Short term profits > the appearance of being a cuck. I always troll my buddy that gun shop owners all vote for a democrat for president to make money off his dumbass.
Rolovich was the highest-paid state employee, with an annual salary of more than $3 million in a contract that runs through 2025. He had said he wouldn't get vaccinated but has declined to provide clarity when asked repeatedly for weeks to expand upon the reasoning for his refusal. Rolovich, 42, initially said in mid-August he would comply with the vaccine mandate, but later confirmed he applied for a religious exemption. He has not specified his religious beliefs. Crazy I keep hearing people have all these valid reasons for not getting the vaccine yet they never actually say what those reasons are. Continues to solidify that no amount of education, no amount of deaths, nothing will change a large % of anti-vaxxers minds.
His spot got blown up by June Jones. Jones is his mentor after coaching him at Hawaii. Jones is who told the press he had applied for a religious exemption. I assume Jones went to the media in a last ditch effort to get Rolovich to get the vaccine.
I must say that when I wake up and read how the Dems constantly cuck themselves in the Biden thread, this is the thread that makes me want to get out of bed.
This covid situation has figuratively melted peoples’ brains. It is so unreal. I am kind of in shock right now. I called my best friend for 27 years yesterday afternoon, also the best man at my wedding, to ask him if he could come help me do some work & home projects. He said most likely not as we disagree on something. I asked him what. He said covid and the vaccine. I asked him what he meant and he said that he has not and will not get vaccinated. I told him that is no big deal and we will both wear masks and I will put him up in a hotel. And that once Levi is vaccinated, which is most likely within the next month, those extra precautions will not be needed and that am I now now or have I at any other time told him he had to get vaccinated to hang around me or remain my friend. Things went south, for him at least, very fast. He kept on saying all of this easily disputable crap. The last of which was that “one of my customer’s is a mortician and said that he saw no more bodies in 2020 than he did any other year.” I told him, that is only a single data point, whether or not it is accurate is mute, as the numbers for 2020 showed an increase death percentage of 20% vs the ~3% standard (predicted) to account for population increase. And I sent him a link with the data to back it up. He literally blocked my phone number. My oldest and best friend, who is neither religious nor political. All because we were having a conversation that apparently he felt was hostile even though I told him many times that we were just talking as if best friends can’t talk, who can. I think at this point, I am done talking with anyone I know about it. The people that are not vaccinated are so entrenched that any mention of it turns hostile. To me, it is not worth burning any more bridges over. My immediate family is vaccinated and that is all I can influence. I hope that the family and friends that aren’t make it through this fine but if not, I will find new friends. But also, possibly work on making better friends that can have an adult conversation without having a full blown meltdown.
Crappy situation but I can't blame you for this ^^^ Silver lining....only one of those sides are losing numbers at record pace and it isn't yours.
I don’t talk to two of my sisters because they are anti vax and believe god will protect them. One sister has a son who has an autoimmune deficiency. The other sister and her daughter both have asthma. We got into a heated argument on my birthday about how I wasn’t comfortable seeing them or them being around my older parents. It’s been months. Shit sucks all the way around.
I feel for you. I've been wondering about this recently with my (extended) family and decided to ask my mom. I know everyone in my immediate family is, thankfully, sane and fully vaxed. For Thanksgiving and Christmas though we always get together with some aunts and uncles and their kids on my mom's side. Obviously we didn't last year but we are this year. She said that everyone, except 1 cousin of mine was pro-vax. He's a 20 yo college kid whose girlfriend and her family are apparently anti-vax so he's in her clutches. Whatever. I can live with that considering we're talking about 1 out of about 30 family members.
That fucking sucks. I am just blown away that these are full grown adults that are acting this way. What ever happened to reasoning, rationality and responsibility? When the fuck did adults get so childish? People need to grow the fuck up
That's fucking insane. Your friend is probably dumping the effects of his increasing feelings of social isolation in your lap, and that sucks. It's not your job to fix him though.
They spent the last 5 or so years outwardly asserting that "THEY" are lying to all of us, while secretly believing this for much longer. Then a couple people they thought were funny and smart on TV started dismantling any and all of their trust in everyone (especially scientists and people with advanced specialties) but themselves. Moreover, and my mom is guilty of this, these people really, truly believe that everything in this is just a couple people who hate America trying to crush the american spirit (in particular Fauci) when, like, a lot of these studies, findings, meetings, presentations, to put together policy and guidance are pretty much open books they can tune in to. Generously, it's probably that the full grown adults are incurious and want someone else to do the reading for them, and conservative media has positioned freaks like mark levin, tucker carlson, etc., as voices for medical knowledge.
I have three great sets of brother and sister in laws, they’re all vaxxed. I have one set that sucks ass and refuses to get vaxxed, we’re flying to arizona for Christmas and I told my wife not a fucking chance we’re seeing the shitty ones. She suggested maybe outdoors, with masks on, etc. I really have no desire to extend that olive branch. They sucked before Covid and it has just made them shittier.
I had two best men and they both are vax'd and we have a group text about lunatic right wingers feels good man #humblebrag
that sucks man. And I know what you're going through because my best friend of 20+ years and best man at my wedding got super religious and called me out of the blue one day to tell me he needed to end our relationship because my lack of faith is not good for his mission to serve his lord. This was after a few very calm and basic conversations the previous few months about religion and my beliefs (or lack thereof). I tried a few times in the subsequent years to reach out and see if he had realized how ridiculous he was being and he was cordial but dismissive.
I lost my best friend when I talked to him about my mental health issues. Oh well sometimes people show you who they are and your life becomes better for it. I’m not saying it doesn’t hurt but it’s life.
Man that stinks. And as a Christian, it really pisses me off the amount of christians that act that way. If God treated people the same way a large number of “christians” treat “unbelievers,” God would be a lonely man with few to no followers.
I’m the friend a.tramp is referring to and I’m here to set the record straight. This had nothing to do with vaccines. The “project” he wanted my help on was to build thousands of the dildo rockers pictured below. I recommended that we mass produce them and he said “no, they have to be handmade one at a time. These must be the Italian sports cars of dildo rockers!” Then he called me some bad words and hung up.
If you stay single, then you don’t have to discover that your best man is an anti-vax chud. /lifehack
I told you man, the project funding is wholly dependent on the artisanal quality pitched to the VC firm. They will totally know if we sourced production out. I will not be responsible for defrauding my backers.
Russ and Shelly Dizdar, 65, 67, "spiritual warriors", anti-vaxx, Russ Dead, Shelly sick from COVID Updated: 4 hours ago According to social media reports (below) Russ is dead from COVID and Shelly is still quite ill. Russ is an evangelistic end-times paster who consistently talks about the coming of the Antichrist and the ongoing battle between Satan's warriors and God's warriors. He is a Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) investigator, which is essentially a witch hunt that has its roots in the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and seems to have recently inspired the the Qanon movement. He says there are millions of Satanic Chosen Ones coming after Christians and Christian children. Russ Dizdar is of the same ilk as two other sorryantivaxxer entries, Rob Skiba who died a few days ago, and Steve Quayle who is still battling a COVID infection. Russ and Steve have even appeared together on the Hagmann Report, a show similar to Infowars but focused on wacky Christian things like Nephilim, modern day Nephilim human hybrids, SRA, flat-earth, etc. Russ and Shelly were anti-vaxxers. Shelly actually posted more anti-vaxx things online, as Russ thought the COVID virus and vaccines were but a small part of the great Antichrist led apocalypse that is coming shortly. Were these anti-anti-christs anti-vaxxers? You betcha.
Jeremy Bartlett, 49, Killbuck, OH, Technician, anti-vaxxer, dead from COVID. According to this obituary, Jeremy died on October 16, 2021. He died from COVID. Jeremy leaves behind his wife, Tiffany, and his four daughters. Both Jeremy and Tiffany were anti-vaxxers, and as you'll see Tiffany has no regrets. As is the standard operating procedure around here, we first discover if Jeremy (and Tiffany) were anti-vaxxers: many posts of why oh why etc.... then this
I'm really sorry to hear your post but these people are willingly putting lives at risk. They're drunk driving on a daily basis and claiming that the government is lying about the lanes being straight. To me they're not in the same reality I am and I'm better off burning the bridge
That’s what my argument was over. I told them I wouldn’t mourn them if they died. I’d feel bad for their kids and would help but wouldn’t accept any responsibility sense their parents were so careless with their own lives. My mother yelled enough immediately and I left soon after.