, really.

2 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

The best part is, this dude was an Army Veteran. He probably got the Antrhax shot, just like I did; the literal brain hemorrhage causing LAVA in your veins shot. But no the covid shot is DAAANNGGERROUS.

2 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I also got anthrax, that shit sucked and was the only vaccine I was concerned about.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I know a guy who said (paraphrasing), "Of course I got the COVID vaccine, when I joined the military they injected me with dozens of things. When I asked why they were, they said, "Shut up! Move along!" and so no, I'm not worried about what's in the COVID vaccine."

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Someone can be ignorant without their life losing all value. These people were fools, but their deaths are still tragedies that leave grieving family and friends.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

No, its not a tragedy. A tragedy is someone who dide everything right and still was murdered by one of these self absorbed trashfires. It's comedy when they advertise how stupid they are, brag about how stupid they are, and then finally die to their own stupidity. It's fucking hilarious and they deserve what they get. They were told what covid was. They knew what it did, they saw what it did. They still chose to believe ANYBODY but the people who knew. Fuck them. Rot in piss, retard.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Thank you! Jesus, some people are ficker than a yard of lard.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I no longer have the stamina to care about people whose "politics" are hate.

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Ironic, coming from someone so full of hate he wants everyone who disagrees with him to die - having prejudged them to be hateful rather than potentially misinformed or foolhardy.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

They've had plenty of time to learn.

Those who are still on the Trump bandwagon (and I've seen many who have rejected Trump) are throwing their lot in with white supremacists. At this point, no, I no longer care about their well being because their core values include hating others for how they were born.

I hate the conservatives for their choices. It's very different.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

A disagreement, to be clear, is a discussion about policy or goals.

When the goal of one side is "murder the LBGTQIA+" then it is no longer a disagreement at all. You can't have common ground when the Conservative stance is to silence or kill all those who oppose their intolerance.

I wish I had a big 'ol pile of hate to sustain this push for democracy, but I'm really just sad and tired. Ending the Conservative ideals is like putting down a rabid dog. You can't help them and you can't 1/2

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

risk allowing them to hurt others, so you put them out of their pain and misery and fear. Go look up dying of rabies if you don't understand this analogy.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I have a lot of conservatively fiscal politics but I can not vote for people who don’t accept the humanity of others, even if I agree with them on more things than I disagree. The simple fact that they want to legislate groups of people out of having their god given rights is enough to overlook anything I agree with them on.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He died on the 4th of July? There's about a 50% chance it was fireworks related.

2 years ago | Likes 167 Dislikes 15

So patriotic! After visiting Putin Bay, no less

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Underrated comment for the win!

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A Google search said he basically died in his home after having not felt well the last few days.

2 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 0

he wasnt feeling well, so he lite up some fireworks

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

date on his "covid sucks" post is july 2nd so it matches with Roomba's comment

2 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but then my joke isn't as funny. :-/ :-)

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

Jeeze he was my age. What a fuckwad.

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

You also should not breathe fireworks.

2 years ago | Likes 107 Dislikes 1

But they so spicy

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's amazing Florida schools banned teaching that.

2 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

YOU GADDAMN LIBRULS CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!! I'LL SNORT A LINE OF GUNPOWDER JUST TO SHOW YOU WHAT'S WHAT jesus christ I can't keep that up, it's exhausting just pretending to be that much of a cuntwaffle. Can't imagine how terrible it must be to actually be like that.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

At first I thought the "jesus christ" was part of the bit lmao

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In 2023, 8 Americans died from fireworks-related accidents. In the entire year. Might want to rethink your percentages.

2 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

I like how you specify the “whole year” when really there are like TWO DAYS, and maybe, to a much lesser degree, a couple of days on either side of those.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

If I didn’t specify that, the reader would assume I meant specifically on July 4th of 2023.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

And they wouldn’t be far off.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Do you have a point?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Not in my area. More like at least a month. I'm not exaggerating.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Fuck around and find out hit pretty during peak covid

2 years ago | Likes 1042 Dislikes 18

I try not to hit the pretty.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There are far to many of those idiots left if you ask me.

2 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

Unfortunately, they took a whole lot of innocents with them. If that hadn't been the case, there would've been no reason to get angry with them.

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Love a happy ending

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The funniest part about using this phrase is that it is a big favorite among the MAGA types(such as for their lovely "rekt" vids aka gore)

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

But not hard enough to make the point.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think this is the only time I've seen in my lifetime where the process of natural selection actually worked for the human race.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"if you live, you learn. If you die, you learn faster"

2 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

I prefer "If you die, others learn."

2 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Oooh! I like that one

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If only that were true. Millions died from COVID and yet millions more remain willfully ignorant.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not hard enough.

2 years ago | Likes 159 Dislikes 0

Millions of people died and fucknuts like this endangered others, not just themselves. Saying I wish the consequences were worse says to me that more innocent people should have died.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Nobody said "hard"

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not even close. Let’s do another one, and be prepared this time.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

NGL I personally hoped the science deniers would get wiped out, not that lucky I suppose.

2 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 0

Just like how the deniers not believing in science doesn't make science go away it also didn't make science any less effective at protecting them despite their stupidity and many attempts to get themselves killed. Even just a single person that did the right things ended up protecting the deniers, wonderful individuals that would've gladly killed the responsible people, both on purpose and through ignorance.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought the inbreeding would've done the trick but they're still here!

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

European monarchies needed good 4 centuries to really collect the genetic defects, the US hasn't existed long enough

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Reading his tribute wall he sounds like a decent dude. Loved his two cats and loved wrestling and the paranormal. Honestly this is what is scarier, is the normalcy of many who became so divided over gaddamn wearing a mask. Well just that it became how to separate who leaned right vs left.

2 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

No one is immune to propaganda, billionaires pay lots of money to spread the worst of it and it's very dangerous

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Born 1982. He had decades of life in him if he just wore a mask and socially distanced for a bit. Too much to ask apparently...

2 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

He preferred to die rather than suffer the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask in public during a global pandemic.

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

He died as he lived: selfishly refusing to do the bare minimum for anyone but himself.

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

At least he can't vote anymore.

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

TBF, him wearing a mask doesn't protect him, he would be protecting others and that's what he hated doing. He was fine with protecting himself.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It wasn't about protecting himself so much as refusing to accept a minor inconvenience.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If its a proper mask it does, and even not great masks reduce transmission chance. The cloth masks people made actually turned out to be pretty effective, it wasn't a 100% reduction like a properly fitted n95, but they still worked.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0