My mom thinks Covid 19 is a hoax

I hope she gets it

The hype and hysteria are whipped up by the media. Hence, the run on toilet paper!

My right winger parents have started taking it seriously but they still blame Pelosi and the impeachment as the reason Trump couldn't do his job which forced me to scream at them 'THE IDIOT SAID IT WAS A HOAX! Do think he really was stymied by the impeachment process when he was whooping it up at Mar-fucking-a-Lago at a fundraiser?! STOP WATCHING FOX FUCKING NEWS!!' I probably won't hear back from them until next Sunday. I love them, they make me ill.

R3, I concur.

Sorry, OP...she's got to go before early November.

Be the Vector. Contaminate.

The only reason why i don't buy into the conspiracy is because the economy is being fucked right now. Unless democratic strategists created the virus.

Won't Trump just borrow the money to pay for it all? Doesn't he always borrow what he needs?

By all means - tell her to go on her business as usual. Just make sure you're in the will.

[quote]I love them, they make me ill.

Why? They are not functioning humans and are not worthy of anyone's attention, let alone love. They are bags a putrid diarrhea that should be carefully disposed of and forgotten.

It’s such a Dem hoax that Trump made it officially a national emergency

She'll be dead within the month.

Hopefully a very close friend of hers will die from it.

OP: whether is turns out to be a major catastrophe or not as much as is being predicted, it is real and it's here. Why would your mother still be calling it a hoax.? I'll even give her the benefit of the doubt (even though we shouldn't give her an inch) if she doubted the virus a few weeks ago, but why now? It's not a suspicion--it's real. What's her problem now?

My sister probably does, too. Can’t wait for her Deplorable husband to die from it, so that she can be deprogrammed.

She’s fucked in the head

Bless her heart.

Then she’s REALLY gonna have a hard time believing there aren’t enough ventilators when the time comes.

I don't think it's a hoax but I think it's overblown panic and I'm not a republican by far. Only 69 deaths in a population of 325 million, that's so totally insignificant to be not even there. Now the economy will tank big time, forget about trump. Now shutting everything down and people will go under without paychecks. Again, 69 deaths out if 325 million.

I've seen a lot of older people who should be taking this seriously laugh it off. It's because they watch Fox news.

Your mom's an idiot.

R19, you realize this isn't about the people who have already died, right? This is about trying to keep it from spreading faster than the medical community can deal with it.

hope she dies

[quote]Only 69 deaths in a population of 325 million, that's so totally insignificant to be not even there.

And an exponentially increasing population of sick people, overwhelming our already overstretched healthcare system and crippling the economy—thanks partly to idiots like you who don't listen to warnings.

Incidentally, the dead in the US are up to 71.

People like R19 fascinate me. Either they are incredibly dense, but spouting off like they know what they're talking about, which only makes them appear stupider or they're just trolls trying to back up Dotard's claims this isn't serious.

You know the deplorable right wingers are hoarding and stocking up their houses as if it’s a pandemic. While yelling libtard “Hoax” out of the other side of their mouths!

She's also a moron.

Tell her everyone is being raptured and that there's a rapture party at the VFW off the old Interstate where everyone's self-infecting over lime sherbert punch and pecan pie.

I posted upthread about my folks. They aren't horrible people, they give to cancer and homeless charities, they just are loyal to a vile party that wants them dead and they don't see it, that's all. But if it makes you happy to call them bags of vomit and diarrhea, go ahead.

Wow all the way to 71 already it's going so fast, who knew. I wonder how many are dying of the flu each day, probably 100 or something.

Does anyone even still have time to explain things to the likes of R29? Some people really are dumb as bricks.

So far 37000 have died from the flu this year, last year 61000. And the flu season is almost over. No one is screaming about it.

I went to the supermarket this morning, and I could not believe the empty shelves of pasta and bottled water...that's for commentary elsewhere. For this thread, I overheard an old man speaking to one of the workers. He said this was all about "trying to bring down Trump."

The racist, sexist irresponsible imbecile was correct, when he said that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and get away with it! These morons will believe anything other than the cold, hard facts.

I went voting this morning and there was a Republican couple saying the same thing R32. Yet these are the same people hoarding. I've long ago stop trying to understand.

R39 you are a cunt and can't read, your intelligence is astounding.

I'm thinking r34 is psychic Sylvia Browne. R39 hasn't happened yet and she's pre-responding.

I would never say "cunt"!

Now that Trump has been forced to take it seriously, will she change her mind?

[quote] Why? They are not functioning humans and are not worthy of anyone's attention, let alone love. They are bags a putrid diarrhea that should be carefully disposed of and forgotten.

R3, print that, show it to your parents and say that's what people online think about them.

Then tell your mom to keep going out and doing things like normal. And if she ends up getting it, tell her it’s her own damn fault for being so stupid.

My mother hates Trump but for some reason isn't taking corona that seriously. She has a hip replacement surgery scheduled for April and I told her that they may cancel it if things gets worse. She was like, "well, my friend just had a biopsy and my other friend just had her knee replaced" and I said yeah but by April the shit could really be hitting the fan. She didn't seem to think they were going to cancel it, even though she has been carrying around disinfectant wipes everywhere.

There would be little point in doing that r38. They're old, scared and clinging onto an idea of the past that no longer exists so, even though I shout, I do show them compassion. I love them but have never understood their religion or everyday P.O.V.. I imagine this is how people feel when they discover a loved one is a serial killer.

OP, show them the stock market indexes, and Fed trying to shore them up. The experts do not screw around when it comes to money. They just don’t. Tell her that. People understand money. You have to expand on this, but the experts just lost 30% of their wealth when 3% is a big deal.

R41, I was just joking, tastelessly and badly, and couldn't really get the idea through that well. I was just imagining a scene where a couple of clueless geriatrics are shown a senseless hate message about them from some total stranger online. The whole thing would be so alien to them since they couldn't understand how does anyone even know anything about them. Yeah yeah, terrible, I know.

My parents are over 80 so I get the disconnect older people easily feel about world today.

Does she have it yet?

Work the conversation around to her will OP.

Make sure that you’re in it.

Get someone who's CV-19 positive to lick the next gift you send to her - a Bible, maybe?

R19 didn't age well, over 5k dead in USA so far with over 200k of people infected.

OP'S mother must think this is a very elaborate hoax, how Hillary managed to kill all that people?

Let her go to church but you should stay away from her.

I still have relatuives and freepers people in my life who claim it is a hoax. My uncle still goes out like nothing is wrong. Fine go out IDC but they invite my mother over to dinner once a week and I tell her not to go. She still goes.

Throw her body in a ditch

The virus-deniers I find even more frightful than average Trump-loving Christian Americans. So much of it online from this is a "False-Flag" event, and they're crisis actors, to pizzagate pedo obsessives who believe we're meant to stay in whilst Trump rounds up all the "bad people".

Jason Goodman on [italic] Crowdsource The Truth [/italic] (a YouTube channel) is another one. He walks by all the NYC hospitals claiming there is too little commotion for it to be real. 100% overblown and exaggerated. Maybe some ate sick, but it isn't so bad. This man gets up in passers by personal space, not keeping proper distance, trying to harrass police officers, ambulance drivers, and paramedics.

Many others believe it's a "deep state" hoax to usher in the NEW WORLD ORDER, and a reign of Rothschilds.

[quote] Jason Goodman on Crowdsource The Truth (a YouTube channel) is another one. He walks by all the NYC hospitals claiming there is too little commotion for it to be real. 100% overblown and exaggerated

The man is a moron. I have a brother who is a physician affiliated with a NYC hospital and medical school. He is telling me horror stories of people suffering from this disease and dying alone. The morgues are overloaded, and refrigeration trucks are outside on the street to handle the overflow. Hospitals will not allow visitors anymore.

All of the people who deny the reality of this pandemic need a collective slap in the face.

R52 BPC always spot on. I think many of them are too fragile or feeble mentally, and they're incapable of accepting reality. For many, it's akin to psychotic break. Others have had these "perception problems" their whole lives!

Will she be going to Sunday Services to prove her devotion to our Orange Lord??

Will she leave you anything? Let her attend church and then she should work at a charity food bank. If she is a good Christian, accommodate her.

OP, just go over to your parent’s house and reprogram their remote control to block Fox News.

I thank God my parents and siblings are liberal Democrats. They despise Fox News, the GOP and Trump as much as I do.

Will it be a hoax if she ends up in the hospital? Will it be a hoax if you catch it? What does it take to have these people to believe it's real and not some conspiracy to get motherfucking Trump?

The tens of thousands of people who "died" were just pretending to die!

Those scenes on the TV of the hospitals 🏥 are full of actors like on “ER”or “House”!

She changed her mind as is now social distancing.

It's not just right-wing Trumpers who think Coronavirus is nothing to get upset about and the deaths are just from regular flu and pneumonia. There are also Bernie-loving New Agey granola types who think this is a plot by various government and of course "Big Pharma" (their favorite boogeyman) factors. Several of them are on my social media feeds and they're as bad as the right-wingers. Crazy comes on opposite ends of the spectrum.

It’s just that it’s 95% far right wingers!

OP, now that she believes, I'm curious if this has served as a bigger lesson that maybe she has been believing people who aren't trustworthy on other issues as well?

Lady in a Cage

What's the Matter With Helen?

The Coronavirus Slew Auntie Roo

My stepfather is a Bernie Bro and is trying to kill my mother by continuing to go out for completely unnecessary things. He’s one of the stupidest people I’ve ever met in my life. He can’t follow any tv show or movie that isn’t completely chronologically linear or subtle. He’s a Marxist and a philosophy professor. He also hasn’t changed the sheets on his bed in almost 20 years.

Hey R19 - in just a couple weeks, there are 6,000+ deaths. Funny how that silly exponential growth works, now, isn't it?

Does the stupid bitch still think its a hoax? I'm sorry for my vulgarity but your mom is everything that's wrong with this country.

[quote]He also hasn’t changed the sheets on his bed in almost 20 years.

OMG do those sheets ever get washed?

Please kick your mother in the cunt for me...much appreciated

r60 I had no idea Deplorables could change their minds.. How do they recognize they need changing?

And your dad thinks he's your father

You have to let go of her OP. There is nothing you can do.

Wish her well and hope she doesn't die painfully.

R19, your post has not aged well.

OP - Not that we give a shit, but drop a line when your mother croaks. And hopefully, before Election Day.

R19, you are impervious to reasoning. Please stop posting your idiotic and utterly worthless opinion. After May 1, you can write back to apologize for stinking the thread up with your inability to see three feet in front of yourself. Thank you.