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Macrophage87 t1_is0k6p6 wrote

I'm not sure I felt schadenfreude about his diagnosis. I was mostly hoping that if he died then his supporters might have taken it more seriously. Instead, he survived and somehow used it as him passing some form of mythical 'trial by fire'.

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stellarlove8 t1_is1crk7 wrote

Yes the only problem with how that all went was he survived. Would have been difficult to paint him as a martyr. Self inflicted buffoonery.

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ADDeviant-again t1_is1pjet wrote

I wanted him to survive it, but be as sick as I was, my patients were, and some of my family was. I wanted it to change him, change his mind.

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thisUbEaccount t1_is37b1w wrote

So you mean a mild cold to zero symptoms, like every single person I personally knew who got it?

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Sparkyseviltwin t1_is3d5is wrote

Me too. There's a few dead in there as well, but we'll not worry about what they might have said.

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thisUbEaccount t1_is3e9o5 wrote

Yeah those old age homes that actively packed in sick people and aerosolized their breath to pump throughout the rest of the buildings, they were hit pretty hard. But let's pretend that this happened because some people didn't get a vaccine that didn't stop you from spreading the virus...

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allegate t1_is3l8g8 wrote

Glad everyone you know made it. I know a couple people who didn’t and even more people who know someone further along the anecdote trail who didn’t.

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thisUbEaccount t1_is3o17o wrote

Yep and I know people who know people who have died of the flu. Death is awful, but so is allowing authoritarianism to thrive and truth to be labeled as dangerous violent misinformation that must not be allowed to be uttered in public.

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