ChromaticCorvid
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Living in the south through the past year has been an absolute nightmare.
The election, covid, and George Floyd just showed how truly lost many of the people around me are and it hurts more than I could say.
CaptainSlower
Yeah, it's the same in *gestures broadly*
trippingthelightfantastic
Glory to you and your house @OP
PhillerTheThriller
Yes, they are lying jackasses pandering to the stupidest, sheep-brained people.
Adamarket
I adopted the US as my home coming from the UK 27 years ago and I feel the same.
sharkmommychompers
FL Uber driver here, I get wackos telling me that it's all the illegals bringing it in and that it's Biden's fault for not doing something..
jimmythehat1
South Dakota had a huge spike after Sturgis. Quadrupled their cases
Lamp
Man fuck bats
JeffreyDeTar
Gov. Brian Dingleberry Kempe actually stated on national television he was unaware Covid was transmissible by air.
Southernmama
Same. It’s just become depressing.
GuestChrist
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country" - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after having hanged two teenage boys for the "offense".
WebDragonG3
congratulations on getting your parents vaccinated.
JinxRocks
I refer to it as the Trumplague. And when they get mad, I tell them at least it ain’t COVID, amirite? And they get confused.
Boatsntoes
Meanwhile my Covid positive friend is surfing and going to the gun range…
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
How'd you convince them?
ChromaticCorvid
I threatened to not seem them until they did
IdiotSavantTinker
ChromaticCorvid
Autittuderp
I have a great friend who lives in Texas and she has gone into early retirement bc she can not deal with as she calls it "living out there"
Autittuderp
She felt safest being in lockdown. How incredibly sad for her.
rowingrowingrowing
I am so sorry you are down there in a wilderness of inhumanity. Please know you have support here on Imgur. (I lived in GA & it sucked)
mystpanther1337
Take my 420 upvote from FL
immortalbucket
VargtheWizard
Ah yes, that time a war criminal drank poison he had smuggled in.
Sentay
"The south... ...is a nightmare" there you go OP.
TheGlow
School opened for the kids here in TN last week. I got a message from the school that after 1 week, only 500 covid cases for kids, 50adults
PrincessJimmyCarter
They've blamed the liberals and the government. They're currently blaming the Mexicans. Black folks, get vaxed now before they can blame you
ImALagomorphSam
too late: https://abc30.com/dan-patrick-texas-lt-governor-blames-black-people-unvaccinated/10966166/
TheStig1986
I moved to the PNW after spending my life in the south...I don't miss it.
EatPieLander
Early in pandemis someone said America is facing two pandemics: COVID and Stupidity.
SillyZombie
I had a big ole throwdown today w/ sis in law over vaccines just now. Ho boy. Now wife is mad at me.... well....
wallsh1
wish I knew the reference but I understand the message
totaleclipseofdescartes
Avatar Last Airbender. She’s a “tour guide” who indoctrinates newbs with state propaganda. “There is no war in Ba Sing Se” (but there is)
wallsh1
oh well dang
gradeD
She's the villain in The Last Airbender
ChromaticCorvid
JustSomeRandomGuyOnTheInternet
No....no she is not.
gradeD
Sorry, I was just going off of memes I've seem her in. Never actually seen the show!
wallsh1
never seen it but appreciate the info
gradeD
I've never seen it either and apparently I was completely wrong.
doggetofftheqcekmty
Legit heard a kool-aid drinker say yesterday that 80% of the "covid deaths" aren't from covid.
OutrageousHemmorhoid
They are mostly from mucus and inflammation haha?
doggetofftheqcekmty
I believe he said they're falsely labeled flu deaths. Like the opposite of what Florida was doing in the beginning.
Taishosama
ah yes neither the gun nor the bullet killed this child, it was the blood loss and asthma the kid suffered from that did it
immortalbucket
ChromaticCorvid
The biggest conservative radio host in Tennessee just died form covid after making a song making fun of it. It's not funny but...
UndulatingTerrain
It's not not funny.
MarisFreeborn
. . . isn't it ironic? Don't you think? A little too ironic . . .
Kreviathan
It's certainly therapeutic seeing it bite them in the ass, as morbid as it is. It's been well over a year, no sympathy left.
fearcandy
They wouldn't have any sympathy for Democrats that pass away.
gradeD
...but it is a little funny.
kyro
It is absolutely funny.
coffeebaby
It's like saying people who die in car accidents didn't die in the accident. They died from blood loss later. That's how they rationalize it
TorrentialUpPour
Exactly this. While they're *technically* correct, it's really just a distinction without a difference.
LonelyLoser
Oh boy i guess AIDS kill count is 0 too
coffeebaby
I mean they gonna blame that on gays either way
Threadnomancer
Do we have any info on how many of these rising cases are vaxxed? Are there just that many antivaxxers in the country?
Panzerkeks85
Good overview: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/us/covid-breakthrough-infections-vaccines.html
geoffreyfourmyle
Nearly all of them are unvaccinated. Link follows.
geoffreyfourmyle
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+COVID-19+cases+are+unvaccinated and then just scroll until your state comes up
MagicalHamFlaps
now now the official response is to blame black people for the surges........no i am not joking that is what they did in Texas
sharkmommychompers
I drive Uber in SW FL.... "It's all those illegals bringing it in here and Biden aint doing anything about it!" is their constant assault.
Mabregick
I just heard reporting in Texas today that talked about how bad it is in states like Alabama and Florida but didn't mention Texas at all
hitthatbomb
??♂️lowest vaccination rate? https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/
MagicalHamFlaps
it is utter bullshit is what it is
hitthatbomb
You have counter data to present it a different source which states that PoCs have a higher vaccination rate?
bags1988
As a Texan, it’s hard to not just pack all my shit up and find sanctuary somewhere that has a heart and a brain
GloveFullaVaseline
Seriously, why stay?
bags1988
Family and friends
LizardEnterprises
Well it does make it easier to herd them into extermination camps if you have a plague to blame on them...
texasinja1718
Which really confuses me because I’ve also been told it’s the surge of illegals coming in their scary caravans
MagicalHamFlaps
the common denominators for all of the conspiracy theories are brown skin and, not republican
arkuamore
Happened in the last plague. It'll happen in the next.
AlexDuos
Yeah I'm not thrilled about that tidbit either.
Threadnomancer
Well yknow they couldn't go full fourth Reich on Asians for the "Kung flu" so they had to find a new target in hopes people will tolerate it
darkmyst30
Don't forget the immigrants!
Kreviathan
Also blaming "illegal immigrants from Mexico bringing covid with them". I'm not even surprised.
loveisallwereallyhave
STFU. Did that happen?
MagicalHamFlaps
yes yes it did https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-blames-covid-surge-african-americans-n1277254
loveisallwereallyhave
What a douche. He's a dipshit, too. Aside from those what are actively racist, how do people not see through this horseshit?
fashenkna
So they’re acknowledging covid is not a hoax/fake?
MagicalHamFlaps
apparently, but it is just the brown skinned democrat types who are spreading it......
rubypilgrim
they're also blaming vaccinated people. The one group they don't blame? Themselves.
MagicalHamFlaps
i saw that also saw some were finding it super convenient that COVID is targeting people who refuse the vaccine like some deep state shit
whirlydoodle
That's darkly hilarious
MagicalHamFlaps
sometimes you just have to laugh at the absurdity to keep from feeling worried about it all
gradeD
Much of the united states outside of major cities is going to be controlled by fundamentalist warlords inside of 30 years, is my speculation
MagicalHamFlaps
they are willfully ignorant as, Donnie Thimbledick has started telling them to get vaccinated at his rallies and they boo him
rubypilgrim
ikr? I was surprised at that. Anti-vax means more to them than Trump. Who knew?
ChromaticCorvid
I saw and I almost shot the damn Television.
MrRandom314159
What.
MagicalHamFlaps
it was a solid wtf moment, like they aren't even trying to hide the racism
T0go
Elvis was right!
itsallaboutthecones
Dan Patrick is a gaping prolapsed asshole. Much like most of his caucus.
MagicalHamFlaps
that is quite the visual
chbarts
Calm down, Elvis.
T0go
Elvis did nothing wrong
FloodingWaters
Definitely a texan!
ChromaticCorvid
Tennessee but close ?
FloodingWaters
Do all your exes live in texas?
rubypilgrim
don't shoot the tv. get politically active. GOP poised to take power through gerrymandering and new voting laws that allow GOP legislatures-
rubypilgrim
to give middle finger to voters, appoint the electors they want and say what election results are regardless of what the votes are. We -
rubypilgrim
won't know what the real vote totals were because they will never allow them to be recorded or published. Official record will only be-
rubypilgrim
what they say it is.
cosinewave
Not everyone in the south is an ignorant, bible-thumping, racist but there are certainly enough of them to give that impression.
northerngermany
Then maybe, just maybe start posting other than this depressing US-political stuff to finally show us the cool side. Please.
DildoRodeo
Kinda sucks to be a vaxxed, masking Georgian and read all the comments about how it's all my fault :/
millenniumf
There's at least two, accordingvto the downvotes.
TechnicallyRight
50% seems like a lot
Springthingy
It only takes a few when the media loves reporting on the absurdity for views.
svga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church only 70 members yet smeared on the corporate media as if it is all christians
svga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church only 70 members yet smeared on the corporate media as if it is all christians
ChromaticCorvid
What does this have to do with the post?
faultierr
I hate that there is a church literally every single mile where I live and they are packed as fuck every Sunday, pandemic or not.
thotterpop
You're giving them too much by calling them ignorant.
manymadmasks
I may have passionate sexual intercourse with my cousin, but I ain’t morally bankrupt enough to be Republican. Vax and mask y’all.
TheGlow
Yes, I moved to TN 3 years ago, after living my whole life in NYC. It was pretty good up until covid and the election...
gordy77
Not for long
rowdypup
There’s a great deal who just skip over the Bible party completely, unless it’s Easter and Christmas, and just choose racism and ignorance.
bril350
Most of them would be smart enough to get the fuck outta the south. Like my friend from Alabama.
Abstractivity
It's blacks as a group that are most anti vaxx. That makes you the howling racist.
DildoRodeo
Nope. Out of the 'Big 3' races in America, whites are least vaxxed, followed by Hispanic, with African American being most vaxxed.
sirava
And you know the thing is, southerners are as smart as anybody else in this country
Our only problem is we just can't keep the most >>
sirava
ignorant among us off of television. -Jeff Foxworthy (and this is about the only thing I'll quote him on)
SEAW1NG
I had one ask me if my sour dough was sweet.... WTF. No, it SanFran. Had to make my boule with sugar and no crisp crust. NY transplant here.
transientmind
Can’t keep them off television… or out of the voting booth, councils, and other positions of power, which is the more significant problem.
SmokyDoggg
Texas here and as Sam Jackson would say the number is TOO HIGH. But there are a lot of decent polite people too.
nclu
Not to mention that you are gerrymandered into silence. Things will only change as that effort can be undone.
cosinewave
No question - I have met lots of warm and wonderful people in Texas and other places in the south.
gradeD
And their warm, wonderful southern bodies
cosinewave
I would not deny that.
ChromaticCorvid
That's the worst part in all honesty. It feels like so much of the country has given up on us, while so many fight for progressive change
PackWulver
As a South Carolinian this is a mood
Cha0sForever
When the systems rigged so the majority struggle/cannot vote doesn't help
Kreviathan
They don't want the most votes to be represented because if they were the RNC would never win an election.
Kralizac
Born in Ohio. Came to Lousianna after college. It could be so much better. But everyone has want it. Too many, on both sides, fight change.
RagingRomaineLettuce
In TN and I still bother my city council and try raising hell even though I’m not very successful. I garden a lot to try and push down pain
ChromaticCorvid
Well your username definitely checks out. ❤️
spiderjohn36
From Knoxville, TN and I totally concur. If it hadn't of been for cost of living and traffic, I wish I would have stayed in ATL [1/2]
spiderjohn36
instead of moving back home three years ago. ATL is so much more progressive and diverse.
itsallaboutthecones
Keep fighting. As a life long Alabamian I know the struggle and feel your pain.
tevyethemad
Compromise of 1877 is still fucking stuff up for y'all. Solidarity from PA, it's gotta get better some day.
rubypilgrim
hang in there. Georgia turned blue, Fulton County is liberal, Atlanta is 22nd most progressive city in the nation - giving up not an option
kyro
Atlanta guy here. This is on-point. We are winning. Don't lose hope now.
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
In fact, fight harder, cus you know the regressives will.
michaelbishop
No one thanks or appreciates the 3 good wheels on a shopping cart, just the wonky wheel gets attention.
TechnicallyRight
saying 75% are doing their part is just... giving them way too much credit.
cosinewave
That's a fine point
transientmind
If the cart doesn’t work why the fuck would you appreciate the ‘good wheels’? The fucking cart doesn’t work.
raosion
That's a really really good way of putting it.
Autittuderp
That's bc it fucks up the whole experience, you can't navigate the thing to go where you need and it makes such a big racket you can't deal.
lncorrectGrammerNazi
Sounds like a fitting description of the situation in the southern states.
zynthesis
Unfortunately for Maga country, the non Magats arent even on the cart, they're the pin holding the joint together for the basket
geoffreyfourmyle
But the wonky wheel is fighting all efforts to improve, and actively attacking the mechanic trying to fix it. The other three wheels aren't
geoffreyfourmyle
doing enough to stop the fucked up wheel. The entire cart is more trouble than its worth. Stop wasting time politely asking the broken
geoffreyfourmyle
wheel to stop being deliberately useless. Fucking rip it out of the cart already.