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Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) Our daughter is a front-line nurse. She had one dying woman Foxbot screaming, between gasping for air, “Tell me what I really have!! Tell me!!! I should know!!!”

“You have COVID-19.”

“COVID does not exist. It’s fake and being used to control us. Tell me what I have!!!”

Mentalfloss1 , Hush Naidoo Report

Final score:

273points

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Hans 3 years ago

"Stupidity. Pathologic stupidity."

214points

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) Couple in their mid sixty years. Very and very and very rich. They came with all symptoms. Screaming COVID19 don't exist. For them, it was a flu. Drink hot tea with lemon and honey at home. Some advil for fever. Everything will be alright. Refuse to be hospitalized. Try to sue the hospital with their army of lawyers. It was in June 2020. They signed their papers. Go home. Come two days later on the hospital. Dead. Their son was in Japan. Never come to reclaim body. He just called to confirm the death of his parents. End of the story.

1_789 , Daniel Schludi Report

Final score:

250points

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

I thought dead would be the climax of this story... but then the son took it to new levels

157points

Bored Panda wanted to get Dr. Carroll's take on the last few months and whether we can say that we're starting to win the fight against Covid-19. The doctor said that some people are getting a moment of respite, at least in the US, but pointed out that the situation has gone from bad to worse in India. Which might be a ticking time bomb for the rest of the world because of the potential coronavirus mutations there as the situation worsens.

"Here in the US, with the number of people who have contracted the disease, along with a high number of immunizations, the caseload has dropped significantly. We can breathe for now, but the absolute tragedy in India has me very concerned about an escape mutation that may make its way back to the US which infects us once again," he said.

"I believe it’ll infect the unvaccinated first, but may spread and could evade the vaccine immunity. We will need to watch carefully for any new mutations and make sure everyone around the world is vaccinated and boosted adequately to finally quell this once and for all. The death rate from this disease is much higher than the flu, and if it continues to perpetuate year over year, we will decimate our most needy, poor, and marginalized world citizens."

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) Didn’t diagnose, but I’m sure you’ll appreciate the mental gymnastics..

I worked obs & gynae a few months back. For obstetrics we had an amber ward (confirmed non-covid ward), and a red ward (confirmed covid/no test done).

We’d require mum and partner to both get covid tests done in our clinic the day before the planned admission so we knew which ward to place them in.

One patient refused to have the swab taken because she thought covid was a hoax. So we were told her she’d have to stay in the red ward during her admission as we couldn’t confirm she didn’t have covid if she didn’t have a test. She went absolutely mental saying “you can’t do that!! What if I get covid??!”

me_earl , Adhy Savala Report

Final score:

243points

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Oxymoron should now also describe covid denial. Moron in need of oxygen

173points

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) Doctor here: I was working in the COVID ICU as a resident physician. We were getting crushed with new patients and the ICUs were overflowing. I admitted this elderly gentleman around 2am with respiratory failure due to COVID. He was maintaining his oxygen saturation with high flow nasal cannula oxygen, but notably short of breath and unable to speak full sentences without gasping for air. At this point in the night I had been working about 22 hours into my 28 hour call shift. All I want to do is take a quick history and physical and get out of the room to reduce my exposure. He proceeds to tell me all about how COVID is a hoax and starts rambling on about some bible passage. He even told me I needed to read the Bible more. I was beyond emotionally and physically drained by this point to respond to the audacity of his comments. He would later get intubated and spend a week on the ventilator. I think he survived, but it’s hard to remember. To say this pandemic made me cynical is an understatement.

gassbro , Olga Kononenko Report

Final score:

233points

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Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago

I would slap him in the face for him to wake up for life. The real life.

47points

moon_spells_dumbass Report

Not a doctor. Each member of my family had Covid and still believe Covid is fake. The problem is they survived having Covid, so in their mind Covid isn't real. They also believe Kamala Harris is going to assassinate Biden, declare Sharia Law, and Obama will seize power with antifa. So there's that.

Final score:

228points

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago (edited)

Do you think the have put all the things they hate into three categories: room, person and weapon, then play some kind of cluedo draw to come up with their newest conspiracy? It was kamala in the Whitehouse with the lead pipe? Or miss Scarlett at a blm rally with a.... teeny tiny 5g chip? I would accuse: the deniers, with the false information, entire world (person/thing/place)

102points

The development of multiple shots to help people fight off Covid-19 hasn’t put a stop to the pandemic, even though it’s dented its advance in some areas. While some Western countries are slowly breathing a very wary (and weary) sigh of relief after mass vaccination programs have gone underway, other nations are struggling with the massive spread of the virus. Countries like India.

The BBC reports that, at the time of writing, India has seen more Covid cases in the last week than any other country on Earth. “A ferocious second wave has seen the official death toll surpass 200,000,” the BBC writes. However, experts believe that the actual number of fatalities could, in fact, be much higher.

India is in the midst of a medical catastrophe: hospitals have run out of beds in many areas, oxygen supplies are dwindling, and healthcare staff are overworked. Some nations are reaching out to help India deal with this crisis, including the United States.

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) Our neighbour was a covid denier. So he wanted to prove that his healthy lifestyle of Crossfit would prove it is a bad cold.

He now uses a mobility scooter to reach the mailbox, speaks like Stevie from Malcolm in the middle, takes more pills than people twice his age, and can't taste or smell anything.

CrazyCoKids , Karsten Winegeart Report

Final score:

221points

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Lu 3 years ago

Just sad really.

75points

This is a conversation I have 3-4 times DAILY. Still.

Idiot: Hey doctor Scallion, I dont feel good, I have a fever, cough, cant taste anything and feel like I cant breathe. I think I have pneumonia but its not covid.

Scallion: Ok lets get a chest xray and check a covid test

Idiot: No I definitely dont gave covid, I couldnt have gotten infected... I dont do anything.

Scallion: Ok what did you do today?

Idiot: Well I went to work, then watched my son play soccer, then went to dinner at chipotle, then we visited my daughter and her husband. Other than that nOtHiNg.

Scallion: Ok you have COVID.

Idiot: that test cant be right!?!? i have NO symptoms of covid!

Scallion: you have literally every symptom of covid...and your covid test is positive.

Idiot: thats crazy, my wife also has covid. What a coincidence!!!

Scallion: please euthanize yourself

youngscallion Report

Final score:

205points

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Corey Brown 3 years ago

Please euthanize yourself? I am going to use that one daily

109points

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) I was a volunteer on the covid ward.

Loads of people who called it the "China virus" but they still took it seriously. Then I had 1 patient who didn't believe it when he was told he was positive so he spit on me. So obviously I got it too (eventhough I was wearing all the protective clothing but the guy was determined) and I got very sick and never went back.

Super_Cheese_Me , Kristine Wook Report

Final score:

184points

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Lori T Wisconsin 3 years ago

Lawsuit time?

190points

President Joe Biden plans to send vaccines to India where, currently, only just under 9 percent of the population has had at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. In comparison, in the US, over 42 percent of all citizens have had at least one dose of the vaccine; the number stands at around 50 percent in the United Kingdom and a whopping 62 percent in Israel, according to Our World in Data.

Despite all the overwhelming evidence, we still have deniers who trust fishy online sources more than official ones. Earlier on, I interviewed Joseph M. Pierre, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. We spoke about conspiracy theories and why they’re so popular nowadays.

According to Professor Pierre, conspiracy theories in the current era are political in nature and are rooted in people losing trust in authority figures. “It’s stereotypically liberals that trust science and support mask-wearing, social distancing, and vaccination (although historically there have been many liberal ‘anti-vaxxers’),” he told Bored Panda earlier.

#10

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) I'm an attending physician at our Triage Unit. On a friday, an older gentleman (60 + years) came in with his entire family (wife, sister, BIL, 2 newphes and 3 children), none of them with a face-mask. All had mild COVID symtoms except him, he was saturating 80% with evident shortness of breath. We insisted in doing PCR and a chest CAT-scan looking for COVID but he and his wife refused saying that COVID wasn't real and it was just a bacterial infection.The more we talked with him the more aggitated he got to the point that his face was red. We suggested hospitalizing him to stabilize him and start treatment, but they accused us of exaggerating his symptoms and that we only wanted to hospitalize him so we could steal the liquid in his knees (a stupid rumor that was going around when this whole thing started).

They both cursed at us and said they were going to a better hospital to get antibiotics. Fastfoward 24 hours later on Saturday, we get a call from the hospital next county over telling us that they intubated one of our patients because he went into respiratory failure when he arrived and they had to transfer him here because they don't have the appropiate equipment. We transfer the patient on Sunday only to find out on the CAT-scan he had 90% of lung damage. He passed away on Monday morning.

Just before the family took the body away, I gave the widow the death certificate (that I filled out) and before walking away, she turns around and waves the certificate yelling "See! I told you it wasn't COVID! It says here: "Death due to pulmonary pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2! I knew it was a bacteria!". I told her: "SARS-CoV-2 is COVID-19, ma'am".

yosol , Mufid Majnun Report

Final score:

181points

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Lori T Wisconsin 3 years ago

Americans have become so moronic and stupid, I have stopped feeling sorry for the deaths of the truly ignorant deniers.

146points

geekglassesglaceon , JESHOOTS.COM Report

#11

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) I'm an anesthesiologist, and in our institution, we're the ones tasked with intubating covid suspects / positive patients who would otherwise die without ventilatory support. And holy hell, there are a lot of patients who don't believe Covid is real (most of them believe that it's just an elaborate lie that Doctors use to label random patients to mooch money off them). Some of them scream at us (in whatever capacity their diseased lungs can allow them to), some outright refuse intubation (in which case they die several hours later from respiratory failure). It's emotionally taxing having to face that every shift.

Final score:

157points

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

I would not be emotionally strong enough to do what they do. I'm eternally grateful that people continue and face this intolerable burden, and keep on going. I think they deserve more pay, like supermarket workers and other essential people who have proven just how essential they are during the pandemic. Thank God or whomever that there are intelligent people willing to become medical staff, knowing they will be treated this way, because they want to help people.

92points

#12

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) My wife’s a nurse, just had to deal with a patient who refused to get tested prior to her surgery so they had to treat her like a covid patient and needed to charge her for all the added PPE like gowns, goggles etc. the kicker is, recovery wouldn’t take her for observation while she was woken up so the anesthesiologist needed to stay and monitor her in the room for nearly 3 hours. They are billed at $400/15 minutes and there is no way her insurance is going to cover the extra cost because she signed a document saying she denied a covid test.

FunctionBuilt , Bofu Shaw Report

Final score:

156points

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Marcellus the Third 3 years ago

Good luck collecting the money though.

53points

“Wearing masks, unfortunately, has become a kind of political debate, at least here in the US. That is, it’s stereotypically conservatives or Trump supporters that refute the science on masks and Covid-19 more generally, continuing an undermining of science as an institution of authority that’s been ongoing for some years now and was played out before Covid-19 with climate change,” Pierre explained that parts of the debate related to Covid-19 (and avoiding it) have become completely political.

What’s more, Professor Pierre from UCLA suggests not debating conspiracy theorists because they’ll keep “moving the goalposts” in order to protect their beliefs. “Often with conspiracy theories that involve scientific facts, there’s a tendency to focus on some obscure example of experimental minutia (e.g. the temperature of combusted jet fuel and the melting point of the WTC columns), and then moving onto another if that’s refuted, rather than addressing the big picture questions that make the conspiracy theory so ridiculous.”

#13

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) I work on a COVID unit and I ran into a patient like this. They'd tell me over and over again about how they weren't really sick and about how I didn't need to be gowned up in PPE. They even tried to take my face shield off. If you test positive for COVID two times then you have COVID! People are crazy.

Madelyn_Andr , Bofu Shaw Report

Final score:

151points

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Lu 3 years ago

Denial is apparently a river that runs through every American state

78points

someoneuknow22 , Fusion Medical Animation Report

#14

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) YOU’RE A LIAR! THIS VIRUS IS A HOAX! I’LL GET YOUR LICENCE PULLED FOR THIS! They later died refusing their dying breath that COVID was a hoax.

Final score:

125points

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KombatBunni 3 years ago

Can't save stupid..

82points

#15

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) I'm a (student) funeral director and I see families go to the funeral of someone who died of covid-19 and still deny it. They started out shrieking at the doctors to change the cause of death on the death certificate. Now FEMA is helping with funeral expenses for covid deaths. Suddenly there's changes of heart.

MyGhostIsHaunted , Rhodi Lopez Report

Final score:

124points

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Mir Adwari 3 years ago

The text above this photo - the percentage of people who have had their first vaccine is 64% in the UK.

14points

Meanwhile, at the start of the pandemic, I also had a chat with Dr. Claudia Pastides, from Babylon Health, about why people believe conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. She said that, at the time, there was a lack of substantial and verified information to explain why the virus behaves as it does. “As a result, it is easy to fill this void with untruths about the virus’s effects and the prevention of its symptoms,” she said. Since then, there’s been more and more information about the coronavirus.

“As people are desperate for more knowledge and information about the virus, they are more prone to believe these misconceptions. It is instinctive in humans to seek solutions to problems, and when there is a crisis, such as this pandemic, they might be willing to believe anything they hear without verifying it first,” Dr. Pastides explained why some people turned to conspiracies at the start of the pandemic last year.

#16

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) My worst experience was when a 2 year old kid got diagnosed with COVID. His mother had brought him with c/o fever and diarrhea. The child was severely dehydrated and so we had to do a mandatory swab test since we planned to admit him. It came positive and the mother refused to admit it. We were ready to perform a repeat test and we even advised for the parents to get tested. Her defense was " The child never left the house. Its just I and the father who go to work daily. The grandmother babysits while we are away. How can he even get COVID without leaving the house." She had called her husband, he came with 10-15 relatives in a car, they broke a few chairs and then left with the baby. We just informed about the case to the COVID control centre.

axmurderer14 , Kelly Sikkema Report

Final score:

122points

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Kristof De Smet 3 years ago

They left with the baby? That's enough reason to take the child from them for me.

117points

#17

ER doctor here. I diagnose people with COVID on the daily. Some people are actually really great about it, others are... more difficult. I'll tell you a tale that occurred during my most recent shift. Back to back rooms and patients.

Patient A, in room #4, is a 23 yo male, no medical history, comes in with body aches, malaise, and fatigue. Also had some mild nausea without abdominal pain or vomiting.

Patient B, in room #5, is a 51 yo female, medical history of intermittent asthma - so she uses a puffer infrequently, comes in with shortness of breath, has some possible fevers at home. In triage it was noted that this patient's Oxygen sats were in the 88 range and her heart rate wasn't elevated. Interestingly, when asked if she thought she had covid she said "I can't have it, I tested negative two weeks ago when my son tested positive. He's been sick at home."

You guessed it. Both people covid +.

Patient A went home. He's doing great. Was extremely remorseful and before he'd even left the ED he called his work to let them know he was positive and to get everyone there tested because he figured he had gotten the illness at work (IIRC he worked in a small family-owned warehouse as a foreman). He also called his parents and they were getting him setup to sleep in the garage until his quarantine was up. I respected this guy.

Patient B got admitted to the hospital because her O2 sats weren't great. When I went back to tell her she was covid + she called me a liar and told me I must have made a mistake. She threatened to sign out AMA (against medical advice) but when she got up to leave she got so short of breath the nurse used that to convince her to stay.

People are strange sometimes. I try not to let stuff bother me, but covid deniers come very close to crossing that line

carly_rae_jetson Report

Final score:

120points

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Marcellus the Third 3 years ago

Covid+ deniers aren't different from HIV+ in the 90s that would have unprotected sex without informing partners.

60points

IAmNotARobotAMA , Ashkan Forouzani Report

#18

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) I still had to treat her despite her accusing me of hiding the real diagnosis from her and doing something to make her sicker. Love my job.

Final score:

118points

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Clearly sunny 3 years ago

Sheesh!

22points

One thing that hasn’t changed is that we should do our best to verify if a source is trustworthy or not. Try to get your news from reliable sources, not niche websites, conspiracy theory groups, and your Facebook feed.

“The World Health Organization has a dedicated coronavirus myth-busting page on their website, where they sum up the majority of the misconceptions flourishing on the internet at the minute. This is a great place to start to verify whether what you’ve heard is correct,” Dr. Pastides said. “[Another option] is to contact a medical professional, who will be able to tell you quickly if the theories you’ve heard are false or not.” And from what we’ve read about the enduring patience of doctors, we’re sure that they’ll be more than happy to help you out with your query, exhausted as they are.

#19

I had a patient struggling to breathe and admitted on oxygen and her husband still maintained it was a liberal hoax. She was pissed (at him).

asdgrhm Report

Final score:

111points

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Mii 3 years ago

At least she accepted it

58points

#20

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) Helped tube her.

I explained she had covid and that her sats with High Flow Nasal Oxygen at an FiO2 of 90% and 60L per minute with a 15LNRB over the top for good measure was still only 82-85%. She maintained it was a lie the entire time, even when her sats were in the 90s earlier in the admission to ITU.

I explained we had to tube her to keep her alive. In the end I had to bargain with her that I was tubing her because she had a bad pneumonia but that COVID wasn’t the cause. I just agreed and so off we went.

She actually survived and on her way out of ITU to a covid ward she just looked at myself and the consultant and said “told you it wasn’t covid”

Boatus , Bofu Shaw Report

Final score:

105points

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Hans 3 years ago

This one is painful to read. Weighting the duty of saving the patients over teaching them a lesson for their unbelievable lack of respect must be very hard.

108points

#21

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) I am an emergency doctor and diagnosed a older white gentleman (60, probably) with covid. He came in with obvious symptoms but was obviously a Trump type guy with an attitude. When the swab came back positive he got visibly angry and asked me what I was going to do about it. He wasn't sick enough to need any treatment so I told him to just go home and stay hydrated and gave him my usual spiel about following up and yada yada. He then proceeded to scream at me that CNN told him this was the most horrible thing in the world and how could I possibly not do anything about it!!!! I politely told him I was not intending to have a political conversation with him and then walked out of the room. The nurse handed him his discharge paperwork and he walked out.

I think he came in just to show off his minimal symptoms to prove that the virus wasn't that bad. There was a patient in the next room with an oxygen saturation of 55 but I didn't bother telling him. That's not a hill I'm going to die on to convince some jerk of facts he'll never believe.

excusemeimadoctor , SJ Objio Report

Final score:

95points

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Clearly sunny 3 years ago

Yeah, they are a waste of space and it's no point bothering.

44points

EducatedOwlAthena , Aditya Romansa Report

#22

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) My mom works for an OBGYN who specializes in high-risk pregnancies and births, and he was called into the hospital to check out a woman whose due date was about 2 weeks away and who was very sick.. He confirmed she had COVID and admitted her to the hospital until she gave birth, but she insisted it was a hoax and ended up checking herself out AMA, but not before she spat in the face of the nurse, who coincidentally had just completed chemo. That was near the beginning of the pandemic, and I'm so curious what happened to that lady. The nurse is okay, thank goodness.

Final score:

93points

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Lori T Wisconsin 3 years ago

Intentionally spitting on someone, generally, can be considered assault, especially if you spit in someone’s face.

115points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago (edited)

Kiwi here and I remember near the start of it all, a woman raged and spat at some supermarket workers. And she was charged and convicted (of assault but slightly more serious, can't remember the specifics)

19points

María Hermida 3 years ago

And if you know you have a contagious, potentially deadly illness, spitting on someone should be considered attempted homicide.

14points

KK 3 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there are laws that protect against healthcare workers who experience assault. I have mad respect for healthcare workers, they truly are our heroes.

7points

Triv 3 years ago

In the US, attempted murder if you know you've been diagnosed with a potentially lethal disease.

2points

Thomas Ewing 3 years ago

It is a deadly assault and deserves a long jail time.

2points

KT 3 years ago

lol it is assault and can be filed with the police

2points

Kelzbelz79 3 years ago

Covid or not ,spitting in someone's face is scummy as........

7points

L567 3 years ago

Who gives a damn what happened to her? I feel sorry for the baby, though.

5points

The Cute Cat 3 years ago

Such a rude behavior should be punished. Medic team need to be protected

3points

Anna Harding 3 years ago

How “good Christian “ people can think spitting on anyone for any reason is acceptable behavior is beyond me.

2points

Tina Hugh 3 years ago

Why would people not call the police to report an attack like this?

2points

MyCatsTheRealPanda 3 years ago

Sometimes they would but honestly, sometimes they are so used to shitty people that it becomes a regular thing. Also, a lot of the time people just don't want to take the time to deal with calling the police, waiting for them to come, then all of the crap that comes after when a lot of the time the person who assaulted them ends up getting in minimal or no trouble.

3points

Clearly sunny 3 years ago (edited)

Thank god the nurse is okay, because I was about to say "why is she working around sick people while going through chemo?!'.

2points

Kim Lorton 3 years ago

That is considered a physical assault. She could be arrested, jailed and sued.

1point

Katinka Min 3 years ago

Well, this happened in the UK, at the beginning, and the person who was spat at, died. In the news, it said they were looking for the perpetrator for manslaughter. But I don't know how hte sotry ended. I do know that I would sue naybody who knows he/she is positiv and still comes to work or similar and infects me. Probably won't come to much becuase how could I prove it, but at least they woudl get the letter that I pressed charges.

1point

Paizleypie 3 years ago

There's a lot I would put up with . . . Being spat upon is NOT one of them. I think I would lose my 💩 if someone did that to me.

1point

Marcellus the Third 3 years ago

I think a side-effect of the privatized US healthcare is that "spitting in the face" is just seen as "poor customer behaviour", like messing up stacks of clothes on Black Friday. While otherwise that's assault, and legally aggravated as it's assault of a public servant in function.

1point

VickyG 1 year ago

That was so rude!!! Shout your lungs out but NEVER ever spit on someone's face!

0points

Susan Williams 3 years ago

Rude is in the DNA and cannot be fixed at this point in time.

0points

CincyReds 3 years ago

Spiting on someone is just so nasty to being with. Some asshole that has Covid and spits on someone just takes it to a whole new level. I just can't comprehend human to human treating anyone like this.

0points

Arenite 3 years ago

I hope the nurse called the police and had this moron arrested for assault and attempted murder!

0points

backatya 3 years ago

Who gives these fuckn people the right to spit in someone's face! She should be up for criminal charges for endangering another person. Damn those people

0points

Martha Higgins 3 years ago

The nurse should have sued.

0points

PappyLongstlkngs , ThisisEngineering RAEng Report

#23

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) My wife and I travel for work and she happens to work in medical labs, usually large hospitals. I’ve been shocked by the sheer amount of lab techs and the like who refuse to wear masks and nonchalantly go about life as if COVID weren’t real.

Final score:

90points

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Yeah there are way too many trashbag people in the medical field, which just help regular people maintain their stupidity about covid. They shouldn’t be allowed to work in hospitals and clinics.

13points

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#24

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) I had a lady who was maxed out on high flow (next step is breathing tube) who still refused she had Covid and was holding a negative test in her hand that she had taken a week prior.

hemoglobetrotter , JC Gellidon Report

Final score:

85points

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Hans 3 years ago

Education helps.

24points

#25

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) Physician here. The willful cognitive dissonance is real. It never ceases to amaze me how many patients will refuse assistance from me to register to get vaccinated, make claims that vaccines are harmful, but then accept my medical care on anything else that suits their whim. Patients absolutely have autonomy to refuse care, but why would you continue to see a physician and accept their medical advice and care if you think they would simultaneously recommend something to you that would be harmful?

I've posed this question to patients who are vaccine hesitant: "Why would you let me manage your diabetes and hypertension if you think I would harm you by recommending vaccinations?" You cannot get any kind of thoughtful response aside from, "I just don't want to be vaccinated."

Ravager135 , Hush Naidoo Report

Final score:

85points

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albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago

Give them 2 aspirin, send them home, and then concentrate of caring for those who will LISTEN

15points

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#26

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) They just kept denying they had it, stated they had something else, and tried to leave against medical advice while on high flow nasal canula which we didn't let him do because he would have died within minutes. Before he was admitted to the hospital, he was symptomatic but refused to isolate at home. He gave it to his wife who ended up in the ICU.

jonnyWang33 , Piron Guillaume Report

Final score:

83points

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Adam C 3 years ago

He - "Covid? No, It must been something she eat."

25points

#27

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) ER doc chiming in. They told me I was wrong. Obviously, there’s no way they had COVID despite coming in to the ER for shortness of breath, cough, and fevers.

When I mentioned that their wife who was several rooms down also had COVID, their response was: oh, that makes sense because she always gets sick.

When I asked how it made sense that they wouldn’t have COVID with the same symptoms I was told that it was because they were overall healthy and only took their mask off to eat and drink in the casino

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Shelli Aderman 3 years ago

In the casino... 🤦🏽‍♀️

50points

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#28

I have treated a young male in our ICU with critical COVID19 with severe diabetic ketoacidosis. He did not believe in insulin (yes, you are reading this right) or other antidiabetics, even though insulin is inexpensive in our country. He tried to treat his type 2 diabetes with herbs, his HbA1C (the lab value showing the state of his diabetes on the longer run) was off the roof. He did not vaccinate (he was offered), did not wear a mask, did not distance, and did not believe in any of this coronabullshit. Most of this information was obtained from his 20 year old daughter, as he was quite disoriented at presentation and was intubated urgently. She was sobbing through the phone every day for 1.5 months until he died. I held the phone with his daughter on call to his ears multiple times when he was still intubated but his mind cleared up and his sedation was optimal. I was quite convinced that he realised his mistake on the ventilator, with lines and tubes inserted into his body everywhere and in his last clear moments, when his mind allowed, but I cannot be absolutely sure. I often think about the last conversation and last mental images people have before their death.

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77points

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Haunting:(

26points

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#29

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) Family members have come in with a sick family member and lied about exposure and/or symptoms (despite a member(s) testing positive). This can/has lead to inappropriate management, delay in treatment, and exposure of staff and other families. The family members then get angry when told to isolate.

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66points

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Rosemary Moreland 3 years ago

About 3 years ago before COVID re@red it’s ugly head, I had a lady come into our aged car facility to visit her 98 yo father. She asked me for a mask and admitted she had a really bad cold. There are and we’re signs on the front door telling people to stay away if ill. Hadn’t read them and was shocked when I showed her the door and suggested she go home. I am the charge nurse after hours. I have a duty of ace for my residents.

1point

#30

Doctors Are Sharing What Happened When They Diagnosed Covid-19 Deniers With Covid-19 (30 Stories) Infectious disease doctor here. Seen about 450-500 COVID patients in the hospital since it all started. Only one patient ever accused me of using the nasal swab to give him COVID (along with a microchip). A handful have (EDIT) ranted nonstop about China. Everyone else has been sick enough to accept it, but lots still refuse the idea of vaccination even after being in the ICU.

Sister_Cercosis , Jonathan Borba Report

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62points

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Clearly sunny 3 years ago

But why????🤨

14points

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#31

I've been confrontational to these patients out of respect for my ICU colleagues and nurses. They put their lives on the line for stupidity. Essentially I ask all these patients to cure heart disease, stroke, ulcerative colitis and crohn's since they've figured out COVID is fake. I ask them if they have any thoughts on recent stenting medications or immunomodulatory meds. If they're aware of any medications down the pipeline since they're ahead of me and have more knowledge than me. I also ask them how well they did in math in school so I could better understand probabilities.

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22points

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Kay blue 3 years ago

Could you give them my phone number please, I could really do with a cure for Crohn's!! S/

12points

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#32

I didn't know she was a Covid denier at the time. I work in the ICU, so she was already in a bad condition and experienced very real symptoms. She was scared, wanted to know exactly how her chances were, how long it would take to get healthy, if we were doing everything we could to make sure she'd be fine...

It was only after her passing that colleagues who knew her told me she'd been a vocal Covid denier. She must have made a 180 once she experienced the symptoms herself.

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19points

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#33

Patient - “What!?! No... No! No! No! Someone had to hit a button to make mine result as positive. There’s no way I have it!”

Me - :|

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Hit a button. How the fuçk did these people even make it this long alive to begin with?

13points

#34

Had multiple patients go “this is just the flu I’ll be better in a few days” many of them died.

Not a patient but had a family member demand to visit their son (a minor) we had to let them. Explained that they had Covid and wear protective equipment. They said they didn’t need it because Covid doesn’t exist.... they were admitted ~3 weeks later. Can’t win with some people.

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Mark Stewart 3 years ago

Doctors and nurses are far better people than me, I would have gone how's that non-existent covid working out for you then?

9points

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#35

Not a doctor but an EMT. Said patient had already been diagnosed and was being transferred to a different hospital. During the trip he kept insisting he “wasn’t sick!” And at one point even tried to rip off my respirator.... so yeah.... fun times

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Batwench Premium 3 years ago

Possibly off their face on meds. Some people do the oddest things that are totally out of their normal character.

2points

#36

I was telling my employee (who's a covid denier) how my cousins husband died of covid unexpectedly. Her response was that they labeled it covid but it was probably something else... Didn't know how to respond so I just left

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16points

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Marcellus the Third 3 years ago

One of the only times I'd consider the US "fire at will" laws a usuable tool.

8points

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#37

RN here. We have had many patients diagnosed, some entire families. One such family refused to adhere to recommendations re masking, etc., and both kids and parents were diagnosed. One child was 11 months old. Makes me sad and very mad at the same time. They are all symptomatic.

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16points

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#38

I was in a ward for new mums 3 weeks ago and a girl was asking to be released with her new baby that was hours old and hadn't fed yet as she was scared about Covid and the midwife said to her if she was so worried why wasn't she wearing her mask and the girl just sat stumped. Still didn't put on a mask.

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

“Just sat stumped.” People like that need to answer for their stupidity. Not just sit there drooling.

8points

#39

One of my brother's friends is a denier idiot and she caught it after she kept meeting up with people at cafes and parties and whatnot

Had mild symptoms only and was out of the house within a week

Another girl in my friend group had it, can't smell, can't taste anything anymore. Still cries about how "completely locked out from everyone and everything" she is, even though she never followed any rules anyway AND STILL DOESN'T and is convinced that feeling sO depressed is way worse. Why boohoo, shut up.

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Hopefully she never gets over the depression.

0points

#40

It was my ex-doctor that was feeding me conspiracy theories. He said that the American government was killing doctors who spoke up about COVID not being real.

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14points

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago (edited)

Ok scary. I thought all educated medical people would understand about viruses. I mean c'mon.

20points

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#41

Not a doctor, but my youngest daughter is an RN at a busy medical center. She told me about a guy who had Covid, but kept denying it, even as his organs were shutting down. That was a super rough day for her.

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14points

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#42

Back in the summer, we had a guy come in for bad COVID-19 pneumonia. Both him and his wife denied it was COVID-19. He was feeling sick but still decided to go to the casino. He was found unresponsive a few hours later by his wife in the hotel. The guy was intubated and died a week later.

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14points

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fu yu 3 years ago

Shmuck.

5points

#43

My manager didn't take it seriously and kept going about her usual routine. She went out partying with her friends in Dallas and went to the casino a lot with her boyfriend. She got Covid and had to be quarantined for two weeks with her daughters. Her four year old daughter was really upset because she couldn't see her grandma. My mother and my manager's mother, who I also work with, had to take on manager duties for the two weeks. She still gets sick now from time to time because she has a weakened immune system.

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Cori 3 years ago

Covid deniers with children really piss me off. Parents are supposed to protect their children.

10points

#44

Some dude in our neighbourhood said it was a hoax. Refused to wear a mask. Got it. Refused to take the prescribed medicines and took medications HE thought would help. Had to be scolded by his whole family to set him right.

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Corey Brown 3 years ago

but he is still alive? too bad

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Eslamala 3 years ago (edited)

I don't care if I get downvoted, but idiots like these deserve not only covid, but some sort of punishment because their stupidity affects so many others... And something that amazes me, is the fact that 'muricans can refuse to wear a mask. WTF? Where I live, you can't get into any kind of business without a mask. They just don't let you in. period. You wear the fckn mask in the middle of a fckn pandemic, you dipshït.

87points

Isa 3 years ago

For me and in this level of stupidity we should let Darwing natural selection take over, and they deny and refuse to go to the hospital...well...do it be...the only problem its the people around them that they going to get it as well and it's not fair...otherwise I would dy let it go ....go my child and never return!

30points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

I upvoted you because you're absolutely right. I lost all sympathy for these deniers, knowing full well most went on to infect other people. Their lack of empathy for others led to my apathy over their deaths. "Fewer stupid people" seems like a valid approach to modern society, to be frank.

16points

Carol Emory 3 years ago

I upvoted you too and will add to it (probably get down voted). I look at the deniers and see a natural thinning of the herd when it comes to stupidity. Luck favors the educated...and if you are going to deny something is real when it's happening all around you, then you are an extra kind of stupid that will inevitably meet an unfortunate end. The saddest part about all of these stories is the people that are harmed because these morons are marching around unprotected spreading the disease.

13points

Triv 3 years ago

I finally am beginning to understand: covid-19 is an extreme form of natural selection. Only the most lucky of idiots will survive, but most of them will be killed off, reducing the threat to the survival of everyone else.

4points

Vicky Z 3 years ago

I definitely agree and they don't even deserve ICU beds!! Cause unfortunately they will infect others also and maybe the innocent people that will get infected not have the proper treatment cause of them! If you don't believe in science then don't go to the hospital!!

3points

Deborah Rubin 1 year ago

While I agree with your sentiment, send them all to a leper colony, for damnation and hell stop using the "murica" epithet! How would you like it if people referred to your country by such a nasty term? Oh wait, you're in one of those asian countries that doesn't even have indoor plumbing. Maybe one of those Eastern European micro-countries with a king and offer sacrifices to the moon. Despite all the bad press, this is still a damn good country. You've just hit my last nerve with this c**p today. Thank you for giving me that final push to get off Bored Panda.

0points

Hans 3 years ago

These are painful to read. The tension between having vowed to help but having people who deem themselves entitled to receiving help yet show no respect at all must be tearing.

34points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

We've had two suicides, three attempted, and a sharp increase in alcohol abuse where I am. We're not in a big city, so there are no back-up systems. It's us and that's it. it's demolished us all, emotionally, mentally. I'm at the vax clinic the next few weeks, and that's .... not better than the hospital. random people walk in for the shot, but really to trash the place, scream about god, blah blah blah. We can't even get angry anymore. Too burned out. We just slog through it, brains like heaps of ashes in our skulls.

22points

Anne 3 years ago

Whomever stated at the beginning of all this that "Covid is just like flu" should be forever incarcerated in a solitary cell.

29points

GirlFriday 3 years ago

In the United States that person's name is Donald Trump.

35points

María Hermida 3 years ago

In the beginning many people, including doctors and specialists, believed Covid was like a severe flu. Many. That's OK. That's not the problem, but the idiots who continue denying its existence after a year of pandemic and millions of deaths.

12points

N G 3 years ago

I'm not so sure. At the very, very beginning it *was* just like the flu. And we've had influenza epidemics in recent memory that weren't as bad. Those who continued to pedal the lies after it became apparent it *wasn't* just like the flu should be incarcerated. Just not in a solitary cell - put them all together to catch it off each other, and then see how like the flu it is.

6points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Our mistake, in medicine, was saying, "Like flu, it seems to be hardest on the elderly." And it went from there, I suspect. Willful misinterpretation.

5points

Stargazer66 1 year ago

Donald Trump. And we're working on it.

0points

TexasWoman 3 years ago

I know 2 elderly women that had Covid for a week and they felt no different than if they had the flu. They're still the same healthy women with no problems

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Dave In MD 3 years ago

The orange idiot should be charged with murder.

18points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I prefer Crimes Against Humanity.

13points

Coli Erasmus 3 years ago

I gave up my career as a healthcare professional because of this. By the time the last unmasked idiot spat at me and told me I was doing Satan's work for asking them to wear a mask, I had been quarantined from my family for 11 weeks. That's 11 weeks of staying in an out room, away from my family, only going to work and back. 11 weeks without touching or being touched by anyone. 11 weeks of consoling my kids through a closed door while they were scared of what was happening. 11 weeks of crying on the phone with my mom, my husband and my best friend. 11 weeks of me sacrificing my mental health, my life to serve the community while keeping my loved ones safe from an inbred OEDIPUS THAT REFUSED TO WEAR A PIECE OF CLOTH OVER HIS MOUTH AND NOSE! And to have the audacity to tell me that I am going to Hell for conforming to regulations! Look around you! THIS IS HELL!!

10points

Hanni 3 years ago

I'm so sorry about your horrible experience...I'm not cying..yes I am.

5points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

@Coli, you are not alone. Until the last few months,I'd come home, scrub down outside the house, put on clean clothes, take the bag of dirty clothes straight to the designated washer, basically boil them, all beofre it was safe for me to say hello to my hubby. We have enough PPE now, but there was a long horrible stretch I hope to forget someday.

4points

Anna D 3 years ago

I feel for you, I was a nurse.

2points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I'm on a different shift volunteering at the hospital right now, and this is my life for a year now. I am not as patient as I was last year. I am not as able to stay calm. Right now I'm "bouncer" at the vax clinic. We tell each other, "Anyone who doesn't get a shot should never get medicare/medicaid or any health insurance ever for Covid-related complications or Covid treatment, b/c we already lost 500K people to these a**holes, let 'em rot." Yeah. Front lines of Covid ------ you're treated like crap by people who demand to be treated like God, and the families.... God save us from the families. "What're you doing to grandpa!" SAVING HIS LIFE AFTER YOUR SUPER_SPREADER EVENT FAMILY PICNIC!!!.... OK, we don't say that to the patient or the families, but when we decompress.... Well, we don't anymore. We're too burned out by this sh*t. So: WEAR YOUR MASK, SOCIAL DISTANCE, STOP COMPLAINING. Your right to go to WalMart does not supersede anyone else's right to LIVE. .... UGH.

9points

GirlFriday 3 years ago

My cousin is currently in a rehab hospital learning to walk again after getting COVID. He was a denier and his wife still doesn't believe COVID caused his multiple organ failure that resulted in his inability to walk. Right now, the cousin has zero kidney function, get dialysis daily and stays on oxygen or bi-pap 24/7 in order to keep him alive. The doctors aren't sure what to do with him because his wife has POA and since she doesn't believe he had COVID, she often refuses recommended medical treatment. She has hired a team of attorneys to get to the bottom of what is wrong with him and sue. Oh, he is currently on day 98 of being in the hospital and in the fourth hospital. Since his wife refuses medical treatment for him, the hospitals transfer him out because they can't just have him laying bed. The next step for him is a nursing home and wait for him to die. His father is going to court to get the POA moved from the wife to him.

8points

Cori 3 years ago

That is so deeply messed up.

10points

Raine Soo 3 years ago

I read the first ten of these stories, and I had to stop. It got too depressing to realize that so many of our fellow humans are just so...dumb and callous, and the abuse that health care workers have to endure seems endless.

7points

Seabeast 3 years ago

Same. The stupidest conspiracy theory is the one that goes "People are dying of other things and they just put Covid on the death certificate because they get paid more for that." If you ask "Paid more by WHO???" they either don't have an answer or insist that it's some plot by "the liberals".

2points

Paul Mitchell 3 years ago

Makes you think that hospitals should have parts set aside for people who don't believe they have COVID, they can then treat each other and die together, rather than put everyone else at risk.

1point

panDAheART 3 years ago

Same, I couldn't finish reading. It makes it too real the long term damage that the previous administration has done to our nation.

1point

Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

Why do people even go to the hospital, then? They're lucky that doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals aren't allowed to turn them away.

7points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Some show up specifically to taunt us, spit, cough, etc., and mock. It's been a real treat. UGH

7points

Miss Cellania 3 years ago

I took my mother to the doctor yesterday. I went through three layers of people asking about cough, shortness of breath, etc, and I answered, "No, and we are both fully vaccinated." Before the end of the visit, the doc asked if I had thought about the vaccine. I said, "Not much, since the second shot." She sighed with relief and said that's wonderful. She told us she had to be very careful bringing up the subject because she's gotten yelled at quite a few times. It's not an easy time to be a doctor.

7points

Intrigued Panda 3 years ago

As some have said, the spread of COVID depends on 2 factors: How dense your population is and how dense your population is.

5points

Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago

The public does not see the reality of covid. All the pictures of us are typing at a computer. But, you need people's/families permission to film. Show the people on vents with multiple multiple iv infusions etc. In one story on CNN the reporters did go into a covid ICU and film someone who's tube had to be changed because it was blocked. When the MD tossed the old tube on the bed, what yhey did not say is that all that hamburger stuff on the tube was lung tissue that was sloughing off dead. That man was definitely going to die. People should see that. Unfortunately, medicine has not figured out how to fix stupid. After this, I think you will see an exodus of doctors, nurses and RT'S with PTSD and just plain had it. Very sad.

5points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Exodus is beginning wher eI am. Of coures, two went by SUICIDE.... but that's b/c "they were weak".... And, yeah, nobody wants to realize you lungs can become sludge, your heart can be damaged, your immune system will never react properly again.... ARGH.

2points

CatWoman312 3 years ago

I don’t know where all these people got the idea of Covid being fake, but original source of “fake news” should be charged with a felony

4points

Lara Verne 3 years ago

One elderly lady from neighborhood refuse to believe that covid is dangerous to young people. (You're young and healthy, what are you afraid of? ) She accused me of lying when I told her that I, young and previously healthy person needed ventilator to survive....

4points

Laugh or not 3 years ago

I had to stop reading before the tenth because it was too unfuriating.

4points

Sista of the moon 3 years ago

I barely made it past 5

1point

Wesley Sandel 3 years ago

Get sick, go to your doctor, she tell you you have a specific disease. Tell her she's full of s**t and go ask your preacher what's wrong with you. The United States of Crazy Stupid White Trash.

3points

Olesia Kovalenko 3 years ago

I'm an anesthesiologist and In honestly regretting my profession. I have depression and severe anxiety and patients like this don't help at all. I AM SO TIRED!!!

3points

Jods 3 years ago

It’s simple. If there are any COVID deniers who need treatment - walk away, shove ‘em all in a special ward and let them die

3points

tomruns12 3 years ago

There is no hope for humanity is there?

3points

Paul Mitchell 3 years ago

If this is the average in the USA, then there really is no hope I think. All countries have a few nutters, but in the USA it seems to be the silent majority that are the nutters.

1point

Eriu 3 years ago

I couldn't read it whole. Me and my same-age friend signed up for our vaccines just yesterday and we are very happy. Today I've seen so many negative comments about the vaccine center in my town - not about it but about the people, that we are sheep, idiots, pity people who will force others to take the vaccine. Please tell me there is hope. I am so angry. I had covid, my partner had it, my buddy lost his dad to it and coughed blood himself... Yet there are people going into tantrum upon mentionin vaccines. WHY????

3points

Vicky Z 3 years ago

Honestly if the universe decides that the oxygen some people are concuming is wasted, then maybe we should let it do its business!! Nature is wise!

2points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago (edited)

How can people do this?! I cant understand that mentality. How vastly differently some people view the world. I still go in every year with a ginormous cake for the icu at my local hospital after they spent 6 weeks saving my life repetitively in 2017; I can never repay that debt(I don't mean money we have social healthcare, I mean the above and beyond they did for me that made all the difference .) The only time I was an ass I think was during some of my concious hallucinations (thought they were gna kill me, tried to escape through imaginary doors by unplugging my iv, the usual) and I felt horrible, I apologised to all my nurses. I judt don't understand how someone can be do hateful, so brainwashed, so in danger and dangerous at the same time. Humans can be good, but humanity is awful

2points

DC 3 years ago

I just cannot get my head around people denying proven facts, covid or any other, and call that an opinion that is to be protected as their freely expressable opinion. There are invalid opinions - those contradicting proven facts. The earth is (well, close to) spherical, 4 billion years old, and covid exists. Learn to accept facts - denying then as a political standpoint doesn't lead anywhere. At least not anywhere good...

2points

Jerry Mathers 3 years ago

To me, the refusal to wear a mask is criminal. We should have started with $50 fines for offense 1. $500 for #2 and jail until the pandemic was under control for #3. This was a health risk. It affected others. It's no different than any other form of harming others by your actions. AIDS set the precedent. Get others sick, you do time.

2points

Henry Halliday 3 years ago

It just beggars belief how wilfully ignorant and plain stupid people can be. Like how do you get to the point that you are yelling "it's a hoax!" with your dying breath? Kinda speechless to be honest.

2points

KK 3 years ago

Two of my classmates last semester got covid. Luckily enough, said class that they were in with me was remote, but ofc I still felt bad for them. The pandemic as of now is very much so still a thing that we need to be careful about. Both of my parents are scientists, and one of them has a doctoral degree in immunology, so our family most certainly does not kid around about covid.

2points

Simon Levene 3 years ago

Just let Darwin take his course. Kick out the patients who spit at staff. Why on earth should doctors, nurses, hospital cleaners or anyone else on the front line suffer for one single second at the hands of cretins like this?

2points

kjorn 3 years ago

sometime i just wish those covid denier would be put down. not only they're stupid but they are stupidly dangerous for the others!!!

2points

Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago

I wrote a short story in which the zombie apocalypse is happening and some people keep insisting it's all a hoax/political stunt. They refuse to barricade themselves in their homes because "I have rights!!" and keep screaming "IT'S ALL FAKE!" even as the zombies eat them alive. No prizes for guessing where I got the idea.

2points

Brenda 2 years ago

I am at extreme high risk. Diabetic and in remission, very immunocompromised. Older parents are both high risk (age & Diabetic), so hubby, roommate and I were the ones going out when needed. Wore surgical gloves, heavy duty masks and face shield, shoe covers, sanitized everything I touched before buying & again before bringing into the house. Then stripped in the garage, sanitized myself with hand sanitizer & Lysol spray before donning my robe. Clothes into plastic zipper bags sprayed and sealed until washing. Overkill? Maybe, but NOT ONE PERSON IN MY FAMILY HAD COVID!

1point

Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago

The poor doctors and nurses should be awarded medals and more for putting up with this s**t. It is a pity these morons who deny can't be rounded up and put on an island to deny to their hearts content.

1point

the redqueen 3 years ago

I don't understand. I get the initial denial of having COVID-its scary! Nobody wants to get it, even the deniers! But u better believe, if I didn't feel well, and went to Dr. -sure, I hope it's something else, but the Dr. says COVID? OK. You are the Dr. I would be calling this man/woman " Sir or Mam- because this person may save my life! Even if I thought COVID was a hoax- I would still need help from this man/woman, because there is still something wrong, right? I would do everything they told me, stand on my head if I had too-They could tell me I had Mickey Mouse disease-can't breathe, is can't breathe, right?! You still receive oxygen- and if they say, oops, we thought it was this, but it's that....you STILL need oxygen. They can still save your life. We should be kissing their ass,instead of hatin on it!

1point

Al Marie 3 years ago

I am a flight attendant and I have been flying throughout this... and I have to write a report every damn time I have to tell someone more than twice. I'm so damn tired

1point

marianne eliza 3 years ago

Used to be you couldn't fix stupid. Maybe Covid will take care of that for us, hopefully without killing innocent bystanders.

1point

Sleepyhead 3 years ago

This was difficult to read, but it's a reminder of how disappointing people can be. There should be consequences.

1point

Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago

I'm sorry ( sort of ) but these people needed culled out of the gene pool anyway.

1point

Kashmir 3 years ago

In having a hard time feeling sorry for this batch of losers!!! Good riddance!

1point

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

And nothing of value was lost.

1point

Don't Look 3 years ago

1 - now we know just how easy it is for trump to be elected. There are millions of people out there who think that he’s some sort of god! What in the actual hell? 2 - everyone always says “time to sue!” And does not have a bloody clue what goes into the process.

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Red Ruffensor 3 years ago

Just when I thought people can't possibly get any dumber, something like this comes along.

1point

JeannevB 3 years ago

Covid makes people egocentric.

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JeannevB 3 years ago

That didn't come out right. Covid makes egocentric people even more egocentric.

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Val Izhakevich 3 years ago

Could it be that the tell-tale high cost of healthcare in the U.S. has contributed to this ingrained 'skepticism'? I mean distrust and the intention to avoid seeing the doctor.

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Julie C Rose 3 years ago

I can't care about the US anymore. There are a huge number of people in India who desperately want to get treated. Let's have an article about India. Or Brazil, whose leader is like Trump on steroids. Or Lithuania! This is a Lithuanian page and yet you have all these articles about the US covid situation but none about yours. And when it comes to the yanks who refuse the vaccine, just ship the vaccines to people who want them.

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Seabeast 3 years ago

Well, this was depressing. One of my relatives isn't a Covid denier, but he refuses to get the vaccine because of some quack doctor who put out a video.

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Natalie Kudryashova 3 years ago

Denial is a defence mechanism but ironical in situations like these it leads to death

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Sugar Cargill 3 years ago

There are over 7 billion people on this earth. Too too many. Wish covid would take out at least 2 billion. Only wish it would take out all the bad people and leave the good ones. It will definitely take out a lot of stupid ones.

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Bill 3 years ago (edited)

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Samuel Ou 3 years ago

so you're saying that doctors who have spent years of their lives studying diseases, and trying to help people "liberal idiots"?

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TexasWoman 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

So, TWO PEOPLE YOU KNOW didn't get hit hard. that's nice. I've held hands for a year now for families and patients in over ONE HUNDRED CASES OF FATAL COVID-19 INFECTION. Please do just nnot decide the world is your tiny tiny experience of it. Yeah, some people don't suffer ------ or don't they? We haev kids who were infected, had no symptoms, coming in with HEART DAMAGE in their early 20s. The cost to the world in Covid fatalities will be nothing compared to the cost in Covid-related long-term health problems. SMH.

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Cori 3 years ago

Are you serious right now? Please tell me this is sarcasm. If not, you are 100% part of the problem. Not everyone who gets covids becomes deathly ill. Just like how not everyone who pulls the trigger in Russian roulette gets a bullet to the brain. One of my closest friends just barely got off oxygen after needing it for months. She spent weeks in the hospital. I got vaccinated the second it became available to me, not just for my own safety, but for the safety of my entire community because THAT is what decent, responsible people do. This sh*t is very real and this virus is insidious in that you don't KNOW how you will react to it. You could be asymptomatic or you can die in the hospital after weeks on a ventilator. There's no way to know. If you care about yourself, your family and your community, you take proper precautions. Period. AND you get yourself vaccinated as soon as possible. Anything less than that is irresponsible, narcissistic and criminally selfish.

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago (edited)

So what was this article about then, ugly? Or are you also illiterate in addition to ugly and stupid?

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Eriu 3 years ago

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Eslamala 3 years ago (edited)

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Isa 3 years ago

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

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Carol Emory 3 years ago

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Triv 3 years ago

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

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Deborah Rubin 1 year ago

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Hans 3 years ago

These are painful to read. The tension between having vowed to help but having people who deem themselves entitled to receiving help yet show no respect at all must be tearing.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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Anne 3 years ago

Whomever stated at the beginning of all this that "Covid is just like flu" should be forever incarcerated in a solitary cell.

29points

GirlFriday 3 years ago

In the United States that person's name is Donald Trump.

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María Hermida 3 years ago

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N G 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Our mistake, in medicine, was saying, "Like flu, it seems to be hardest on the elderly." And it went from there, I suspect. Willful misinterpretation.

5points

Stargazer66 1 year ago

Donald Trump. And we're working on it.

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TexasWoman 3 years ago

I know 2 elderly women that had Covid for a week and they felt no different than if they had the flu. They're still the same healthy women with no problems

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TexasWoman 3 years ago

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Dave In MD 3 years ago

The orange idiot should be charged with murder.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I prefer Crimes Against Humanity.

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Coli Erasmus 3 years ago

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Hanni 3 years ago

I'm so sorry about your horrible experience...I'm not cying..yes I am.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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Anna D 3 years ago

I feel for you, I was a nurse.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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GirlFriday 3 years ago

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Cori 3 years ago

That is so deeply messed up.

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

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Seabeast 3 years ago

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Paul Mitchell 3 years ago

Makes you think that hospitals should have parts set aside for people who don't believe they have COVID, they can then treat each other and die together, rather than put everyone else at risk.

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panDAheART 3 years ago

Same, I couldn't finish reading. It makes it too real the long term damage that the previous administration has done to our nation.

1point

Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

Why do people even go to the hospital, then? They're lucky that doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals aren't allowed to turn them away.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Some show up specifically to taunt us, spit, cough, etc., and mock. It's been a real treat. UGH

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Miss Cellania 3 years ago

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Intrigued Panda 3 years ago

As some have said, the spread of COVID depends on 2 factors: How dense your population is and how dense your population is.

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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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CatWoman312 3 years ago

I don’t know where all these people got the idea of Covid being fake, but original source of “fake news” should be charged with a felony

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Lara Verne 3 years ago

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Laugh or not 3 years ago

I had to stop reading before the tenth because it was too unfuriating.

4points

Sista of the moon 3 years ago

I barely made it past 5

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Wesley Sandel 3 years ago

Get sick, go to your doctor, she tell you you have a specific disease. Tell her she's full of s**t and go ask your preacher what's wrong with you. The United States of Crazy Stupid White Trash.

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Olesia Kovalenko 3 years ago

I'm an anesthesiologist and In honestly regretting my profession. I have depression and severe anxiety and patients like this don't help at all. I AM SO TIRED!!!

3points

Jods 3 years ago

It’s simple. If there are any COVID deniers who need treatment - walk away, shove ‘em all in a special ward and let them die

3points

tomruns12 3 years ago

There is no hope for humanity is there?

3points

Paul Mitchell 3 years ago

If this is the average in the USA, then there really is no hope I think. All countries have a few nutters, but in the USA it seems to be the silent majority that are the nutters.

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Eriu 3 years ago

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Honestly if the universe decides that the oxygen some people are concuming is wasted, then maybe we should let it do its business!! Nature is wise!

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago (edited)

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DC 3 years ago

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Jerry Mathers 3 years ago

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Henry Halliday 3 years ago

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KK 3 years ago

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Simon Levene 3 years ago

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kjorn 3 years ago

sometime i just wish those covid denier would be put down. not only they're stupid but they are stupidly dangerous for the others!!!

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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago

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Brenda 2 years ago

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Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago

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the redqueen 3 years ago

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Al Marie 3 years ago

I am a flight attendant and I have been flying throughout this... and I have to write a report every damn time I have to tell someone more than twice. I'm so damn tired

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marianne eliza 3 years ago

Used to be you couldn't fix stupid. Maybe Covid will take care of that for us, hopefully without killing innocent bystanders.

1point

Sleepyhead 3 years ago

This was difficult to read, but it's a reminder of how disappointing people can be. There should be consequences.

1point

Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago

I'm sorry ( sort of ) but these people needed culled out of the gene pool anyway.

1point

Kashmir 3 years ago

In having a hard time feeling sorry for this batch of losers!!! Good riddance!

1point

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

And nothing of value was lost.

1point

Don't Look 3 years ago

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Red Ruffensor 3 years ago

Just when I thought people can't possibly get any dumber, something like this comes along.

1point

JeannevB 3 years ago

Covid makes people egocentric.

0points

JeannevB 3 years ago

That didn't come out right. Covid makes egocentric people even more egocentric.

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