Dude was chill, growing and using cannabis in his 80s. A master gardener, he kept cacti alive for 40 years in Canada through nasty winters. He was kind, generous intelligent and thoughtful.

His son caught covid at his workplace, and passed it on to my FIL. FIL was hospitalized around December solstice due to complications of that covid, and other non lethal problems He passed on a couple of days ago.

He did not die, he was killed by capitalism.

Capitalism requires people to work or starve, so they have to be on the job spreading diseases when they should be at home fighting them.

Capitalism rewards the pharmaceutical companies that decided it was more profitable to treat Covid than to eliminate it, attenuate it rather than eradicate it.

The oligarchs that use capitalism to enrich themselves turned precautionary measures that would slow the spread of Covid into ammo for the culture wars that keep the working class fighting each other instead of slitting the throats of the oligarchs.

Yes, I am very angry.

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    Could I ask some questions about your FIL? I'm wondering if he's ever gotten COVID before, and if so how bad it was. Because it's easy to forget that people still actually die of COVID

    • asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      This was his first covid infection. And yes, people think it is no big deal, and people are dying every day. They go to the doctor's office where people are coughing and sneezing and refuse to wear masks or distance themselves.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        6 months ago

        Do you know anything about his vaccination history? Or how often he goes out?

        It's just wild to me that someone could've gone this long without even contracting covid

        • asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]
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          6 months ago

          He was fully vaccinated for what that turned out to be worth, but he did go out 3-4 times a week.

          My spouse and I are the last people we know that have not gotten it yet. We take all precautions, I am even sleeping in a different room from them until we know they did not pick up any hitchhikers from the hospital.

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      it's easy to forget that people still actually die of COVID

      At the current rate and even with the changes in reporting requirements, it's still about 40,000 deaths a year in the US.

      It just seems much lower when you're going from a 9/11 a day to a 9/11 a month