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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
It was scary. All these people getting sick, going to the hospital, being put on ventilators. But the scariest part of all was the people who were in denial of how serious it was, right up until they got sick and had to be put on ventilators.
On a personal note, I remember one person in particular. My dad had hired a subcontractor to work on the remodel of our duplex in southeast Portland. This guy sat down and talked to me on his smoke break, telling me about how the medical mask mandate was completely pointless, and he wasn't going to be observing it, because it was a test by the US government to see if people would take the mark of the beast without question. He just went on and on about how COVID-19 was made up, and kept telling me about details he was getting wrong and why they didn't make sense.
Then, just a few days later, he called me up and told me to tell my dad he wasn't going to be able to work because he was having flu-like symptoms, and he'd lost his sense of taste and smell.
I never heard from that guy again.
On a personal note, I remember one person in particular. My dad had hired a subcontractor to work on the remodel of our duplex in southeast Portland. This guy sat down and talked to me on his smoke break, telling me about how the medical mask mandate was completely pointless, and he wasn't going to be observing it, because it was a test by the US government to see if people would take the mark of the beast without question. He just went on and on about how COVID-19 was made up, and kept telling me about details he was getting wrong and why they didn't make sense.
Then, just a few days later, he called me up and told me to tell my dad he wasn't going to be able to work because he was having flu-like symptoms, and he'd lost his sense of taste and smell.
I never heard from that guy again.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
@LordShadowfire We just don't have any civic duty anymore. We are selfish and cynical.
kittee · 26-30, T
@LordShadowfire iwoul dhave fired him right away,
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@kittee I told my dad that and he agreed. The moment he called in with COVID after his weird little monologue, we decided he was unemployed. People my dad's age were dying left and right, and this guy was being a total pinecone about safety.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@LordShadowfire my brother in law died after 3 weeks on a ventilator. He was the first person i knew personally who died from it. When people tell me covid wasnt a huge killer i turn them off as either blind or brainwashed by the ignorance of the MAGA crowd
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@samueltyler2 I get irrationally angry at these people. I find it massively disrespectful the way they cling to their narrative. I'm willing to bet you've had the absolutely horrible experience of having one of these prize lunatics tell you that either you made up the story about your brother-in-law, or he died from something else somehow.
kittee · 26-30, T
@LordShadowfire my grandads brother survved the ww1 trenches then died of spanish flu (a form of covid) on the way home on a train, id guess made by germany, i their last ditch o survvie











