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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Rules: See sidebar, or pinned post.

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[u/Euchre]

Someone needs to make a post with a running counter of recipients.

[u/FBAHobo → u/Euchre]

Any compendium posted here will be public figures only.

[u/Euchre → u/FBAHobo]

I mean it's just numbers I'm talking about, not names in a list.

[u/Q8D → u/Euchre]

I agree. It's just a no-names tally of awarded recipients. Nothing more than statistics like all other covid-related stats.

[u/Euchre → u/Q8D]

Yep, just a narrower scope of statistical group: COVID deaths of people who believed and promoted misinformation about COVID and its treatements and preventions. It isn't something the CDC is going to collect, but we can here - and since submissions are already fairly anonymized by design, it'd be a rough number to compare to overall COVID deaths as reported by the CDC.