Someone close to me tested positive for COVID after a colleague of theirs who refuses to get vaccinated tested positive. That colleague works with children — when their parents find out said colleague is not vaxxed, it’s going to get ugly.
Now everybody’s lives are up in the air: arranging for childcare while quarantining, contacting everyone *they’ve* been in contact with who might have to make similar arrangements.
the selfishness.
Was reading this
@Millicentsomer piece the other day abt r/HermanCainAward, a subreddit that captures social media postings of vehement anti-vaxxers — including the ones asking for prayers after they’re put on vents or the GoFundMes for their funerals.
slate.com/technology/202…
@Millicentsomer piece the other day abt r/HermanCainAward, a subreddit that captures social media postings of vehement anti-vaxxers — including the ones asking for prayers after they’re put on vents or the GoFundMes for their funerals.
slate.com/technology/202…
The thing that jumped out to me, too, was how graphic their/their family member’s SM posts abt their sickness are.
these ppl are waking up confused and scared after having been intubated, panicking + trying to yank the tubing out. They’re on dialysis bc their kidneys shut down.
these ppl are waking up confused and scared after having been intubated, panicking + trying to yank the tubing out. They’re on dialysis bc their kidneys shut down.
They have to be rolled over to a prone position while they’re unconscious bc their lungs are so weak and filled with so much fluid that they can’t breathe on their backs.
But before they died, the infected ppl all shared the same 20ish stupid, fucking anti-vax memes.
But before they died, the infected ppl all shared the same 20ish stupid, fucking anti-vax memes.
It’s wild how much ppl share on FB.
spouses posting all these grim details abt their flailing, spiraling partners — their lung capacities, the regimen of treatments they’re on, the grim prognoses. And still — distressingly often — being combative abt vaccination.
spouses posting all these grim details abt their flailing, spiraling partners — their lung capacities, the regimen of treatments they’re on, the grim prognoses. And still — distressingly often — being combative abt vaccination.
having carved out such public disdain, they and their families feel compelled to keep doubling down.
other people say they’re in the hospital for something else, and then when the post about their death comes, the family member says it’s COVID.
other people say they’re in the hospital for something else, and then when the post about their death comes, the family member says it’s COVID.
But even though they rarely change their stances, the anti vaxxers and their relatives captured within are, ironically, offering up the most candid descriptions of what it’s like to have life-threatening COVID.
“It feels like breathing broken glass.”
“It feels like breathing broken glass.”
We know people are dying. We see the death totals. But we don’t really get a sense of how gruesome those deaths are. Just so many slow-motion suffocations.
I don’t know why I’m tweeting this rn. I’m just mad.
I don’t know why I’m tweeting this rn. I’m just mad.
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