The "Fuck you Covid19" thread

[ToPleaseHim]

She’s 80. She got boosted on her Bday, got Covid 3 weeks later.

How’s she doing?

 

[cascadiabound]

My mom got Covid. She is vaccinated and boosted. I got her the antibodies before they ran out. She’s okay. Slow recovery.
It was my biggest fear, her getting it. I don’t know how I didn’t get it.

I am so sorry she got it, but grateful she is doing better. So many people are getting it now it is just a total wild fire.

I hope she makes a full recovery without complications.

Long covid seems to be my curse. Hoping for a better 2022.

Long covid sucks. I have seen stats as high as 50% who get covid have some long covid issues.

I hope all the Litsters here stay well. Two of my girls at work won’t vaccinate, one got it back in June. Two weeks in the hospital. Loosing hair now.

A good friend from Florida got it and died. Unvaccinated. A smart guy, but would not get vaccinated.

I am so sorry for your loss TC. As much as I try, I really do not understand people who won't get vaccinated. I am having severe compassion fatigue

for the last few weeks, so many of my staff have been out with covid - all "mild" cases so far (all are vaccinated), but it is still seriously kicking people's butts and it means that those of us who can work, are working harder and longer. This was made even worse by the recent floods etc, which kept a whole nother bunch of folks from getting to work. I can hardly say how tired I am. How limited my bandwidth is. I am so fucking tired of covid. It feels like my entire nursing practice is covid all day long. I am so gonna have PTSD when this is over.

fuck goddamn covid

 

[gracie920101]

I'm really glad I'm out of the medical profession now. I don't know how all you guys deal with it day in and day out considering the ungrateful and demanding jerks out there.

I worry about how many young people are rethinking career choices at this point. I fear the nursing shortage is going to to get much, much worse.

You are all frequently in my thoughts.

Hang in there!

Fuck covid and all the variants!

 

[twister947]

*little bug

 

[MeekMe]

It's good to hear she's OK.

Yes, here's to something positive this year.

It has to get better, I don’t think I can handle if it gets worse.

I wish I could say I’m surprised that they hadn’t looked into that.

I’m not surprised at all considering how much the female population is ignored in medical testing.

I’m sorry you have to deal with this Meeks! Fingers crossed for things gettibg better this year!

I got my booster a few days ago and this time it felt like someone really beat me up. After spending a day on the couch feeling very sorry for myself, I feel ok again.

It’s been over a year and I’m finally feeling more like myself so it’s looking up. I’m planning to get the booster but I’m a bit skittish at the moment. I’m glad you’re feeling okay.

Long covid sucks. I have seen stats as high as 50% who get covid have some long covid issues.

It’s weird for sure. A little infuriating that everyone I know that contracted it had basically a cold and moved on so now they don’t really take many precautions. They say they do but then go out to theme parks without masks and such. Me, I’m terrified that getting it again could put me in a much worse situation then has already occurred. So I just stay very isolated most of the time. I’m pretty thankful I can basically live in PJs right now.

for the last few weeks, so many of my staff have been out with covid - all "mild" cases so far (all are vaccinated), but it is still seriously kicking people's butts and it means that those of us who can work, are working harder and longer. This was made even worse by the recent floods etc, which kept a whole nother bunch of folks from getting to work. I can hardly say how tired I am. How limited my bandwidth is. I am so fucking tired of covid. It feels like my entire nursing practice is covid all day long. I am so gonna have PTSD when this is over.

fuck goddamn covid

I don’t have anything good to say here. It’s a shit situation. Stay safe look out for number one.

 

[Moochienanu]

Fuck you, covid-19.
She was a caring doctor.
She was a wonderful friend.
She was vaccinated.
She was boosted.
She still didn’t escape you.
And she absolutely didn’t deserve to be killed by you.

Fuck you, covid.
Fuck you so hard right now without any lube.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Fuck you, covid-19.
She was a caring doctor.
She was a wonderful friend.
She was vaccinated.
She was boosted.
She still didn’t escape you.
And she absolutely didn’t deserve to be killed by you.

Fuck you, covid.
Fuck you so hard right now without any lube.

I’m so sorry!

 

[cookiecat]

Fuck you, covid-19.
She was a caring doctor.
She was a wonderful friend.
She was vaccinated.
She was boosted.
She still didn’t escape you.
And she absolutely didn’t deserve to be killed by you.

Fuck you, covid.
Fuck you so hard right now without any lube.

Sorry to hear this.

Fuck you covid

 

[Iwillgo]

Sorry to hear this.

Fuck you covid

Gives perspective. FU Covid!

 

[gracie920101]

Fuck you, covid-19.
She was a caring doctor.
She was a wonderful friend.
She was vaccinated.
She was boosted.
She still didn’t escape you.
And she absolutely didn’t deserve to be killed by you.

Fuck you, covid.
Fuck you so hard right now without any lube.

Oh Moochie, I'm so sorry!

Fuck you Covid!

 

[cascadiabound]

Sigh.
So sorry Mooch

Fuck you covid

 

[DarkPrimalRose]

A really fuck you covid

 

[Moochienanu]

I’m just so tired
And angry
And frustrated
And fed up

(Thank you everyone. She was a kind friend and a magical human who will be missed by her family, coworkers, and patients.)

Fuck you covid.

 

[cascadiabound]

I’m just so tired
And angry
And frustrated
And fed up

(Thank you everyone. She was a kind friend and a magical human who will be missed by her family, coworkers, and patients.)

Fuck you covid.

Completely understandable. Please take care of you.

Fuck you covid and all your variants

 

[PaxNurgle]

Last night I just got into a huge argument with one of the blatant forum trolls on one of the other sub-forums.

While at first I felt bad, thinking I was a little unreasonably harsh, in hindsight, maybe not.

This person continually posts conspiracy related anti-vaccine crap on the forums, over and over, under at least two different user names. Stuff that has been debunked numerous times, blatant "Scare tactics" to convince people not to get vaccinated. I tried politely debating with him, telling him to please have some respect for the heath care workers on the front lines, who deal with deathly ill unvaccinated people on a daily basis, but got nowhere. I personally know of at least two people who have died, needlessly, from reading garbage like what this guy posts. So after the 9th or 10th such thread, I was far less polite, telling him in no uncertain terms to go fuck himself (and truthfully I was a lot less nice than that.)

It's one thing if you refuse to get vaccinated. That's your own stupidity, though even there, by not doing so you are contributing to prolonging the pandemic and possibly making others sick.

It's quite another to deliberately spread false rumors and conspiracy bullcrap, which is blatantly contributing to people getting sick and dying, and impacting all those selfless and brave doctors and heath care workers out there.

I asked the admins to delete the offending threads and have gotten nowhere, and this same poster (unsurprisingly) is also an unapologetic racist, and his pro-white nationalist crap seems to continually go unpunished as well.

 

[KimGordon67]

Last night I just got into a huge argument with one of the blatant forum trolls on one of the other sub-forums.

While at first I felt bad, thinking I was a little unreasonably harsh, in hindsight, maybe not.

This person continually posts conspiracy related anti-vaccine crap on the forums, over and over, under at least two different user names. Stuff that has been debunked numerous times, blatant "Scare tactics" to convince people not to get vaccinated. I tried politely debating with him, telling him to please have some respect for the heath care workers on the front lines, who deal with deathly ill unvaccinated people on a daily basis, but got nowhere. I personally know of at least two people who have died, needlessly, from reading garbage like what this guy posts. So after the 9th or 10th such thread, I was far less polite, telling him in no uncertain terms to go fuck himself (and truthfully I was a lot less nice than that.)

It's one thing if you refuse to get vaccinated. That's your own stupidity, though even there, by not doing so you are contributing to prolonging the pandemic and possibly making others sick.

It's quite another to deliberately spread false rumors and conspiracy bullcrap, which is blatantly contributing to people getting sick and dying, and impacting all those selfless and brave doctors and heath care workers out there.

I asked the admins to delete the offending threads and have gotten nowhere, and this same poster (unsurprisingly) is also an unapologetic racist, and his pro-white nationalist crap seems to continually go unpunished as well.

I've stopped arguing with anti-vaxxers (or at least, I'm trying to stop arguing with them ... the argumentative gene apparently runs quite strong in my family). Instead, I'm just posting material that corrects their misinformation, and explaining how these are the actual facts of whatever situation is being discussed - so basically, just fact checking. We're two years in - I don't think anyone who's still rabidly anti-vaxxed is going to suddenly develop an hitherto-undiscovered streak of logic. But at least posting the facts means that anyone who's still in the undecided or easily swayed camp gets to see actual information, and hopefully they can work out what's sensible and what's not sensible on that basis.

 

[twister947]

Nobody ever changes their mind, or if they do, they talk themselves into a new place.

 

[gracie920101]

I've stopped arguing with anti-vaxxers (or at least, I'm trying to stop arguing with them ... the argumentative gene apparently runs quite strong in my family). Instead, I'm just posting material that corrects their misinformation, and explaining how these are the actual facts of whatever situation is being discussed - so basically, just fact checking. We're two years in - I don't think anyone who's still rabidly anti-vaxxed is going to suddenly develop an hitherto-undiscovered streak of logic. But at least posting the facts means that anyone who's still in the undecided or easily swayed camp gets to see actual information, and hopefully they can work out what's sensible and what's not sensible on that basis.

Fighting ignorance with knowledge is just too logical for some folks to comprehend. I love it! A passive-aggressive stance just isn't understood by those same folks.

 

[PaxNurgle]

I'm just sick of dealing with the BS. There is so much toxicity on that particular subforum (which thankfully, is not the case on this one) that maybe I just need a break from it. Toxic people, toxic opinions (literally, in the case of this anti-vaccine disinformation spreading) and just toxic threads. Even worse when the same individual has like three or sometimes four different user names and starts like ten threads a day.

 

[cascadiabound]

I'm just sick of dealing with the BS. There is so much toxicity on that particular subforum (which thankfully, is not the case on this one) that maybe I just need a break from it. Toxic people, toxic opinions (literally, in the case of this anti-vaccine disinformation spreading) and just toxic threads. Even worse when the same individual has like three or sometimes four different user names and starts like ten threads a day.

Life is too short. I recommend you avoid that toxic part of the board and block the anti vax, racisit fuck in all of his/her incarnations here.
The only way I have found it is possible to move people on this stuff is to cultivate a genuine conversation and meet them at the place where they have worries and speak to that with compassion rather than logical arguments. Unlikely to be able to achieve that with a lit troll. Just walk away. Save your breath and your aggravation.

I am sorry for your losses related to covid. It has been a terrible time.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Last night I just got into a huge argument with one of the blatant forum trolls on one of the other sub-forums.

While at first I felt bad, thinking I was a little unreasonably harsh, in hindsight, maybe not.

This person continually posts conspiracy related anti-vaccine crap on the forums, over and over, under at least two different user names. Stuff that has been debunked numerous times, blatant "Scare tactics" to convince people not to get vaccinated. I tried politely debating with him, telling him to please have some respect for the heath care workers on the front lines, who deal with deathly ill unvaccinated people on a daily basis, but got nowhere. I personally know of at least two people who have died, needlessly, from reading garbage like what this guy posts. So after the 9th or 10th such thread, I was far less polite, telling him in no uncertain terms to go fuck himself (and truthfully I was a lot less nice than that.)

It's one thing if you refuse to get vaccinated. That's your own stupidity, though even there, by not doing so you are contributing to prolonging the pandemic and possibly making others sick.

It's quite another to deliberately spread false rumors and conspiracy bullcrap, which is blatantly contributing to people getting sick and dying, and impacting all those selfless and brave doctors and heath care workers out there.

I asked the admins to delete the offending threads and have gotten nowhere, and this same poster (unsurprisingly) is also an unapologetic racist, and his pro-white nationalist crap seems to continually go unpunished as well.

A while back I saw somebody post a sad story about how somebody they knew died right after getting their first covid vaccine. Only, they included enough details for me to check the story... and as far as I could see, it wasn't true. Maybe some of it was true, I'm prepared to believe the person did die, but not in the circumstances they described. Seems like it was most likely an unrelated death and they altered the facts to make it sound like it was caused by the vaccine; I don't think there was any medical way for it to have happened like they described and there was no record of it in places where there should have been a record.

So, at best... they lost somebody who mattered to them, and they were prepared to disrespect that person's memory by lying to make them into an anti-vax story :-/

...and it looks like Meat Loaf died of being an anti-vaxxer. I didn't have much time for his opinions, but I enjoyed his music when I was younger, and I'm sad for that at least.

 

[twister947]

My normal YT attention span is about 3 minutes; this is worth your time.
https://youtu.be/JVbUMpe9c8o

 

[IrisAlthea]

I'm just sick of dealing with the BS. There is so much toxicity on that particular subforum (which thankfully, is not the case on this one) that maybe I just need a break from it. Toxic people, toxic opinions (literally, in the case of this anti-vaccine disinformation spreading) and just toxic threads. Even worse when the same individual has like three or sometimes four different user names and starts like ten threads a day.

There are iterations of posters in that subforum, who have been featured on many peoples ignore lists since the dawn of time, for reasons.

If you think it’s hard to ignore them ”manually” or if they start a lot of threads, ignore will help.

 

[KimGordon67]

A while back I saw somebody post a sad story about how somebody they knew died right after getting their first covid vaccine. Only, they included enough details for me to check the story... and as far as I could see, it wasn't true. Maybe some of it was true, I'm prepared to believe the person did die, but not in the circumstances they described. Seems like it was most likely an unrelated death and they altered the facts to make it sound like it was caused by the vaccine; I don't think there was any medical way for it to have happened like they described and there was no record of it in places where there should have been a record.

So, at best... they lost somebody who mattered to them, and they were prepared to disrespect that person's memory by lying to make them into an anti-vax story :-/

...and it looks like Meat Loaf died of being an anti-vaxxer. I didn't have much time for his opinions, but I enjoyed his music when I was younger, and I'm sad for that at least.

I'm constantly amazed at the lengths anti-vaxers will go to protect their 'freedom'.

The problems with these stories is that 99.99% (not actual stat, but probably pretty close) of people who read them won't bother to fact-check them, but will just add it to their mental 'evidence' for their opinion.

Someone in a thread (not on here) that I was arguing with yesterday said that from 1 April, all unvaxed people, and people who's vaxes were not up to date, would be subject to police checks and fined $6,000 if they were out of their houses. As you can imagine, I was somewhat surprised that this was the first I'd heard of it, and a friend who was also contributing to the thread actually looked up recent changes to the relevant legislation. There was no change that would bring this law into effect, all my Googling revealed nothing, and when we asked for a link to the information, it turned out that her brother had told her about it. I now assume he's getting in an early April Fool's joke, but it's not difficult for that sort of stuff to suddenly become part of the popular discourse, and added to all the reasons people have for hating Ardern. (And even when that specific reason is proven wrong, because on 2 April they're still freely roaming around, they just hate Ardern anyway.)

 

[PaxNurgle]

There are iterations of posters in that subforum, who have been featured on many peoples ignore lists since the dawn of time, for reasons.

If you think it’s hard to ignore them ”manually” or if they start a lot of threads, ignore will help.

I've requested at least one of the worst offenders to be banned, not just for posting misinformation about the vaccines, but for trolling, inflammatory language, racism, and harassment. It hasn't happened yet and even if it did, the guy would probably just make a new user name anyway and keep doing it (He currently has at least two.) And there is another guy who has three current user names who is constantly linking to articles from some far-right "news" source, basically trying to stir up trouble. I'm just fed up with the whole thing. You guys- ALL of you- are awesome and wonderful people. (Though I'm sure nobody's perfect.)