Posted on 01/18/2022 11:04:16 AM PST by nickcarraway
After Andreea’s mom died of COVID-19 in April, the harassment started. Noxious messages started coming in after she wrote a Facebook post letting friends and family know about her loss.
One person messaged her to say they couldn’t believe her mother hadn’t protected herself. Andreea has since deleted most of the other messages, but she remembers people saying things like “I can’t believe your mom was an anti-vaxxer” and “I can’t believe she didn’t understand that COVID could kill you.” “Instead of people saying that they were sorry for my loss, they would question my mom’s medical choices. It became all about her vaccine status. It was incredibly hurtful,” Andreea, a language instructor, who asked to be identified by only her first name in order to prevent further harassment, told me.
It also wasn’t true that her mother was an anti-vaxxer. According to Andreea, her mom, who was a nurse, did have initial concerns about the vaccine, but after talking with her doctor, she had scheduled an appointment for her first dose. Unfortunately, she got sick before she could get it, Andreea says.
In 2020, dying of COVID-19 was widely seen as an unqualified tragedy. It was the beginning of the pandemic, when it felt as if the entire world was in a state of collective grief. There was a palpable, shared mourning for all the lives gone too soon: the smiling mothers and jokester grandfathers and so-and-so from church who always lent a helping hand. All victims of a virus, unfurling and cruel.
But that was before the vaccines. Before COVID deaths got caught up in a culture war.
Now the majority of COVID deaths are occurring among the unvaccinated, and many deaths are likely preventable. The compassion extended to the virus’s victims is no longer universal. Sometimes,
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Well the contempt cuts both ways generally speaking, I can’t really tolerate the politics of the left in any form, but we live in a society where the politics of the left are acceptable whereas anything remotely similar to fascism is not — it creates a dichotomy for those of us who react in a similar way to both types of political extremism.”
I don’t understand this statement since the politics of the left are fascism. What is not acceptable to the left is freedom.
“Noxious messages started coming in after she wrote a Facebook post...”
I think I see the problem.
There is exactly zero data available to support this assertion.
In fact, the national-level statistics published by Great Britain and Israel point in the opposite direction.
At best, COVID death rates are the same for "vaccinated" and "unvaccinated" patient groups. And COVID positive test rates from the general (not hospitalized) population are about the same too.
There are some very unpleasant indicators that "All-Cause" mortality rates are considerably higher in the 16-60 age group for "vaccinated" persons. Insurance company actuaries have been tracking this for over a year now and there is very little doubt of their findings. There is a great reluctance to publicize them.
The "All Cause" mortality rates manifest in much higher rates of cardiac problems, strokes, and embolisms in age groups where these incidents were extremely rare three years ago.
The first day of texts...I would’ve given her.
The first text on the following day...*BLOCKED*.
I love my left-wing sister.(AND brother)...would be there if they needed help. But they start that stuff? “Talk to the hand!”
You’re much braver than I am.
Too bad the public health officials didn’t wait for the all-cause mortality data, like they do for cancer drugs, before not only approving the vax, but starting this unprecedented coercion campaign to mass vax otherwise healthy people. Especially since the vax does not stop transmission.
That’s horrible. So sorry.
From what I’m reading its mostly the vaxxed who are dying.
Since leftists ALWAYS project, I’ll take this as evidence that the vaxxed are dying from the jab and family are keeping quiet about it.
I'm sure I had it in April 2020 and it was not a walk in the park for me, but I got through it.
Also, what about all the people who were vaxxed and still died?
Yup.
Don’t say anything to anyone any more.
I am also amazed at how many unvaccinated people are generally unaware of prevention and early treatment information. . .which, of course, has been largely censored by the cabal of Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Med and Big Government.
Most likely it's being blamed on a *breakthrough* case of COVID.
They pretty much always claim vaccinated people don’t die.
This is pure horse poop. LOL
If they are hiding it, it’s because their leftist relations are evil, compassionless, judgmental a-holes who think that they know better than God.
The insanity of it all is that she, fully vaccinated and one booster had Covid about a month beforehand and still thinks the vaccines work.
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There is no possible logical discussion with someone like that.
Tell her you thought it was Covid, but you were wrong, it was only the Antonine plague and you got better.
Okay, I will try to explain. I stated that the politics of overt fascism (like Hitler) were unacceptable in modern society. But communism is okay.
Your take is that fascism is the politics of the left. This is part of a vast modern attempt to re-brand 1930s style fascism as some sort of off-track socialism. That’s fine, run with that if you wish. For me, fascism was fascism, it was not socialism just because Hitler hid behind a party label with the word socialist in it (to attract votes from disgruntled socialists). Nor am I one of those people who thinks fascism is just out of control conservatism or nationalism.
Fascism was something unique in political history. It borrowed ideas from various places, blended those with occult or mystical quasi-religious concepts, and banked heavily on nationalist and nativist sentiments. I don’t think it was a second branch of communism, in fact the most virulent opponents of fascism were communists, and one of the main reasons Hitler came to power was a fear that centrist parties were too weak to prevent a communist revolution.
As to this modern widespread conservative-blogger effort to rebrand fascism as communism 2.0, I’m sure it will sweep endlessly around in circles within the blogosphere and have no impact whatsoever on other areas of society. Of course a lot of good ideas meet that same fate, but the fate itself does not guarantee that any such idea is good.
I do agree however that some leftist or in their own minds center-left politicians have adopted some fascist ideas in recent years, however, I see those ideas as more directly adapted from communism. Here’s one way to diagnose the difference. Fascists send people to camps if they fail to meet a test of ethnic purity, or they have a pretty wife that a fascist wants to steal. Communists send people to camps if they fail to meet a test of ideological purity, or have a pretty wife that a communist wants to steal. So there is some overlap. Also they both use trains. Correlation is not causation though.
Please be humane and don’t ever subject a pet to the Atlantic, even at the bottom of its cage!
That pissed me off. Others on here defended him. Ugh!
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