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Earth-shine

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23. There are certainly cases of very ill people arguing with the doctors that it's not COVID.

Mon Aug 9, 2021, 11:47 AM

Aug 2021

There are videos of dying people insisting to the doctor it must be something else.

Frankly, when I was growing up, I never thought of global pandemic as the cause of the end of the world.

But, those wildfires, that feels familiar.

If it has to end, my money was on global warming, but I was kinda, secretly hoping for alien invasion.

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Why do people who choose not to get vaccinated go to the hospital when they get sick? [View all] kpete Aug 2021 OP

With Jenny McCarthy and RFK Jr. as head doctors obamanut2012 Aug 2021 #1

Excellent point Haggard Celine Aug 2021 #2

Because that's when the reality of COVID sets in. Earth-shine Aug 2021 #3

How many of them go to the hospital and deny they have COVID? Probatim Aug 2021 #21

There are certainly cases of very ill people arguing with the doctors that it's not COVID. Earth-shine Aug 2021 #23

I'm with you on global warming - we're past fucking around and have moved into finding out. Probatim Aug 2021 #26

Until they are feeling better... lame54 Aug 2021 #28

Because the "People who don't want to pay for others" wants to saddle others with their $1M care. TheBlackAdder Aug 2021 #4

You opened the next discussion: "Explain the $75 aspirin, Doctor." marble falls Aug 2021 #9

And hospitals use needles dalton99a Aug 2021 #5

They are just crazy stupid. FM123 Aug 2021 #6

It's like they suddenly unlearned everything they were taught in medical training GoodRaisin Aug 2021 #22

Denial is not a river in Egypt... Ford_Prefect Aug 2021 #7

And they all forgot.... SergeStorms Aug 2021 #32

And the deathbed conversion to vaccine. I had to go to the ER last night, I "had a spell" ... marble falls Aug 2021 #8

Honestly, I really believe if a person shows up at a hospital TxGuitar Aug 2021 #27

I'm resisting going that far, but I am rapidly losing my famous patience with nitwits. marble falls Aug 2021 #31

Because they are scared luv2fly Aug 2021 #10

I repeat my theory... Thunderbeast Aug 2021 #11

I really think you're onto something there Walleye Aug 2021 #13

I got two Moderna shots and didn't even feel the thing when it happened. nt Earth-shine Aug 2021 #24

Me too. If you don't look you don't feel a thing Walleye Aug 2021 #30

Same here. Texaswitchy Aug 2021 #40

It would be interesting to correlate vaccine refusal with... 3catwoman3 Aug 2021 #29

The dumbest ones are self medicating at home IronLionZion Aug 2021 #12

They go because they feel guilt at their negligence and shame at their stupidity bucolic_frolic Aug 2021 #14

They simply refuse to link their careless behavior with their illness. Chainfire Aug 2021 #15

It's the result of millennia of con people taking advantage of religious faith. Tommymac Aug 2021 #16

don't forget 35 years of hate radio 24/7; pure propoganda. Evolve Dammit Aug 2021 #17

You are right, Donald Trump did not invent the big lie, but he worked to perfect it. Chainfire Aug 2021 #20

Yes--they were properly primed pandr32 Aug 2021 #33

BINGO. We have a winner! calimary Aug 2021 #36

Yeah. T&A candy for the old white racists, making them feel "informed" and hip Evolve Dammit Aug 2021 #39

And totally reinforced in the cockeyed worldview of these (mainly) middle-aged and old white men. calimary Aug 2021 #41

Still incurably sexist, just can't do much about it. Another thing to be angry about. And needing a Evolve Dammit Aug 2021 #43

Fear nt XanaDUer2 Aug 2021 #18

Why do they allow doctors to treat them who are wearing masks? Doodley Aug 2021 #19

Stupid tweet Meowmee Aug 2021 #25

They go to the hospital to get a second opinion -- they do not have covid-19 NCjack Aug 2021 #34

Because horse anti-parasite paste doesn't really work? LisaL Aug 2021 #35

Man. I just bought three cases.... Evolve Dammit Aug 2021 #44

Just heard one moron on the news say it was all made up by Fauci Walleye Aug 2021 #37

"It's just the flu, you damn lib quacks!" Marcuse Aug 2021 #38

Because they're sick and it's the right thing to do. Iggo Aug 2021 #42

Same reason that Americans who eat the typical American diet go to the hospital with a heart attack. Caliman73 Aug 2021 #45

Send them to the Megachurches. Let them treat them with casseroles. kairos12 Aug 2021 #46

Same with cars, phones, TV, internet. All science. lindysalsagal Aug 2021 #47

Oh hell, that was a question I asked my trump cult sister msfiddlestix Aug 2021 #48