When I first saw it, I thought it came from some far-right publication, displaying the same sort of gotcha “humour” they specialize in. Coming from the left, it isn’t funny or ironic, just the sort of thing one encounters many times a day. But from the artist’s response, I now understand that I’m just stupid.
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I’m sure they handled it fairly though…
Fuck!
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Is it possible that there was also a degree of inherited resistance? Smallpox killed large numbers of Europeans all the time, but nothing like the numbers of indigenous Americans. An analogy would be sickle cell trait (inherited) that gives some resistance to malaria.
And nearly measles and chicken pox, until the recent setbacks caused by the anti-vaxx movement.
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Florida Gov. DeSantis May Reopen Nursing Homes to Visitors as COVID Cases Soar
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Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse, evil people make decisions like this to throw gasoline on the fire.
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Yeah, lets send them back to school right away.
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It’s the sort of dry sarcasm that is routinely flagged here, with the authors lambasted for not including an /s tag. The kind of joke your friends will get because they know you, but strangers won’t, especially strangers who read the news where racists are quite literally saying this.
This is apparently exacerbated by the fact that the strip is shared by six different authors with different styles.
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It was exactly the same for me.
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Gotta reinforce that generational poverty, right?
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That was the problem for me. It is something that i would hear any day of the week, the RL speaker thinking it is “funny”, which makes me nauseous. So, the strip made me nauseous, which I guess was intended.
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Let’s put it another way: would a white supremacist covidiot be upset by the cartoon or stick it to their fridge?
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Same thing happened in Indiana: on the first day of school, within the first few hours, they had to lock down because one of the incoming students tested positive.
They didn’t even make it to lunchtime.
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This push to get them back before a vaccine or a system of distancing is in place is sooo f’ing stupid that it hurts.
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There has been a suggestion that cystic fibrosis, largely a European disease, could have given some resistance to cholera if only 1 copy was inherited, a la sickle cell. I have never seen a similar theory for small pox. The viciousness of its effect on Native populations can be pretty easily understood as it entering an immunologically naive population, no fire breaks, so to speak, so it just runs rampant. A la Sars-CoV-2.
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“Just kill them off and get it over with. Why drag this out?” 
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The end result of such inhumane decision making:
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It’s strange I’ve had a pretty different experience on the rate of masks in Lakewood, versus Cleveland. Lakewood seems to have a pretty vocal anti-mask contingent, but I’ve seen pretty good compliance with masks. Whenever I’ve been out biking in Cleveland the rates have been much lower.
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My daughter and I stopped to get gas in the suburbs yesterday, and noticed that there was a group of teenage boys (on the young side) standing right outside the door to the convenience store part of the gas station. My daughter correctly guessed that they didn’t have enough masks to go inside, so the maskless ones were waiting for their friends. Sure enough, the friends came out, and a couple of them exchanged masks so that new people could go in.
Even at the pumps, despite being outside and well over 6’ apart, everyone was wearing a mask to pump their gas.
Considering how lackadaisical people were in the same suburb about a month ago (the last time I had to be in that part of the greater metropolitan area), I was pretty impressed that people are now sticking to the rules even at gas stations.
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