ChromaticCorvid
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Living in the south through the past year has been an absolute nightmare.
The election, covid, and George Floyd just showed how truly lost many of the people around me are and it hurts more than I could say.
Lamp
Man fuck bats
CaptainSlower
Yeah, it's the same in *gestures broadly*
sharkmommychompers
FL Uber driver here, I get wackos telling me that it's all the illegals bringing it in and that it's Biden's fault for not doing something..
Adamarket
I adopted the US as my home coming from the UK 27 years ago and I feel the same.
EatPieLander
Early in pandemis someone said America is facing two pandemics: COVID and Stupidity.
JeffreyDeTar
Gov. Brian Dingleberry Kempe actually stated on national television he was unaware Covid was transmissible by air.
TheGlow
School opened for the kids here in TN last week. I got a message from the school that after 1 week, only 500 covid cases for kids, 50adults
Boatsntoes
Meanwhile my Covid positive friend is surfing and going to the gun range…
trippingthelightfantastic
Glory to you and your house @OP
Southernmama
Same. It’s just become depressing.
GuestChrist
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country" - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after having hanged two teenage boys for the "offense".
Autittuderp
I have a great friend who lives in Texas and she has gone into early retirement bc she can not deal with as she calls it "living out there"
Autittuderp
She felt safest being in lockdown. How incredibly sad for her.
jimmythehat1
South Dakota had a huge spike after Sturgis. Quadrupled their cases
TheStig1986
I moved to the PNW after spending my life in the south...I don't miss it.
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
How'd you convince them?
ChromaticCorvid
I threatened to not seem them until they did
JinxRocks
I refer to it as the Trumplague. And when they get mad, I tell them at least it ain’t COVID, amirite? And they get confused.
mystpanther1337
Take my 420 upvote from FL
Sentay
"The south... ...is a nightmare" there you go OP.
WebDragonG3
congratulations on getting your parents vaccinated.
PrincessJimmyCarter
They've blamed the liberals and the government. They're currently blaming the Mexicans. Black folks, get vaxed now before they can blame you
ImALagomorphSam
too late: https://abc30.com/dan-patrick-texas-lt-governor-blames-black-people-unvaccinated/10966166/
immortalbucket
VargtheWizard
Ah yes, that time a war criminal drank poison he had smuggled in.
SillyZombie
I had a big ole throwdown today w/ sis in law over vaccines just now. Ho boy. Now wife is mad at me.... well....
IdiotSavantTinker
ChromaticCorvid
Threadnomancer
Do we have any info on how many of these rising cases are vaxxed? Are there just that many antivaxxers in the country?
Panzerkeks85
Good overview: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/us/covid-breakthrough-infections-vaccines.html
geoffreyfourmyle
Nearly all of them are unvaccinated. Link follows.
geoffreyfourmyle
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+COVID-19+cases+are+unvaccinated and then just scroll until your state comes up
doggetofftheqcekmty
Legit heard a kool-aid drinker say yesterday that 80% of the "covid deaths" aren't from covid.
Taishosama
ah yes neither the gun nor the bullet killed this child, it was the blood loss and asthma the kid suffered from that did it
immortalbucket
OutrageousHemmorhoid
They are mostly from mucus and inflammation haha?
doggetofftheqcekmty
I believe he said they're falsely labeled flu deaths. Like the opposite of what Florida was doing in the beginning.
ChromaticCorvid
The biggest conservative radio host in Tennessee just died form covid after making a song making fun of it. It's not funny but...
UndulatingTerrain
It's not not funny.
MarisFreeborn
. . . isn't it ironic? Don't you think? A little too ironic . . .
fearcandy
They wouldn't have any sympathy for Democrats that pass away.
Kreviathan
It's certainly therapeutic seeing it bite them in the ass, as morbid as it is. It's been well over a year, no sympathy left.
gradeD
...but it is a little funny.
kyro
It is absolutely funny.
coffeebaby
It's like saying people who die in car accidents didn't die in the accident. They died from blood loss later. That's how they rationalize it
TorrentialUpPour
Exactly this. While they're *technically* correct, it's really just a distinction without a difference.
LonelyLoser
Oh boy i guess AIDS kill count is 0 too
coffeebaby
I mean they gonna blame that on gays either way
wallsh1
wish I knew the reference but I understand the message
totaleclipseofdescartes
Avatar Last Airbender. She’s a “tour guide” who indoctrinates newbs with state propaganda. “There is no war in Ba Sing Se” (but there is)
wallsh1
oh well dang
gradeD
She's the villain in The Last Airbender
ChromaticCorvid
wallsh1
never seen it but appreciate the info
gradeD
I've never seen it either and apparently I was completely wrong.
JustSomeRandomGuyOnTheInternet
No....no she is not.
gradeD
Sorry, I was just going off of memes I've seem her in. Never actually seen the show!
cosinewave
Not everyone in the south is an ignorant, bible-thumping, racist but there are certainly enough of them to give that impression.
DildoRodeo
Kinda sucks to be a vaxxed, masking Georgian and read all the comments about how it's all my fault :/
rowdypup
There’s a great deal who just skip over the Bible party completely, unless it’s Easter and Christmas, and just choose racism and ignorance.
TechnicallyRight
50% seems like a lot
thotterpop
You're giving them too much by calling them ignorant.
manymadmasks
I may have passionate sexual intercourse with my cousin, but I ain’t morally bankrupt enough to be Republican. Vax and mask y’all.
TheGlow
Yes, I moved to TN 3 years ago, after living my whole life in NYC. It was pretty good up until covid and the election...
bril350
Most of them would be smart enough to get the fuck outta the south. Like my friend from Alabama.
svga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church only 70 members yet smeared on the corporate media as if it is all christians
ChromaticCorvid
What does this have to do with the post?
millenniumf
There's at least two, accordingvto the downvotes.
gordy77
Not for long
faultierr
I hate that there is a church literally every single mile where I live and they are packed as fuck every Sunday, pandemic or not.
Springthingy
It only takes a few when the media loves reporting on the absurdity for views.
svga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church only 70 members yet smeared on the corporate media as if it is all christians
northerngermany
Then maybe, just maybe start posting other than this depressing US-political stuff to finally show us the cool side. Please.
Abstractivity
It's blacks as a group that are most anti vaxx. That makes you the howling racist.
DildoRodeo
Nope. Out of the 'Big 3' races in America, whites are least vaxxed, followed by Hispanic, with African American being most vaxxed.
sirava
And you know the thing is, southerners are as smart as anybody else in this country
Our only problem is we just can't keep the most >>
sirava
ignorant among us off of television. -Jeff Foxworthy (and this is about the only thing I'll quote him on)
SEAW1NG
I had one ask me if my sour dough was sweet.... WTF. No, it SanFran. Had to make my boule with sugar and no crisp crust. NY transplant here.
transientmind
Can’t keep them off television… or out of the voting booth, councils, and other positions of power, which is the more significant problem.
SmokyDoggg
Texas here and as Sam Jackson would say the number is TOO HIGH. But there are a lot of decent polite people too.
nclu
Not to mention that you are gerrymandered into silence. Things will only change as that effort can be undone.
cosinewave
No question - I have met lots of warm and wonderful people in Texas and other places in the south.
gradeD
And their warm, wonderful southern bodies
cosinewave
I would not deny that.
ChromaticCorvid
That's the worst part in all honesty. It feels like so much of the country has given up on us, while so many fight for progressive change
PackWulver
As a South Carolinian this is a mood
tevyethemad
Compromise of 1877 is still fucking stuff up for y'all. Solidarity from PA, it's gotta get better some day.
itsallaboutthecones
Keep fighting. As a life long Alabamian I know the struggle and feel your pain.
rubypilgrim
hang in there. Georgia turned blue, Fulton County is liberal, Atlanta is 22nd most progressive city in the nation - giving up not an option
kyro
Atlanta guy here. This is on-point. We are winning. Don't lose hope now.
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
In fact, fight harder, cus you know the regressives will.
RagingRomaineLettuce
In TN and I still bother my city council and try raising hell even though I’m not very successful. I garden a lot to try and push down pain
ChromaticCorvid
Well your username definitely checks out. ❤️
Cha0sForever
When the systems rigged so the majority struggle/cannot vote doesn't help
Kreviathan
They don't want the most votes to be represented because if they were the RNC would never win an election.
Kralizac
Born in Ohio. Came to Lousianna after college. It could be so much better. But everyone has want it. Too many, on both sides, fight change.
spiderjohn36
From Knoxville, TN and I totally concur. If it hadn't of been for cost of living and traffic, I wish I would have stayed in ATL [1/2]
spiderjohn36
instead of moving back home three years ago. ATL is so much more progressive and diverse.
michaelbishop
No one thanks or appreciates the 3 good wheels on a shopping cart, just the wonky wheel gets attention.
TechnicallyRight
saying 75% are doing their part is just... giving them way too much credit.
raosion
That's a really really good way of putting it.
cosinewave
That's a fine point
transientmind
If the cart doesn’t work why the fuck would you appreciate the ‘good wheels’? The fucking cart doesn’t work.
geoffreyfourmyle
But the wonky wheel is fighting all efforts to improve, and actively attacking the mechanic trying to fix it. The other three wheels aren't
geoffreyfourmyle
doing enough to stop the fucked up wheel. The entire cart is more trouble than its worth. Stop wasting time politely asking the broken
geoffreyfourmyle
wheel to stop being deliberately useless. Fucking rip it out of the cart already.
zynthesis
Unfortunately for Maga country, the non Magats arent even on the cart, they're the pin holding the joint together for the basket
Autittuderp
That's bc it fucks up the whole experience, you can't navigate the thing to go where you need and it makes such a big racket you can't deal.
lncorrectGrammerNazi
Sounds like a fitting description of the situation in the southern states.
MagicalHamFlaps
now now the official response is to blame black people for the surges........no i am not joking that is what they did in Texas
hitthatbomb
??♂️lowest vaccination rate? https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/
MagicalHamFlaps
it is utter bullshit is what it is
hitthatbomb
You have counter data to present it a different source which states that PoCs have a higher vaccination rate?
LizardEnterprises
Well it does make it easier to herd them into extermination camps if you have a plague to blame on them...
Kreviathan
Also blaming "illegal immigrants from Mexico bringing covid with them". I'm not even surprised.
Mabregick
I just heard reporting in Texas today that talked about how bad it is in states like Alabama and Florida but didn't mention Texas at all
darkmyst30
Don't forget the immigrants!
arkuamore
Happened in the last plague. It'll happen in the next.
AlexDuos
Yeah I'm not thrilled about that tidbit either.
texasinja1718
Which really confuses me because I’ve also been told it’s the surge of illegals coming in their scary caravans
MagicalHamFlaps
the common denominators for all of the conspiracy theories are brown skin and, not republican
sharkmommychompers
I drive Uber in SW FL.... "It's all those illegals bringing it in here and Biden aint doing anything about it!" is their constant assault.
bags1988
As a Texan, it’s hard to not just pack all my shit up and find sanctuary somewhere that has a heart and a brain
GloveFullaVaseline
Seriously, why stay?
bags1988
Family and friends
Threadnomancer
Well yknow they couldn't go full fourth Reich on Asians for the "Kung flu" so they had to find a new target in hopes people will tolerate it
loveisallwereallyhave
STFU. Did that happen?
MagicalHamFlaps
yes yes it did https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-blames-covid-surge-african-americans-n1277254
loveisallwereallyhave
What a douche. He's a dipshit, too. Aside from those what are actively racist, how do people not see through this horseshit?
fashenkna
So they’re acknowledging covid is not a hoax/fake?
MagicalHamFlaps
apparently, but it is just the brown skinned democrat types who are spreading it......
ChromaticCorvid
I saw and I almost shot the damn Television.
MrRandom314159
What.
MagicalHamFlaps
it was a solid wtf moment, like they aren't even trying to hide the racism
T0go
Elvis was right!
chbarts
Calm down, Elvis.
T0go
Elvis did nothing wrong
itsallaboutthecones
Dan Patrick is a gaping prolapsed asshole. Much like most of his caucus.
MagicalHamFlaps
that is quite the visual
rubypilgrim
don't shoot the tv. get politically active. GOP poised to take power through gerrymandering and new voting laws that allow GOP legislatures-
rubypilgrim
to give middle finger to voters, appoint the electors they want and say what election results are regardless of what the votes are. We -
rubypilgrim
won't know what the real vote totals were because they will never allow them to be recorded or published. Official record will only be-
rubypilgrim
what they say it is.
FloodingWaters
Definitely a texan!
ChromaticCorvid
Tennessee but close ?
FloodingWaters
Do all your exes live in texas?
rubypilgrim
they're also blaming vaccinated people. The one group they don't blame? Themselves.
MagicalHamFlaps
i saw that also saw some were finding it super convenient that COVID is targeting people who refuse the vaccine like some deep state shit
whirlydoodle
That's darkly hilarious
MagicalHamFlaps
sometimes you just have to laugh at the absurdity to keep from feeling worried about it all
gradeD
Much of the united states outside of major cities is going to be controlled by fundamentalist warlords inside of 30 years, is my speculation
MagicalHamFlaps
they are willfully ignorant as, Donnie Thimbledick has started telling them to get vaccinated at his rallies and they boo him
rubypilgrim
ikr? I was surprised at that. Anti-vax means more to them than Trump. Who knew?