Anti-vaxx Chronicles: COVID killed Dad, but sure, keep being awful

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Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, and catch the occasional whiff of seditionist right-wing rhetoric. But I hadn’t really fully understood just how horrifying that combination of right-wing extremism, Facebook, and a killer virus was until I became a regular at the Herman Cain Awards subreddit. This series will document some of those stories, so we are aware of what the other side is doing to our country.

Today’s cautionary tale is quite awful.

Meanwhile, Qanon adherents flocked to Dallas for the resurrection of JFK…

Turns out dead person is still dead, as are way too many people too stupid to get vaccinated. 

Tell Donald Trump, please, before more of that stupid spreads like a virus. 

Shit, too late.

Oh look, it’s the gay porn star meme again. 

Are we sure it was actually fake hoax COVID, and not lawn darts, a vengeful spouse, the media, gravity, or a gunshot wound in Chicago? 

His sister is certainly more sensible than our memelord himself. 

Note, this was the last time he posted about COVID, but did he acknowledge how full of shit he’d been? Nope. Did he acknowledge how his cavalier attitude toward the pandemic might’ve contributed to his father’s death? Heck no. Did he reassess his information sources and rethink his political choices? Of course not. 

For a crowd that screams “COMMUNISM!” at every single thing they don’t like, are they … are they arguing that the president should be setting the pricing for private industry? 

Foreshadowing. 

There’s always foreshadowing. 

Extra foreshadowing with a healthy dose of irony, a potent combination. 

Nothing says “AMERICA FIRST!” better than sharing memes created in Bulgaria. 

His father’s death may have quit his COVID shitposting, but it didn’t cure his lifestyle and ideological decisions. In the end, it cost him his life. 

A Russian disinformation agent in Bulgaria weeps.