An incident involving multiple victims of firearm violence?

I was speaking to hotel security moving forward...which would be a mild inconvenience at best. Most major office buildings in big cities have similar security..you would just implement it for hotel guest. Or watch a building go 'boom'...eventually.

That isn't the life of most people in the Chicago area though. Most shootings are either gang related or between people who know each other.

Automatic weapons in the hands of black people doesn't really scare me. Don't fuck with their "shit' and they are probably not going to mess with you. Same for the I-Talians.

To emphasize, this again.

My wife and I had a son in December. The docs heard a murmur and ordered the echo cardiogram. You're sitting in a dark room with this impossibly fragile human who you are in charge of protecting, wondering if there is a problem how do they even fix it. What is a baby's heart, the size of a half dollar?

There is no greater feeling of helplessness then staring at a 20 hour old human being undergoing a test to determine if his heart is a viable organ to sustain human life for any prolonged period of time.

Dr. Fauci said that if hospitals get any more overcrowded, they’re gonna have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU bed. That choice doesn’t seem so tough to me. Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right in, we’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.

Each side wishes the other side dead from its respective means of treating COVID-19. Conservatives celebrate vaccine complications like Palestinians celebrating 9/11. I don't know how we're going to resolve that.

This has not been true in my experience. Several conservatives I know and people they love are vaccinated. They don't wish harm on anybody. The complications are used as evidence of why they don't want to take the risk of being vaccinated.

I'm mostly center right or an odd mix of ideas I certainly don't wish for or celebrate anybody's death, illness, or whatever whether they are unvaccinated or vaccinated.

Each side wishes the other side dead from its respective means of treating COVID-19. Conservatives celebrate vaccine complications like Palestinians celebrating 9/11. I don't know how we're going to resolve that.

Conservatives are calling for hospitals to not treat people with vaccine complications? You are a smart and creative guy, but you are letting tribalism blind you.

Gotta love wfr. A light night talk show host makes a joke about something, and suddenly all liberals are calling for people not to be treated in hospitals.

This has not been true in my experience. Several conservatives I know and people they love are vaccinated. They don't wish harm on anybody. The complications are used as evidence of why they don't want to take the risk of being vaccinated.

I'm mostly center right or an odd mix of ideas I certainly don't wish for or celebrate anybody's death, illness, or whatever whether they are unvaccinated or vaccinated.

Gotta love wfr. A light night talk show host makes a joke about something, and suddenly all liberals are calling for people not to be treated in hospitals.

I think the issue is that all we hear from are the extremes of both sides. I'm vaccinated, completely comfortable with that choice, and just want to be left the fuck alone. I have friends who aren't. And are comfortable with that. And just want to be left the fuck alone.

All I really want is to take the most vocal extremes from both sides, round them up, take away their access to all outside communication, and drop them in the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, without boats or floatation devices....and take everyone that calls their jobs "influencers" with them.

I think if you really think about people here, most of the liberals would think they had a victory if something happened covid related to me or my children. I think few conservatives would feel that way if the situation were reversed.

People were really happy Rogan got it. Big news!

I think using "most" as a descriptor is a bit closed minded and biased. Vocal minority, yes. But probably not "most".

Are there really a ton of people running around being extreme about not getting vaccinated? I think most on the non vaccinated side don't care what others do and are fine with their decision.

Okay maybe I was thinking in terms of vocal. It's more than it should be for sure.

Well yeah, but anyone with any decency, which I like to think is still a majority of the population, would not like to see anything bad happen to anyone.

In real life, you are right. Online, Spaulding is right.

Which is to say the temptation to turn into an asshole is too hard to resist once you're sitting behind a screen.

And we see what happens when people are given the opportunity to step away from their screen and talk...



Nobody worth a pile of dogshit actively celebrates Covid deaths. I will say that personally, its harder for me to have any sympathy when I hear of unvaccinated people die. It still sucks that it happens, though.

See...and maybe sometimes its good to be a little bit of a cold blooded dickhead...I feel bad when someone I know loses someone they know.

Random strangers...pretty much a shrug and I move on.

Conservatives are calling for hospitals to not treat people with vaccine complications? You are a smart and creative guy, but you are letting tribalism blind you.