June 23, 2020

"post-dead mom."

129 comments:

Michael K said...

Karen.

Paco Wové said...

I have to admit that it just never occurred to me to use the deaths of my parents to go about virtue-bullying random strangers. Think outside the box, Paco!

tim maguire said...

I'm inclined to give people like that a break. I don't expect them to be sensible or follow rules of decency. It's everyone else I hate.

Anagram Margana said...

Just tend to your own mask, honey, and you'll be fine.

Expat(ish) said...

It must be terribly sad to lose your mother, especially if you were not aware that they were high risk.

I worry a lot about my mom - she's 80+ and has had c-diff, so had a battered and compromised immune system.

I don't think I'd shout at a stranger, but I'd hope they'd make allowances for me.

I would suspect, though, that she's got other things going on and has a history of externalizing her feelings onto other people.

-XC

MayBee said...

I understand the pain of her losing her mom. I don't understand virtue tweeting about it.

Bob Boyd said...

Gotta admit, it felt good...


Almost worth losing Mom for.

wendybar said...

The more their mouths move, the more hate spews out.

narciso said...


Emotion over facts


https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-ways-media-misleading-record-spike-florida/

Dave Begley said...

This woman is supposedly a comedian and author of "Dead People Suck."

Yuck, yuck.

Kevin said...

1. Victimhood = Entitlement is not a good basis for society, because

2. Victimhood comes in an infinite number of forms.

Fernandinande said...

What was her trans-alive mother doing in a pet store?

Fun fact: chinchillas don't like yelling or cuss words.

Freeman Hunt said...

If your mom dies, and you yell at people for a while, I don't mind.

MBunge said...

This is a 55-year old, upper-middle class white woman play acting like a piece of poor white trash. I have no doubt it never occurred to her the target of her outburst might walk over and smack her in the mouth. It’s everybody else who has to follow the rules of polite society.

Mike

Kevin said...

The lady should have just replied that her mother died yesterday.

Checkmate.

MayBee said...

Perhaps the woman who she yelled at has a dying mom, and the mask was giving her a panic attack amid her stress. If she has her mask down, just stay 6 feet away from her.

Is it so hard to recognize if you want grace, you must give grace?

rehajm said...

So Boris Johnson is working on opening up, moving from the two metre standard distance to one metre. Does Karen know if the virus operates on the metric or imperial standard? Does it just adjust?

Jamie said...

Yup. It feels good to yell. And hit. And burn things. And put your gas pedal to the ground. And take what you want. And make that bitch pay. And get that bastard back for what he did.

Especially, it feels good when you couch your lack of self-discipline in Absolute Moral Authority.

It's terrible that she is now motherless. But lots of people - most people, eventually - have to live on after their mothers have died.

William said...

Remember when people were shamed for being too fastidious and distancing in their precautions and worries about being around AIDS patients?

MadisonMan said...

And she's a Future Buddhist.
I think it's pretty common to be irrational after your parents, or siblings die. I wonder how her Mom would react to seeing this kind of outburst in her daughter though.

mesquito said...

It’s all about Laurie.

Temujin said...

Let me guess. She's a New York Democrat.

Howard said...

Shouting matches defeat the purpose given the primary rout of transport and exposure.

I Have Misplaced My Pants said...

I'm sure your mother would be proud of you, Laurie.

gspencer said...

Always good policy to yell at / reprimand strangers in public places. No downside whatsoever.

Jim Gust said...

It's one thing to be an asshole. It's another to brag about being an asshole on Twitter.

Deplorable.

DanTheMan said...

Hey, cool! My mom died from lung cancer, so I guess I can go shout obscenities at everybody I see smoking?

What is wrong with these people?

cacimbo said...

Laurie Kilmartin would not last long in the CHAS/CHOP.Police are why she can behave like this.

Lucid-Ideas said...

Last name even begins with K.

Gahrie said...

it felt good

repeal the 19th.

Todd said...

How self-righteous of her!

felt good to yell “My mom died four days ago, pull your fucking mask up", good to know she has her priorities straight!

TreeJoe said...

I had my first person shout at me irrationally in the street a week or two ago. I was polite but he kept escalating and demanding "What gives you the right"

To which I responded: "Well current policies are in conflict with recommendations by health experts at the WHO and elsewhere and I maintained social distance from you, kept my head down, and breathed through my nose while you were talking loudly on your cell phone 2 feet from the restaurant workers covered by a thin cotton bandanna."

To which he responded, "Yeah, you are probably on Trump's team" (Ignoring the fact I just cited WHO policy, but anywho)

He then proceeded to stalk me in his vehicle for about 5 minutes including driving through the playground parking lot where I was playing with my children.

Needless to say, I now know his vehicle and will NOT fuck around when I next see that asshole. But I'm sure he felt self-righteous that he was able to vent anger at me that somehow the laws of physics had been suspended and viral laden droplets from an asymptomatic adult had swarmed his body.

AlbertAnonymous said...

She sounds nice...

Big Mike said...

And if you don’t want to follow her down into Hell you’ll apologize right now and get out of here.

Nah, I wouldn’t really say that.

But I’d be thinking it.

Basil Duke said...

Karen's mom would be alive today were it not for those goddamned pet store customers who don't wear their virtue signals in accordance with "science."

MikeR said...

Can I assume that she was at the protests?

chuck said...

Unless there is a vaccine or herd immunity, many of us will eventually get Covid-19. I think it is far more widespread than the testing indicates. Locally, they finally got around to testing workers at the meat packing plant, cases jumped from ~80 to over 1300, about 1% of the county population. Deaths remain at 1, 5 are hospitalized.

Spiros said...

Shaming takes its energy from self-righteousness. It is very hostile. A good example is Bill Mahrer demanding society wide fat shaming. What's his problem?

F said...


My mother-in-law died several weeks before the 2016 election, so I carried her "Voter's Guide" (issued by the county Registrar of Voters) into the polling place with me and announced to the clerk signing people in: "my mother-in-law just died, so I'm bringing her Voter's Guide back. I think she has to register as a Democrat now?"

You coulda heard a pin drop.

traditionalguy said...

This brings to mind women that I have known who bitterly hated their husbands for keeling over dead, some 20 years earlier. All sympathy in the situation had to be for their being abandoned by their husband. And she taught impressionable younger women that she mothered to distrust any man's promises. I guess it is like a trial lawyer's job. Showing up is the important part.

Ann Althouse said...

dead-mom privilege.

Wilbur said...

Some responses I would expect from people I know:

1. Fuck you and fuck your dead mother,
2. No doubt you drove her to an early grave.
3. Don't you gave a gravesite to decorate?
4. Expectorate in her face.

What is this crap that, if you lose a parent, you get to behave like this? What utter nonsense.

Inga said...

No masks needed at the Phoenix Trump rally. The mega church has a brand spanking new ionization system that kills Covid in the air within 10 minutes! No one’s mom will die of Covid, what a relief.

Michael K said...

Howard said...
Shouting matches defeat the purpose given the primary rout of transport and exposure.


That doesn't stop your team, Howie. Virtue signaling trumps science. Whoops, sorry. Didn't mean to trigger you.

Mark O said...

What? Grief is power?

Martin said...

I'm happy for her that her previously useless mother is now good for something: scoring self-righteous virtue signalling points with strangers.

Ann Althouse said...

"Some responses I would expect from people I know..."

5. Yeah, I know, I killed your mom. Sorry. I suck. Mea culpa.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

Jim Gust said...
It's one thing to be an asshole. It's another to brag about being an asshole on Twitter.

Deplorable.

6/23/20, 8:50 AM

She's getting a lot of applause and "you go girl!" comments from other assholes.

Lots of us have dead mothers. I never considered it some sort of badge of honor.

narciso said...

No i had nothing to do with it:



https://polimath.substack.com/

Jamie said...

I think we need to bring deep mourning back. If she had been dressed in all black with a veil (not just a mask), and everyone knew what that meant, everyone would have cut her slack (though I still stand by my prior comment - at the time when deep mourning was understood, people were also expected to show at least a modicum of self-discipline in public, such as refraining from shooting obscenities at strangers).

My little dog was attacked by a coyote about six weeks ago and died after two long, horrible days of suffering. I wanted so much to put up a black wreath or band on the front door, wear an armband in public, and somehow have my little symbol on texts and emails have a black band across it so that those few with whom I was interesting at the time would immediately be aware that I was emotionally not in my usual state. But they wouldn't have been immediately aware, because we have decided as a society that such trappings are archaic, or something.

It's the fence thing: we tore down the "etiquette" fence without understanding what it was for, and now a woman in mourning f-bombs a stranger in a pet store and thinks she's in the right, while the stranger and everyone else who heard thinks she's a childish tool.

MikeR said...

6. My bad!

CWJ said...

I think one of the nastiest aspects of human nature is wanting to inflict emotional pain on others when we feel bad. Healthy people regret having done this later on. Publicly boasting about it is what is most ugly about this incident.

Bob Boyd said...

What did her mom die of?
She doesn't say it was Covid.

Skeptical Voter said...

Hey Laurie is now an orphan. She's entitled to vent.

Both my mother and father died some years ago. I tell my wife that makes me an orphan. She's not buying it. But women like Laurie (her middle name is probably Karen) gotta Laurie. They can't help it, orphan or not.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Keep two metres apart
Speaking moistly

I'm Not Sure said...

“My mom died four days ago, pull your fucking mask up”

"I'm not fucking right now. When I am, I'll pull the mask up. Thank you."

Quayle said...

There are some "sure feels good" things that are degenerative, and over time will require more and more to keep feeling that "sure feels good".

Anger is one of them. It sure feels good to let that anger out against someone else. But that's first inning anger, which gives you 8 more innings without inner peace.

Inga said...

In certain areas of the country people who are wearing masks are getting harassed more than people harassing those not wearing masks. Why not just do your shopping, wear your mask, or don’t and STFU? Getting into a verbal altercation will allow all those cute little Covid spike balls to spew into the air right in front of ones masked or unmasked nose.

Kay said...

Ann Althouse said...
"Some responses I would expect from people I know..."

5. Yeah, I know, I killed your mom. Sorry. I suck. Mea culpa.
6/23/20, 9:29 AM


6. Well the supreme court just declared your mom’s grave a gender-neutral bathroom.

Laslo Spatula said...

"5. Yeah, I know, I killed your mom. Sorry. I suck. Mea culpa."

THAT is funny! I would like to adopt that as my own tag: "Sorry. I suck / Mea culpa."

I am Laslo.

Bay Area Guy said...

This ditzy woman thinks wearing a mask would have protected her mother from death?

Dr. John Ioannidis reminds us that the Infection Fatality rate for people under 70 is 0.04%

Ok, Karen.

madAsHell said...

....in a pet store

I keep pets because I've already scared all the men away.

Scott M said...

"A good example is Bill Mahrer demanding society wide fat shaming. What's his problem?"

A good way to go would be to simply not be a jerk toward people. While that removes fat-shaming, it doesn't mean you have to fat-elevate or fat-embrace, which is what I see going on. It's a transparently harmful policy that taken to it's logical extreme has people calling doctors advocating against obesity for health reasons as part of a conspiracy.

Temujin said...

Reminds me of the old Henny Youngman joke, "Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to."

Laurie's mom probably could't take it any longer.

Wince said...

In a Curb episode, went about using his mother's death as an excuse.

In this episode, Larry's mom dies, and he realizes it's a great excuse to get out of things he doesn't feel like doing. And so, he continually skips out on social events saying he doesn't feel like going out after his mother's death when that's simply not true.

Even worse than that, he uses the excuse to get people to feel bad for him and do him favors. In his defense, he pays to fix her tombstone, which reads "past away" instead of "passed," so he does care. But, still, using your mother's death for your own personal gain is kind of crappy.

Mom said...

Trips to the pet store are rarely so urgent that we must subject the public to our explosions of grief and anger there. Pet necessities are available for delivery. Karen will be the death of civilization.

GingerBeer said...

My Mom died 22 years ago. Get over it. I did.

GingerBeer said...

traditionalguy: That reminds me of the old joke: "Why do men die before their wives? Because they want to."

mandrewa said...

William said, "Remember when people were shamed for being too fastidious and distancing in their precautions and worries about being around AIDS patients?"

Yes. It's another 180 degree reversal.

It's tempting to say the left doesn't any core principles. Everything is reversible. But it's not true.

There is a core reality. I think for instance the left is always opposed to free speech.

That may seem absurd to someone of my generation, since when I was young, free speech was an alleged left-wing cause. But if you looked deeper, even then, there were clues that this advocacy of free speech was not real.

a) Being for free speech, and making a big deal about it, implies that your opponents are opposed to it. That simply wasn't true.

b) Support for the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Vietnam, and on and on and on. Now it's true that it's possible to have two different beliefs at the same time. One could be both for Marxist states and for free speech at the same time. Now ignoring the fundamental conflict between Marxism and free speech, and assuming that a person somehow doesn't see that, then if such people actually existed, we should expect them to voice both of these ideas and including the conflict between the two. Or in other words such a person would both criticize the Soviet Union for their lack of free speech and praise it for other things.

Now how many people do you remember from the left that actually did such thing?

c) This generation of allegedly pro-free speech left was in power when all other viewpoints were purged from the universities.

The left is a lie.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

my name is Karen Montoya you killed my mother now prepare to die

Big Mike said...

More responses I would expect from people I know

6. With a daughter like you I imagine she died of shame and humiliation.

Nichevo said...

6. Did she die of COVID-19?

7. If so, you should stay away from people for a while!

MayBee said...

A few weeks ago, I thought, forget this shelter in place thing. My dad is having cognitive decline and I need to see him and he needs to see me. So I drove from my side of the state (heavily COVID, though nobody I know) to the other side (little COVID).

On the other side of the state, I stopped at a rest stop to go to the bathrooms (can't count on the McDonalds and Starbucks to have open lobbies) and nobody was wearing a mask. But I wore mind. When I was getting in my car, a guy yelled to me "You don't have to wear a mask. "
To be fair, he was in his 60s, wearing a Trump shirt, but also had a veteran's license plate. People who dare to wear Trump shirts are usually pretty brash, but he's a vet so I respect that.

So I just said "I'm just trying to do the right thing"
(I mean, we are across a parking lot from each other so it was more of a yell but neither of us were angry yelling)

He said, "read about it. The science isn't there"

And I just said "I just know I've been asked to wear a mask and it's something I can do and I'm not trying to make a statement or anything". And then we exchanged some pleasantries and that was the end of it.

Bruce Hayden said...

Hard left harridan (who claims to be a comedian) who just lost her mother to COVID-19, very likely thanks to the efforts of the mayor and governor she voted for, virtue shaming anyone who doesn’t properly virtue signal by wearing a mask despite there being, for most of us, little medical necessity for doing such. I went through the last couple weeks of her tweets, and if she hadn’t just lost her mother, I would call many of them vile. She even went so far as claiming personal exemption from wearing a mask when performing, so everyone else there watching her had to be masked, for her own safety.

Sorry. I wear a mask in two situation: at the doctor’s office (and hospital - we visited the ER recently), and at Costco. And, at the latter, only begrudgingly. If we had Sams Clubs up here, I would go there, and skip Costco, until they give up on their empty virtue signaling - MT is now dead last in COVID-19 infections. Plus, Sams Club carries real Redi Whip, instead of the inferior copy that Costco carries, that my partner refuses to put in her coffee.

john said...

Ever think there was a greater purpose fulfilled with her mom's death? Like finally becoming free of her obnoxious child?

Yancey Ward said...

Yeah, she is going to end up dead post-dead mom if she keeps up such behavior. All it takes is yelling at the wrong person, who I promise you is out there somewhere.

stan said...

Her mom's death doesn't magically change the fact that the mask is scientifically worthless.

Smug, snarky, and stupid is no way to go through life.

Yancey Ward said...

"I'm inclined to give people like that a break. I don't expect them to be sensible or follow rules of decency. It's everyone else I hate."

Me, too, but I doubt the lady with the chin mask knew that, and no stranger will.

Original Mike said...

"What is wrong with these people?"

My opinion of my fellow man has taken a nose dive from reading Althouse.

(Absolutely not blaming Althouse. Facts are facts. But not doing the social media thing, these are events I would not have been exposed to otherwise. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.)

Delayna said...

Hey, my mom died from lung cancer. Can I go scream in the faces of strangers who are smoking?

Ambrose said...

Yeah - I remember when my mom passed away feeling all empowered and stuff.

Kevin said...

"Some responses I would expect from people I know..."

6. Hey you, (snap, snap) show me where to find the Puppy Chow.

Vonnegan said...

Why has "how I feel" become the most important determinate in everyone's behavior? Who wasn't there to tell these folks as kids "yes, your feelings are your feelings and you're entitled to have them. but you don't get to inflict them on everyone else just because you want to." I'm sure losing your mom sucks; it's still not an excuse to be an asshole to perfect strangers.

Yancey Ward said...

"Locally, they finally got around to testing workers at the meat packing plant, cases jumped from ~80 to over 1300, about 1% of the county population."

Yes, we are seeing this everywhere. There was a story from just Germany this morning, where the routine testing regime country-wide was finding about 300-600 new cases per day for the last month- when they finally cornered a large group with forced and focused testing- another meat packing facility- they suddenly found more cases than the entire country was finding in a normal day. The same thing happened in Texas last week when they did forced and focused testing in their prison system- they suddenly find that counties with a 100 total infections since March have 1500+ when you literally start testing everyone in the prison. The false assumption being that the prison is special in some way- all that is special is that you tested everyone in it against their will. If you went out and force tested 5000 people, let's say, in Maricopa County, Arizona, you will very likely find that 2-5% of them are positive, too, at this moment in time.

Jupiter said...

I would not have had a mask to pull up. It turns out masks are not needed in Oregon. Here, it's going to the beach that kills grandma.

Yancey Ward said...

6. Honey, she finally found a way to get away from you (sneeze violently).

Jupiter said...

Realistically, if you keep your mouth shut and breathe through your nose, you are probably not spewing viruses all over the place. So that's what I try to do when I am in a store, but the clerks all want to yack, and I feel it would be impolite not to respond. Death before rudeness.

Birkel said...

Yelling at strangers for fun and profit.
If these are the new rules, I look forward to playing by the new rules.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

I would have spat in her mouth. Around here most people know better than to pull shit like this. This kind of behavior seems to be the province of middle-aged White women (like Althouse scolding the teens on the trail). They've been under a lot of stress since Hillary tanked.

stevew said...

She's pretty darn proud of herself for cussing someone out. I say, video or it didn't happen.

donald said...

My mom would have wanted her to shut the fuck up and would have reached down from heaven to make damned sure she understood.

We were hiking in Santa Barbara on Saturday and three girls walked by. We gave them room to pass and a few minutes later they came back by. We weren’t saying anything, but the last one by asked us not to talk. Raven, cause I’ve met a girl named Raven out here just says “What? I didn’t hear ya toots”. She said toots. I love her and want to marry her. Whole world’s going to hell in a hand basket and I’m not seeing any of it. Yay!

h said...

In cases like this, I always wear a hand-lettered cardboard sign, such as, "My mom died last week. Donate to my gofundme page." I made $23,000 in tax free money like this last year.

Ben Morris said...

I believe that should be an en-dash, like "post–dead mom".

Marcus Bressler said...

Not much more I can add that has not already been said. What she did was bad, posting it was terrible. She's trying to rationalize her behavior by looking for Attagirls.

THEOLDMAN

As I did recently with some old lady that tried to play Aisle Police with me, I would first tell her to mind her own business. If she persisted, well, then whatever happens will be a result of that.

Amadeus 48 said...

6. Are you sure you didn’t kill your mom with your constant nagging?

stlcdr said...

This is the sort of person which would be happy to be strip searched by TSA because it keeps her safe...

Patrick Henry was right! said...

How about "with a daughter like you, she is probably happier now?"

RigelDog said...

Well, at indoor public spaces I wear a mask, but let's say this woman is one of those who is convinced that masks should always be worn outdoors and she yelled at me. I'd tell her that I found myself getting upset at strangers for various things after my mother had suddenly died at age 59, and that I understood, and that getting furious at strangers won't ultimately make her feel better. Then I'd probably put the mask on as long as I was in her eyesight, because that would be an amazing opportunity to extend kindness. I'd WANT to yell right back at her, but I still remember screaming into the phone at the (extremely unhelpful and rude) airline reservationist as I tried to arrange a last-minute flight to Georgia, "I just told you my mother dropped dead of a heart attack today, can you give me just two minutes of patience?"

RigelDog said...

You know what would be awesome information in These Troubled Times? How much a mask-wearer's protection is enhanced by others wearing masks. If, say, a mask protects the wearer 70% but when they are near another person wearing a mask, they are protected up to 72%, that's one thing. If the percentages are more like, 50% raising to 90% if all the people near you are wearing a mask, that's another ballgame.

stlcdr said...

Blogger MayBee said...
...
And I just said "I just know I've been asked to wear a mask and it's something I can do and I'm not trying to make a statement or anything". And then we exchanged some pleasantries and that was the end of it.

6/23/20, 10:19 AM


Demonstrating there is nothing social about Social Media. Instead of having human interactions filter over to Social Media, it's the other way around.

Facebook, facetime, twitter, instant messaging, is no way to actually interact with other human beings.

A side effect of wearing masks is that you cannot smile at people, and open up to a, usually pleasant, segment of human interaction (probably OK for a lot of people).

Yancey Ward said...

"my name is Karen Montoya you killed my mother now prepare to die"

We have a winner!

Big Mike said...

A note for Karens and Lauries everywhere: General Order Number 28.

“As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall by word, gesture, or movement insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.“

By order of Major General Benjamin Butler

Known Unknown said...

Rumor has it she could only see the woman with the mask pulled down because she was standing on something.

Michael K said...

I went into CVS last week to pick up about $500 worth of prescriptions for my wife. When nI got to the counter with the pharmacist ( a nice girl that we see a lot) I saw a sign about requiring masks. I asked her if they had decided to require masks. She said it was now a state law (It isn't) and I commented OK but it was just theater.

A Karen type guy standing nearby got really angry and began to lecture me about masks. I asked him where he got his epidemiology degree (It isn't really a degree) and that really pissed him off. He said something like, "Don't wear your mask and get sick and die!" Then he asked me if I was an epidemiologist and I said, "Actually, yes I am."

Well only epidemiology courses and a Masters Degree but who is checking ?

Phil 314 said...

I give folks who suffered a personal tragedy a wide berth as regards behavior.

But posting about the boorish behavior on social media narrows that berth a bit.

Mr. Krishan said...

"I bet she had preexisting conditions, didn't she? FUCK OFF." - the only acceptable response.

bagoh20 said...

I regret that my mom had but one life to give for my self-righteousness.

Hey Dad, you've had a good life. Whadya say? It's for a good cause.

n.n said...

Symptomatic? Don't forget the goggles. Also, wash your hands, and practice social distancing from your face and open wounds.

ga6 said...

To Tree Joe above: I would recommend revolvers,which, if used properly, and disposed of immediately leave no trace evidence.

Birkel said...

Standard response:

"I cannot understand your words while you have that mask on."

Phil 314 said...

And on a larger point, herein lies the perniciousness of social media.

Pre Facebook and Twitter, this minor celebrity (I guess she's a comedian) would have had her moment of anger in relative privacy with only a small audience.

Now she shares it with the whole world for either their nods of agreement or snorts of disgust.

Andrew said...

Is "Laurie" the woke way to spell CUNT?

Michelle Dulak Thomson said...

My God. I can see doing that -- just. (Though the lady who can imagine doing it without thinking that she's surrounded by trapped animals who can't understand why she's shrieking at them is already so far off the deep end that ... )

What I cannot understand, at all, is then going online and bragging about it. Deep shame is the only possible, the only decent response to something like this.

Birkel said...

Andrew,
Around these parts we spell it "Ken B" but I take your point.

wildswan said...

Everyone is saying that I (older person) am the reason they wear masks and social distance although I (this individual older person) have no major physical problems and don't regard covid as a bigger danger than flu. There are individuals who persistently say they distance "for me", even though they know I traveled and didn't get sick; but they can't think about this known individual and they can't learn what the science is. My explanation: there's other things going on - a social transformation is using masking and distancing to achieve some unspoken goal. I don't mean Miss America turning into Covid Karen or Antifastan or CHOP or Defund the Police. Something else. So I try to slowly tame them into getting used to me as if they were wild animals - mama grizzly and her cubs. But it's also me trying to understand this hidden transformation - them trying to get the oldest generation into line with ... what?

Gospace said...

Gave blood Saturday. Covidiocy has disrupted my normal blood donation schedule. Free test for covid antibodies included. Haven't worn a mask since the start of covidiocy.

Results- Negative for antibodies.

Possibilities-
1. I haven't been exposed. My wife had all the symptoms back in February. My 21 year old had symptoms when he came home for his 1 week extended to 2 week extended to the semester break from college, and on the 5th telephone interview of the day was told to self isolate for 2 weeks. My 29 year old had all the symptoms and a test. Negative. Followed by the symptoms getting worse, a blood saturation that dropped to <80% from the effort of standing up in the ER, an overnight stay in the hospital with oxygen, and another negative test. The doctors told him as he was discharged- "You have covid, but we're not allowed to give a third test." Dictator Cuomo ordered no 3rd tests. So, maybe I haven't been exposed.
2. It's not nearly as contagious as advertised. Statistics bear this out.
3. I had a similar coronavirus sometime in the past, perhaps from a visit to Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, or somewhere else courtesy of the USN. This has been hypothesized as for reasons people don't get it- but is unproven.
4. Having a healthy Vitamin D blood level (I do, last tested at 40 ng/ml), lowering viral load by nasal irrigation and gargling with warm water and xylitol, and being in overall good health helps the body fight it off before it ever gets established- even for 65 year olds.

Take your pick. I'm going to continue to not wear a mask.

Jim at said...

Your mom's death isn't my fault.
However, yours may be if you don't get out of my face.

Jim at said...

Yeah, she is going to end up dead post-dead mom if she keeps up such behavior. All it takes is yelling at the wrong person, who I promise you is out there somewhere.

Yep. I'm generally avoiding people right now because I don't want to get into that type of a situation.

Because I've had more than enough of this shit. And I am not alone.

MayBee said...

I have noticed old people have a problem wearing their masks right. For some reason it always slips below their nose. I've seen it with my parents, my in-laws, and old people at the stores. I just saw it on a video of Eleanore Holmes Norton. Look at the video of the Congress people kneeling in their Kente cloths.
Has anyone else noticed this?

dbp said...

They say that the virus is especially deadly to people with preexisting conditions. Perhaps your time would be better spent asking yourself if you were one of your mom's preexisting conditions; instead of berating random people she never met.

Phil 314 said...

Gospace said
"Gave blood Saturday. Covidiocy has disrupted my normal blood donation schedule. Free test for covid antibodies included. Haven't worn a mask since the start of covidiocy.

Results- Negative for antibodies."

Its just basic math. Even in the hardest hit areas like NYC antibody positivity is only 20-25%. If I ride a motorcycle and don't wear a helmet odds are on my side as regards head injury.

KellyM said...

This Karen has now graduated to Manson Girl.

jpg said...

What a douche.

George said...

Seems like she should either read or RE-read her book:

"In 2018, she published Dead People S*ck, "an honest, irreverent, laugh-out-loud guide to coping with death and dying."

Unknown said...

> After a hospital stay, JoAnn Kilmartin entered a skilled nursing facility and was free of COVID-19 at the time, Laurie Kilmartin said in an account on Twitter. Her mother was diagnosed with COVID-19 after arriving at the facility. Her condition rapidly worsened over the last week, and she developed heart and liver failure.

Did the guy with ill fitting mask visit old ladies nursing home?

> Laurie Kilmartin said she lives in Burbank, only 17 minutes from the facility where her mother was hospitalized. But Kilmartin was unable to see her mother in person until visitation was granted.

LAURIE WANTS TO GET COVID IN THE NURSING HOME AND SPREAD IT TO THE REST OF US!

Did Laurie condemn the rioters in LA?

Tinderbox said...

She was most likely just like this even before her mom died. At least now she gets more virtue signal points in her quest to startle and intimidate others. Dead mom has to be at least 50+ points.

Unknown said...

her world is her feelings about herself

which everyone else should respect

Paul Doty said...

...and then she got her ass kicked. So many of the self-important loons don't understand that it really isn't all about them, they aren't the only ones that are stunning and brave, the only ones literally shaking, nor do they understand that some people are simply not going to fold up and take their self righteous shit.

Doug said...

I know we're not supposed to hit women, but ... just for a moment, indulge the fantasy that the response to this obnoxious harridan's screech was a good, solid, molar-rattling open-handed smack in the chops. Even if she had the person arrested, do you suppose this waste of human flesh would think twice before publicly upbraiding some non-mask wearer in the future?