"This Mississippi woman's unvaccinated husband is battling Covid-19 in an ICU"

[GPV]

(CNN)With the rise of Covid-19 cases due to the more contagious Delta variant, evidence continues to mount that vaccination is the key to prevent serious coronavirus illness.

For one Mississippi couple who caught Covid-19, their outcomes provide a growing contrast. The wife, who is vaccinated, recovered after 10 days. But her unvaccinated husband has been in the hospital for 22 days and counting."He's just trying so hard to get better and get home," Alicia Ball said about her husband, William, whose currently in an intensive care unit battling Covid-19. "We have a lot of people praying for us.

"He means so much to our family. He's the rock of our family."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/health/mississippi-covid-unvaccinated-man-icu/index.html

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Republicanism

I've found one of the defining characteristics of Republicans/Conservatives is their inability to feel empathy and make decisions unless something is directly effecting them and theirs. You see it all the time, some Con is a raging homophobe until someone in their family is gay. Some Con makes fun of the disabled until they have a child born with autism.

That inability to empathize with the world and then take information from that empathy and make smart decisions is killing them right now. And their neighbors aren't going to learn the lessons by watching them suffer, they only care about their own little inner circle and won't react until one of them is dead or dying. Slow learners.

[Rorey]

5. You nailed it.

Even when something hits them directly, they only care about their own personal situation.

[tanyev]

8. Yes. I read an interview with podcaster/author Laura Tremaine not too long ago

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and was struck by a similar story. She grew up in Oklahoma, family was very involved in the Republican party and now lives in LA and haaaates Donald Trump. She still doesn't think of herself as liberal, though. Maybe a Republican like Adam Kinzinger.

She had a gay friend!

Laura Tremaine: [00:36:02] Well, so like I said, I had been moving towards the middle and it, and in some ways those were easy moves to make, like, especially some of the social issues. You know, I had a friend in my twenties, one of my oldest dearest friends that I wrote about in the book who told me he was gay and like in a literal instance, my entire stance on, you know, marriage equality and all of that, like literally changed in almost the snap of a fingers because this loved one in front of me was telling me who he was and telling me what his life experience was and I absolutely could not, not even not argue with it.

I just, I saw immediately that what he said was true and that I, you know, I have no choice. I have no even heart's desire to do anything, but support him. And so things that had happened long ago, that happened when I had only lived in LA a few years, but like little things like that. I mean, those are big things, but, you know, things [00:37:00] had stacked up over the years that had moved me towards the middle and in a lot of ways.

https://player.fm/series/episodes-121090/a-road-map-to-love-our-backstories-with-laura-tremaine

I just don't know if the country can hang on for the time it will take for enough of them to have individual awakenings.

[LastDemocratInSC]

13. Prejudice rarely survives experience.

[Wingus Dingus]

10. I think you've got it. They have very tight circles of people they

care about and are kind to--and everyone else can go to hell. No surprise they don't care about spreading the disease to strangers.

[LastDemocratInSC]

14. My experiences have taught me that those people care about only three groups of people.

Their family members, the members of their local church, and the people they formed bonds with up through high school. All others are considered permanent outsiders.

[Wingus Dingus]

15. Yep. I've encountered quite a few people like this.

[HAB911]

2. thoughts and prayers

I will be wearing this out in the coming days

[Texaswitchy]

3. No more thoughts and prayers for me.

I guess that shot looks good now.

More scenes like this to be played out.

[Rorey]

4. "We have a lot of people praying for us."

I find this to be such a weird thing for people to say. Are they saying that people who have more people praying for them will be heard by their god more than people who only have a couple, or one, person praying for them? When someone says, "We'll put them in our prayer chain", does it mean that they're pushing some other person who isn't part of a chain out of earshot of their god?

I know that's veering off topic, but it's something I ponder.

[lark]

6. Obviously he cared more for rw idiocy than family.

Faux, Newsmax & OANN kill Americans on purpose.

[Wounded Bear]

7. If you want to go biblical, I think the family is built on sand, not a rock...

[bluestarone]

9. These assholes pray and pray and pray. BUT

God has already given them the easiest answer. WEAR a fucking mask, idiots and get your vaccinations!

[Chainfire]

11. God's answer to their prayers may have played out something like this;

"I gave the scientist the inspiration and the ability to bring you a vaccine to save your life. "I gave you free will to decide what is best for you and your family." "We can discuss this further at the Pearly Gates."

[Texaswitchy]

12. Yep.

What you said.