Sometimes people refuse to learn a lesson even after being hit upside the head.

[alwaysinasnit]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/i-truly-thought-last-friday-was-gonna-be-my-last-says-texas-hardline-conservative-lawmaker-who-was-hospitalized-for/

‘I truly thought last Friday was gonna be my last,’ says Texas hardline conservative lawmaker who was hospitalized for coronavirus.'

State Rep. Tony Tinderholt was hospitalized last week after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, the lawmaker confirmed Friday to The Texas Tribune, marking the first known case involving a member of the Texas Legislature.

“I truly thought last Friday was gonna be my last,” Tinderholt, an Arlington Republican, said in a text message to the Tribune. Tinderholt said his wife and two of his children also tested positive for the virus, though their symptoms were less severe.

snip...

While Tinderholt acknowledged the virus is a “serious illness,” he reiterated Friday his position that Abbott shutting down parts of the economy is wrong.

“Closing the entire economy and halting business as well as illegally taking people’s freedoms are absolutely the wrong things to do to Texas, Texans and our nation,” Tinderholt said.

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You can't fix stupid.

[Nevilledog]

1. There's still time for a relapse.

[Laelth]

3. His tune may change when he still has symptoms 3 months from now.

Or maybe not.



-Laelth

[soothsayer]

2. Jeezus, he's truly committed to killing Texans

[ProfessorGAC]

4. And Himself!

He's probably sure he's immune, now.
He might be, but he can't know for sure.

[WyattKansas]

5. Because he has been taught or brainwashed into believing that 'Business' means more than..

Anything else, including life and all requirements to make that possible. To people like that, without 'business' there would be no life whatsoever and it would kill the human species. They just cannot accept that there are other useful tools, instead of capitalism at any cost even if it means killing off a large portion of the human species. No wonder we live under Vulture Capitalism by Republicans.

[Squinch]

6. Some people are too dumb to be helped.

[Tanuki]

7. e.e. cummings told him

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-war/ee-cummings-told-him

plato told

him:he couldn’t
believe it(jesus

told him;he
wouldn’t believe
it)lao

tsze
certainly told
him,and general
(yes

mam)
sherman;
and even
(believe it
or

not)you
told him:i told
him;we told him
(he didn’t believe it,no

sir)it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth

avenue
el;in the top of his head:to tell

him

Contributor
E.E. Cummings

The final lines of e.e. cummings’ poem refer to Manhattan’s dismantled Sixth Avenue elevated tracks, which were bought as scrap metal by Imperial Japan three years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

[Atticus]

8. Oh, there IS a cure for stupidity. It's called a "funeral". nt