Southerners are dying because they are sick of Democrats?

[DURHAM D]

Link to tweet

Okay - go ahead.

[Ocelot II]

1. Just dying to own the libs, right?

Please proceed...

[YoshidaYui]

45. This!

9
We can say
Sayonara bakayaro

[TheBlackAdder]

64. Trump & Murdoch's families knew what was best, that's why they all got vaccinated early on.

[magicarpet]

2. Bye - bye.....

[Trueblue1968]

11. Dying ??? See ye, wouldn't wanna be ya !!!!!!!

Ta ta dummies !!!

[dalton99a]

3. No objections.

[TheBlackAdder]

67. Ever since Ancient Greece, nothing has been as cathartic as an asshole being self-owned.

[quakerboy]

95. Major objections.

I dont particularly want to die or face a long term disability because of these questionable quivering Qristains.

And every one of them that refuses is another chance for delta to spread, and another chance for another mutation to happen.


If only we could set up doses of vaccine in those darts they use to shoot dangerous animal with tranquilizers, and set a bountys for those who can vaccinate the most unvaccinated folks.

[KentuckyWoman]

4. Good article.

Yes, it is largely "you aren't the boss of me".

And Karen Landers deserves a medal ...

[Evolve Dammit]

72. Exactly. My pre-K kids used that line on the playground! It's essentially the same

[Lovie777]

5. They are owning the Libs . ..

By all means go forth.

[dhol82]

6. How stupid can you get?

But then, look at who we’re dealing with.

[SergeStorms]

26. Approximately...

the same level of stupidity exhibited by the people who believe that horse-hockey.

[IronLionZion]

31. Deplorables will accept your challenge

[Bristlecone]

7. They are irresponsible and poor decision makers. Of course they need

Someone to tell them what to do. They can’t be trusted to do the right thing. ever. “Self-regulated” people shouldn’t be.

[YoshidaYui]

8. There are going to be a lot of dead people soon.

Funeral homes are going to be very busy.

[Sherman A1]

9. Good for them,

Please proceed to own us libs.

[LW1977]

10. Well.......................

……………………Bye

[sop]

12. No, they're "turning down Covid-19 vaccines" because they were told by Trump and his enablers

for well over a year the whole thing was a hoax, shutdowns and wearing masks were part of a liberal plot to take away their freedoms, the vaccines were unproven and would hurt them, and it would only affect other people. Blaming democrats because they want to vaccinate as many Americans as possible is just mindless.

[Baked Potato]

13. Dying for T***p's failure (sins). Well, shucks. Nt

[Evolve Dammit]

73. You mean "The Chosen One". How pathetically stupid they are.

[Baked Potato]

81. Oh yeah that's right... Chosen One..

[spanone]

14. Dumb Asses

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. Sounds like excuse making to me.

Personal freedom also means taking personal responsibility for your decisions.

[Treefrog]

16. The vax rate among blacks in the south is very low.

I’m not sure if people here think that’s a function of hating Dems too?

[Mariana]

19. Seems like the churches should be stepping up there.

What are the black churches doing to convince their members to get vaccinated, and to help them do so by providing rides and such?

[Dreampuff]

62. Many of the churches in our area

Did double as vaccination sites on Sunday morning when the vaccine was really hard to come by. Many of them were churches with majority black congregations. But you're right. I imagine some areas aren't doing that. My location is Southern, although we aren't actually like the Southerners in States north of us.

Some of the black people fear getting a vaccine because they had been used as guinea pigs in the past. White people don't have that excuse and I think it is just their stubborn and redneck attitude and their love for the orange one and they are endangering all of us.

[salin]

25. I think where it is due to resistance it is a different dynamic altogether

have heard a deep distrust based on the history of the Tuskegee Experiment.

As pointed out elsewhere it seems that many African American churches are involved in trying to reassure people to convince them to get vaccinated.

[Treefrog]

29. Of course it's a different dynamic. That's why these hate on the anti-vaxxers threads irk me so much

People are ignoring one of the largest groups of non-vaxxers.

[deurbano]

33. Just a few days ago there was a post here about a black couple who died for that exact reason.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142773678

They were just 49 and 53. Such a tragic waste. The husband had actually graduated from Tuskegee.

[ornotna]

27. That's true

But that's not what this story is about.

[Skittles]

84. have you noticed

some people care only about POC when they can use them to make a point? You know like....guns and Chicago

[tenderfoot]

87. don't forget shoplifting at Target and Walgreens

eom

[ornotna]

89. Yes I have

They're very good at supporting each other and patting each other on the back too.

[IronLionZion]

34. Many of them are suspicious of medical discrimination

Tuskegee is often mentioned but there are plenty of recent examples of discrimination in treatment. It's mostly about racist southern docs refusing to prescribe lifesaving treatments to "undeserving" people rather than maliciously injecting bad stuff into them.

[paleotn]

38. In southern black communities, that's a function of a history....

far more nefarious than white southerners and their faux outrage over damn near everyone and everything.

[Treefrog]

43. Exactly, and people need to stop the gloating over the unvaxxed getting sick.

Blacks are at higher risk from this disease, both contracting it and becoming seriously ill from it.

Unfortunately, they are refusing the vaccine at a greater rate than white southerners. My neighbors are two such people, and the woman is a nurse.

[Evolve Dammit]

75. Not gloating, just incredulous. At least their fear may have historic rationale?

[Volaris]

52. Pretty sure it's more a product of historic white supremacy, and shit like the

Tuskegee Experiment...

Outreach IS important, even IF republicans wont liaten...

[ecstatic]

82. The people I know who are refusing to get vaccinated

are concerned about the long-term side effects. It is impossible to reassure them because it's true that we don't yet know the long-term side effects.

[Elessar Zappa]

93. The black rate of vaccination

is higher than white Republicans and lower than white Democrats.

[Baked Potato]

17. Also shows the successful/sane Democratic positions triggering

immature and irresponsible response from Republicans.

[Mariana]

18. Yes, that's about the size of it.

This story is about the politics, but religion is a huge factor too. The churches should be leading the charge to convince people to get vaccinated, arrange and provide transportation for those who need it, and make their sites available as vaccination centers. But instead, so many of the churches in this part of the world are actively preaching against the vaccine. What's to be done about that? I don't know if anything can be done.

[lamp_shade]

20. Death by kamikazi, death by cop... now death by covid. nt

[blueinredohio]

21. Stupid is as stupid does.

[progressoid]

22. Fine. Die.

You won't be missed by me.

[Traildogbob]

23. The new flood

God sent Trump, god sent Covid. Maybe this is new flood where he selects the ones that die this time instead of destroying all, and allows his good creations to continue, and start saving the planet he wants taken care of. Just saying, he works in strange ways, some “peepbull” are saying.

[ShazzieB]

24. *WEARY SIGH*

"Many people are turning down Covid vaccines because they are angry that President Donald Trump lost the election and sick of Democrats thinking they know what’s best."

The expressing "cutting off your nose to spite your face" keeps coming to mind.

[Grokenstein]

49. Response I saw elsewhere:

"We've gone from 'cutting off one's nose to spite one's face' to 'lopping off one's head to spite one's nose.'"

[enki23]

28. I have some limited sympathy for people who are just fearful and/or stupid.

I have no sympathy for this. Usually these nuts socialize their pain for whatever benefit their private insanity provides. For once, a greater share of their pain falls on the people who deserve it. And I'm grimly satisfied to watch them suffer their own fucking harm for once. The only reason I care *at all,* is that they are going to clog up the healthcare system once again. And because they will also take down a small but real number of people around them who don't fucking deserve it.

[IronLionZion]

30. Owning themselves to own the libs

[paleotn]

32. Well...bye.

[Carlitos Brigante]

36. HA!! I was thinking; "Did someone already post the.....?", And there

you are!

[paleotn]

40. I wonder if Boothe Powers ever realized...

how useful that little snippet of dialog would be? It perfectly fits so many situations.

[Carlitos Brigante]

94. I can't remember off the top oy my head. But he passed away, right? I hope it

wasn't before someone could show him being "immortalized".

[Renew Deal]

35. The best way to teach Democrats a lesson is to suffer and die off from a pandemic their chosen one

Ignored, dismissed, and mismanaged. That will learn them Democrats.

[calimary]

37. Indeed. Whatevvvvverrrrr...

[Pepsidog]

39. I wish the church would but out of public health.

[Treefrog]

44. Actually, the black churches should be stepping up to overcome vax resistance in the black

community.

[Pepsidog]

68. Black churches aren't radical idiots.

[ecstatic]

83. Not every black person goes to church.

I don't know anyone who attends church except for a few of my relatives who are Jehovah's witnesses.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. Sorry, but Democrats in Washington DO know what's best; way better than RepubliQons anywhere. nt

[rickyhall]

42. No. They're stupid motherfuckers brainwashed by fundy preachers and fascist repugs.

When I grew up in Fort Worth all I knew were Johnson Democrats. When I was moved to Arkansas in 1972 most everybody around were Democrats. Then came the Reagan Con and suddenly everybody liked Yankee Carpetbaggers and it all went to shit. BTW: My dad, being a racist, went big for George Wallace and, later, Reagan and TFG. But he missed the last election, he up and died.

[Vinca]

46. Whelp, that's one way to get away from us.

[Leith]

47. Suits me fine

Since many of them think that the blood of Christ covers them and will protect them from harm.

The US should send their vaccinations to India and other countries where people don't have access to them.

[greatauntoftriplets]

48. It's their funerals.

[Wingus Dingus]

50. Oppositional Defiant Disorder on a region-wide scale.

Stupidity kills. Maybe that's as it should be.

[COL Mustard]

60. The Sooner These People Go, The Better

They will only improve society and the overall gene pool by leaving it.

Goodbye and good riddance. Sorry you died, but no sympathy for you.

[Martin Eden]

51. If you have zero regard for a person or a group ...

... why would you allow them to influence a critical decision concerning your own well being and that of your family?

[Prichards115]

53. die away

screw the racist repuke south. if they are too stupid to save their own lives I hope they kill themselves by covid.

[bringthePaine]

54. no, they're dying because they're stupid, bigoted fucks - the rest is just an excuse

[BHDem53]

55. Bye, y'all.

[bronxiteforever]

56. Sick of Democrats. Interesting word choice. Idiots.

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[Brother Mythos]

57. As another southerner often says, "You can't fix stupid."

And, I won't waste my time trying.

[mcar]

58. K

[NQAS]

59. Well...

Ok. Maybe they should be awarded a group Darwin Award.

Posthumously.

[Trueblue Texan]

61. When I ask if anti-vaxxers about their issues with the vaccine...

...they always deflect the question and start talking about how it's all China's fault and the Wuhan lab. I should share with them...if China wanted to destroy the Republican party, all they'd have to do is spread disinformation about the dangers of the vaccines. It's Trump Republicans who are getting and spreading the illness like wildfire. Just something to think about.

[MustLoveBeagles]

63. There are so many people in foreign countries

that would give anything to have an abundance of vaccine. A small but loud minority of Americans behave like tantrum throwing toddlers. It's not just southerners or trumpers either although they may make up the majority. If these people were only hurting themselves I wouldn't care as much. There are immune compromised people and kids under 12 that they're endangering with this dumbassery. Local health officials are misdirecting their anger at Biden and the Democrat's. They should be angry with trump, wrong-wing radio and tv personalities, and most of the republican party.

[usaf-vet]

65. Wow an entire Parish full of STUPID. If God didn't want scientist to make vaccines why does......

..... he/she allow it to happen in the first place? Look at it this way vaccines and other medical miracles are sanctioned by GOD.

Step up to be a real believing Christian first and a political nut jobs last.

[johnthewoodworker]

66. I say to all the Republican/Nazi anti-vaccination people, 'good the fuck bye'.

[soldierant]

69. Y'know, I participate in boycotts on principle, and

sometimes that involves some personal sacrifice, and some personal stubbornness and self control Bt I cannot even imagine being that stubborn, and especially when it is an issue of life and death. I'd rather live to botcott another day.

[Paladin]

70. Suits me. Step up the speed, assholes. (nt)

[Hekate]

71. Oh for the love of God

[Ford_Prefect]

74. The principle reason they are doing this rests on the same abuse they have been told is normal.

Southern States in particular were built on the conceit of the rich land owners that everyone else was beneath them. EVERYONE Else. This is an extension of the same mindset that made serfs the property of the lord of the manor.

Throughout their lives the people who now follow TLG and his mania and who resist against anyone he names as the enemy have been told that anyone who appears to be above them socially or economically has stolen something from them. The implicit lie is that there is a fixed social class structure and that they aren't high enough up that ladder as long as someone else isn't beneath them. It is a twisted view of society and it has been handed down to them from our English forebearers from a time when a person's value was measured by how close to the royal family you could claim to be or conversely how far from God's right hand you were.

I do not excuse them on this basis. However it is important to understand that they have no clue how much they are themselves enslaved by this myopic racist perspective.

They have been carefully taught...

[Progressive Jones]

76. Because they're stupid fucking yokels, that's why. nt

[Fritz Walter]

77. There are ripple-effects to this "tsunami" of infections

Not the least of which are:
- Spreading the virus to vulnerable people who may not happen to subscribe to their ideology; and
- Overwhelming the health-care system, which has a "cascade" effect on treatment of other patients who urgently need care.

Along that second point: two days ago, my next-door neighbor, who was jabbed months ago -- died because he suffered a pelvic fracture, but because a local hospital (in northeast Florida), was swamped with COVID patients -- most of whom are un-vaxed -- he passed. He was a Korean War veteran and deserved much better treatment than to be shuffled around and eventually sent to a "rehab" facility, which is where he died.

Who knows how many other non-COVID patients are being sidelined so that the current health-care system can respond to this heightened pandemic? What happened to the original concept of "triage" where those with the best likelihood of survival were given the highest priority?

While I'd very-much like to dismiss this instance as Karma kicking-in, I will continue to advocate for vaccinations, masking, social distancing, and other measures that would help us dig our way out of this nightmare. Rather than accelerating it. And yes, GOOBERnor DeathSentence, I mean you!

Personally, I don't want to lose any more family-members, friends, and neighbors to the Delta (Karma) Variant! I'd like for us to not only survive, but also use this chapter in our history to transform our political, health-care, and social systems to PREVENT further pandemic consequences.

Is that asking too much of the government that is supposed to provide for public safety, etc.?

[kairos12]

78. Please proceed rubes.

[Blaukraut]

79. It goes both ways. I'm sick of wingnuts trying to force their ideas on the rest of us. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

80. Pretty sure that's what the rebels said at Gettysburg...

and The Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, and Petersburg.

Maybe you're dying on the wrong hills.

[DFW]

86. Get ready for the next phase

Republicans will refuse to eat salad because Democrats tell them it's healthy.

[dsc]

88. My county (Wayne) is at about 34% one shot, 30% both

at this rate we will never have herd immunity here. I am beyond disgusted with these people.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

90. Fareed's Take: Why America's anti-vax problem is unique

[LetMyPeopleVote]

91. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

92. Is Vaxed America Running Out of Patience?

Sane and intelligent Americans are getting tired of ignorant idiots who refuse to be vaccinated

Link to tweet

[anamnua]

96. Darwinianism at its purest.NT.