Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I’m not trying to make you feel crummy, but that doesn’t belong on the website (or in the printed pages) of a reputable news outlet. I get that obituaries are written by the family, but I feel confident they’d reject one proclaiming the superiority of the white race or advocating for the violent overthrow of the government. Blatantly untrue propaganda that has been demonstrably shown to drive up the death rate in a public health emergency falls into that same realm of evil for me.

 

@Inky_Wretch and @gingerbread , adding my condolences to all those being sent to you and your families.

 

Thank you, and you are absolutely right about her daughters.
It may indeed turn out she was one of those rarest of rare people who died of a blood clot after getting the J and J vaccine. As far as I can tell, hers would be the fourth confirmed death out of more than nine million doses distributed. If the media does its job - and her side of the family wants the entire truth - we'll eventually know.

The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine and Blood Clots: What You Need to Know
From the article: 'Six cases is a small number, considering that over 6.8 million Johnson & Johnson shots had been administered as of April 12. (By May, 9 million doses had been administered and the number of rare blood clot cases had grown to 28, six of them in men, according to the CDC. At that point, three people had died.)'

 

I absolutely agree with you about obituaries.
And no worries, you can not make me feel any more crummy. I've lost two friends to COVID, have friends who have lost their parents (one friend lost both parents) ... and, like millions of families, have watched mine become irreversibly splintered by it. And that was before these last two weeks, when this happened.
I wish I could remember what it feels like to experience moods other than profound sadness, anger, disgust and grief.

 

This has been a miserable, gut-wrenching age. Sorrowful prayers for you and yours.

 

This is probably more a "journalism" topic, but it pertains to Covid.

A longtime acquaintance who I rarely converse with is anti-vax, anti-mask, pro-Trump, etc. He and two other guys share stuff and continually tell each other how smart they are. (One posted a photo that had "the three greatest U.S. presidents of all-time -- Washington, Reagan, Trump.")

Anyway, the guy sent me a link to a video. I was not sure how long it was, maybe more than 2 hours. I started it and noted several mistakes -- spelling, word usage, wrong "facts" -- all within the first couple of minutes. "Burried" instead of buried; affect/effect error, and the reddest flag of all, claiming as a "fact" that more people have died from lightning strikes than from Covid. There were 3 other "facts" in the opening, one might have had some accuracy but I didn't look for proof.

I checked the source of the video and it came from a site called "Bitchute." Anybody ever heard of Bitchute? Google search and Wiki said it presented far right philosophies and had been banned by Youtube and other similar sites.

So I messaged back to the guy that anything coming from Bitchute is probably garbage. In 44 years as a journalist, when I find something that is full of mistakes right from the beginning, I don't bother with it. He challenged me to watch it "before it gets taken down" and not disregard it just because it came from Bitchute. He said I was "throwing out the baby with the bath water."

Another friend chimed in with well-sourced info on lightning strike death, something like 26 in the last year or so. I told the guy with the video that if he didn't believe in masking and vaccines, stop by the nearest hospital and see the overflow of people suffering.

Finally, I told him to not wear a mask if he didn't want to. But it is irresponsible of him to try to stop others from wearing makes.

 

So sorry to hear of your family's loss, Gingerbread. I wish that there were more to say or do, particularly for those who loved someone who refused a vaccine that could have saved their lives. So tragic and unnecessary.

 

Suspend them.

 

This is what happens when you stop getting vaccinated.