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JoeOtterbein

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Sun Nov 15, 2020, 10:25 PM Nov 2020

My Unfortunate Encounter with a MAGA COVID19-SARS2 Survivor [View all]

Last edited Mon Nov 16, 2020, 01:07 AM - Edit history (1)

The doctor wanted blood work so she sent me up to the local medical lab. I first saw him ahead of me, another slightly older white guy, at the door looking at his phone and wearing a "support the police shirt".

Still looking at his phone he motions its ok to pass him.

I go in and he follows sitting next to a woman he seemed to know in the waiting area and started to chat her up.

At this point he pulls his mask down below his nose and tells her the story about him having short-breathing etc. and that the doctor sent him to the hospital because he was positive for Covid. Complaining like hell that they isolated him. After telling her, and all of us in the waiting room about more symptoms he suffered for over a week in the hospital, he made his conclusion.

He said it was, "no worse than the flu."

At that point I was staring at both of them with my jaw down to the floor. Then the receptionist called my name.

So I tell the kind woman who is taking my blood about him and she shook her head adding, "we are so stupid". I knew immediately what she meant by the "we..". Because we live in a dead red PA county where people think wearing a mask is a result of a moral failure to unseat our great Gov. Tom Wolf and our cool Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.

Around here, "Impeach Wolf" lawn-signs are as common as Trump signs that are still, even now, standing next to since added "Stop the Steal" signs.

The lab worker said people come in "all the time" wearing a mask, only to have them "pull it down" to talk. She said they, "don't understand they are breathing it towards us".

I had to agree and added, shaking my own head, "we are so stupid".

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Nice to hear that a little sanity persists ... everywhere. Laelth Nov 2020 #1
Thanks... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #2
I read this post on DU last night... BigmanPigman Nov 2020 #3
This guy was saying that he "knew... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #4
Wonder how he'll feel in a few months or wnylib Nov 2020 #5
He should have a clue by now because he was also complaining that he had to go back to... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #7
K&R MustLoveBeagles Nov 2020 #6
Why the fuck isn't the lab insisting people PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #8
Of course they did all of that, including another kind woman who let us in... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #9
Signs should say "No mask, no treatment. Pull it down, and you wll be ordeed to leave.No exceptions" Liberty Belle Nov 2020 #10
Then they get angry, leave and then... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #12
I live in a 68% Republican area and most are serious about masks Woodwizard Nov 2020 #11
I would agree that here in York it's about the same 32% of completely... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #14
I have a cousin in York Freddie Nov 2020 #40
My stepdaughter's customers will pull down their masks to place an order... Beartracks Nov 2020 #13
Fifty years of allowing the Texas Board of Education disalitervisum Nov 2020 #15
Ladies, let's all go to church topless... Trueblue Texan Nov 2020 #16
Great Idea! JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #20
Oh, now...THAT'S the ticket!!! Trueblue Texan Nov 2020 #21
H..... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #27
Not the ticket just the STUB!! n/t retread Nov 2020 #41
If I see..... cannabis_flower Nov 2020 #17
I succeeded once in a lab waiting room to get a chin-mask-wearer to pull it into place. pnwmom Nov 2020 #30
Cult of foetus guilt, brilliant Celerity Nov 2020 #38
So the racist POS tRumper didn't get it MontanaMama Nov 2020 #18
I did not get the feeling that the guy was... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #19
He probably wasn't. MontanaMama Nov 2020 #22
Plus the fact that the "flu" they are referring to kill... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #23
100%. MontanaMama Nov 2020 #24
Thanks for thinking of that. I've been... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #26
I dont believe he ever actually got Covid-19... Acornsouth Nov 2020 #35
I don't either--I believe he tested positive as in false positive live love laugh Nov 2020 #37
Quote Overheard from a MAGA COVID Survivor: I Was Almost Killed by a Hoax! panfluteman Nov 2020 #25
I would have risked Covid to give him a royal ass kicking Skittles Nov 2020 #28
stay safe. yuiyoshida Nov 2020 #29
Thanks. I will and... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #31
oh I have to.... yuiyoshida Nov 2020 #32
Me too... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #33
Thanks. I corrected the headline. JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #34
Words escape me ... live love laugh Nov 2020 #36
First thing I would have done is complain Meowmee Nov 2020 #39
In rural PA... Fyrefox Nov 2020 #42
Pulling the mask down to talk, yeah. We need more PSAs and they need to explain the point of the Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2020 #43
So sad! Ahpook Nov 2020 #44
Jeeze!... JoeOtterbein Nov 2020 #45
It's fucking Tennesse and not surprised Ahpook Nov 2020 #46
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