Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"the right cant understand things until it affects them personally" is true but one wild phenomenon we experienced during the height of the pandemic is seeing that play out except they were still denying that covid was real despite being sick with it in the hospital 2664799
Megan E. Human * free Link @zombiscribe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My aunt died of Covid and her daughter outright refuses to accept it. Like people underestimate what people can convince themselves of if they really want to 0100
Hegelian vs. Predator @telemark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Yes, but you see they had pre-existing conditions. Like they were fat, had diabetes, or lived in America. In other fun news, I have to hound my PCP for an rX for this year's shot. Fuck Secretary Brainworm 000
Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The right understand things. They just don't care until it affects them but even then, they can justify the personal suffering as long as people they don't like/approve of are suffering more. 040
⚠spooky invalid handle👻 @hotdogfungus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026bad things can only happen to the unhuman demon hordes in their mind 000
pabrocb.bsky.social @pabrocb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I ran a women’s clinic. When a protester came in for a termination we heard the famous Pro-Life line, “But this is different.” 1100
Craaaaaaaaaigssssss @craigforth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026herman cain was tweeting from beyond the grave about covid being not that deadly after dying from it 0180
Melanie Mallon🔪🎃 @melmall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Understanding isn't the issue. They have entwined their identity so tightly with so many rightwing beliefs that admitting they are wrong is existential. They will literally die from COVID before letting that identity fall apart. 000
Tired while Black @hurtthisday.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026Friend’s grandpa died, her entire family still denies that COVID even happened 010
Drastic @drastic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026At this point of All This(tm) I'm perfectly uncharitably comfortable simply shortening it to "the right can't understand things." Even when "it happens to them" they'll make Woe Is Me noises, but what they understand is "this is a bad experience for me" but not any larger thing than that. 190
Robert @cujorulesdtown9.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ben Carson still tweeting, and he died from it! They are committed. 110
stacy @stacy.is.relentlessly.online · 02/09/2026one family member lost her sense of smell for months and pretended she didn't. would be darkly funny if that's all it was but nah, the whole family got sick and her father died. but that was from "natural causes", certainly not from covid 0100
Lena @lenalily227.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The denial of illness is particularly strong in this crowd bc it's weaponized against them as weakness. Not a cult 010
AndyC @andyc300.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This was probably the initial cause of a friendship split for me. A mutual's mother died from covid/complications, and the friend kept going on about how the pneumonia killed her, not the covid. Just, come on, man. 1460
Death and Gravity @bushidosquirrel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026no it was the ventilators that were killing people and doctors just like putting healthy people on ventilators... 020
Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Apparently when pro-life women get abortions they've been known to call the doctor a murderer 010
timeagan.bsky.social @timeagan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The only time I’ve ever really lost it with a patient was when she was bitching at me about how Covid is made up and I yelled at her “I’m sorry, I can’t understand you, would you like me to take off your high flow nasal cannula keeping you alive??” 080
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Universe @nonsequitrd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026a guy i know watched his mom die in an ICU through a pane of glass 050
I'm very poorly today, very stupid & hate everybody & everything @voxexsinister.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Like, those shitbags were literally dying in hospitals, but were denying that Covid even existed, even as they squeaked out their dying breath. 030
Jeff (no, the I Scare because I Care one) @jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Boss lost both parents to it in the same week. They were sitting home aiming to ride out “the flu”. He’d been a vax avoider already, apparently bought into all the “it turned me into the HULK” BS, too. 0160
Medical Bad days @docdarkthoughts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Deathbed recanting and wishing for magic help that was too late kinda broke me. 0100
JLoHayLo @jlohaylo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My brother-in-law is a critical care/pulmonologist and has stories of people accusing him of lying about them having Covid *as they are in fulminant respiratory failure and he’s getting ready to intubate them*! 180
Myles Lobdell @myleslobdell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I wonder how many of them are down in hell right now still refusing to believe they are really dead. 2130
Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 02/09/2026And even when they DO understand things when it affects them personally (their specific gay son is OK, their specific daughter definitely needs an abortion) they resolutely refuse to allow their brains to generalize that to anyone else 010
Bits @bitsofdeb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Asked my daughter how her day went.( Home health nurse) She said with exasperation "Just a lot of dealing with sick people who are getting what they voted for, losing their health insurance and not able to get Medicare/Medicaid " 130