Inhuman
By Mitch Berg
Remember in the 1980s, when some “conservative” fundies rejoiced at the deaths of AIDS patients.
It was a pretty depraved stance. Everyone knows that.
Someone tell the fairly irredeemable LA Times drone Michael Hiltzik – who has reprised that particular bit of human depravity by declaring “Mocking some anti-vaxxers’ deaths is necessary“.
Helpfully, he adds “My exception applies to those who have actively undermined public health for the sake of an ideology and a culture war”.
I’m not going to extensively pull-quote the column – which is full of the sort of “two weeks to stop the virus” cheerleading that seems to have come from a CDC press release in April 2020, or from someone who thinks Gavin Newsom is on the right track.
That’s not especially remarkable.
Remarkable? Humanity is secondary to progs like Hiltzik:
It may be ghoulish to celebrate or exult in the deaths of vaccine opponents. And it may be proper to express sympathy and solicitude to those they leave behind.
But mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID measures and encouraged others to follow suit, before they perished of the disease the dangers of which they belittled…There may be no other way to make sure that the lessons of these teachable moments are heard.
Actually, there is another way: : stop politicizing public health. Stop spreading distrust of “the Trump Vaccine” during the elections, and then turn around and claim credit for it. Stop making “sowing controllable panic” the default setting for public health messaging. Stop being whores for the Democrats, if you’re the media.
Of course, this is more about them than – and their needs to find a scapegoat for their frustrations – than the unvaccinated.
But let’s not pretend this – mocking and giggling about opponents, on whatever issue, that die unfortunate deaths – is anything but the default setting for ghouls like Hiltzik. After watching people like him giggle and guffaw over the deaths of Tony Snow, Antonin Scalia and Rush Limbaugh, and hoot and holler for the death of Steve Scaliise, it’s a stretch to assume they have any other setting.
Sort of like guffawing about dead AIDS patents, only apparently acceptable.
January 13th, 2022 at 6:59 am
“My exception applies to those who have actively undermined public health for the sake of an ideology and a culture war.”
I can’t think of a single human being who would say that they are undermining public health for the sake of an ideology and a culture war.
The groups suing to stop Biden’s mask mandate legal filing says that they are suing because the mandate is unconstitutional, not because they are ideologically opposed to the mandate or because they engaging in a “culture war.”
January 13th, 2022 at 7:37 am
The AIDs crisis is an apt comparison to the Covid hoax. I never believed the official story for either of them.
Both started with the media warning us that the illness would attack everybody equally, there was no vaccine, and you could get it from casual surface contact (toilet seats for AIDs and grocery store conveyor belts for Covid); therefore, catching it was individually blameless.
We now know AIDS was spread by specific behaviors involving exchange of bodily fluids. Those who did not engage in the behaviors, did not contract the disease, while those who did engage in the behaviors were to blame for their own predicament. (Note: not blood transfusion patients, that was a horrible mistake caused by political correctness, infected people should never have been allowed to donate).
We now know Covid is spread like any other respiratory virus. It attacks primarily the frail elderly. It’s not stopped by masks or social distance or vaccine. People who catch Covid, and people who die from it, are individually blameless. Indeed, they may be innocent victims, if government policies hadn’t warehoused the frail elderly with the infected in nursing homes, and hadn’t actively prevented early intervention treatments such as Ivermectin and HCQ.
The lie is revealed in how the media portrays patients. AIDs victims are heros, hatefully discriminated against, who deserve special treatment. Tom Hanks made a movie about them. Covid sufferers who were vaxxed simply got a breakthrough case, which is nobody’s fault. There will be an after-school special about them soon, no doubt. But Covid sufferers who were not vaxxed are getting what they deserve, the bastards. Their movie will be made by Oliver Stone.
January 13th, 2022 at 8:03 am
These are the same rodents that call bloody infanticide “health care”. What the fuck do I care about what they think? Nothing.
I just want to survive long enough to empty my bladder on their unmarked graves.
January 13th, 2022 at 8:17 am
With Covid, they issued stay-at-home orders, closed schools, closed churches, closed businesses, shut down the economy and made everyone wear silly face diapers.
With AIDS, they refused to even suggest that you shouldn’t f*** people you don’t know.
Minneapolis refused to close gay bath houses and shut down “bare-ass beach”, a place on the Mississippi where gays went for casual sex, until a prominent DFL’s got shot there. John Chenoweth.
The answer to AIDS was never abstinence, it was monogamy, and we couldn’t ever ask for that.
January 13th, 2022 at 8:25 am
The AIDs crisis is an apt comparison to the Covid hoax
Indeed. It should be. Fauci played a major role in both.
January 13th, 2022 at 8:38 am
jdm;
Yup and his hands were all over the deadly Ebola crisis. Just like the WuFlu jabs, he preached the gospel of drugs, again, that he had a stake in, but did nothing, resulting in numerous deaths. FAUXci is our era’s Josef Mengele.
January 13th, 2022 at 8:52 am
One of the issues the CDC and “public health officials” have in creating effective national pandemic control policies is the crappy way data is collected. There are state-by-state and county-by-county differences in the way terms are defined. Death certificates takes weeks to make their way from a hospital or care home to the CDC.
I am beginning to think that the good of a system like this out weighs the bad.
We now know what “public health officials” do with this data. They slice it and dice it in an attempt to devise some sensible plan to reorder your life and control your health care decisions on a statistical basis.
You can look at the last two years as an example of what “public health officials” can accomplish with a hodge podge of data. They see in it what they want to see, or what they think they are paid to see.
We don’t want a centralized, monolithic health care system for the same reason we don’t want a centralized, monolithic law enforcement system. The urge to use this system to fight an eternal problem (poor public health or crime) is so powerful you will end up with a police state, where everything not forbidden is compulsory.
January 13th, 2022 at 9:12 am
MP.
Exactly! Socialized medicine = death panels.
January 13th, 2022 at 9:19 am
Remember in the 1980s, when some “conservative” fundies rejoiced at the deaths of AIDS patients. It was a pretty depraved stance. Everyone knows that.
I don’t.
It’s unnecessary to make an easy-peasy denigration of conservative fundies (whoever they are) rejoicing (whatever that means) is just to garb yourself in sanctity before hammering the left in the person of that obese troll, Michael Hiltzik. Anyone (from the left) who contests your comments about that fat pig will ignore the denigration and your sanctity. You whatabout’ed yourself for no benefit.
Second, the Homo Lobby grew from the coquettish “we just want acceptance and to be loved” positions of the 70s to a more in-your-face and frankly nasty “we’re here’, we’re queer, and there’s nothing you can do about it” position in the 80s. Whenever possible, they directed their political and social policies with those “conservative fundies” in mind – the one’s who are just supposed to take it.
Btw, the social-sexual sickos have continued to used the very same procedure ever since right up to today. The trannies are in the 80s stage (nothing you can do cis-normie), but the kiddie-diddlers are in the 70s stage (look up the now deleted US Today series on acceptance of pedophiles from just a few days ago).
To top it off, the health bureaucracy (Fauci et al) terrified everyone with the communicability of AIDs and also denied that it was *only* the very behaviors proscribed in the Bible that made AIDs so dangerous.
Point being, I can completely understand “some conservative fundies rejoicing” that their self-described societal enemies having sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind. It is neither depraved nor unexpected.
January 13th, 2022 at 9:23 am
Forgot about Ebola, boss. Good call.
January 13th, 2022 at 10:00 am
When are we going to get stories asking why anti-vaxxers don’t have empathy for the frustrations and concerns of the vaccinated?
I am not a fan of “What-About-ism”, but every time I see a post like this I can’t help but wonder when we’re going to see articles examining the things the unvaccinated dead were posting on their social media feeds before they got sick.
What is not mentioned in this post is the overlap of those who post anti-vax memes and those who post bigoted and misogynistic memes, combined with Christians begging for miracles and requesting prayer warriors to help them, and then the inevitable Go Fund Me.
It’s not like these people were innocent victims of misinformation. They were actively propagating it, and in a sneering, provocative, smug, hostile way. It is quite likely that they dissuaded many others from getting vaccinated as well. These people mock the vaccinated and mock masking. So when the leopard turns around and eats their face? 🤷♂️
January 13th, 2022 at 10:08 am
“When are we going to get stories asking why anti-vaxxers don’t have empathy for the frustrations and concerns of the vaccinated?”
You think there’s not enough attention on that? f
“I am not a fan of “What-About-ism”, ”
…but you go on to do it, and fit nicely in with Mr. Hiltzik as you do.
“What is not mentioned in this post is the overlap of those who post anti-vax memes and those who post bigoted and misogynistic memes”
It’s not mentioned because it’s utterly irrelevant – unless I were to “whatabout” the selective bigotry of the likes of Hiltzik and “BIg Karen”, who assume vaccine skepticism is a “MAGA” thing, while actual observation shows black males from 20-40 are the lest-vaccinated demographic in the US.
“It’s not like these people were innocent victims of misinformation”
So you agree with Hiltzik.
Gotcha.
January 13th, 2022 at 10:12 am
“Socialized medicine = death sentences for White people”
FTFY
https://nypost (dot) com/2022/01/10/fda-wants-race-ethnicity-factored-in-administering-covid-drugs/
Rat, stfu and go get your booster like a good little, brainless bot. Do it for the little black children.
January 13th, 2022 at 10:13 am
“My exception applies to those who have actively undermined public health for the sake of an ideology and a culture war”, Hiltzik says…
…as he actively undermines public health for the sake of an ideology and a culture war.
January 13th, 2022 at 10:22 am
Rat Biden just gave an update on his Covid plan…it’s the same as the old Covid plan; hate everyone that won’t shoot the juice. Really hate people that are just living their lives.
When he got to the bottom of the teleprompter, he then sat there, frozen, with a dementia patient’s wan smile, completely incapable of speaking a single word as reporters asked questions and his care givers pushed them out. He then stumbled out of the room when told to do so.
It was fucking brutal.
As an aside, Rat Biden’s approval has now slipped to 33% according to (the respected) Quinnipiac University poll. That’s about the population I expect to make up the <90 IQ end of the bell curve. So all the fucking idiots still love them some Biden.
January 13th, 2022 at 10:24 am
What is the purpose of blaming the unvaxxed for their own death? Of dancing on their graves, as Hitzlik wrote.
It isn’t to make people more likely to choose to be vaxxed. It might be compared to dancing on the graves of those who drown because they refused to wear a life vest when boating. No one is going to put on a life vest because some columnist, or their friends and neighbors celebrate the death of people who drowned because they did not wear one.
It is the pure pleasure of self righteous scorn and hatred.
These are today’s “progressive” values. It’s all about the hate with those guys.
January 13th, 2022 at 10:27 am
“Whataboutism” is just a way of dismissing refernces to hypocrisy that you happen to agree with. ~ Mitch Berg
http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=80547
My daughter is a ICU nurse but also has to take shifts in the Covid ICU. She has a Covid patient, kidney transplant recipient, who right before being intubated was telling her that Covid is a hoax made up by big pharma. It’s hard to even make this stuff up.
These folks didn’t deserve to die of Covid-19. But they took zero steps to prevent it. And they actively derided anyone who did. I have no words except a plea to consider how these unvaccinated people are taking up beds in hospitals which might have gone to non-Covid acute care patients.
January 13th, 2022 at 10:30 am
Reason’s Robby Soave has announced “The Twilight of the Covid Karens”
Someone needs to tell Emery.
…..Dude, no matter what you do, no matter how self-righteous you are, you are going to get Covid.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sywoPiWsMrc
January 13th, 2022 at 10:37 am
Emery has gone down the anti-freedom cul de sac again.
If I know better than another person whether they should get vaxxed, my opinion is best.
If I know better than a nother person whether they should get an abortion, my opinion is best.
Surely there are hundreds of thousands of women who abort their baby because they made a decision based on misinformation, or foolish beliefs, or pure selfishness.
January 13th, 2022 at 10:44 am
It’s hard to even make this stuff up
No. It isn’t. You do this all the time. You’re an expert.
January 13th, 2022 at 10:46 am
^ The imperative should be to allow for “freedom of choice”. This is true with vaccinations as with other areas. “My personal view” of this is wanting to still allow for personal choice. With the knowledge that choices always have opportunity costs.
January 13th, 2022 at 11:21 am
Bombshell: Veritas Documents Reveal DC Bureaucrats Had Evidence Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine Were Effective in Treating COVID — But Hid This From Public
Let this sink in… THEY… LET…. PEOPLE…. DIE!!! THEY… KILLED…. PEOPLE…. FOR… THIER…. POLITICAL…. PURPOSE….
January 13th, 2022 at 11:29 am
It is very troubling how differently the cases of COVID and HIV are. In the latter case, we’re still getting thousands of deaths each year from AIDS despite knowing for 35+ years that the way to avoid it is called “monogamy”, or more specifically “don’t sleep with men who have sex with men, hookers, or IV drug users.” COVID’s virulence is so far beyond that of AIDS, it’s not even funny–the total # of AIDS infectees since 1985 in our country is about the same as the # of COVID infectees in a single DAY a few days back.
And yet we celebrate HIV victims, and blame those who get COVID. Just plain perverse.
January 13th, 2022 at 11:33 am
Well, Emery, Missouri DemoCommie rep Cori Bush, didn’t get jabbed, because she has been healed by a Nigerian faith healer. She even raised money for her. Of course, none of you lefties criticize her because she’s black.
Further, back in November, a member of the left’s boogeymen, the Frontline Doctors, revealed that “over 100 Congress people and staffs, had sought them out for treatment with “horse paste” and hydroxichloroquine, MOST of whom were Democrats”.
January 13th, 2022 at 11:39 am
@BS429: When a person is thoroughly brainwashed, without really understanding what that does, are they really free to make a “choice”? The choice always validates the brainwashing.
January 13th, 2022 at 11:43 am
“My daughter is a ICU nurse but also has to take shifts in the Covid ICU.”
Well we know 10/10 that’s a fucking lie.
“She has a Covid patient, kidney transplant recipient, who right before being intubated was telling her that Covid is a hoax made up by big pharma.”
Intubation occurs in patients exhibiting acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. ie: high flow supplementary O2 delivery (>6 ltr/min) results in sustained SpO2 levels < 80. A person in this state is highly unlikely to have the breath to blame "Big Pharma" This story is complete bullshit on it's face.
"It’s hard to even make this stuff up."
Not for an inveterate liar such as yourself, rat.
January 13th, 2022 at 12:17 pm
I, too, can fart in an elevator and step out just before anyone smells it.
The Zen philosopher, Basho, once wrote, ‘A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.’ Unlike Twat — Basho was a funny guy.
January 13th, 2022 at 12:23 pm
Rat Emery belched: “I, too, can fart in an elevator and step out just before anyone smells it.”
You might, but you’re far to stupid to do so. You repeatedly prove you rather stand fast and savor the stink of your own failure. It’s the mark of a decidedly low IQ, which you have also exhibited repeatedly.
January 13th, 2022 at 12:47 pm
Minnesota is one of the few reprobate controlled states to implement rat Biden’s FDA guidance regarding the use of race in deciding who gets life saving treatments.
Shorter version: If you’re White, you go to the end of the line.
https://www (dot) health (dot) state (dot) mn (dot) us/diseases/coronavirus/hcp/mabethical.pdf (pg 13)
“Clinicians and health systems may consider whether a patient has heightened risk of progression to severe COVID-19 associated with race and ethnicity when determining eligibility for mAbs.
▪ The FDA has acknowledged that in addition to certain underlying health conditions, race and ethnicity “may also place individual patients at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.”20
▪ FDA’s acknowledgment means that race and ethnicity alone, apart from other underlying health conditions, may be considered in determining a patient’s eligibility for mAbs.”
Your rodent leadership hates you, and wants you to die.
January 13th, 2022 at 1:00 pm
When I went online to make an appointment at Health Partners, I noticed a screen to verify my age, sex and race. I don’t remember seeing that before. Was it always there, or did they add it to ‘triage’ patients?
Being sent to the back of the line would be fine if I was getting a break on my premiums. It’d be like sitting in the cheap seats at the stadium, my choice. But if I’m paying the same bucks for my health insurance premium as the next joker, I’d expect triage decisions to be made by medical necessity, not by social justice.
January 13th, 2022 at 1:13 pm
” I don’t remember seeing that before. Was it always there, or did they add it to ‘triage’ patients?”
The date on the new rules is 1/9/22
Your White life was already not as important as a 75 IQ Negro carjacker, Mexican or Haitian border jumper, but they weren’t saying it out loud until then.
January 13th, 2022 at 1:17 pm
Lie, Joe Doakes. They have no right to ask for that info.
They probably can’t get that info from your health records because they aren’t allowed to,
January 13th, 2022 at 1:20 pm
“Lie, Joe Doakes.”
Cast your pearls before swine…
January 13th, 2022 at 1:25 pm
“But if I’m paying the same bucks for my health insurance premium as the next joker…”
lol…No worries there, JD. You’re not, because they’re not paying shit.
There is a 70/30 chance you’re picking up the tab for the Negro car jacker’s treatment, and a 10/10 chance you’re covering the border jumper.
January 13th, 2022 at 1:30 pm
I keep arguing with my wife that companies requiring proof of the jabs or negative WuFlu tests, are in violation of HIPAA laws. Basically, a company can’t reveal employee medical records, without the employee’s written consent. My argument is that they are doing an end around, by forcing their employees to violate those laws for them to reveal their personal medical records. I’m waiting for some smart, fearless lawyer(s) to launch some class action suits against a few of them.
January 13th, 2022 at 3:17 pm
This is significant. Something is happening in Denmark, the country second only to Sweden in being compliant comrades. “We Failed”: Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Publishing Official COVID Narratives Without Questioning Them
The newspaper in question is a leftists tabloid like the NY Daily News. Things may’ve changed since I lived there but it is the lunchtime entertainment of thousands of Danes.
If this holds and it’s for real, this is going to get interesting.
January 13th, 2022 at 3:44 pm
There’s a scene in “Fiddler on the Roof” where Tevye is talking to God while making his rounds delivering dairy products to his customers. “Motel and Tzeitel have been married for some time now. They work very hard and they’re as poor as squirrels in winter. But they’re so happy, they don’t know how miserable they are.”
Even the poorest Americans today live better than the Tsar of Tevye’s time. But they’re so miserable over The Deadliest Virus Ever Known, they don’t know how happy they are.
January 13th, 2022 at 3:50 pm
Oh. Well we have an update. It’s the Deplorables fault…White people keeping the black man down again!
Minnesota removes race as factor in rationing COVID-19 antibodies
New guidance for distributing scarce COVID-19 treatments came just as conservative group challenged old rules. The policy switch occurred on the same day a conservative advocacy group, America First Legal, threatened to sue Minnesota and Utah, arguing their racial-preference policies were unfair.
The Minnesota Department of Health had not replied to a request for comment as of noon Thursday about the policy switch and the letter.
https://www (dot) startribune (dot) com/minnesota-removes-race-as-factor-in-rationing-covid-19-antibodies/600135503/
January 13th, 2022 at 4:09 pm
Joe Doakes is not a Swine!
We have no racial or ethnic identity cards in the US. Use your imagination!
Lots of countries do track political rights by ethnicity. The US does not. In those countries that do ID you by your ethnicity, you can’t choose it. It is based on the ethnicity of your parents. Good luck getting a public office in Lithuania or Estonia if your grandparents came from Russia!
Flood the feds with misinformation, make them propose a “federal ethnicity identity classification,” like an SSN.
I used to identify as a native american, Then that got too popular. Now I identify as Asian/Pacific Islander.
January 14th, 2022 at 9:24 am
MP, lying to beat the system is playing within the system’s rules, and sacrificing your integrity to do it.
I don’t cast my pearls before leftist swine, I eat BLT sandwiches. But like vaxxing, I believe everyone can decide for themselves…go ahead; tell them you’re a Negro.
January 14th, 2022 at 11:28 am
I have often thought about checking the native American box. After all, I was born here, so I am a native. My mother and father were born here, so they were natives. All of my grandparents were born here, so all native. You have to get to great grandparents before you start getting ancestors who were born in other countries, but on some branches of the lineage, you can go to prior the founding of the country before you get to someone who was born outside the country. How much more native can you get?