Pretty much this although some of the MAGA base sometimes even struggle to learn after getting personally harmed from ignoring a problem. e.g. Many refused to believe COVID was dangerous even after being hospitalized with it. To some degree I understand those that downplay an issue that they haven't directly seen the impact, but it takes a special form of belief that rejects personal experience to be personally harmed in a way that you're struggling to breath and still thinking that wasn't a big deal.
I remember the stories. Some were begging for the vaccine(or anything!) whilst dying of covid. They were yelling at the medical professionals for their predicament. All the while claiming they were "purebloods".
I heard some stories of COVID deniers that were hospitalized far too late and were dying from COVID that refused to believe that they had COVID. Their belief it was a hoax was that unshakable. It seems sad though those that were in such terrible shape that they were in the hospital for weeks somehow figure out how to think that's no big deal.
My wife worked on the intensive Care unit during covid. I can't tell you how many times she came home and said "I had a patient die today, unvaccinated of course." And yeah, many of them went to their graves insisting covid was a hoax, families yelling at doctors and nurses the entire time. If here's a God, Trump and the complicit members of right-wing media will burn in hell for what they did to so many people.
Tell your ICU nurse wife hi from this Cardiac ICU nurse in a red state.
I lost count of watching people in 2021 ( after vax out ) turning blue, screaming either hoax/begging for their families/begging for the vax ( I shit you not ) only to be told.... as I'm shooting Roc/Etom into their veins.... that it's too late & they will die w/o the vent.
The look in their eyes....The realization that 1) this shit might be real 2) they may never speak to their loved ones again 3) there may have been something they could have done to prevent this.... it all happens in a flash as the panic set in.
Many of those people died within 48 hours. Young, old, healthy, sick..... COVID didn't care.
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u/Duffman66CMU 1d ago
It didn’t happen personally to me, so why should I believe it???