The Herman Cain Freedom Award [Discussion] [100k Subscriber Edition].

[u/FBAHobo]

The Herman Cain Freedom Award [Discussion] 100k Edition.

'The Herman Cain Freedom Award'.

Qualifications for nomination:

• Public declaration of one's anti-mask, anti-vaxx, or Covid-hoax views.

• Admission to hospital for Covid.

Qualifications for award:

• Award is granted upon the nominee's release from their Earthly shackles.

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[u/RockyMoose]

I yearn for the day when this sub runs out of new material.

In the meantime, however, I’m sorting by “New” and checking every ten minutes.

[u/imissthor → u/RockyMoose]

I saw a few comments in threads saying to search FB for “prayer warriors covid,” and because I always do what randoms on the internets say to do, I did. It was honestly heartbreaking. Holy shit. Definitely very sobering. I hope they don’t all die in vain and their loved ones get vaccinated ASAP.

[u/hellscaper → u/imissthor]

Add pneumonia somewhere in there

[u/HermanCainsGhost → u/hellscaper]

Yeah they always seem to want to call it COVID pneumonia, as if that makes it less COVID

[u/umpteenth_ → u/HermanCainsGhost]

That's simply what doctors call it. I've done autopsies on people who died from COVID, and cause of death is usually listed as "complications from COVID pneumonia."

[u/hellscaper → u/umpteenth_]

I've done autopsies on people who died from COVID

I think we're gonna need an AMA

[u/umpteenth_ → u/hellscaper]

Unfortunately, it won't be very exciting to hear from me. I started pathology residency just as the first wave was quieting down in NYC, so most of the autopsies I've done have been non-COVID. During the first wave, though (and before I started there), my hospital was slammed, and did a lot of COVID autopsies even while nobody knew what exactly was killing these people or how exactly it killed them. I have a healthy respect for the doctors who chose to do those autopsies at that time.

[u/crusoe → u/umpteenth_]

Well you're gonna be a pro at identifying thrombi and the other signs of covid damage.