Quote from: Lauda on Today at 01:59:12 PM

Quote from: ibminer on Today at 12:39:04 PM

I just didn't see anything funny with this particular joke/game, so it came off as mocking, which doesn't feel right to me given the circumstances.

Look at the emphasis. You do not see is as such, but you need to know that other people may see it as such and also not think they are mocking because of different tastes in humour. A lot of people joke about the clown-state of the planet (much more than you think - and Covid is just a small example out of plenty). I think this is only fair!

   If you have a wife that was in the hospital with double pneumonia and you have four cousins with it. It is and was a shitty joke.
My wife's cousin on the ventilator has a 20% chance of surviving.
The other 3 cousins are getting back to normal.

   Every night my wife has a 20 to 30 minute coughing fit. When she first lies down to sleep.
If lucky she wakes up in 2 or 3 hours has another 20-30 minute coughing fit.
Then in the morning one more 20-30 minute coughing fit. This is due to inflammation caused by the pneumonia.

  My local hospital has 280 beds. In jan when my wife was treated for her pneumonia 215 of those beds were filled with lung and upper respiratory illness. This hospital now is filled to the top and more then 10 have died from the disease.
My wife stays home I go out 2 times a week once for food once for fedex drop offs and gasoline.

   My wife is on steroids for her lungs which make her subject to new infections. So I try to keep her safe.
Since we both got sick around Dec 26-28 which ended up with her in the hospital Jan 13-16 we simply don't know if we had the corona-v.
So the FUD is a bitch. Since the disease seems to be really hard on Italians and Spaniards and no one knows if there are genetic weaknesses to the disease both my wife and I worry more. As she is all Italian descent. Both here parents came here in the late 1940's.

  I am a fan of humor and yeah it is funny until you get fucked hard by the subject. So corona-v humor does not play well for us.