29 Times Anti-Vaxxers Made Headlines For Regretting Not Getting The Vaccine While They Still Could
Recently, one piece of data has gotten into the spotlight: 99.5% of all the people dying from COVID-19 in the US are those still unvaccinated. Moreover, infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 107,000 hospitalizations from coronavirus, which makes it about 1.1%. It’s now agreed that the numbers serve as staggering proof of just how effective the vaccines have been.
And although CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said at a White House briefing in June that the vaccine is so effective that “nearly every death, especially among adults, due to COVID-19, is, at this point, entirely preventable,” many people still haven't gotten a shot. In fact, just under 50% of the American population has been vaccinated as of mid-July 2021. Moreover, the US supply of vaccines is so abundant and demand for them has dropped so much that too many doses sit unused.
Seeing unvaccinated people suffering from COVID-19 complications and dying from it is especially tragic when you know that every death could have been prevented. So no wonder many vaccine critics have made it to the headlines for finally regretting not getting a vaccine earlier, but sadly, often it’s all too late.
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Had both my vaccines ..... ,loving the 5g signal off my microchip from Bill Gates and of course i'm super gay now , or something like that
Wow! I got hair growing on my teeth! I should have been knowing better!!
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The only time regressive reactionary right wingers embrace the truth is when it affects them personally.
HA HAH HA, NO sympathy. I hope he is suffering along with his family
I'm not "ANTI VAX" but I will say that I know 5 people who are vaccinated and sick with COVID as I type this. I don't think the news is fake, but the vaccine won't completely stop you from getting COVID
That's because efficiency is not 100% and that's highly spread info. Vaccines will help to defend you against the disease, but it's not an infallible shield. That's why herd immunity is so important.
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I never met a person who died of COVID but know one who died from the vaccine and several who had long term side effects and regret taking it. You won’t hear about those people because it destroys the narrative.
If idiot mom had the family vaccinated (those eligible anyway) it might have prevented her poor child from becoming another statistic.
"You can see it dawn on them that they potentially made the biggest mistake of their lives," the harrowing words by Samantha Batt-Rawden, a British senior intensive care doctor and the president of the Doctors' Association UK, reflect the tragic situation.
"You know that there is something that the patient could have had which would have meant their life is not at risk, and it is a question we get asked a lot," she added referring to the available COVID-19 vaccines. She also overheard numerous sorrows from family members of the patients that refused to get a potentially life-saving vaccine.
Many similar statements were made by ICU doctors across Europe and the US as the pace of vaccination has dropped dramatically.
It makes me angry that he was eligible for a double-lung transplant over the patients who have potentially waiting for years and had a condition that was not preventable by a vaccine.
Yet we all know that the next time she needs a vaccination she'll refuse because she had one vaccination and didn't end up autistic and that's all the risk she's going to take in her lifetime.
The same drop in vaccination and an alarming rise of cases in unvaccinated patients is sweeping across the US. But according to experts, the coronavirus deaths that are now dubbed ‘preventable’ will continue, with unvaccinated pockets of the nation having outbreaks as soon as the fall season sets in. According to AP News, Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, said modeling suggests the nation will hit 1,000 deaths per day again next year.
Meanwhile, while the growing number of tragic stories about unvaccinated people dying may indeed inspire skeptics to finally get their jabs, young adults may be better motivated by a wish to protect their closed ones, argues David Michaels, who’s an epidemiologist at George Washington University. Young adults are the group considered least likely to get vaccinated.
In the White House briefing in June, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky stated: “COVID-19 vaccines are available for everyone ages 12 and up.” According to her, “They are nearly 100% effective against severe disease and death—meaning nearly every death due to COVID-19 is particularly tragic, because nearly every death, especially among adults, due to COVID-19 is at this point entirely preventable."
Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases confirmed to CNN that those still dying from COVID-19 in the US are "overwhelmingly" unvaccinated. So there's enough overwhelming evidence to conclude that people have knowingly put themselves in harm's way during this lethal pandemic.
This fact, of course, doesn’t make their deaths any less tragic and they should serve as an urgent reminder that up until the point of falling victim to the now-spreading Delta variant of COVID-19, vaccination is the only way to keep yourself and your family members safe before it’s too late.
Surprise!!! Thoughts, prayers and incense mean nothing to a non-religious virus. Should have tried converting the virus first.
Calling a killer virus with over 4 million deaths to its name, "a bug" is kind of condescending.
There lies the rub. Crippled hospitals. You might have to delay treatment for your heart attack because the ambulances and hospitals are full of idiots who couldn't grasp the idea that vaccines are good and COVID is bad. It makes me wonder how many people have died waiting for treatment because the hospital was packed with idiots. In fact, it does more than make me wonder, it makes me bloody annoyed.
He didn't think of the risks to his children? Honestly, what a d**k!
I can no longer feel sympathy for these people. They have heard the same information everyone has. They have seen the same devastating sights everyone has. They have the same facts everyone has. They chose to be brainless. They only regret and believe it's real when it affects them personally? Nope. No sympathy whatsoever.
This past year has brought to light that too many people believe personal liberty excludes them from personal responsibility. A side effect of the miracles of the modern world is we have multiple generations who don't truly understand how horrible death, war, and disease are to all of us. The baby boomers were the first generation in the history of the world where you were likely to reach adulthood without having a sibling die due to battle or bug. The world made the polio vaccine mandatory because they had seen the atrocities it did to a body and wanted no one to ever suffer that again. 60 years later when a majority of people have never seen how bad it is, it becomes acceptable to claim stopping it should be a personal choice. The purpose of civilization is for us to come together and make sacrifices to make us all stronger. I claim this 1/4 acre lawn as mine instead of the whole world so we don't kill each other. Responsibility trumps personal liberties when people die.
Yup. All of these Anti-Vaxxers can boast around and yell and shout about how vaccines are poison, but when they are forced into reality they have nowhere else to run
Serves them right when they get pwned by a virus. The problem is, they spread it to others, so if Mr. Antivaxx gives someone else COVID-19 and that person dies, Mr. Antivaxx has blood on his hands.
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I remember back before the vaccine was a thing, Covid deniers were denying it *as they were dying*. So, now this lot are having regrets, we are making progress? (look, if you squint really hard, this is a silver lining!)
Some people just need too much proof to change their worldview. People refused to believe the germ theory of disease until Louis Pasteur came up with the smallpox vaccine and pasteurization and people stopped dying by following it. When the COVID vaccine started working, claiming COVID was hoax suddenly became untenable. Unfortunately there are too many not willing to make the next step that getting vaccinated lowers your chance of death, not raises it.
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I have no sympathy for these people. I do, however, have a lot of anger that they stole lung transplants from people who actually deserved it.
My great uncle who refused the vaccine is now in the hospital with Covid. We've all agreed to take care of his cats if he dies.
How nice of you to make arrangements for his kitties. However, the real concern is the stinking hospital bills - if you're in the US.
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Thing is, my sympathy for these COVID Kamikazes (but let me clarify, NOT their innocent victims) has run out after a year and a half of listening to their bullshit denial and conspiracy theories on the several outlets that allowed them to publicly declare their anti-vaxx, anti-mask, COVID denial beliefs. Now that they’re the primary victims—-a self-inflicted condition caused by their refusal to quarantine, wear masks, practice social distancing, and get vaccinated, BTW—-I really don’t want to give them any forum to post regrets and gain sympathy. The message I want them to hear is LEARN YOUR LESSON FROM THIS—-AND NEVER FORGET IT!!! Won’t happen, I know. They’ll forget it as soon as they’re well and back to passing on new conspiracy theories. I’ll bet the next one, for any who survive, will be something like the government ordered the hospital to implant them with “something” when they gave them a shot, or there was “something” in their feeding tubes or the O2 coming through the ventilators they were hooked up to. Some such bullshit. And, mark my words, the one thing that will be glaringly absent from their future paranoid online rants is even an ounce of respect or gratitude for the nurses and doctors who saved their miserable worthless lives.
5 minutes ago a woman was on CNN had a hard time not crying because her unvaccinated husband is in the hospital and not doing well. She was vaccinated, still got COVID but recovered. She admitted they didn't take it seriously and he worked 12 hour days at their own construction company so thought he was too healthy to get sick. He can only sit on the side of his bed for 3 minutes at a time before he is too exhausted. I have LongCovid from December and got vaccinated in May. I never stopped wearing masks.
When people write "Hardly anyone dies form Covid", I point out that polio didn't kill that many people, either; however, surviving either disease can come at a high price. I hope recovery and relief come to you soon.
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Welcome to the reality of medical personnel since spring 2020. "Why should I, it's not real, you're exaggerating, it's a hoax, it's a scam, it's the devil, it's political, it's (fill in weirdness)"... And they say this as they're yelling at us for keeping them quarantined away from the family who got Covid and are in the Respiratory intensive care unit. No, they don't just have "flu", and yes, the vaccine helps, and if they get flu shots, why the (bleep) can't they grasp this? B/c they don't wanna be scared. Fine. Be scared while your lungs fail. That's *so* much better (last bit was sarcasm)
I like to bicycle for exercise, but stopped during the pandemic. I worried that I could have an accident. It sounded risky for me and I didn't want to burden the medical system.
Load More Replies... I’m pro vaccination and have had both mine but I still feel for these people and their families, a death is still awful. There’s so much miss-information some people don’t know what to believe, dying is a terrible price to pay. Educating people is the best way out of this, to encourage vaccination not force it.
It's really hard. I've got sympathy exhaustion. I can't really find enough to care about the people who willfully, ignorantly deny and refuse science and the severity of things. The slightest inconvenience to them is seen as an attack and listening to people who spread VERY easily disproven lies is seen as empowering defiance. This isn't political. This is literally life and death. That it was made political is just rage inducing. That so many people fell for it has taken all the empathy I've had for the last year +. I just can't bring myself to care about people's choices anymore, even though I know it is going to get a lot of others hurt. I will do my best to keep my family safe.
A controversial opinion, maybe, but I really don't care if these people die from it. It's doing a good thing to humanity by losing all these hostile idiots. As long as they're not infecting other people, they can all go.
Have a care for the ones who die because they don't have the autonomy to get vaccinated independently, like the 13 year olds.
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I just don’t feel sorry for these people. When Covid first started my husband and I took it very seriously always wore a mask we didn’t go around anyone we picked up our shopping etc, it was a lonely year. My MIL made fun of us for it and said she wasn’t going to live her “life in fear” or “in a bubble.” I said you can do whatever but you’re not coming around our child if you’re not going to be careful and that made her even more mad, she was convinced it wasn’t that serious and that she wasn’t going to get it. Well she got it and she was pissed. One of the things I said to her when she got better is “I thought you said it wasn’t that serious and that there was no way you would get it?”
I wish they would show more of these stories instead of STILL and CONTINUALLY giving it anti-vaxxers which happens on more than just FOX news. It is ridiculous to give those people the time of day. Talk to people who have been in those shoes, who had regrets because they followed some Facebook post and are swallowing their pride in the hopes someone will listen. Even if it's just one, a pebble starts an avalanche.
At this point if you don't get the vaccine and you do get COVID, I don't care if you die. In fact, I'd be happier if you did. The planet needs less morons on it. You made the choice to be an idiot and should suffer the consequences of that choice. I just hope you don't infect anyone else on your way out.
Read not to long ago about a young man who's 18th birthday present to himself was to get all the vaccinations he typically would have received in childhood that his mother had refused to let him get. This was before Covid... he just wanted the standard suite. It is heartening to know that at least some young people are resisting being indoctrinated by their idiotic parents.
Am I supposed to feel bad for these idiots? This just proves how unbelievably selfish they are. These things were known 18 months ago but they chose to ignore it, then only acknowledge it after they personally faced a loss. To hell with everyone else they got sick.
You mean anti-vaccine propaganda I hope. They are the ones causing people to refuse and putting lives at risk.
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Me (12) and my siblings (9 and 5) are all deathly afraid of getting shots, we still get them. We all get terrified, we cry, but we always get vaccinated. We are more afraid of dying of sickness than getting poked by a tiny needle. if these GROWN ADULTS are more afraid of a tiny needle than a 5 year old, then they need a serious reality check.
I heard a sound clip from guy getting discharged from the hospital after recovering from COVID-19, who said that if he had to do over again he still wouldn’t get the vaccine. F*** that guy. The nurses didn’t need to break their backs keeping him alive, and how many other people did he infect? It’s not a decision for himself alone.
The whole point for me is, even if you are healthy, you never know if you'll get a mild case like some, or end up hospitalised or dead. It's a crap-shoot. Not to mention the long term effects some are experiencing. Can't wait for my 2nd dose next week. Not taking chances. I'm also avoiding people the best I can, lol. I was born to be a hermit.
This makes my brain explode with anger. I would do my job according to the rules and regulations of my governing body, following hospital policy and procedure and job description to the letter. But if you think I'm going to hold your hand while you cry about your regret for being Darwinian stupid for not getting vaccinated, you've got a long wait for that one. Also all these people who got covid because they refused to get the shot, insurance companies should deny coverage and you are stuck with the bill and bear the financial consequences.
"Person who climbed into lion cage at feeding time because 'freedom' now regrets climbing into lion cage at feeding time."
I have no sympathy for any of these people, except for the children who got sick and died because their parents are complete and utter morons. Part of the concept of "freedom" is taking responsibility for your own actions...or lack thereof.
These people "don't trust the healthcare system" when they feel well, but when they're sick, they expect the healthcare system to work a miracle. I wish there was an Unvaccinated fee for people hospitalized for covid who refused to get the shot, so they had to pay monetarily for their bad decision and needlessly wasting hospital resources.
Ah, yes, the "I dont care about something until it literally happens to me or a loved one" crowd. I have zero sympathy for these assholes anymore. I only care about the kids who typically have no choice, whether they're anti-vax or not. The rest can go f**k themselves.
When Darwin talks, he gets the last word. I really can get why antivax and flatearthers are a thing. I wish no harm to anyone. But, as of today, if you get a bad covid and you failed at getting the shot in time, you brought this onto you.
From the moment this whole pandemic started, I never thought it was a hoax or not serious so these people don't make sense to me. I have always worn a mask, practiced social distancing, and have gotten the vaccine. I did these things to protect myself yes, but more importantly I did them to protect my family and the people around. I didn't want my mother to have to bury her husband because her daughter was too selfish to put a piece of cloth over her face. I didn't want some elderly person in the grocery store to die of Covid because I refused to stand back six feet. I didn't want one of my coworkers to end up on a ventilator because I refused to get a shot in my arm. I didn't want people to die from my selfish inaction.
We are vaccinated and practice social distancing and wipe everything down before it enters the house, we shower up if they have been out in public, I wipe down door handles ( can't trust children, you know). We work with elderly in a facility and would never want to be responsible for their deaths. But I have come to look at this as I do the flu. Children seem to be virtually immune unless they have a condition. The elderly can catch it easily and can die from it. Anyone with a weak immune system can catch it and die from it. Some folks seem to have gotten it, had the equivalent of a cold, and are fine. My father had a minor illness a while back and now they are telling him it was covid. He's 75. What do we do and what are we to believe? California had a hard lockdown, they had a hard spread. some states didn't lock down and had very little spread. I can't figure it all out and it makes my brain hurt. Someone as work threw a video in my face about a CDC directory stating th
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The moment you stop struggling to survive, you have ample of time to think of things that are so ridiculous that it is not funny. The sad part is many had to pay a huge price for this realisation. In India, the amount of people going for vaccination is staggering. Such theories have no place here because it is either this or death. And medical bills that will kill you despite insurance. Vaccines (Corona or otherwise) have brought life expectancy up and death rates down. We have seen it happen. If these idiots want to know how vaccines help save lives, come to India. In fact, govt is allowing many benefits to those getting Covid vaccines. Plus the rates are kept low and are free at many govt hospitals.
I know some wonderful people who are still deluded into thinking they don’t need a vaccine. I doubt that vitriolic ranting about how horrible the hesitant are will convince anybody to get a vaccine.
Some of these comments remind me of this satire article: https://babylonbee.com/news/garth-op-ed-the-best-way-to-convince-the-unvaccinated-is-to-scream-at-them-with-ignorant-certainty
Load More Replies... Good. I didn't have an option of getting a vaccine before I got covid. I thought I was going to die. I hope he is suffering along with his family. Sorry, NOT SORRY
I think these types of thoughts destroy our humanity. I also think that we should be treated to an article on all those that have had the vaccine and are suffering, dying and have lost loved ones. Those people would also say they were sorry. If the vaccine really works then yes. we need to get it out there. If it is only partially effective we need to know that and force them to fix it. I read a UK article about a vaccine that fell below 50% effectiveness and was removed. Does this mean that our vaccines are not all that effective? We will need to stay masked and distance and wipe our groceries off forever unless they fix it. Is it true that out of 800 women in their first trimester that took the vaccine over 780 lost their babies? Or is this a common issue among pregnant women? Or were a lot of those women compromised in some way? We will never know if we are not truthful. One side will take this number and run with it,the other side will scream it's fake.
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I just want to say that the idiot that keeps writing that COVID-19 is just a cold is right. Every time I get a cold, I end up spending a week in hospital, usually on respirator.
Nothing is going to change until the a-holes at Fox News all get COVID and start dropping like flies. THEN it will be, "We didn't know COVID was serious."
My 3 first cousins, all men (aged 40 to 46) have NOT been vaccinated. Their mother was just moved to a rehab facility with strict COVID protocols - must show vaccination records in order to visit. Their take on it, "oh well, I'll see Mom when she gets out." Jerks.
I work in healthcare and was hospitalized with covid the day the first vaccine doses arrived. I wasn't intubated thankfully, but have a lot of residual issues (still need oxygen from time to time 8 months later. I've been vaccinated for a few months, but the new variants scare the snot out of me. My whole life, I have been fearless, doing things the rest of my family thought were absolutely nuts. Now I have to fight down abject fear every time I walk into our clinic, afraid that this will be the day I get it again.
Feel sympathy? NOT when said people lacked apathy towards COVID facts AND COVID vaccine facts!
It’s good to spread awareness, but many of these stories are repeats. Why pad it?
Whew! At least one of these wasn't an American. (At least I think so, the one from Sydney)
Before I even start with this article, I want to say I have zero sympathy for this idiotic morons. They had ample time to listen to experts instead they listened to orange conman. They rejected any scientific and logical reasoning just to appease their false deity and by doing so they extended pandemic more than it needed to be. They may have helped kill other innocent people by infecting them. These assholes deserve what they got.
"Instead they listened to orange conman": I have a lot of objections to the policies of former President Trump, but one thing he did not do is discourage vaccination.
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I know everybody's going to hate me for this, but my close family and I aren't vaccinated yet. Hold your horses, we are not anti-vax or anything of the sort, we're just cautious and wanna wait it out a bit more. While we wait, we're following every single covid precaution to the best of our ability and staying home as much as we can. And I, personally, am not in support of any of the people listed in this post xd
Wait for what though? More results? The billions already vaccinated and fine were not sufficient a test? Some people will have had this in their systems for 8 months - excluding those who volunteered in clinical trials. What do you think is likely to happen in a drug that does its work in the first few weeks? Or is it that you want the next generation of vaccines? So you'll need to wait for more testing and more results and more people to have them. All medicines carry a risk. The next prescription from your doctor for any treatment carries a risk. Get a chest infection and those meds to treat it could give you a reaction. I've had severe reactions to ordinary prescription drugs so I speak from experience. People potentially can be allergic and react to all kinds of things. Corona virus vaccines have been around and in tests for years and years. Yes there is a tiny risk with vaccine, but there is a bigger one with Covid.
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I do care if people die but the issue is fairly simple. If you don't get vaccinated you don't just put yourself at risk, you potentially put others at risk. Assuming you aren't staying at home and are in isolation of course. Having the vaccine only has a tiny, miniscule risk to yourself. Covid is not a huge risk (assuming you are younger and healthy) but it is still much, much bigger risk than vaccination - and the impact this can have on people around you (which a vaccine does not have). It's not a difficult equation I'm afraid. Your fears are understandable but only to an extent. We live in societies unless we are hermits. We can pretend that our decisions are only about ourselves but it is not reality. You dislike others showing zero compassion but a person too scared to get vaccinated is hardly thinking of others.
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It had an impact on children who had no choice - so that for a start.
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No. It. Is. Not. You are spouting complete shite. You can pretend that you are taking this from reasonable sources but you are not. https://covidvaccinehub.org/articles/no-covid-19-vaccines-do-not-change-your-dna AND https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines-myth-versus-fact
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And, you're part of the problem. Because of people like you we are now in the beginnings of wearing masks again and having to quarantine again. Yes, I am vaccinated, and now I am paying for your idiocy of not getting vaccinated, too. It's people like you that are keeping this virus as prevalent as it is, that is keeping this virus killing far too many people. You prattle on about the 'safety' of the vaccine, yet there have been no widespread complications from it...unlike not vaccinating and getting and spreading the virus. You are part of the problem.
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I can no longer feel sympathy for these people. They have heard the same information everyone has. They have seen the same devastating sights everyone has. They have the same facts everyone has. They chose to be brainless. They only regret and believe it's real when it affects them personally? Nope. No sympathy whatsoever.
This past year has brought to light that too many people believe personal liberty excludes them from personal responsibility. A side effect of the miracles of the modern world is we have multiple generations who don't truly understand how horrible death, war, and disease are to all of us. The baby boomers were the first generation in the history of the world where you were likely to reach adulthood without having a sibling die due to battle or bug. The world made the polio vaccine mandatory because they had seen the atrocities it did to a body and wanted no one to ever suffer that again. 60 years later when a majority of people have never seen how bad it is, it becomes acceptable to claim stopping it should be a personal choice. The purpose of civilization is for us to come together and make sacrifices to make us all stronger. I claim this 1/4 acre lawn as mine instead of the whole world so we don't kill each other. Responsibility trumps personal liberties when people die.
Yup. All of these Anti-Vaxxers can boast around and yell and shout about how vaccines are poison, but when they are forced into reality they have nowhere else to run
Serves them right when they get pwned by a virus. The problem is, they spread it to others, so if Mr. Antivaxx gives someone else COVID-19 and that person dies, Mr. Antivaxx has blood on his hands.
Load More Replies... I remember back before the vaccine was a thing, Covid deniers were denying it *as they were dying*. So, now this lot are having regrets, we are making progress? (look, if you squint really hard, this is a silver lining!)
Some people just need too much proof to change their worldview. People refused to believe the germ theory of disease until Louis Pasteur came up with the smallpox vaccine and pasteurization and people stopped dying by following it. When the COVID vaccine started working, claiming COVID was hoax suddenly became untenable. Unfortunately there are too many not willing to make the next step that getting vaccinated lowers your chance of death, not raises it.
Load More Replies... I have no sympathy for these people. I do, however, have a lot of anger that they stole lung transplants from people who actually deserved it.
My great uncle who refused the vaccine is now in the hospital with Covid. We've all agreed to take care of his cats if he dies.
How nice of you to make arrangements for his kitties. However, the real concern is the stinking hospital bills - if you're in the US.
Load More Replies... Thing is, my sympathy for these COVID Kamikazes (but let me clarify, NOT their innocent victims) has run out after a year and a half of listening to their bullshit denial and conspiracy theories on the several outlets that allowed them to publicly declare their anti-vaxx, anti-mask, COVID denial beliefs. Now that they’re the primary victims—-a self-inflicted condition caused by their refusal to quarantine, wear masks, practice social distancing, and get vaccinated, BTW—-I really don’t want to give them any forum to post regrets and gain sympathy. The message I want them to hear is LEARN YOUR LESSON FROM THIS—-AND NEVER FORGET IT!!! Won’t happen, I know. They’ll forget it as soon as they’re well and back to passing on new conspiracy theories. I’ll bet the next one, for any who survive, will be something like the government ordered the hospital to implant them with “something” when they gave them a shot, or there was “something” in their feeding tubes or the O2 coming through the ventilators they were hooked up to. Some such bullshit. And, mark my words, the one thing that will be glaringly absent from their future paranoid online rants is even an ounce of respect or gratitude for the nurses and doctors who saved their miserable worthless lives.
5 minutes ago a woman was on CNN had a hard time not crying because her unvaccinated husband is in the hospital and not doing well. She was vaccinated, still got COVID but recovered. She admitted they didn't take it seriously and he worked 12 hour days at their own construction company so thought he was too healthy to get sick. He can only sit on the side of his bed for 3 minutes at a time before he is too exhausted. I have LongCovid from December and got vaccinated in May. I never stopped wearing masks.
When people write "Hardly anyone dies form Covid", I point out that polio didn't kill that many people, either; however, surviving either disease can come at a high price. I hope recovery and relief come to you soon.
Load More Replies... Welcome to the reality of medical personnel since spring 2020. "Why should I, it's not real, you're exaggerating, it's a hoax, it's a scam, it's the devil, it's political, it's (fill in weirdness)"... And they say this as they're yelling at us for keeping them quarantined away from the family who got Covid and are in the Respiratory intensive care unit. No, they don't just have "flu", and yes, the vaccine helps, and if they get flu shots, why the (bleep) can't they grasp this? B/c they don't wanna be scared. Fine. Be scared while your lungs fail. That's *so* much better (last bit was sarcasm)
I like to bicycle for exercise, but stopped during the pandemic. I worried that I could have an accident. It sounded risky for me and I didn't want to burden the medical system.
Load More Replies... I’m pro vaccination and have had both mine but I still feel for these people and their families, a death is still awful. There’s so much miss-information some people don’t know what to believe, dying is a terrible price to pay. Educating people is the best way out of this, to encourage vaccination not force it.
It's really hard. I've got sympathy exhaustion. I can't really find enough to care about the people who willfully, ignorantly deny and refuse science and the severity of things. The slightest inconvenience to them is seen as an attack and listening to people who spread VERY easily disproven lies is seen as empowering defiance. This isn't political. This is literally life and death. That it was made political is just rage inducing. That so many people fell for it has taken all the empathy I've had for the last year +. I just can't bring myself to care about people's choices anymore, even though I know it is going to get a lot of others hurt. I will do my best to keep my family safe.
A controversial opinion, maybe, but I really don't care if these people die from it. It's doing a good thing to humanity by losing all these hostile idiots. As long as they're not infecting other people, they can all go.
Have a care for the ones who die because they don't have the autonomy to get vaccinated independently, like the 13 year olds.
Load More Replies... I just don’t feel sorry for these people. When Covid first started my husband and I took it very seriously always wore a mask we didn’t go around anyone we picked up our shopping etc, it was a lonely year. My MIL made fun of us for it and said she wasn’t going to live her “life in fear” or “in a bubble.” I said you can do whatever but you’re not coming around our child if you’re not going to be careful and that made her even more mad, she was convinced it wasn’t that serious and that she wasn’t going to get it. Well she got it and she was pissed. One of the things I said to her when she got better is “I thought you said it wasn’t that serious and that there was no way you would get it?”
I wish they would show more of these stories instead of STILL and CONTINUALLY giving it anti-vaxxers which happens on more than just FOX news. It is ridiculous to give those people the time of day. Talk to people who have been in those shoes, who had regrets because they followed some Facebook post and are swallowing their pride in the hopes someone will listen. Even if it's just one, a pebble starts an avalanche.
At this point if you don't get the vaccine and you do get COVID, I don't care if you die. In fact, I'd be happier if you did. The planet needs less morons on it. You made the choice to be an idiot and should suffer the consequences of that choice. I just hope you don't infect anyone else on your way out.
Read not to long ago about a young man who's 18th birthday present to himself was to get all the vaccinations he typically would have received in childhood that his mother had refused to let him get. This was before Covid... he just wanted the standard suite. It is heartening to know that at least some young people are resisting being indoctrinated by their idiotic parents.
Am I supposed to feel bad for these idiots? This just proves how unbelievably selfish they are. These things were known 18 months ago but they chose to ignore it, then only acknowledge it after they personally faced a loss. To hell with everyone else they got sick.
You mean anti-vaccine propaganda I hope. They are the ones causing people to refuse and putting lives at risk.
Load More Replies... Me (12) and my siblings (9 and 5) are all deathly afraid of getting shots, we still get them. We all get terrified, we cry, but we always get vaccinated. We are more afraid of dying of sickness than getting poked by a tiny needle. if these GROWN ADULTS are more afraid of a tiny needle than a 5 year old, then they need a serious reality check.
I heard a sound clip from guy getting discharged from the hospital after recovering from COVID-19, who said that if he had to do over again he still wouldn’t get the vaccine. F*** that guy. The nurses didn’t need to break their backs keeping him alive, and how many other people did he infect? It’s not a decision for himself alone.
The whole point for me is, even if you are healthy, you never know if you'll get a mild case like some, or end up hospitalised or dead. It's a crap-shoot. Not to mention the long term effects some are experiencing. Can't wait for my 2nd dose next week. Not taking chances. I'm also avoiding people the best I can, lol. I was born to be a hermit.
This makes my brain explode with anger. I would do my job according to the rules and regulations of my governing body, following hospital policy and procedure and job description to the letter. But if you think I'm going to hold your hand while you cry about your regret for being Darwinian stupid for not getting vaccinated, you've got a long wait for that one. Also all these people who got covid because they refused to get the shot, insurance companies should deny coverage and you are stuck with the bill and bear the financial consequences.
"Person who climbed into lion cage at feeding time because 'freedom' now regrets climbing into lion cage at feeding time."
I have no sympathy for any of these people, except for the children who got sick and died because their parents are complete and utter morons. Part of the concept of "freedom" is taking responsibility for your own actions...or lack thereof.
These people "don't trust the healthcare system" when they feel well, but when they're sick, they expect the healthcare system to work a miracle. I wish there was an Unvaccinated fee for people hospitalized for covid who refused to get the shot, so they had to pay monetarily for their bad decision and needlessly wasting hospital resources.
Ah, yes, the "I dont care about something until it literally happens to me or a loved one" crowd. I have zero sympathy for these assholes anymore. I only care about the kids who typically have no choice, whether they're anti-vax or not. The rest can go f**k themselves.
When Darwin talks, he gets the last word. I really can get why antivax and flatearthers are a thing. I wish no harm to anyone. But, as of today, if you get a bad covid and you failed at getting the shot in time, you brought this onto you.
From the moment this whole pandemic started, I never thought it was a hoax or not serious so these people don't make sense to me. I have always worn a mask, practiced social distancing, and have gotten the vaccine. I did these things to protect myself yes, but more importantly I did them to protect my family and the people around. I didn't want my mother to have to bury her husband because her daughter was too selfish to put a piece of cloth over her face. I didn't want some elderly person in the grocery store to die of Covid because I refused to stand back six feet. I didn't want one of my coworkers to end up on a ventilator because I refused to get a shot in my arm. I didn't want people to die from my selfish inaction.
We are vaccinated and practice social distancing and wipe everything down before it enters the house, we shower up if they have been out in public, I wipe down door handles ( can't trust children, you know). We work with elderly in a facility and would never want to be responsible for their deaths. But I have come to look at this as I do the flu. Children seem to be virtually immune unless they have a condition. The elderly can catch it easily and can die from it. Anyone with a weak immune system can catch it and die from it. Some folks seem to have gotten it, had the equivalent of a cold, and are fine. My father had a minor illness a while back and now they are telling him it was covid. He's 75. What do we do and what are we to believe? California had a hard lockdown, they had a hard spread. some states didn't lock down and had very little spread. I can't figure it all out and it makes my brain hurt. Someone as work threw a video in my face about a CDC directory stating th
Load More Replies... The moment you stop struggling to survive, you have ample of time to think of things that are so ridiculous that it is not funny. The sad part is many had to pay a huge price for this realisation. In India, the amount of people going for vaccination is staggering. Such theories have no place here because it is either this or death. And medical bills that will kill you despite insurance. Vaccines (Corona or otherwise) have brought life expectancy up and death rates down. We have seen it happen. If these idiots want to know how vaccines help save lives, come to India. In fact, govt is allowing many benefits to those getting Covid vaccines. Plus the rates are kept low and are free at many govt hospitals.
I know some wonderful people who are still deluded into thinking they don’t need a vaccine. I doubt that vitriolic ranting about how horrible the hesitant are will convince anybody to get a vaccine.
Some of these comments remind me of this satire article: https://babylonbee.com/news/garth-op-ed-the-best-way-to-convince-the-unvaccinated-is-to-scream-at-them-with-ignorant-certainty
Load More Replies... Good. I didn't have an option of getting a vaccine before I got covid. I thought I was going to die. I hope he is suffering along with his family. Sorry, NOT SORRY
I think these types of thoughts destroy our humanity. I also think that we should be treated to an article on all those that have had the vaccine and are suffering, dying and have lost loved ones. Those people would also say they were sorry. If the vaccine really works then yes. we need to get it out there. If it is only partially effective we need to know that and force them to fix it. I read a UK article about a vaccine that fell below 50% effectiveness and was removed. Does this mean that our vaccines are not all that effective? We will need to stay masked and distance and wipe our groceries off forever unless they fix it. Is it true that out of 800 women in their first trimester that took the vaccine over 780 lost their babies? Or is this a common issue among pregnant women? Or were a lot of those women compromised in some way? We will never know if we are not truthful. One side will take this number and run with it,the other side will scream it's fake.
Load More Replies... I just want to say that the idiot that keeps writing that COVID-19 is just a cold is right. Every time I get a cold, I end up spending a week in hospital, usually on respirator.
Nothing is going to change until the a-holes at Fox News all get COVID and start dropping like flies. THEN it will be, "We didn't know COVID was serious."
My 3 first cousins, all men (aged 40 to 46) have NOT been vaccinated. Their mother was just moved to a rehab facility with strict COVID protocols - must show vaccination records in order to visit. Their take on it, "oh well, I'll see Mom when she gets out." Jerks.
I work in healthcare and was hospitalized with covid the day the first vaccine doses arrived. I wasn't intubated thankfully, but have a lot of residual issues (still need oxygen from time to time 8 months later. I've been vaccinated for a few months, but the new variants scare the snot out of me. My whole life, I have been fearless, doing things the rest of my family thought were absolutely nuts. Now I have to fight down abject fear every time I walk into our clinic, afraid that this will be the day I get it again.
Feel sympathy? NOT when said people lacked apathy towards COVID facts AND COVID vaccine facts!
It’s good to spread awareness, but many of these stories are repeats. Why pad it?
Whew! At least one of these wasn't an American. (At least I think so, the one from Sydney)
Before I even start with this article, I want to say I have zero sympathy for this idiotic morons. They had ample time to listen to experts instead they listened to orange conman. They rejected any scientific and logical reasoning just to appease their false deity and by doing so they extended pandemic more than it needed to be. They may have helped kill other innocent people by infecting them. These assholes deserve what they got.
"Instead they listened to orange conman": I have a lot of objections to the policies of former President Trump, but one thing he did not do is discourage vaccination.
Load More Replies... I know everybody's going to hate me for this, but my close family and I aren't vaccinated yet. Hold your horses, we are not anti-vax or anything of the sort, we're just cautious and wanna wait it out a bit more. While we wait, we're following every single covid precaution to the best of our ability and staying home as much as we can. And I, personally, am not in support of any of the people listed in this post xd
Wait for what though? More results? The billions already vaccinated and fine were not sufficient a test? Some people will have had this in their systems for 8 months - excluding those who volunteered in clinical trials. What do you think is likely to happen in a drug that does its work in the first few weeks? Or is it that you want the next generation of vaccines? So you'll need to wait for more testing and more results and more people to have them. All medicines carry a risk. The next prescription from your doctor for any treatment carries a risk. Get a chest infection and those meds to treat it could give you a reaction. I've had severe reactions to ordinary prescription drugs so I speak from experience. People potentially can be allergic and react to all kinds of things. Corona virus vaccines have been around and in tests for years and years. Yes there is a tiny risk with vaccine, but there is a bigger one with Covid.
Load More Replies... I do care if people die but the issue is fairly simple. If you don't get vaccinated you don't just put yourself at risk, you potentially put others at risk. Assuming you aren't staying at home and are in isolation of course. Having the vaccine only has a tiny, miniscule risk to yourself. Covid is not a huge risk (assuming you are younger and healthy) but it is still much, much bigger risk than vaccination - and the impact this can have on people around you (which a vaccine does not have). It's not a difficult equation I'm afraid. Your fears are understandable but only to an extent. We live in societies unless we are hermits. We can pretend that our decisions are only about ourselves but it is not reality. You dislike others showing zero compassion but a person too scared to get vaccinated is hardly thinking of others.
Load More Replies... It had an impact on children who had no choice - so that for a start.
Load More Replies... No. It. Is. Not. You are spouting complete shite. You can pretend that you are taking this from reasonable sources but you are not. https://covidvaccinehub.org/articles/no-covid-19-vaccines-do-not-change-your-dna AND https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines-myth-versus-fact
Load More Replies... And, you're part of the problem. Because of people like you we are now in the beginnings of wearing masks again and having to quarantine again. Yes, I am vaccinated, and now I am paying for your idiocy of not getting vaccinated, too. It's people like you that are keeping this virus as prevalent as it is, that is keeping this virus killing far too many people. You prattle on about the 'safety' of the vaccine, yet there have been no widespread complications from it...unlike not vaccinating and getting and spreading the virus. You are part of the problem.
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