A South Dakota ER nurse @JodiDoering says her Covid-19 patients often “don’t want to believe that Covid is real.”
“Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening. It’s not real.’ And when they should be… Facetiming their families, they’re filled with anger and hatred.” pic.twitter.com/tgUgP6znAT
— New Day (@NewDay) November 16, 2020
I think – no, I know – what catches my attention is the total commitment of those dying to their myth and delusion: … they’re filled with anger and hatred.
Hatred of who, I wonder. I’m honestly puzzled. Hating reality seems like such a waste of time and energy. But that puzzle suggests that these patients, in one of the strongholds of what’s become the far-right, and thus of Covid-19 denial, are the victims of an ideology and theology that seeks to deny reality when it’s not compatible with ideological or theological tenets.
And when those tenets are more important than the facts on the ground, this is what happens. Reality slaps you down and holds your head underwater, and, often enough, there’s no succor for you.
And because these tenets are the spawn of a pack of religious grifters and their political kin, it makes me angry.
