My great Uncle was battling cancer and it was in full remission. He was doing great. He had gotten the COVID vaccine as well. He then got exposed to and infected with actual COVID. He was only sick with COVID for a few days but in those few days it did something to the cancer and/or his immune system and went from full remission to completely uncontrollable. He was dead in less than a month. The only way for him to have lived was to never be exposed in the first place.
So no, there is no “co-existing” with fucking COVID. There is only “being complacent with the most vulnerable among us dieing because people are too fucking lazy to bother to try and stem the spread of a disease.” So glad my uncle had to die so people don’t have to be ever so slightly inconvenienced with wearing mask when they go shopping.
I understand how you feel and I’m sorry for your loss, my uncle also died from COVID despite being fully vaccinated and in otherwise good health. However, as tragic as such deaths are, we can’t help but look at the greater situation with some degree of heartless abstraction and when we do that, we understand that the cases of our uncles are the exception and not the rule. All the other diseases that we consider endemic also tragically take away the lives of people but there’s not really much we can do to really stop this
This is some serious lib speak right now. All of it.
“Heartless abstraction” is a real fancy way of saying “I don’t give a fuck about the lives of the vulnerable.” “Some of you may die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take.” This is how capitalists talk when they justify poor people dieing of any number of poverty related causes. “We have to look at our anti homeless architecture with a magnitude of heartless abstraction. Sure it may seem cruel but we have to preserve the aesthetics of our city.” “Heartless abstraction” is not just the advocation of needless deaths but the belittlement of them. To look upon their suffering with no empathy and imo, not the way anyone who claims to be a communist should ever be. It is one thing to know that the greater good of the community may come at the sacrifice of some but you should take into your heart their suffering and truly assess if it is justified.
Is it not part of being a communist to do what’s best for the whole of society? Taking a minor inconvenience of continuing to wear a mask to try and stem the spread of a disease, that’s magnitudes more dangerous to the vulnerable in the population, seem to be the proper communist approach. Not to mention we still don’t know the full damage that can be caused by “long COVID.” It does not hurt me to wear a mask but not wearing a mask COULD end up hurting someone else. I have the vaccine but I COULD still get infected and who knows if that will be the cause of a new strain that’s even more resistant? So I will wear a mask, because I care.
I just want to also address this.
All the other diseases that we consider endemic also tragically take away the lives of people but there’s not really much we can do to really stop this
This is the most ridiculously defeatist garbage I’ve seen in a while. Let’s just all give up and throw in the towel because the task at hand looks insurmountable.
“There’s not really much we can do about global capitalism, I guess we should just all stop trying to be communists and only look out for ourselves from now on.”
My great Uncle was battling cancer and it was in full remission. He was doing great. He had gotten the COVID vaccine as well. He then got exposed to and infected with actual COVID. He was only sick with COVID for a few days but in those few days it did something to the cancer and/or his immune system and went from full remission to completely uncontrollable. He was dead in less than a month. The only way for him to have lived was to never be exposed in the first place.
So no, there is no “co-existing” with fucking COVID. There is only “being complacent with the most vulnerable among us dieing because people are too fucking lazy to bother to try and stem the spread of a disease.” So glad my uncle had to die so people don’t have to be ever so slightly inconvenienced with wearing mask when they go shopping.
I understand how you feel and I’m sorry for your loss, my uncle also died from COVID despite being fully vaccinated and in otherwise good health. However, as tragic as such deaths are, we can’t help but look at the greater situation with some degree of heartless abstraction and when we do that, we understand that the cases of our uncles are the exception and not the rule. All the other diseases that we consider endemic also tragically take away the lives of people but there’s not really much we can do to really stop this
This is some serious lib speak right now. All of it.
“Heartless abstraction” is a real fancy way of saying “I don’t give a fuck about the lives of the vulnerable.” “Some of you may die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take.” This is how capitalists talk when they justify poor people dieing of any number of poverty related causes. “We have to look at our anti homeless architecture with a magnitude of heartless abstraction. Sure it may seem cruel but we have to preserve the aesthetics of our city.” “Heartless abstraction” is not just the advocation of needless deaths but the belittlement of them. To look upon their suffering with no empathy and imo, not the way anyone who claims to be a communist should ever be. It is one thing to know that the greater good of the community may come at the sacrifice of some but you should take into your heart their suffering and truly assess if it is justified.
Is it not part of being a communist to do what’s best for the whole of society? Taking a minor inconvenience of continuing to wear a mask to try and stem the spread of a disease, that’s magnitudes more dangerous to the vulnerable in the population, seem to be the proper communist approach. Not to mention we still don’t know the full damage that can be caused by “long COVID.” It does not hurt me to wear a mask but not wearing a mask COULD end up hurting someone else. I have the vaccine but I COULD still get infected and who knows if that will be the cause of a new strain that’s even more resistant? So I will wear a mask, because I care.
I just want to also address this.
This is the most ridiculously defeatist garbage I’ve seen in a while. Let’s just all give up and throw in the towel because the task at hand looks insurmountable. “There’s not really much we can do about global capitalism, I guess we should just all stop trying to be communists and only look out for ourselves from now on.”