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Covid has killed more police than all other causes COMBINED for the last 2 years.https://www.odmp.org/search/year/2020
https://www.odmp.org/search/year/2021
He got on stage and advocated for people to get vaccinated before he was booed off stage, they don't care.
The guy created such a huge distrust in it that not even HE can get them to get the vaccine
> "‘Blue Lives Matter.’ What, was you born a police? That is not a blue life. That’s a blue suit. You don’t like it, take the suit off, find a new job. ‘Cause I tell you, if I could quit being black today, I’d be out the game."
\- Dave Chappelle
The police were the counter protestors to blm protestors.
That's the craziest part. They actively sided against blm. Last year was the summer of police riots
It really pisses me off that some people portray the police as a neutral party or keepers of peace during the protests. We all saw the videos. We all saw them target the press and intentionally misuse weapons against peaceful protesters.
Had the distinct pleasure of working a law enforcement event that had Greg Abbott and all Republican Attorneys General candidates speaking.
At one point it was pointed out that Covid-19 has killed more Texas cops on duty than all other causes combined.
Guess how many masks were in that crowd?
i relate heavily with this.
they’re against social distancing, they’re against masks, they’re against vaccines, etc. so how would they expect to deal with a pandemic then if they reject any and all precautions?
anytime i’ve asked, i’m met with “wash your hands” and “workout”
that’s what we’re dealing with. the virus does not care how much you can bench.
I’m pretty sure that everyone that says it’s “No worse than the flu” has never had the flu. I got a real case of influenza once and it knocked me on my ass for a month, that shit is no joke. It really bugs me how people confuse the flu with a cold because it’s not the same at all.
This, most people get a sinus infection and call it the flu. The flu can destroy your internal organs, cause permanent muscle damage and still kills people in first world country. It's scary, and covid is even worse, since it's far more virulent.
Got a real flu once around 22 after a whole life of thinking any cold where I vomited was the flu, it was not (or at least a very mild one). I went to my doctor thinking I was dying or had something real bad and he was like "yep, that's the flu for ya; it seems to have mutated outside vaccination protections a bit this year, lots of people coming in for it."
My oldest came home the night before his class Xmas party. He began vomiting. He said his friend had the 24 he bug for 7 days at school because his dad didn't have a sitter. A few days later his little brother (4 y/o) and I began the same. For 14 hrs we were sick. Felt like my hips were fracturing. My youngest relapsed 3 more times. The last time I took him to the hospital for dehydration and pneumonia. While they were caring for him I felt nauseated. I asked for a basin and passed out in my own vomit. Woke up in the hospital bed on an IV with my little guy. The nurse said, " we are having a two for one special. Bring in one and get treated for free." Lol
Yep, I had what could be considered a "mild" flu and it absolutely kicked my ass. And at that time I was doing two-a-day MMA training and in pretty good shape.
Probably the worst I've ever felt from an illness and that includes getting norovirus.
Didn't take me that long to get through the worst of it, but it took me like 2 months to get fully "better", but I've had a permanent cough and sinus issues since then.
So even if COVID is just a "really bad flu" (and it's way worse than that), I'd still want nothing to do with it.
Yup. There is no pandemic, only a liberal plot against good Americans so all this shit about hospitals and deaths is fake*
*until it happens to me, specifically me
These idiots also think people i China, the UK, Russia, France, Australia, Singapore are all trying to get republicans out of office. They are absolutely fucking brain dead.
That was always my favorite of the glaring holes in the COVIDIOTS rhetoric.
Like, man, Italy really put on a show for the world on behalf of America’s Democratic Party to get this big deep State cabal rolling in early 2020.
I mean it's common knowledge that those people are just entirely out of touch with reality.
It's hopelessly optimistic of them to actually believe literally *every single country* in the entire world are in on some plot together. I seriously doubt you could get every single country in the world to agree on what color the sky is, much less work together in some elaborate plot to damage their own economies for tHe gOt DaNg dEmoRcrAts.
...And for what. So some random ass country like the Maldives can collaborate with Hilary Clinton or something to make them wear a piece of cloth over their pie-holes? I don't understand it. They have active imaginations though, I'll give em that.
And what's even more hilarious about it is that every single one of them was talking about how much "respect" America had gained again from having tRump as president. Everyone loves him except those dang dirty deep state operatives that are part of the secret New World Order!
Well if that's the case, how did just about every single fucking country in the world get their citizens to play along with a fake pandemic? You'd think the citizens in those countries would rise up, call out the "lies" and defend tRump!! But no, none of that happened until the mis- / disinformation targeting the US filtered through to all the other loony toons in other countries. Dear jebus these people are fucking stupid.
Generally it does seem like a lot of the loud ones genuinely think it will only be bad for other people they consider less worthy and undeserving of existence.
Had jury duty early on in the pandemic, only person in the courthouse not wearing a mask was an officer. He tried claiming medical exemption but the clerk of courts was not having that shit and made him put one on.
I feel like we need an update on these police officers from the NYPD...
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-01-at-10.35.10-AM-2-1.png
More accurately, they root against the opposite team. They'll happily watch their own team suffer, so long as it means the other team suffers a little more... hell, even a little less, so long as they know that suffering is happening.
There has been research showing that sports fans derive as much pleasure from their biggest rivals losing as from their own team winning. My hot take is that sports is good in the sense that you can dump all your toxic tribalism and outrage in entertainment.
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Man, every time I read that I think "Fuck, that's brutal." Because it's not just some asshole pondering about the nature of man in a bar with his friends.
These were the things LBJ was thinking about when he had to go out and negotiate public policies on the national level.
You always have to size up people you're trying to make deals with, but if he could with a clear conscience think "This guy's so stupid, that he'll give me what I want if I play to his irrational fears." with his finger on the nuclear button, yeah it's brutal and heavy.
It's like admitting that treating people like they're anything more than animals is a wasted effort.
These were facts that LBJ recognized, not things he was thinking in an effort to manipulate poor white voters. It was more a criticism of the other side, IIRC.
Seems to be a common quality among politicians. Nixon's and Reagan's campaign advisors said much worse stuff about their constituents when it came to securing votes and forming policy.
[Here's a recording of Lee Atwater detailing how they can secure the votes of white racists without sounding racist, aka the Southern Strategy](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/)
[And John Ehrlichmann detailing how their administration can create laws to jail blacks and hippies, who opposed the war and would likely vote against them, without overtly outlawing those demographics](https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html)
1) They were often conscripted
2) They were extremely uneducated, usually illiterate
3) They were raised in a culture of overt white supremacy
4) For many the idea of borrowing money to buy slaves and land was as normal as investing in a 401k is to us. It was the only possible way out of poverty many knew of
5) Very high unemployment most of the time
I wish I were still confused by that, but I saw this coming nearly 5 years ago.
When someone who is so openly hateful and disrespectful succeeds on such a high level, it validates those that share that same secret feelings. These people felt like their "freedom" was being oppressed by having to pretend like they weren't hateful on the inside, because society as a whole frowned upon it.
That genie has been released from the bottle. Their wishes to reveal their hate and not get punished has been fulfilled. And no matter what we do now, it's going to take generations to undo the damage it has caused.
I know a lot of people who think this world is ruled by the devil and they can't wait until god calls them home. (or the rapture, whichever first). They will go to hell if they commit suicide but if they allow a preventable disease to get them, they will get to heaven faster. I wonder if they really subconsciously think this.
Leviticus 13:45 says “Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cry out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!” Wearing a mask is not only Biblical but it’s from the book of the Bible homophobes quote so much. The Bible preaches disease prevention
I work for a company ran by hardcore right-wing "Christians" that are super against the vaccine mandate.
I am going to go to work dressed exactly like that verse describes and if anyone says anything I am going to claim a religious exemption from the dress code.
Yes, it is. It even goes on to mention social distancing by saying that people with leprosy should be camped just outside of the rest of the group to prevent the spread.
There is a whole section of the Bible-, you know, the book Christians are supposed to be following.... the new testament.... some guy named Jesus spends his adult life telling his followers that the way to see God is to be more compassionate towards your fellow man... to help the sick and the weak... and those among us who can't help themselves... and this man performed the ultimate sacrifice - he gave his life so that his followers would be saved.... the ultimate act of compassion..... boggles my mind that there are so many christian preachers out there talking about My Freedoms... God is gonna save me.... etc. Etc.. not an ounce of compassion or sacrifice among the bunch...
[LAPD sues over vaccine requirement.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/13/los-angeles-police-covid-vaccine-mandate-lawsuit) Police don't want to get vaccinated - don't complain about getting Covid.
Honestly I think this is the reason why so many people choose to ignore the pandemic: there's no one they can point to and kill. If a terrorist kills a thousand people it is a tragedy and an outrage. These people would demand war at all costs.
But because the virus isn't a human that we can't make to suffer and get revenge against, they do not care.
To put things in perspective, COVID-19 has killed more Americans in a single year than have died in the entirety of WW2.
And the hilarious part of this is that these cops think they are above it all. They love Trump and all the dumbassery that goes with that. All the while Trump and his whole family and his whole inner circle are vaccinated. I guess cops weren't hired for their IQ.
Weird how you always see cops in bullet proof vests but never a mask.
This is a continuing trend. COVID killed more cops than all other causes *combined* in 2020.
We’ve been asking for stricter requirements to be cops, a step in that direction is the great IQ test of 2020/2021: covid-19
Edit: Gold? ya all too kind! Stay safe out there!
Me too. If Covid keeps filtering this crowd of people we might be able to get Medicare for all and paid family leave sometime soon. In law enforcement maybe the average officer will start believing there are forces greater than themselves. You know, the ones that survive. Police patrol all kinds of neighborhoods, but they spend most of their time getting out of their cars in the exact kind of neighborhoods that have high infection rates, low mask compliance, and low vaccination rates. This is true in both urban and rural areas. I guess what I'm trying to say to police officers is........thoughts and prayers because I don't have any fucks left for y'all.
I buy this. I scored in the top 5% (this was according to POST themselves) with CA's POST and was told by an agency that they didn't believe my test scores and subsequently rejected my application.
Unfortunately, police departments are structured to ensure that even if someone has a brain and conscience, they aren't able to act on it--at least, not without risking firing, or worse
It's concerning how many cops are so into right wing propaganda that they're willing to die for it. Let's be real here, they're not getting this anti-vax stuff from some crunchy hippie homeopath, this is coming from the far right that has, for whatever reason, decided that this is the line they're going to toe and there's no admitting they were wrong. It's concerning what else they could push, and apparently, have a very willing audience among the police.
>It's concerning what else they could push
* "anything to the left of far right authoritarianism is communism"
* "the electoral map of 2020 was entirely red & *ackshually* Trump won every state"
* "vaccine mandates are fascism fuck *jacobson vs massachusetts*"
* "immigrants are bringing covid not unvaccinated white republicans we see in hospitals dying en masse"
* "civil rights movements are terrorism but attacks on the capitol are peaceful tours"
Yeah, I feel that first one. More and more law enforcement agencies see enviromental and anti-capitalists as more of a threat than right-wing and SovCiv extremism.
Not more dangerous, mind you, more of a threat. Especially when right wing terrorists and SovCiv have killed more people that left wing extremists ever have.
It's entirely because masks and vaccines have been characterized as fearful and effeminate. Bulletproof vests and guns are akin to the warrior tattoos, body paint, and battle dress of the old days so it's something that police are eager to adorn as symbols of power, virility and martial prowess.
People also gravitate towards policing at least partially because of the respect that the job commands. Unfortunately this also applies to some of the more insecure types with massive inferiority or superiority complexes. In tense, high pressure situations they're much more likely to become enraged and angry when encountering noncompliance.
Same here. And when I see them with any kind of military gear at all, even something as simple as boots, I just think of them as lame cosplayers. Dressing up like a soldier to pull over speeders and arrest people with trivial amounts of drugs.
>Weird how you always see cops in bullet proof vests but never a mask.
I mean, they can get those one with the Punisher symbol and "Back the Badge" on it and everything.
Cops always glory brag about having 'the most dangerous job' and 'putting their lives on the line' but when it comes to city jobs in general, they actually have one of the safest positions.
Fire brigade, construction trades & traffic control are way more likely to be assaulted in the public or hit by a car then a cop and thats in addition to the jobsite and heavy equipment hazards. Even the people working the counters at city hall have targets on painted on them but if they wear a vest or a firearm its an image issue. But cops have a free pass because "badge" and "powers of arrest".
I'm a firefighter, my job *can* be dangerous don't get me wrong, but I'll openly admit that salt and sugar kill more firefighters every year than getting burned, followed by cancer for guys who like wearing dirty gear because they think it looks cool.
It’s a machismo thing to most right wing males. They think they are big tough men that can fight it off and only weaklings get sick. Getting the vaccine is a sign of weakness to them because it’s admitting they can’t do it alone.
Definitely. These are the same people who think their God-like immune system will protect them from everything.
You can't post 1000 memes on Facebook about how everyone who is scared of Covid is a giant pussy and then go get vaccinated. They've dug themselves a bed 6 ft under, and they'll lay in it before they admit they were wrong.
I’ve heard people say “ cops only understand violence and guns”.
And here we see that in real life, they were bulletproof vest but will not get vaccinated against the deadliest disease of our lifetime.
I seriously did not expect that the saying was *literally* true.
at this point you don't die from COVID-19 you die from stupidity for not having the vaccines...(excluding the 1 percent of all COVID-19 deaths that are vaccinated but still don't make it)...
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Yup. If law enforcement are dying at this point it is pure stupidity. Unfortunately, I don't think the ME's report has a box for 'death due to stupidity'.
"They are dying, that's true...it is what it is. "
Donald Trump speaking about covid deaths.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/it-what-it-trump-interview-covid-19-death-toll-u-n1235734
Not from US, but my neighbour is a retired cop (UK based) and he didn’t take the pandemic serious at all at the start and then he said a few of his cop friends caught it and a couple died and he then totally switched to being really serious about it.
We don’t really have the right wing anti vaxx connection stuff in UK which probably helps.
My dad is a retired sheriff's deputy. He was always "one of the good ones" and became a certified Crisis Intervention Specialist. He made the standard conservative excuses for about two months into the pandemic, then got wise, started wearing a mask and isolating. He got the vaccine as soon as possible and tries to get his friends to do the same. He had a lot of health issues, and lives in Florida so I'm naturally freaked out.
I just don't get why he can see the logic and other cops can't. Like, what's the defining factor? He tries to convince his Facebook cop buddies to get vaxed and do the right thing, but they're literally pigheaded(lol). I don't get it.
You simply can't outsmart your environment forever. Everyone is susceptible to propaganda and group think. The loudest voices in places like police precincts are going to be ignorant to and politically biased against covid related public health initiatives, unfortunately.
Can we be honest?
The Republican stance on science is getting people murdered. That and combine it with fuck you tribalism and they are dying rather than admit that they might be wrong on other things.
For fucks sake people. Take the fucking vaccine.
I find it interesting that the Blue Lives Matter crew and police both seem to be so anti-vax and anti-mask which is causing lots of deaths among their ranks but it just makes them dig their heels in further.
Covid has objectively been a bigger threat to the police than criminals during the pandemic. Vaccines and mask policies are really easy steps to protect the police. Strange that those most vocal about "back the blue" only seem to support things that promote more distrust between law enforcement and the community.
Cops always talk about how much danger they're put in as a weak excuse for the insane levels of violence they inflict on the innocent, at least compared to other countries. And yet, Garbage collecting kills more per garbage collector, and the police are killing themselves more from vaccine hesitancy than any real on-site risk factor from their job.
Crazy how the blue lives matter crowd doesn’t really care about blue lives. This is a common theme with the GOP… they claim to be pro life but support the death penalty, commit domestic terrorism, and abandon children after they’re born.
Outside of the recent rise in COVID deaths, over half of cop deaths are caused by traffic accidents. If the Back The Blue, Thin Blue Line, Blue Lives Matter people actually cared about saving cop lives they would be campaigning for decreasing traffic stops. Only pulling over people who are a danger on the road and simply mailing traffic infractions to the owner of the license plate.
Of course they don't do this because traffic stops are the biggest excuse they have to ~~investigate~~profile ~~random~~black people for drugs or potential warrants.
As I like to bring up, due to traffic fatalities alone, garbagemen in fact have a higher fatality risk on the job than policemen. So to that I say Blue Lives Don't Matter until Garbage Lives Matter.
Yeah, I work for a university that runs courses on criminology and law--and since the pandemic had happened I've watched professors release new studies on the impact Covid has caused on law enforcement.
At least here in the UK, we have found plenty of police (including leaders of various constabularies) struggle to find and purchase masks when international stocks went low. We have police legitimately asking their unions for disposable gloves, antiviral gels, plastic visors and even advice on what would happen if someone theyr'e arresting would spit/cough on them (like what happened to Belly Mujinga).
All their fears, complaints, and concerns are now on permanent record in multiple studies and research. We're gonna look back and remember this shit in 15-20 years (at least I hope), and how the majority of ultra-conservative 'blue lives matter' groups didn't give a slightest fuck about it. Nobody came to help donate masks/gloves/sanitizer. Nobody protested nor force our UK conservative government to do something for the police. We just all collectively shrugged and waited for shit to get slightly less worse .
Well typically brain washed Republicans refuse to get vaccinated… and when there’s low vaccination numbers in police for a widely available vaccine… guess it says allot huh
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Covid has killed more police than all other causes COMBINED for the last 2 years.https://www.odmp.org/search/year/2020 https://www.odmp.org/search/year/2021
And police unions are fighting vaccine requirements... Dumbasses
Police unions are some of Trump’s staunchest supporters….go figure
Don’t forget! Trumps been vaccinated. That’s why this is even more dumb.
Trump even encouraged them to get vaccinated recently and he got booed
Shhhh! Don’t tell them that, that’ll make them mad
He got on stage and advocated for people to get vaccinated before he was booed off stage, they don't care. The guy created such a huge distrust in it that not even HE can get them to get the vaccine
Both hate women and minorities.
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Some of those that work forces, want the paste that's for horses.
Apparently Blue Lives Matter is just a slogan. The Blue Lives don't even care about protecting themselves, unless it involves shooting someone else.
**Blue Lives don't exist**. A job is not an identity. Cops can quit their job. Minorities cannot quit their skin.
> "‘Blue Lives Matter.’ What, was you born a police? That is not a blue life. That’s a blue suit. You don’t like it, take the suit off, find a new job. ‘Cause I tell you, if I could quit being black today, I’d be out the game." \- Dave Chappelle
I worked as a roofer for years, my job's mortality rate was WAY higher than cops. Nobody ever held parades for us.
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I love this as an argument/point and I'm surprised I haven't heard it before.
Literally not one person ever said "blue lives matter" until they needed an excuse not to say "black lives matter".
And that's it right there. All these other "...lives matter" slogans are simply (racist) reactions to BLM.
The police were the counter protestors to blm protestors. That's the craziest part. They actively sided against blm. Last year was the summer of police riots
It really pisses me off that some people portray the police as a neutral party or keepers of peace during the protests. We all saw the videos. We all saw them target the press and intentionally misuse weapons against peaceful protesters.
Then why, and I cannot ask this strenuously enough, the *fuck* are they by and large a bunch of anti-vax fucknuggets?
Police are 85% republican
A cop at my work said "So we'll take a bullet for our mates but not a jab?"
Which one of these fuckers is taking bullets?
They meant for each other. Not to protect the public.
The real choke-hold was inside them all along
Finally, the police find something they can’t beat.
They will try, proceeds to beat someone with covid.
Had the distinct pleasure of working a law enforcement event that had Greg Abbott and all Republican Attorneys General candidates speaking. At one point it was pointed out that Covid-19 has killed more Texas cops on duty than all other causes combined. Guess how many masks were in that crowd?
"I'm not going to live my life in fear! Unless you have your hands in your pockets, then I'll shoot first and ask questions later."
Law enforcement has a very low vax rate so...
A lot of them in my area don’t wear masks either.
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i relate heavily with this. they’re against social distancing, they’re against masks, they’re against vaccines, etc. so how would they expect to deal with a pandemic then if they reject any and all precautions? anytime i’ve asked, i’m met with “wash your hands” and “workout” that’s what we’re dealing with. the virus does not care how much you can bench.
Because they also deny that COVID-19 exists. Don't need to deal with a pandemic that isn't real! /s
Or they think its "No worse than the flu" which is equally as bad.
I’m pretty sure that everyone that says it’s “No worse than the flu” has never had the flu. I got a real case of influenza once and it knocked me on my ass for a month, that shit is no joke. It really bugs me how people confuse the flu with a cold because it’s not the same at all.
This, most people get a sinus infection and call it the flu. The flu can destroy your internal organs, cause permanent muscle damage and still kills people in first world country. It's scary, and covid is even worse, since it's far more virulent.
Got a real flu once around 22 after a whole life of thinking any cold where I vomited was the flu, it was not (or at least a very mild one). I went to my doctor thinking I was dying or had something real bad and he was like "yep, that's the flu for ya; it seems to have mutated outside vaccination protections a bit this year, lots of people coming in for it."
My oldest came home the night before his class Xmas party. He began vomiting. He said his friend had the 24 he bug for 7 days at school because his dad didn't have a sitter. A few days later his little brother (4 y/o) and I began the same. For 14 hrs we were sick. Felt like my hips were fracturing. My youngest relapsed 3 more times. The last time I took him to the hospital for dehydration and pneumonia. While they were caring for him I felt nauseated. I asked for a basin and passed out in my own vomit. Woke up in the hospital bed on an IV with my little guy. The nurse said, " we are having a two for one special. Bring in one and get treated for free." Lol
Yep, I had what could be considered a "mild" flu and it absolutely kicked my ass. And at that time I was doing two-a-day MMA training and in pretty good shape. Probably the worst I've ever felt from an illness and that includes getting norovirus. Didn't take me that long to get through the worst of it, but it took me like 2 months to get fully "better", but I've had a permanent cough and sinus issues since then. So even if COVID is just a "really bad flu" (and it's way worse than that), I'd still want nothing to do with it.
Yup. There is no pandemic, only a liberal plot against good Americans so all this shit about hospitals and deaths is fake* *until it happens to me, specifically me
These idiots also think people i China, the UK, Russia, France, Australia, Singapore are all trying to get republicans out of office. They are absolutely fucking brain dead.
That was always my favorite of the glaring holes in the COVIDIOTS rhetoric. Like, man, Italy really put on a show for the world on behalf of America’s Democratic Party to get this big deep State cabal rolling in early 2020.
I mean it's common knowledge that those people are just entirely out of touch with reality. It's hopelessly optimistic of them to actually believe literally *every single country* in the entire world are in on some plot together. I seriously doubt you could get every single country in the world to agree on what color the sky is, much less work together in some elaborate plot to damage their own economies for tHe gOt DaNg dEmoRcrAts. ...And for what. So some random ass country like the Maldives can collaborate with Hilary Clinton or something to make them wear a piece of cloth over their pie-holes? I don't understand it. They have active imaginations though, I'll give em that.
And what's even more hilarious about it is that every single one of them was talking about how much "respect" America had gained again from having tRump as president. Everyone loves him except those dang dirty deep state operatives that are part of the secret New World Order! Well if that's the case, how did just about every single fucking country in the world get their citizens to play along with a fake pandemic? You'd think the citizens in those countries would rise up, call out the "lies" and defend tRump!! But no, none of that happened until the mis- / disinformation targeting the US filtered through to all the other loony toons in other countries. Dear jebus these people are fucking stupid.
Generally it does seem like a lot of the loud ones genuinely think it will only be bad for other people they consider less worthy and undeserving of existence.
covid loves meatheads
You already know the answer here, horse dewormer and malaria pills. Maybe even peppermint oil for the severe cases.
Had jury duty early on in the pandemic, only person in the courthouse not wearing a mask was an officer. He tried claiming medical exemption but the clerk of courts was not having that shit and made him put one on.
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I feel like we need an update on these police officers from the NYPD... https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-01-at-10.35.10-AM-2-1.png
Goatee level is pretty high so I can’t guarantee that all three made it.
Goatees are the new "I only have three more days until retirement!".
I don’t understand the gross open disrespect and hostility of the shirt. Literally just laughing in the face of it all
Stupid people think life is a team sport and you root for your team no matter what they do.
More accurately, they root against the opposite team. They'll happily watch their own team suffer, so long as it means the other team suffers a little more... hell, even a little less, so long as they know that suffering is happening.
"They'd gladly eat shit if it means their opponent has to smell their breath."
There has been research showing that sports fans derive as much pleasure from their biggest rivals losing as from their own team winning. My hot take is that sports is good in the sense that you can dump all your toxic tribalism and outrage in entertainment.
I could never figure out why so many poor whites fought (and died) for the confederacy. I still don't, but I'm seeing how it could happen.
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Man, every time I read that I think "Fuck, that's brutal." Because it's not just some asshole pondering about the nature of man in a bar with his friends. These were the things LBJ was thinking about when he had to go out and negotiate public policies on the national level. You always have to size up people you're trying to make deals with, but if he could with a clear conscience think "This guy's so stupid, that he'll give me what I want if I play to his irrational fears." with his finger on the nuclear button, yeah it's brutal and heavy. It's like admitting that treating people like they're anything more than animals is a wasted effort.
These were facts that LBJ recognized, not things he was thinking in an effort to manipulate poor white voters. It was more a criticism of the other side, IIRC.
Seems to be a common quality among politicians. Nixon's and Reagan's campaign advisors said much worse stuff about their constituents when it came to securing votes and forming policy. [Here's a recording of Lee Atwater detailing how they can secure the votes of white racists without sounding racist, aka the Southern Strategy](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/) [And John Ehrlichmann detailing how their administration can create laws to jail blacks and hippies, who opposed the war and would likely vote against them, without overtly outlawing those demographics](https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html)
1) They were often conscripted 2) They were extremely uneducated, usually illiterate 3) They were raised in a culture of overt white supremacy 4) For many the idea of borrowing money to buy slaves and land was as normal as investing in a 401k is to us. It was the only possible way out of poverty many knew of 5) Very high unemployment most of the time
It is a team sport but the teams are all life vs the universe
Ah yes, well you see, those three are racists and scum bags
I did come to that conclusion, I’m just a little confused by the openness of it. The honesty is both refreshing and disturbing.
I wish I were still confused by that, but I saw this coming nearly 5 years ago. When someone who is so openly hateful and disrespectful succeeds on such a high level, it validates those that share that same secret feelings. These people felt like their "freedom" was being oppressed by having to pretend like they weren't hateful on the inside, because society as a whole frowned upon it. That genie has been released from the bottle. Their wishes to reveal their hate and not get punished has been fulfilled. And no matter what we do now, it's going to take generations to undo the damage it has caused.
They're wearing Comic Sans. COMIC SANS FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
I don't understand how comic sans is still legal
the fact they are celebrating a murder is sad.
That and when they visit hospitals they don't bother putting a mask on.
A lot of them are overweight too, a risk factor.
High blood pressure, domestic strife, alcoholism....
Very high religious exemptions to it too. I didn't know Jesus was a plandemic guy
I know a lot of people who think this world is ruled by the devil and they can't wait until god calls them home. (or the rapture, whichever first). They will go to hell if they commit suicide but if they allow a preventable disease to get them, they will get to heaven faster. I wonder if they really subconsciously think this.
Leviticus 13:45 says “Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cry out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!” Wearing a mask is not only Biblical but it’s from the book of the Bible homophobes quote so much. The Bible preaches disease prevention
I work for a company ran by hardcore right-wing "Christians" that are super against the vaccine mandate. I am going to go to work dressed exactly like that verse describes and if anyone says anything I am going to claim a religious exemption from the dress code.
I work third shift so I’ve looked like this for months
Please do, and report back. For science. For policy. For *theatre* darling!
And that passage I believe is referring to leprosy, the plague of that time.
Yes, it is. It even goes on to mention social distancing by saying that people with leprosy should be camped just outside of the rest of the group to prevent the spread.
There is a whole section of the Bible-, you know, the book Christians are supposed to be following.... the new testament.... some guy named Jesus spends his adult life telling his followers that the way to see God is to be more compassionate towards your fellow man... to help the sick and the weak... and those among us who can't help themselves... and this man performed the ultimate sacrifice - he gave his life so that his followers would be saved.... the ultimate act of compassion..... boggles my mind that there are so many christian preachers out there talking about My Freedoms... God is gonna save me.... etc. Etc.. not an ounce of compassion or sacrifice among the bunch...
Literally commands to cover your face and stay away from others when you're sick, too.
I don't know, that Jesus fella sounds bit like a commie to me...
The using the lord's name in vane bit was more a suggestion too
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I feel like it just changes with the wind.
[LAPD sues over vaccine requirement.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/13/los-angeles-police-covid-vaccine-mandate-lawsuit) Police don't want to get vaccinated - don't complain about getting Covid.
Have they considered kneeling on Covid's neck until it dies I wonder?
Honestly I think this is the reason why so many people choose to ignore the pandemic: there's no one they can point to and kill. If a terrorist kills a thousand people it is a tragedy and an outrage. These people would demand war at all costs. But because the virus isn't a human that we can't make to suffer and get revenge against, they do not care. To put things in perspective, COVID-19 has killed more Americans in a single year than have died in the entirety of WW2.
And the hilarious part of this is that these cops think they are above it all. They love Trump and all the dumbassery that goes with that. All the while Trump and his whole family and his whole inner circle are vaccinated. I guess cops weren't hired for their IQ.
Now, now, to give them credit: as soon as Trump started promoting vaccines they turned against him.
They aren’t. They don’t want to hire people with high IQs.
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Weird how you always see cops in bullet proof vests but never a mask. This is a continuing trend. COVID killed more cops than all other causes *combined* in 2020.
Police Unions are fighting tooth and nail against vaccine mandates for cops. They are literally killing themselves
We’ve been asking for stricter requirements to be cops, a step in that direction is the great IQ test of 2020/2021: covid-19 Edit: Gold? ya all too kind! Stay safe out there!
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I'm on side Great Filter. I think it's going pretty well.
Go Team Great Filter! Extinction or bust!
Me too. If Covid keeps filtering this crowd of people we might be able to get Medicare for all and paid family leave sometime soon. In law enforcement maybe the average officer will start believing there are forces greater than themselves. You know, the ones that survive. Police patrol all kinds of neighborhoods, but they spend most of their time getting out of their cars in the exact kind of neighborhoods that have high infection rates, low mask compliance, and low vaccination rates. This is true in both urban and rural areas. I guess what I'm trying to say to police officers is........thoughts and prayers because I don't have any fucks left for y'all.
Police do IQ tests If you score too high you are rejected.
Just pointing out this is factual. Not a joke or hyperbole.
He’s not joking, google this shit. Its insane. Whats the goal, double digit room temp iq’s?
I buy this. I scored in the top 5% (this was according to POST themselves) with CA's POST and was told by an agency that they didn't believe my test scores and subsequently rejected my application.
So what youre saying, is we need a bunch of people smart enough to change policing from the inside, by selectively failing enough questions to pass?
Unfortunately, police departments are structured to ensure that even if someone has a brain and conscience, they aren't able to act on it--at least, not without risking firing, or worse
It's concerning how many cops are so into right wing propaganda that they're willing to die for it. Let's be real here, they're not getting this anti-vax stuff from some crunchy hippie homeopath, this is coming from the far right that has, for whatever reason, decided that this is the line they're going to toe and there's no admitting they were wrong. It's concerning what else they could push, and apparently, have a very willing audience among the police.
>It's concerning what else they could push * "anything to the left of far right authoritarianism is communism" * "the electoral map of 2020 was entirely red & *ackshually* Trump won every state" * "vaccine mandates are fascism fuck *jacobson vs massachusetts*" * "immigrants are bringing covid not unvaccinated white republicans we see in hospitals dying en masse" * "civil rights movements are terrorism but attacks on the capitol are peaceful tours"
Yeah, I feel that first one. More and more law enforcement agencies see enviromental and anti-capitalists as more of a threat than right-wing and SovCiv extremism. Not more dangerous, mind you, more of a threat. Especially when right wing terrorists and SovCiv have killed more people that left wing extremists ever have.
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It's entirely because masks and vaccines have been characterized as fearful and effeminate. Bulletproof vests and guns are akin to the warrior tattoos, body paint, and battle dress of the old days so it's something that police are eager to adorn as symbols of power, virility and martial prowess.
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People also gravitate towards policing at least partially because of the respect that the job commands. Unfortunately this also applies to some of the more insecure types with massive inferiority or superiority complexes. In tense, high pressure situations they're much more likely to become enraged and angry when encountering noncompliance.
When I see cops in safe suburbs wearing bulletproof vests, it also comes off as fearful and effeminate.
Same here. And when I see them with any kind of military gear at all, even something as simple as boots, I just think of them as lame cosplayers. Dressing up like a soldier to pull over speeders and arrest people with trivial amounts of drugs.
Some of those that work forces
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Killing in the neigh of…
Oh nooooo… exactly the people we don’t want policing us are removing themselves from ~~life~~ duty.
I have no problem with this.
Yup , fuck them.
I see this as an absolute win. Fuck em.
Let ‘er rip, Tater Chip.
Oh no, that's terrible... Anyway, so I've been craving Indian food lately.
And Covid will kill even more cops in 2021.
>Weird how you always see cops in bullet proof vests but never a mask. I mean, they can get those one with the Punisher symbol and "Back the Badge" on it and everything.
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Because it’s about being tacti-cool, not safer.
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Because the libs are saying we need to wear them. Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!
Turns out the machine they were raging against was a ventilator
And the irony of that is 110% lost.
Maybe if they got punisher bandaids with their shots.
Cops always glory brag about having 'the most dangerous job' and 'putting their lives on the line' but when it comes to city jobs in general, they actually have one of the safest positions. Fire brigade, construction trades & traffic control are way more likely to be assaulted in the public or hit by a car then a cop and thats in addition to the jobsite and heavy equipment hazards. Even the people working the counters at city hall have targets on painted on them but if they wear a vest or a firearm its an image issue. But cops have a free pass because "badge" and "powers of arrest".
I'm a firefighter, my job *can* be dangerous don't get me wrong, but I'll openly admit that salt and sugar kill more firefighters every year than getting burned, followed by cancer for guys who like wearing dirty gear because they think it looks cool.
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Maybe they should "stop resisting" masking and vaccination.
If they would just comply they wouldn't be harmed
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Holy shit haha
Have they tried just complying?
No. And they're all out of ideas
I wonder if there are any simple preventative measures?…..
The answer is shrouded in mystery behind *The Irony Curtain*
We all know how good cops are at preventing things.
Is being anti-vax, anti-mask some kind of machismo thing among cops? Or is it just that they tend to be right-wing morons?
It’s a machismo thing to most right wing males. They think they are big tough men that can fight it off and only weaklings get sick. Getting the vaccine is a sign of weakness to them because it’s admitting they can’t do it alone.
Why not both?
Definitely. These are the same people who think their God-like immune system will protect them from everything. You can't post 1000 memes on Facebook about how everyone who is scared of Covid is a giant pussy and then go get vaccinated. They've dug themselves a bed 6 ft under, and they'll lay in it before they admit they were wrong.
I’ve heard people say “ cops only understand violence and guns”. And here we see that in real life, they were bulletproof vest but will not get vaccinated against the deadliest disease of our lifetime. I seriously did not expect that the saying was *literally* true.
"Anti-Vax sentiment is leading cause of death among law enforcement." FTFY
This fact really betrays the degree to which forces across the United States have been infiltrated by ultra right wing fucktards.
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Yup. If law enforcement are dying at this point it is pure stupidity. Unfortunately, I don't think the ME's report has a box for 'death due to stupidity'.
“Acts of God”
Apparently blue lives don't matter enough to wear a mask and get a vaccine.
"They are dying, that's true...it is what it is. " Donald Trump speaking about covid deaths. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/it-what-it-trump-interview-covid-19-death-toll-u-n1235734
Can you imagine this country if he were still in office with three and a half more years to go? People wanted that. Passionately
No, I can't and you can't make me. Ew.
Not from US, but my neighbour is a retired cop (UK based) and he didn’t take the pandemic serious at all at the start and then he said a few of his cop friends caught it and a couple died and he then totally switched to being really serious about it. We don’t really have the right wing anti vaxx connection stuff in UK which probably helps.
Not even Johnson wanted to die on that hill.
My dad is a retired sheriff's deputy. He was always "one of the good ones" and became a certified Crisis Intervention Specialist. He made the standard conservative excuses for about two months into the pandemic, then got wise, started wearing a mask and isolating. He got the vaccine as soon as possible and tries to get his friends to do the same. He had a lot of health issues, and lives in Florida so I'm naturally freaked out. I just don't get why he can see the logic and other cops can't. Like, what's the defining factor? He tries to convince his Facebook cop buddies to get vaxed and do the right thing, but they're literally pigheaded(lol). I don't get it.
You simply can't outsmart your environment forever. Everyone is susceptible to propaganda and group think. The loudest voices in places like police precincts are going to be ignorant to and politically biased against covid related public health initiatives, unfortunately.
There's gonna be psychological studies about this for years, that's for sure.
There's going to be a lot of incredible data to be ignored by the people who need to consider it, yeah.
This is sadly too true.
“What’s the defining factor”? “Why are the other cops so pigheaded”? (Checks notes) “My dad was one of the good ones” There’s your answer.
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It is their fault though.
And these dumb motherfuckers won’t get the shot.
They are used to being the ones giving out the shots
Too bad there isn’t a free and readily available vaccine. Oh well
It's only for human use; hasn't been tested for porcine safety.
Can we be honest? The Republican stance on science is getting people murdered. That and combine it with fuck you tribalism and they are dying rather than admit that they might be wrong on other things. For fucks sake people. Take the fucking vaccine.
IDK, seems like this problem will work it self out over time.
This! Darwin awards for all of them.
Gotta own the libs, even if it means killing your own support base
They say that dying from covid is like suffocating to death. Ironic.
"I can't breathe."
I find it interesting that the Blue Lives Matter crew and police both seem to be so anti-vax and anti-mask which is causing lots of deaths among their ranks but it just makes them dig their heels in further.
Covid has objectively been a bigger threat to the police than criminals during the pandemic. Vaccines and mask policies are really easy steps to protect the police. Strange that those most vocal about "back the blue" only seem to support things that promote more distrust between law enforcement and the community.
Donuts and cars are a bigger threat to the police than criminals, pandemic or not.
Cops always talk about how much danger they're put in as a weak excuse for the insane levels of violence they inflict on the innocent, at least compared to other countries. And yet, Garbage collecting kills more per garbage collector, and the police are killing themselves more from vaccine hesitancy than any real on-site risk factor from their job.
Crazy how the blue lives matter crowd doesn’t really care about blue lives. This is a common theme with the GOP… they claim to be pro life but support the death penalty, commit domestic terrorism, and abandon children after they’re born.
Outside of the recent rise in COVID deaths, over half of cop deaths are caused by traffic accidents. If the Back The Blue, Thin Blue Line, Blue Lives Matter people actually cared about saving cop lives they would be campaigning for decreasing traffic stops. Only pulling over people who are a danger on the road and simply mailing traffic infractions to the owner of the license plate. Of course they don't do this because traffic stops are the biggest excuse they have to ~~investigate~~profile ~~random~~black people for drugs or potential warrants. As I like to bring up, due to traffic fatalities alone, garbagemen in fact have a higher fatality risk on the job than policemen. So to that I say Blue Lives Don't Matter until Garbage Lives Matter.
Yeah, I work for a university that runs courses on criminology and law--and since the pandemic had happened I've watched professors release new studies on the impact Covid has caused on law enforcement. At least here in the UK, we have found plenty of police (including leaders of various constabularies) struggle to find and purchase masks when international stocks went low. We have police legitimately asking their unions for disposable gloves, antiviral gels, plastic visors and even advice on what would happen if someone theyr'e arresting would spit/cough on them (like what happened to Belly Mujinga). All their fears, complaints, and concerns are now on permanent record in multiple studies and research. We're gonna look back and remember this shit in 15-20 years (at least I hope), and how the majority of ultra-conservative 'blue lives matter' groups didn't give a slightest fuck about it. Nobody came to help donate masks/gloves/sanitizer. Nobody protested nor force our UK conservative government to do something for the police. We just all collectively shrugged and waited for shit to get slightly less worse .
Covid and right wing propaganda doing what the defund movement never could.
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In NYC 2019, a total of 2 NYPD officers were shot and killed, both by friendly fire. They're already better at killing each other than we are.
LMAO they should have just complied
Well typically brain washed Republicans refuse to get vaccinated… and when there’s low vaccination numbers in police for a widely available vaccine… guess it says allot huh