Based on a true story

Damn you, autocorrect.

It was supposed to be ‘Murca (how people with lazy intellects and/or dialects pronounce the name of this country).

Enh. I’m not exactly the “make absolutely everyone completely happy or you’re a bigot” type. Trying to point out hypocrisy falls flat in this case.

I know a guy with a PhD and more legitimate genius than the vast majority of people in his field who has a lazy dialect. He says ‘Murca. It’s funny to hear, especially within a conversation that centers around his progress towards creating technology that is currently only possible in theory. Incongruous.

And they say liberals are the ones with no sense of humor...

And...? It falls flat because I don’t care and have never cared about people making fun of regional dialects. No hypocrisy to be had if I’m not preaching against what I’m practicing.

Because I don’t care, calling it out as hypocrisy is moot.

Did I offend you?

Oh so you ARE trying to call out hypocrisy that doesn’t exist.

It’s not ‘Murca either.

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I’m confused as to your point here. Are you saying that it was his obesity that killed him and not COVID? Or that his obesity made him so susceptible to the disease that wearing a mask wouldn’t have prevented infection?

If he hadn’t contracted COVID-19, would he have died on July 4, 2020? Not as a result of his obesity alone. Three weeks before he died, he was healthy and mobile enough to go on vacation and get a picture from the top of a 15-ft-tall manufactured waterfall.

If you’re dying slowly of cancer and in your weakened state are unable to keep someone from stabbing you to death, what would you say it was that killed you - being stabbed, or cancer?

If you get AIDS and your immune system is destroyed by it so you die from pneumonia, a disease that wouldn’t have killed you until your immune system disintegrated naturally in your 90s, would yours be counted as an AIDS death? If not, are you saying that literally no one has died from AIDS so we should ignore it?

If his weight caused him to be less agile while taking that picture and he slipped and fell to his death, how would you describe his death - an accident or a complication of morbid obesity?

Saying COVID-19 wasn’t the only thing that threatened his life doesn’t mean it didn’t kill him. This is especially true since his obesity was not immediately threatening his life when he caught the virus. Had he not been morbidly obese, would he have died from the virus? I hope not. The odds certainly would have been much better. However, if he hadn’t gotten COVID-19 he would almost certainly be alive right now, and the odds of him dying specifically as a result of his obesity on July 4 without the disease are incredibly slim. His death was a direct result of catching the virus and developing the disease. To say otherwise is to experience a brief departure from basic logic.

So if you’re dying slowly of cancer and you contract COVID-19 and die within a week from COVID symptoms, what killed you?

If you’re manageably asthmatic and you contract COVID-19 and die from COVID symptoms, what killed you?

If you have ADHD and you contract COVID-19 and die from COVID symptoms, what killed you?

If you have diabetes and you contract COVID-19 and die from COVID symptoms, what killed you?

If you are paralyzed and you contract COVID-19 and die from COVID symptoms, what killed you?

If you have depression, or a cold, or anxiety, or arthritis, or addiction, or high cholesterol, or sleep apnea, or athlete’s foot, or literally any medical condition, and you contract COVID-19 and die from COVID symptoms, what killed you?

All of these are examples of comorbidity. There are so many diseases and conditions that exist that it’s difficult to come across a single person who’s not comorbid, living or dead. COVID killed this man. If he’d worn a mask, and more importantly if others had worn a mask around him or he hadn’t gone partying in the first place because there’s a pandemic happening right now and he was a high-risk case, he’d be alive right now, and would be for the foreseeable future.

Are you really trying to claim that his death is not the direct result of COVID-19? Or are you just so wrapped up in the ridiculous politics of a situation that should not be political in any way that you just can’t bear to accept a single COVID death happened solely because someone ignored the advice of doctors?

If you don’t wear a mask, you are willfully ignoring the advice of 9 out of those 10 doctors.

I want the advice of medical professionals and the health of your community to be a bigger factor in your decision-making than your ego, or stubbornness, or whatever it is that’s making you work so hard to convince yourself you’re right.

And usually at this point I’d just say, “Enh, your funeral,” but it’s people like you that caught COVID and gave it to Richard Rose. It’s people like you that have created the US as the world leader in COVID cases and deaths. It’s people like you that cause governments to put lockdowns in place.

F**k me? F**k you.

where is "put-in-bay" ?

Actual answer: on an island in the middle of Lake Erie, west of Cleveland and south of Detroit.

cool it looks tropical..It is not

Looks like the Commodore Resort in Put-in-Bay, OH to me.

This looks familiar...

Um. Yes. COVID killed him.

But it *was* COVID-19 that killed him, yes?

Honey, if you’re a doctor, I’m shocked you still have a license.

If you’re not a doctor, you’ve got a lot of nerve to try to explain medical concepts to people who have medical experience.

Richard Rose died because he caught COVID. If he’d worn a mask, he wouldn’t have gotten it. But that’s not the only point here.

If the person who had COVID and didn’t know it yet had worn a mask when they were around him, they wouldn’t have given it to him.

COVID kills people. Even if you’re not worried that it’ll kill you, you won’t know you have it for at least 5 days and can give it to anyone in that time. Including people who are at high risk like Richard Rose.

Put the bare minimum of effort into keeping a deadly disease contained. Wear a f**king mask, or stay the f**k at home.

Also: he was indeed morbidly obese, but looked like a morbidly obese man in his late 30s/early 40s. He didn’t have noticeably deep wrinkles, and a little grey in your beard happens in your 30s, regardless of your health. Any guy who doesn’t have grey in his beard at 37 is either super lucky or trying to dye away his insecurities.

Y’all are working REAL hard to convince yourselves that you’re smarter about medical matters than doctors.

I really hope I’m not talking to doctors.

Comorbidity does not have a concrete definition. Most define it simply as the presence of more than one condition in a patient, with slight variation in verbiage that don’t change the meaning all that much. Some say more than one *chronic* condition, which means that under this definition this case was not one of comorbidity since COVID-19 is not a chronic condition (this is not the most common definition, though).

No definition even remotely indicates that the death of a comorbid patient cannot be attributed to the condition that was the main cause of their death.

The part you seem to be trying to minimize is that “he DIED from Covid-19”.

He needed to die.
Survival of the fittest. Thanks "COVID".