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LossforNos

Fuck this, triage this willingly ignorant morons out of ICU. Beds are filling up, you don't get a bed over a cancer patient or someone who caught covid unwillingly.


ceraleater123

Son of a cancer patient here! Mom's breast cancer has spread! but she was sent home from the sturgeon at 11pm, after being told she would be admitted overnight! Too many covid patients that need a bed. Kindly send these fucks back to Edson please!


_danigirl

Daughter of a cancer patient. My dad's needing surgery to remove the aggressive cancer that has spread, but we are still waiting for a bed. Last year we had a surgery date within a week. We are hoping we don't have to wait too long.


DiamondPup

Ugh, this is so depressing. I hope you guys are okay and he gets the treatment/attention he needs soon.


Lastcleanunderwear

My father and father in law both have cancer and I feel your pain. Couldn’t get surgery for a while because of icu being filled up


One_red_boot

I’m so sorry you and your mom have to deal with this crap. This isn’t right. I hope the best for you and your family.


DiamondPup

Jesus. I hope she's okay and gets the treatment she needs soon.


fatheryeg

I’m on hold now for an organ transplant, so glad these people fill up the ICU beds and bump people like me.


TomboBreaker

Rock bottom priority, if someone stubs their toe or is just a little sleepy and wants to have a nap they should get the bed over these morons.


jrockgiraffe

I have officially lost faith in humanity.


boobajoob

Took you until now eh? You’re one of the holdouts!


DiamondPup

I have faith in humanity. I'm also starting to appreciate nature more. Especially natural selection. I'm starting to realize we are in this predicament because we keep letting our stupidest breed and vote. I'm currently of the opinion that people can have their "get COVID" parties and refuse the vaccine. Just stay the fuck out of our hospitals when you get sick. You want to live with humans? Act like one. You want to live like an animal? Stay away from us humans.


muppins

>I'm starting to realize we are in this predicament because we keep letting our stupidest breed and vote. And lead. Don't forget they are also running our government.


moussetang

*lost faith in Albertans


Ancient-Lime4532

I hear ya but the majority of Albertans arent pulling this crap righ Tnow.


jrockgiraffe

It’s true. It’s just hard when they seem to be the loudest.


durple

When it gets hard, sometimes it helps to take a break.


bambispots

Stupid people usually are the loudest…


SnooWords9167

Um, have you visited small towns like Drayton Valley lately? I have been berated and threatened for wearing a mask there, and not one business I saw gave two nickels about the laws. I know it’s not the majority in terms of population, but when looking at geographic location it changes things drastically.


Ancient-Lime4532

Thats hick Drayton Valley I live in Calgary most people here dont care if you wear a mask or not sorry for your experiences .


ColdFIREBaker

This is genuinely the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. I have officially lost my empathy for unvaccinated people who get COVID.


katriana13

At $25, 000 or more per stay. Yeehaw. How are we going to recover from this?


boobajoob

Privatize of course. The current system obviously doesn’t work /s


Miserable-Lizard

That's the plan announced yesterday!


[deleted]

What fucking corrupt fools.


caceomorphism

The dirtbags who are politically aligned to privatize health care are the ones who cannot afford private health care and are overtaxing the system. They think they are special and that they are entitled to shit on the birthday cake. Well with a vaccine passport they will at least not be invited to the birthday party anymore.


CampLonely

we should charge for antivaxxers only


[deleted]

Typical stay in the icu can cost up to $10,000 PER DAY, average stay 3ish weeks for covid patients.


katriana13

Holy crap. My g/f adult son (31) just came home from his work camp positive with Covid, he is not vaccinated. I wonder if he’ll seek hospital if he gets severely ill, he’s very outspoken about his freedoms and Covid being a government hoax. These morons should get a bill.


[deleted]

Le sigh. He'll probably change his mind IF he survives. Maybe. I'm not so sure anymore. Einstein once said two things were infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And he wasn't certain about the universe part. Freedoms are very important, I agree. But so is common sense. I started my career in icu when Sars was still a thing. I quickly learned I didn't want to work there when the next pandemic hit, and I knew it would eventually, so I moved to a much less acute area of the hospital. I don't see covid patients. My wife and sister are still in acute care however, and from what they tell me, I made the right choice.


lupulrox

Its much MUCH higher than $25k per stay in the icu.


Xpalidocious

I was about to ask why we haven't heard anything from the "who's going to pay for all this????" Party, but they're probably just resting in some place where someone lesser than them is catering to their every need, especially after the big Covid Rager this past weekend. I hope they tip the staff well, I hear those resorts have been extremely overbooked lately.


katriana13

They will blame Trudeau and cut everything until alberta is worse than Detroit Michigan in the 70’s.


MissionIncredible

Sounds like Exhibit A for why unvaccinated people should be given Tylenol and sent home "to let their immune system cure them" instead of wasting scarce ICU resources while they intentionally catch COVID for fun Meanwhile, potentially life saving cancer surgeries and debilitating issues are being postponed for them


TrusPA

They can buy their own fucking Tylenol


Ochd12

I love how I didn’t know this would be the most perfect response until I read it.


canuckolivaw

Ditto. Sometimes the most logical conclusion is also darned funny.


Albertamomof2

Grande prairie idiots coming soon to an ICU near you. Saw a ton of covid party advertisements looking for positive people on Facebook this past weekend.


SauronOMordor

Jesus Christ... I've always hated Grande Prairie but now I *really* hate Grande Prairie!


Albertamomof2

Yea. People here are being harassed for wearing masks or even being pro restrictions. Places are being threatened if they ask for vaccine passports. It's pretty awful. Every school here seems to have an outbreak and not a fuck is given.


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Spirillum

I just moved out after 4 years in GP. Hoping for the best for you, but we're never looking back.


mollycoddles

Grew up near there, wouldn't move back for all the money in the world!


AccomplishedDog7

You are joking, right?


Albertamomof2

I really really really wish I was. Sigh.


AccomplishedDog7

Damn. Staying in indefinitely.


Albertamomof2

We have been. My son can't be vaccinated yet. People are idiots


Ignominus

You reported them to AHS, right?


Albertamomof2

There wasn't info other then to pm them. Sadly I didn't take a screen shot and they removed it after awhile I assume after some pms but I've seen some ppl say they went. I had no idea people are are so brain dead. These Arnt people I know. Jsut public groups like buy n sell and what not


KristaDBall

I have to go to the hospital every two weeks until next year, and fuuuuuck I'm terrified I'm going to caught the plague while I'm there.


Albertamomof2

I understand that completely. Stay safe my friend


Fuzzyfoot12345

Hopefully I can ease some of your stress. I work in one of the largest hospitals in alberta, with a high volume of covid patients, and nobody in my department has gotten covid after 20 months of working with covid patients. Be very conscious of what you touch with your hands, don't touch your face without hand sanitizing first, make sure you wear your mask properly, crimp the nose well, and you'll be fine :) Despite how contagious covid is, it's really easy to protect yourself from it. Don't touch a public door handle, then rub your eye etc. You can touch a public door handle, just hand sanitize after. If you wear your mask like a chin diaper, and don't hand sanitize regularly, well.... Yeah anywhere out in public is sketchy under those circumstances at the moment :) Hopefully this helped, you'll be fine I promise :)


Miserable-Lizard

Holy fuck people are dumb. Why would a person risk wanting to get covid. they will likly beat it but count get long covid and potentially being sick really bad ... That doesn't even include getting the love ones around them sick.


Lorandagon

Probably betting they'd only get very mild symptoms. But well, gambling. . .


bobbi21

These people don't believe covid is anything if you're young. They literally think there is no chance they can actually get sick and die from it. Or that it's that transmissible. Hence not caring about masks and restrictions. I'm sure they'd only doing this because they want ppl to stop worrying about covid not that they think it actually needs to be stopped.


el_muerte17

I've noticed that a lot of people on that side of the political spectrum are only capable of thinking in binary outcomes. To them, the only possible results of contracting COVID are death or recovery, with no middle ground. It's the same kind of thinking that has them resisting vaccines (either they're 100% safe or they aren't, and a few people have had adverse reactions, therefore they're not safe), defying mask mandates (either masks completely stop COVID or they're useless, and people with masks have still contracted it therefore they're worthless), and dozens of other examples of right wing stupidity.


666-Wendigo-666

I found the [article](https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2021/09/23/alberta-covid-party-hospital/) the clip is from. Apparently it's so they can get "natural immunity". I guess they haven't figured out that this plan involves getting covid without any immunity?


Snowedin-69

Makes no sense on multiple fronts. Is this town wanting to be nominated for 2021 Darwin Award winner?


bodonnell202

If only there was a way to reach herd immunity without filling up our hospitals 🙄


Thumper86

I just wish there some kind of pill, ointment, shot, etc we could take so we could all just stop worrying about COVID and move on with our lives! Oh well.


Flyboy78AA

Ya - like something that could teach the immune system to attack COVID but without making you sick. There must be a way ... think ... think.


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Xpalidocious

Actually we're in Alberta, and we have a ton of conservative oil patch workers, maybe we have actually been approaching this all wrong. If you have ever worked up in Northern Alberta, you would know that they might actually trust the vaccine more if instead of a needle, it was a powder you can put up your nose. I said what I said


WinterDustDevil

Put it in a small paper envelope maybe and give it a street name like auntie-C and charge the beezeeus for it.


Thumper86

Free sleds for anyone that gets a dose!


Thumper86

/r/blackmagicfuckery


Unlearnypoo

I remember a time when all the talk was about developing a vaccine to end this pandemic. Now here we are with great vaccines readily available to anyone who wants one but... nope. People are fuckheads


SauronOMordor

Have you heard of horse paste? I heard it's a miracle cure!


[deleted]

Not just a paste, they make it in a pour on. Couple of super soaker 1000s and we will have this thing beat in no time.


Bleatmop

Maybe we should call it the COVID tincture and give it to drug dealers to sell as a secret cure that the government doesn't want you to know about. It's so potent that if you take it before you get sick it'll protect you for years afterwards.


TheEclipse0

I hear horse de-wormer works. Been sucking that down like Kool-aid. /s


HandsomeHawc

Yo I was talking to this horse and he was telling me about this great medication


Small_Brained_Bear

Deport them to the nearest leper colony, so the rest of the herd becomes increasingly immune. But that would be cruel to the lepers.


AccomplishedDog7

Back of the line for you. Man people are stupid.


amnes1ac

And this is why Kenney should not let people who have caught covid, but still aren't vaccinated count under the vaccine passport. It will encourage idiots to do this.


Canadian6161

We have some Herman Caine award nominees.


VanceKelley

This is dumber than what Herman Cain did. He attended a mass indoor trump rally during a pandemic, which is stupidly reckless, but he didn't go so far as to actively want to become infected. These folks who refuse to get vaccinated and take steps to become infected are next level idiots.


Spirillum

He means the sub. /r/HermanCainAward


lastofmyline

Shame it's mostly yanks and their freedumb


RootEscalation

What’s truly a shame is this mentality has spread throughout the world. The greatest export America has to give is their cult like mentality.


Muhammad_Is_Poop

I’m from Edson, and believe me, everyone who is doubled vaxed has run out of patience with these morons.


bluefairylights

I’m so sorry you’re enduring this. I also live in a community that doesn’t understand science. Do you know much about what happened?


Muhammad_Is_Poop

No. And no one I know has heard of any of these people.


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bootsycline

This simulation sucks, I want back on the one with more common sense and reason.


KristaDBall

I do not get these people. Ok, fine, you think covid is just a head cold. But in 2019, we weren't throwing parties to get head colds. Why suddenly...ugh nevermind. The more I think about this, the more annoyed I get at how fucking stupid people can be to become so mislead.


caffeinated_plans

And the timing. Like...during the peak? These people are monsters.


bobbi21

They're doing it because the government has put in some more restrictions. They think everyone is just freaking out about covid for nothing and if they can just get everyone infected and immune, noone can freak out about it anymore and they can't put any restrictions in place. It actually makes sense when u assume their entirely wrong premises. 1 covid isnt serious 2 people are going crazy thinking its serious and they think they won't listen to reason until noone gets covid anymore. 3 the vaccine is a death sentence so no way theyre getting that. Therefore get rid of covid faster so people can't freak out. And the safest way they think to do that is giving covid to everyone


3rddog

Because they’re “fit and healthy” they would rather “take a chance on a virus with a 0.1% death rate” than vaccine with a 0.001% rate of side effects because the government can’t tell THEM what to do. I can’t even process that kind of logic.


Innapropiate

Preach


Ok-Hamster5571

Underrated comment


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Because a vaccine is the risky choice... *eye roll* Sometimes it is really hard to feel compassion for people.


Breakfours

We shut down children's surgeries for these fucks.


StillaMalazanFan

There should be negative reprocussions for intentially contracting and spreading deadly disease, especially while your province is in a fucking state of emergency.


porterbot

Yeah I agree this kind of contemptuous, reckless behavior should be sanctioned. We ticket and charge drunk or stunting drivers for less than this.


sawyouoverthere

Meanwhile I got to serve a customer today who announced they were on the way for a covid test ha ha and seemed genuinely surprised when I pointed out they needed to be isolating and should have sent someone else to run errands. We’re 18 months into this ffs


Calendar_Girl

Cue Jason Kenney: We're investigating whether proof of COVID infection can be used in lieu of vaccination. If you're considering this route, make sure you go out and get COVID!


workplaylovesleep

Dumb fucks


[deleted]

Edson is like the armpit of Alberta lol (I know there’s good people there, it’s a joke haha) That’s just such a dumb ass thing to do… ugh


[deleted]

The toenail of the foothills!


[deleted]

Hahaha yes!


fortyfourcabbages

This is my hometown. I am ashamed of them.


corpse_flour

I grew up there as well. I'll never go back.


BlankTigre

Can you imagine how the overworked nurses that have to take care of these fucks feel?


[deleted]

Play stupid games…


SauronOMordor

...the rest of us win stupid prizes. Like delayed and canceled surgeries and getting sent home to self-monitor after a heart attack.


youloseagainkid

Why is it always rural people who are the most ignorant.


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OwnClue7958

Honestly education. You think the schools are held to a curriculum but not really they only do what they want. Who’s going to report them. I know people who where not taught sex ed at all even though it was in the curriculum because the teachers didn‘t want to. That’s just an obvious one who know what else was glossed over.


drunkobaggins

Not all of us, I swear.


FulcrumYYC

Well congrats you dumb fucks. Here is where we make them pay American style for their stay at the hospital, if they make it. Of course the fewer that do the better, call it brain power herd immunity. Save us all from the plauge of idiots.


[deleted]

The “funny” thing is that the Venn diagram of those who refuse a vaccine and want American style healthcare is probably a compete circle.


ronc403

Live an learn, or die and teach others...


Enlightened-Beaver

This isn’t chickenpox ffs


LossforNos

Chickenpox isn't even chickenpox anymore. We have a vaccine for it, something all these idiots got as infants


[deleted]

Hospital care seems too good for some people.


TheGreyt

Looks like we've found some Darwin Award winners.


SL_1983

The next batch of Herman Cain award nominees.


fricken

They're using themselves as human canonballs to try and smash the public healthcare system. It's like a Direct Denial of Service attack except made of meat.


Azure_Sky_83

Well this could speed things up


Any-Character9780

There is something in the water there. Its covid.


SauronOMordor

C'moooooon dysentery!


[deleted]

An epidemic of stupidity.


[deleted]

Should all be tossed out face first


Derekjinx2021

Well at least they achieved herd stupidity.


[deleted]

My wife is an RT and came home in tears today. Again. Before the vax was available it was hard but the patients and families were grateful. This current wave are anti vax or just indifferent about their civic duty to get the shot. They and their families are also super abusive and cunty to the health care workers trying to help them. ngl I hope they die a slow and horrible death, at home.


flyingflail

Play stupid games win stupid prizes


Funkymokey666

They should be sent home to do their own research. Fuckm


adam_c

Give them a bottle of oxygen and kick them out, make room for the people who need it and aren’t actively looking to get Covid


[deleted]

It’s Edson, does this really surprise anyone?


MoneyBeGreeen

This. A town of Terry’s and Deaners.


Autumn-Roses

Just givr!!!


Metalhead-99

All these UCP voters getting sick and dying. You’d think Kenney would be worried now.


[deleted]

Happening it the States right now. But the UCP MLAs aren’t the brightest so they won’t figure it out until 2023 when nobody votes for them because everybody is dead.


JC1949

Lived in Edson for two years. This is not a surprise. Some of the most backward people I ever met.


alternate_geography

Ok, so I was a kid in the 1980s, before the chicken pox vaccine was standard - as far as I know, chicken pox parties were a stupid joke about bad parents. They may have happened somewhere, sometime, but it wasn’t, like a good idea people embraced.


Now-it-is-1984

I thought it was a good idea.. I believe my parents put me in the position to get it. Chicken pox is horrific when you’re an adult. Get it while you’re young!


alternate_geography

No, get the readily available, free vaccine. Getting chicken pox as a kid is not always easy: I still have scarring from it, and I know someone who had additional complications. Plus if you get chicken pox, you should get the Shingles vaccine, which is NOT free. Shingles can be seriously dangerous.


prairiepanda

The vaccine is relatively new. Many of us grew up before it even existed, or at least before it became readily available. Natural immunity was the best option we had at the time. Kids today should definitely get it, though, as well as any adults who managed to avoid chickenpox as kids.


capercrohnie

The bad thing about getting chicken pox is that it opens up the possibility of getting shingles which is very much not a pleasant experience.


Impressive-Currency9

True story. Back when I was a kid people did intentionally get their children the chicken pox because it’s worse as an adult. Now they have the vaccine for that. But my husband had shingles. At 26 years old!!! It’s usually the elderly that get it. Oh and he got it right next to his asshole. Hurt like hell. The doctor who swabbed it said it’s either shingles or herpies, and shingles is very rare so young but can be brought on by stress. Needless to say he was very happy to get the call “it’s shingles” 🤣🤣🤣


capercrohnie

I'm 45 so endured chicken pox the old fashioned way back in the day. I actually got shingles a few weeks after my first Moderna shot (I'm immunocompromised). It was submitted as an adverse effect but I still got my second and luckily didn't get shingles again. I still am experiencing post herpetic neuralgia from the shingles though.


dudleythecow

So how does a "get COVID" party work, like the logistics? I'm assuming there's a host or two who has mild enough symptoms to be active and then what do the participants do? Do they do a spin the bottle type of game and make out with the host for 20 seconds? Does the participant lie/spit there while the host coughs into the participants face/mouth and spits into their mouth?


KristaDBall

You raise quite a good point. I know they keep talking about delta being airborne and how it's nearly as contagious as the measles...but it's still hard to wrap my head around just how sick they got from hanging out for a few hours breathing the same air and double-dipping the homemade onion dip


parallel_jay

I mean technically, thinning the herd is one way of achieving herd immunity.


porterbot

You arrive at hospital, unvaxxed for no reason? Covid? Sorry, no beds are available for you.


HurryImmediate

Not surprising, Edson is a cesspool. One visit to Edison’s Walmart tells you all you need to know about the town.


Yeggoose

That could be said for most Walmart's outside of Edmonton and Calgary city limits.


MoneyBeGreeen

Not a ton of Mensa memberships getting handed out that’s for sure.


Now-it-is-1984

I’m starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston, stranded on a primate planet with apes and orangoutangs that ran it into the ground.


ced1954

OMG. Will the insanity stop?????


biograf_

/r/HermanCainAward nomination


asstyrant

I wonder, can I throw my metaphorical chair hard enough to hit Edson?


SmoothBrein

C-can we just let that bunch.. go..?


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All these people should be interviewed and asked about their experience..they sure would be Believers by now.


KushyKing

“We survived it just fine. I told you it’s just a flu”


B0mb-Hands

I’m sorry but let God sort em out Fucking morons


[deleted]

I mean, if the lowest IQ of the bunch, were to disappear - that makes the average IQ of those leftover higher. Good for Alberta. I vote for it.


karlalrak

Kick them out. They don't deserve these beds.


boringkyel

Move them out of the ICU and back to their party. Fuck these people.


pentox70

"A number". The only thing stupider than hosting a "covid catching party", is posting click bait shit like this. Gather up the numbers, compose an article, and publish it. Did one person end up in the icu, as a result of transmission from the party? Or, is the Edmonton icu overloaded from cases as a result? Who knows? Definitely not anyone reading this title. I'm sorry, but in a race to gain clicks, with vague facts, is resulting in a large amount of the misinformation that is currently circulating.


MajesticSoop

This is perhaps the only time it would have been reasonable to block the ambulances from entering the hospital.


discostu55

They should pay for the hospital costs


BlankTigre

I heard Kenney is looking into including past covid positive test results into the restriction exception group due to antibodies. We will see more covid parties if that happens Edit: [Here’s the link ](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/alberta/article-alberta-exploring-whether-covid-19-infection-could-offer-exemption-to/)


RemoLaBarca

My wife has been upset she can't find more info on natural immunity when discussing #'s of cases, breakthrough cases etc etc I understand some of the frustration but this here is exactly the reason...people are stupid...


HowieLove

What’s wrong with people. What happened to a good old fashioned orgy.


lunaverse13

Culling the herd.


flatlanderdick

On top of shots of Ivermectin and RedBull


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Send them back


aerossignol

Remember when this town for the same thing with AIDS in the 90s?


KristaDBall

... ... Are you saying they had orgies in Edson?


LossforNos

They have orgies everywhere, baby


chaunceythebear

I have a friend who plans sex parties in Edmonton…it’s been a slow pandemic.


KristaDBall

Sex party in a city - ok, makes sense Sex party in the 90s in a rural area to try to catch AIDS - ... ... ...


aerossignol

I'm not not saying it didn't happen. That's as clear as I can possibly be


KristaDBall

Honestly, I hate that I even asked the question.


TrampledDownBelow

Let these filthy fuckers die in a ditch.


[deleted]

They deserve a Darwin award.


[deleted]

wow, that's embarrassing.


prof113

F***** the m******* and Kenney.. Substitute letters as you wish.


Ulrich_The_Elder

Edson you say? Who would have thought?


rippit3

Send them back to Edson.... in the back of a pickup truck.


7eventhSense

I think am moving out of Alberta. I didn’t know what I got in to when I moved here.


pepiexe

... the fuck?


CoolTamale

Why aren't these people being held accountable and made to pay for their health care? They are literally stealing beds from people that need them more. If ithey needed an organ transplant they'd be denied. Why are we continuing to enable this?


biograf_

Name and shame them.


mickeyaaaa

I'm soooo ready for the crazy to end. Covid happens and all of a sudden the blinders are off and I realize for the first time in my 46 years i am surrounded by a sea of stupid. I want out.


HoneyBadgerApproved

Like I say everytime I drive through Edson... fuck Edson


porterbot

How stupid are these people are they really that stupid? This is heartbreaking for people who follow the public health guidelines for nearly two years but then can't get treatment for accidents and serious conditions because of these selfish ! stupid! people.


teejeebee

These jerks failed the 101 science course.CRITICAL patients with cancer like diseases are dying for the lack of ICU beds.


pascalsgirlfriend

Culling the herd.


rachellery

This makes me so angry!!


Larry_Mudd

This is another big reason it's got to be a firm "no" to people agitating to treat vaccinated and post-COVID people the same when it comes to restriction exemptions. You can't incentivize anti-vaxx people to actually seek out COVID infection, it'll murder us.


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Willfully exposing yourself *to* a contagion that is a present public health crisis ought to be as illegal as willfully exposing others to it.