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I have zero. Actually minus zero sympathy for covidiots. I know it seems extremely in poor taste to not care or to mock the idiots dying. I'm gonna say. Go and die quicker. You know why? Because these morons are siphoning care that people with real dire illnesses need. Call me a horrible person, a unsympathetic bitch. I have no shits and will continue to cheer on Darwin to do his work.
If they wanna own the libs. Please please own me over and over. I'll be enjoying life while they become a maggots next dinner.
Oreos!! 
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Ferrets are Cool
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lame54
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durablend
(9,319 posts)"Fuck your feelings" ?
Feeling is mutual, bruh
pwb
(12,728 posts)dying for this cause {Trump} ??????????????Yeah
harumph
(3,330 posts)I guess to his dog or something.
mitch96
(15,852 posts)Worse yet.. wounded and maimed for life? colostomy bag? loss of a limb?? Is TFG gonna pay for your long term care?????/ I think not..
Own the libs......right..
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Sucha NastyWoman
(3,020 posts)NCjack
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liberal N proud
(61,201 posts)mitch96
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Joinfortmill
(21,388 posts)paleotn
(22,460 posts)Many of which have been in harms way since the pandemic began. So, no, I have no patience or sympathy for those who intentionally risk their own lives and more importantly, the lives of those around them. We're a highly cooperative species. It's better for all of us if the intentionally uncooperative weed themselves out. Triage them to the curb. Save resources for those who aren't recklessly trying to kill others.
LENNY0229
(185 posts)Probatim
(3,290 posts)LENNY0229
(185 posts)Metaphorical
(2,654 posts)The average age of mortality in the US today is 77.1 years, representing a drop of 2+ years. from the 79.4 in 2019. Until 2020, that rate had been rising at a rate of about 2 weeks a year since the late 1990s, a result of better health technology and overall nutrition. Thus, the drop of a year per year represents a DRAMATIC decline.
However, keep in mind as well, that this is an AVERAGE. Covid hit older populations very hard, meaning that the standard deviation (which had been about 9 years on either side of that average), has dropped to about 6.5 years. This in turn implies that the number of people that are living to 90 has plummeted in the US.
Additionally, if you factor out predominantly urban (blue) states, these numbers become even starker, with the average age for men now at about 73. Of course, it also includes non-white populations which are also fairly heavily hit, primarily due to lack of access to vaccinations, but, even by race, red vs. blue is seeing stark differences in terms of the number of people dying (perhaps as much as 8 to 1, though I've not seen strong evidence for that high a discrepancy). This means that if you are in a red state you have likely lost as much as five years due to the virus.
Also note that health care workers all across the board have been heavily hit, which in turn is degrading the care that people are receiving in hospital, as the thread mentioned below indicates, and increasing the likelihood that if you go into the hospital for Covid, your chance of dying rises pretty dramatically. Finally, we don't have any idea what Long Covid looks like. It is a disease that does severe damage to the interbrachial passageways, blood vessels, the heart, and the brain, damage that often occurs without much in the way of symptoms. My anticipation is that you are going to see a significantly increased mortality due to heart attacks and heart failure, strokes, pulmonary impairment, and perhaps increased myeloma.
Politically (and yes, this is callous to say it, but I'm going to), I think this means that by 2024, there will be far fewer (maybe 20% fewer) anti-vaxxers (who are mostly very conservative or libertarian) surviving than there will be those who are vaccinated. In a presidential election year, that will amount to about an 8% or so deficit in the polls for the GQP. There's a structural advantage of roughly 3% for the Republicans based upon both gerrymandering and electoral college in the US today, though ironically it looks like that may be down to about a 2.2% by 2024 if map challenges prove successful. Even taking into account the hit on minorities that will impact Democrats more than Republicans, Covid-19 is likely to keep the GOP out of power for potentially decades, given other demographic factors.
ShazzieB
(22,732 posts)I don't know what the sources for your figures are (and math is very much not my strong suit anyway), but if what you say is accurate, that could be a very BFD indeed.
littlemissmartypants
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BobTheSubgenius
(12,239 posts)Can't come up with a better thing to do with a hill littered with bags of rotting meat.
aeromanKC
(3,929 posts) ShazzieB
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vercetti2021
(10,481 posts)DUzzy!
Traildogbob
(13,076 posts)In one mass grave. So we all can piss in one spot.
raising2moredems
(759 posts)No taking up perfectly good land to inter their disease ridden bodies. No wait, changing my mind - more Covidiots will attend their visitation and funeral. Can't pass up an opportunity to rid society of more of their ilk.
Traildogbob
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lpbk2713
(43,282 posts)Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.
monkeyman1
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Blue Owl
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jg10003
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Poiuyt
(18,272 posts)Fuck em
calimary
(90,382 posts)And let’s make sure we take names - for campaign season.
“This Republican voted AGAINST helping you get through COVID.”
“‘Cuz Republicans DON’T want to help you.
Republicans don’t want to help ANYBODY in need.
In fact, they expect YOU to send THEM money.”
SunSeeker
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mitch96
(15,852 posts)I guess most red hats don't know what a "Darwin" is...
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Blue Owl
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alterfurz
(2,682 posts)...would rather die than to prove me right." -- @MiddleAgeRiot