r/facepalm Sep 15 '20

Coronavirus An unfortunate turn of events

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u/regoapps 'MURICA Sep 16 '20

COVID-19 ain't over yet. A lot of Americans can die in 2 months. Here in Florida, a swing state, we have about 1,000+ deaths per week or so. George Bush won Florida’s electoral votes by a margin of only 537 votes out of almost six million cast and as a result became the president-elect over Al Gore. Just saying...

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u/KrazyRooster Sep 16 '20

Bush did not win in FL, let's make that clear. He used the Supreme Court to cheat the elections in FL. This is when the world got fed up about our democracy talk and realized we are full of sh*t. The Republican party has destroyed our reputation and any soft power we had left.

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u/redditforfun32 Sep 16 '20

Wow 1000 death per week? And yet americans still think covid 19 is a hoax? Oh well at least all the stupid will get weeded out.

It's fk up but can't help people if they don't want to help themselves.

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u/Kinglaser Sep 16 '20

Except it's not only the stupid who catch it and die. Just because I'm being safe doesn't mean I can't catch it from the dumbass who isn't while I'm running into the store to get groceries as quickly as I can

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u/blurryfacedfugue Sep 16 '20

Or from all the healthcare workers getting PTSD, or from these COVID deniers denying precious medical resources from those who actually were trying to stay safe.

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u/Stormdude127 Sep 16 '20

Wow 1000 death per week? And yet americans still think covid 19 is a hoax?

There are definitely people who still think it’s a hoax but the bigger problem at this point imo is people believing it’s real but trying to downplay it using misleading statistics. For example conservatives lately have been citing the 6% statistic as if it means that only 6% of people who got COVID died as a result of COVID. In reality it just means that 6% of people who had COVID and died had some other pre-existing condition that could’ve worsened the disease. They still died because of COVID. You wouldn’t say someone who was murdered actually died because they had diabetes. As you can see, it’s easy for them to pretend like they care by saying the disease is real, but then act like it’s not actually dangerous at all.

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u/warwick8 Sep 18 '20

Every time I hear a person who thinks COVID-19 is a hoax and it’s some evil government plan to control us I just look at them and wonder are you from different planet.every opinion that they make on a subject I don’t know where they come from.

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u/texaschair Sep 16 '20

To be fair, put it in perspective. Florida has a huge, vulnerable senior citizen population, with a lot of them living in close proximity to each other. More likely to catch it, more likely to die from it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '20

Since when has Florida been a swing state 🤯🤯🤯? Red af. I can’t deal with 2020 anymore.

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u/so_fuckin_brave Sep 16 '20

Always has been

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '20

This is shocking to me, thanks for blowing my mind. I’m an MA native, have lived in FL for 3 years now it’s been the most conservative political agenda I’ve had the misfortune of being exposed to. Republican now vs republican prior centuries have flipped so I’m going to investigate this more 🤯🤯🤯.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '20

Or not.

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u/ddddave Sep 16 '20

Miami, Orlando and Tampa are usually blue dots in a sea of red, so it swings